Shining Sarcophagus Deck #769948 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Stun
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 7 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Dark Magician-based boards (Dark Magician, Dark Magician the Magician of Black Magic, Dark Magician Girl) and Extra Deck bosses (Master of Chaos, Dark Paladin - Wave-Motion, Red-Eyes Black Dragon Exceed) converting into 2500–3400 ATK pressure; Gandora-G and Magistus Chorozo board-breaking plus Link/Fusion follow-ups
• Turn 1 (going first): Shining Sarcophagus is only 1 copy, so T1 access depends on Dark Magician Girl, Dark Magical Curtain, Mulcharmy draws and Future Silence searches (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Six-card hand with 8 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Ghost Ogre, Maxx C, Infinite Impermanence) to disrupt the opponent's first board, then Dark Magician engine (Inferred)
• Recovery: Draw and search through Mulcharmy Fuwalos/Purulia, Soul Servant and Dark Magical Circle to rebuild from a broken hand (Inferred)
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; the deck cannot adapt between games (Verified)

Why it scores here

The deck's score is set by how the 56-card system behaves, not by averaging card powers. It has a dense interaction suite (8 hand traps, Solemn Judgment, Heavy Storm, Harpie's Feather Duster, Dominus Impulse) plus a Dark Magician engine that is reachable through searchers in about 85% of opening hands (Inferred), so its interaction and going-second strength score well. Its weaknesses are structural: only 1 copy of the namesake Shining Sarcophagus, 2.8% exact-archetype purity with Mulcharmy, Prophecy, Chaos and Timaeus pieces mixed in, and no side deck. Seven cards exceed their OCG copy limits, including the Extra Deck anchors Number 42, Charmer Quartet and Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, so the list is illegal and cannot receive a normal Final score. Popularity was not credited: the archetype core group is present in 96% of hands, but that only confirms the list is real, and no combo recordings or tournament record exist to lift the ceiling or median. The score is therefore a theoretical structural read capped at 25.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 54, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-10); no_side_deck (-2). Final formula: Legal-form contextual formula: 0.80*54 + 0.20*45 = 52.2; minus modifiers (-12) = 40; Illegal deck capped at 25 and labelled theoretical/structural-only (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ — (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense interaction suite: 8 hand traps plus Solemn Judgment, Heavy Storm and Harpie's Feather Duster
• High archetype core access: P(>=1 core card in hand5) = 0.96
• Strong Extra Deck closers: Master of Chaos, Dark Paladin - Wave-Motion, Red-Eyes Black Dragon Exceed

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: 7 Forbidden cards over the limit, including 5 Extra Deck cards
• Shining Sarcophagus runs 1 copy and only 2.8% of cards share the exact archetype name
• Empty side deck gives no post-side adaptability

Critical choke points

• Removing the Forbidden Extra Deck cards (Number 42, Charmer Quartet, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Cross-Sheep, Baronne de Fleur) would remove several boss options and force a redesign of the Extra Deck
• Triple Tactics Talent and Magicians' Souls are Forbidden; without them the Dark Magician engine loses a draw/recursion piece

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 7 Forbidden cards run over limit; 4 Limited cards at 1 copy each; Semi-Limited Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse at 2 copies each; Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 within size rules; Card text and composition from evidence.json
• Observed: Archetype usage stats: core group inclusion 83–100% for Mulcharmy Fuwalos, Dark Magician Girl, Dark Magical Curtain, S:P Little Knight
• Inferred: Hypergeometric draw odds (starter 0.25 per 3-copy card; core 0.96; searcher 0.85; hand trap 0.62 on going second); Interaction density (D7) and going-second strength (D8) from negation and removal text; Engine conflicts between Mulcharmy, Prophecy, Chaos and Timaeus sub-archetypes
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit (D13): no tournament link or per-pilot record
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, starter or brick rates) Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample Side deck is empty (side_count = 0) Deck title is null