Shining Sarcophagus Deck #770268 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 20/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 49 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual-summoned boss monsters (Black Chaos, Magician of Dark Chaos - Black Chaos, Black Luster Soldier) and Dark Magician of Destruction / Timaeus from the Extra Deck, if the list were legal; Link-monster board pressure (Perfectron Hydradrive Dragon, W:P Fancy Ball) and Dark Magician Girl / Dark Magician beats
• Turn 1 (going first): Turn 1: Dark Magician Girl or Griffoh to start a search or a Sarcophagus/Light and Darkness Ritual line; Turn 2: Light and Darkness Ritual or Magician of Black Chaos MAX to reach a boss. Hand traps are held for the opponent's turn.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Droll and Effect Veiler for the opponent's first summon or search, then convert with a Ritual boss from the hand, since the deck has no recorded boards to confirm this line.
• Recovery: Recover through searchers (23 searcher-text cards) and GY-activated effects (Spellbook of the Grand Circle, Magician's Rod, Skull Archfiend of Chaos), which reach a Ritual or Fusion starter again.
• After siding: Not assessable: the deck has 0 side cards, so there is no post-side plan. A legal list would need a side deck to be evaluated on this axis.

Why it scores here

This list is illegal in OCG: five copies of Forbidden cards (Magicians' Souls, Charmer Quartet in Bloom, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Cross-Sheep, Protectcode Talker) are over the copy limit of zero, so the score is capped and reported as a theoretical, structural-only read. Structurally the deck is a Dark Magician / Light and Darkness Ritual / Charmer / Spellbook pile, with only 4 of 49 main-deck copies and 2 of 15 extra-deck cards exact-named Shining Sarcophagus, so it does not play as its title archetype. The structure does reliably open searchers (about 96% chance of at least one searcher-text card in a 5-card hand) and holds 5 hand-trap or tech cards (Ash Blossom x2, Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird, Effect Veiler) for interaction. Its weaknesses are an engine conflict between several ritual and fusion sub-engines, a 44 brick-management score on the dimension scale, and no side deck. The score comes from consistency, interaction and boss-level closing power on the system, not from averaging the individual card scores, and popularity (archetype usage) did not earn points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Toolbox secondary; the Midrange profile is used as-is for the structural score. Structural ≈ 50, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 48, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 44. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); engine conflict (-4). Final formula: Structural 49.7 (Midrange weights) → 0.80*50 + 0.20*44 = 48.8, minus 12 context modifiers = 36.8 theoretical; illegal-list cap applied → 20 (Meta Provisional, not used)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.97 · 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

• Searcher density is high: 23 searcher-text cards give about a 97% chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand
• Five interaction cards (two Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird, Effect Veiler) plus negation and removal text cover the early interruption and the end board
• Boss ritual monsters (Black Chaos, Black Luster Soldier, Magician of Dark Chaos - Black Chaos) reach 2800–3000 ATK on paper

Weaknesses

• The list is illegal: 5 Forbidden cards are over the copy limit of 0
• The archetype identity is weak: only 4 of 49 main cards are exact-name Shining Sarcophagus, and 60 of 64 non-Extra copies are off-archetype
• No side deck (0 of 0-15 side cards), so there is no post-side adaptability and no best-of-3 answer
• Several competing engines (ritual, fusion, link, Spellbook, Charmer, Possessed) make the opening hand and turn plan inconsistent

Critical choke points

• The Ritual boss line depends on Light and Darkness Ritual and enough Level-matching GY or hand material; without it the 3000 ATK bosses are dead cards
• Searchers reach an engine card but not a board, so a single hand-trap answer can end the turn with no recovery route

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 5 Forbidden copies over the limit (Magicians' Souls, Charmer Quartet in Bloom, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Cross-Sheep, Protectcode Talker); Limited and Semi-Limited copies are within limit; Composition: 49 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side; 11 Link and 4 Fusion in Extra; 5 hand-trap or tech cards; 23 searcher-text cards; Card stats for the boss monsters (Black Chaos 3000, Black Luster Soldier 3000, Magician of Dark Chaos - Black Chaos 2800, Timaeus 2800)
• Observed: Archetype usage: Shining Sarcophagus core cards (S:P Little Knight 100%, Dark Magician Girl 78%, Dark Magical Curtain 78%) — usage data, not recorded boards
• Inferred: Opening-hand odds from hypergeometric estimates: searcher group 0.97, archetype-core group 0.80, hand-trap group (hand 6) 0.50; Engine conflict and brick risk from the sub-archetype spread; Boss-line viability from card text (Light and Darkness Ritual enablers) with no recorded boards
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and D13 matchup fit: no dated metagame sample and no tournament link
• Data gaps: No recorded combo boards (total_combos 0): 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, going-first or brick telemetry exists in YGOVN Usage-statistics mismatch: S:P Little Knight (ref 29301450) is in this deck's Extra Deck (copies 1) but its core-card row reports in_this_deck false; the usage ref does not match the card list and should be checked No side deck: best-of-3 post-side behaviour cannot be assessed Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck title is null: the deck is identified only by id 770268 and archetype