Shining Sarcophagus Deck #770069 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 42 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck boss monsters (Dark Paladin - Wave-Motion, Timaeus the United Magical Dragon, Dark Magician of Destruction) backed by Dark Magician and Shining Sarcophagus recursion (Inferred); Link and Fusion pressure through the Dark Magician web and Mulcharmy draw (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Search or draw Shining Sarcophagus and Dark Magician pieces, then build a Fusion or Link board while holding Ash Blossom or Droll as protection (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll and Lock Bird, Maxx C, Infinite Impermanence) to break the opponent's starter, then rebuild through Dark Magician recursion (Inferred)
• Recovery: Shining Sarcophagus and Dark Magical Curtain re-deploy Dark Magician-named monsters from the Deck or GY (Inferred)
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan (Verified)

Why it scores here

The list is illegal in OCG: five Forbidden cards are run over their limit, so this is a structural-only read capped at 30. Taking the list as written, the Dark Magician and Shining Sarcophagus engine reaches a core starter with high probability (archetype core P(at least one in a 5-card hand) about 0.99, searcher text about 0.91), which earns the consistency scores. Seven hand traps and about ten negation-text cards give going-second interaction, which earns the going-second and interaction scores. Combo ceiling and median output could not be measured because no boards were recorded, so those scores are text-only inference. The score comes from consistency, interaction and the system's structure, not from the archetype's popularity (usage data shows only partial core presence) and not from averaging the card scores. The Side Deck is empty, which cuts adaptability and tournament reliability. Removing the five Forbidden copies would lower the Extra Deck's boss density and would need to be re-scored before any normal Final Contextual score is given.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Balanced (default; no single strategy profile applied). Structural ≈ 53, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12); illegal-list cap (-9). Final formula: Illegal list: 0.80*Structural(53) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) + banlist modifier(-12) = about 39, capped at 30 for an illegal list; structural-only, Meta provisional

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.99 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.01 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Engine and searcher density gives a high chance of a live starter (Inferred)
• Seven hand traps and negation text give going-second interaction (Inferred)
• Extra Deck has three strong boss options (Verified card stats)

Weaknesses

• Five Forbidden cards are run over the limit, so the list is illegal (Verified)
• No Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan (Verified)
• No combo or board data, so the ceiling and median are unmeasured (Verified gap)
• Low archetype core coverage in the deck (52.4% of usage-listed core cards present) (Verified)

Critical choke points

• Shining Sarcophagus and the Dark Magician searchers are the single engine; losing them removes most of the plan (Inferred)
• Forbidden Red-Eyes and Baronne are the top Extra Deck threats and are not legal; the boss plan depends on them (Verified)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: five Forbidden cards over the limit; Main 42 and Extra 15 are within size rules; Card text and stats for each listed card; No Side Deck; no combo boards; no tournament link
• Inferred: Starter and consistency probabilities from hypergeometric estimates; Hand trap and interaction read from card text; Going-first and going-second plans from text and rules
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Format fit (no archetype meta-share)
• 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; going-first, going-second and matchup rates are unknown No Side Deck registered; post-side performance cannot be scored Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample