Shining Sarcophagus Deck #770001 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 59 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual or Fusion boss (Black Luster Soldier, Black Chaos, Magician of Dark Chaos, Dark Paladin, Silent Magician) backed by searched Dark Magician and Light and Darkness Ritual pieces; Link pressure from Link monsters (Accesscode Talker, Cyberse Contract Witch, Selene, Zenna) and Number 90 Xyz
• Turn 1 (going first): Search Light and Darkness Ritual or Dark Magician support on T1 with Dark Magical Circle / Mind Shuffle / Mulcharmy draw, then ritual or fuse into a boss while keeping Solemn Judgment or Ash Blossom up
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Red Reboot, Maxx C or Solemn Judgment for the opponent's first summon or search, then rebuild with Silent Magician or Black Chaos
• Recovery: Recur Soul Servant, Skull Archfiend of Chaos and Light and Darkness Ritual from GY/banish, plus Mulcharmy draws when the field is empty
• After siding: Not evaluable: the list has 0 Side Deck cards, so there is no post-side plan in the export

Why it scores here

The list is Illegal in OCG (three Forbidden cards: Magicians' Souls, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Cross-Sheep), so it is capped at 35 and this is a structural-only read. Its engine is a dense searcher network (21 searcher-text cards, about 0.90 chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand) that reliably finds a Dark Magician or Light and Darkness Ritual piece, which gives a good chance of a live T1-T2 plan. Interaction is broad and layered (Solemn Judgment, Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Red Reboot, Maxx C, Crossout Designator, Evenly Matched), so going second is the deck's strongest turn-order profile. The deck opens three archetype families (Dark Magician, Light and Darkness Ritual, Mulcharmy) and runs only one Shining Sarcophagus, so the archetype label does not describe the engine; this conflict and the empty Side Deck cost points. Popularity was not used: the archetype usage stats confirm the Dark Magician and Mulcharmy cores are real, but they earned no points by themselves, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange 85 / Toolbox 15 (structural weights used as the primary profile; no Toolbox-specific weights applied). Structural ≈ 56, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-10); Engine conflicts (-2). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(56.4) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) = 54.1, plus context modifiers (-12) = 42.1, then capped at 35 because the list is Illegal (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.87 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.13 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense searcher network gives a high chance of a live T1-T2 engine
• Layered negation and hand-trap interaction, with a strong going-second profile
• Boss monsters at 2800 to 3500 ATK close games

Weaknesses

• Three Forbidden cards make the list illegal as built
• Archetype label Shining Sarcophagus does not describe the engine (1.4% exact-name purity)
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan
• Three overlapping engine families compete for the same hand space

Critical choke points

• Dark Magician or Light and Darkness Ritual piece in hand for the T1 engine
• Single Solemn Judgment, Ash Blossom and Red Reboot as the only answers to the opponent's first summon or search

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Magicians' Souls, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon and Cross-Sheep are Forbidden and over the copy limit; Main/Extra counts 59/15 with Side 0 are within the OCG size rules; Banlist status of Limited/Semi-Limited cards; Archetype exact-name purity is 1.4%
• Inferred: Starter hit rates from hypergeometric odds; Interaction density and board-breaking reads from card text; Brick and engine-conflict estimates; Going-second hand-trap estimate
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link); Post-side plan (no Side Deck)
• 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 are absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first/second, matchups, brick/starter or OTK rates Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample No Side Deck cards: post-side performance cannot be scored Deck title is null, so identity relies on the archetype label, which does not match the engine