Shining Sarcophagus Deck #770403 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links
28 Main, 8 Extra, incl. Silent Magician Zero x3, Future Silence x3, Dark Magician Girl the Magician's Apprentice x2 - Skill: Light the Way to the Future. Created Oct 21, 2026 by YGO Mod.
Deck Shining Sarcophagus Duel Links
Created by: YGO Mod (20517634)
Created On: 10/21/2026
Light the Way to the Future
Main Deck (28)
- Dark Magician Girl the Magician's Apprentice x2
- Dark Magician the Magician of Black Magic x2
- Droll & Lock Bird x2
- Gadget Trio x1
- Gandora-G the Dragon of Destruction x2
- Mulcharmy Fuwalos x1
- Nibiru, the Primal Being x2
- Photon Jumper x1
- Silent Magician Zero x3
- Silent Swordsman Zero x1
- Witch of the Black Forest x1
- Dark Magical Curtain x1
- Future Silence x3
- Shining Sarcophagus x2
- The Gaze of Timaeus x1
- Ties That Bind x1
- Turn Silence x2
Extra Deck (8)
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Deck — Deck Power Evaluation
Final Contextual Deck Power: 53/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)
| Overall score | Value |
|---|---|
| Structural Deck Power | 55 |
| Going First | 58 |
| Going Second | 60 |
| Meta Power | provisional |
| Tournament Reliability | 52 |
- Primary strategy: Midrange
- Secondary strategies: Combo, Stun
- Format: duel-links
Legality
Main 28 / Extra 8 / Side 0 — status: Legal.
Identity & game plan
- Win condition: Extra Deck boss monsters (Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Galaxy-Eyes Photon Lord, Chaos Angel, Underworld Goddess) reached through a Shining Sarcophagus / Dark Magician board (card text verified; the exact line is not parsed); Gandora-G ATK growth from banished cards and Dark Magician of Destruction pressure (Inferred)
- Turn 1 (going first): Search a Shining Sarcophagus-line monster or Future Silence, get the Sarcophagus down, then extend into a Link, Xyz or Fusion boss (Inferred)
- Turn 2 (going second): Hold Droll & Lock Bird, Nibiru or Silent Magician Zero to answer the opponent's first summons, then rebuild through the Sarcophagus searchers (Inferred)
- Recovery: Several searchers (11 copies) and a Dark Magician Girl / Gadget Trio re-search can refill the Sarcophagus after a disruption (Inferred)
- After siding: Not applicable: Duel Links is a single game with no side deck (side_count 0)
Why it scores here
The deck's consistency comes from its search density, not from the Shining Sarcophagus alone: 11 searcher-text copies give a 94% chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand, while the Sarcophagus itself (2 copies) is live in only about 33% of openings. Interaction is the strongest part of the system: Turn Silence, Silent Magician Zero, Silent Swordsman Zero, Droll & Lock Bird and Nibiru cover several turns of the opponent's plan, and the Extra Deck adds further negation and removal. The ceiling is an Extra Deck boss reached through a Dark Magician board, but no recorded boards were supplied, so the conversion and median scores rest on card text and are Inferred. Archetype popularity and usage statistics were not credited; the score comes from consistency, interaction and resilience on the system, not from averaging card scores. Going second is reasonable given 4 hand-traps (64% to have one in a 6-card hand), while the lack of a side deck and of any meta sample keeps the score in a moderate band.
Dimension scores
| # | Dimension | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| D1 | Engine Accessibility & Consistency | 58 | Searcher-text group 11 copies, P(>=1 in hand5) ≈ 0.94; Shining Sarcophagus 2 copies, P(>=1 in hand5) ≈ 0.33; the engine depends on one Spell card (Inferred) |
| D2 | Opening-Hand Quality & Brick Management | 55 | Ten Spell cards and several Sarcophagus-dependent dead-without-engine cards (Ties That Bind, Future Silence, Turn Silence) lower hand quality; redundancy comes from the 11 searchers (Inferred) |
| D3 | Combo Conversion & Ceiling | 55 | No parseable recorded boards (combos_evidence.total_combos = 0); ceiling read from text of Dark Magician, Gandora-G and Extra Deck bosses (Inferred) |
| D4 | Combo Floor & Median Output | 45 | No median power index or board distribution available; the floor is unmeasured and set conservatively (Provisional) |
| D5 | Interruption Resilience & Route Redundancy | 55 | Four hand-traps and two Quick-Play negations provide several independent answers, but starter diversity is unmeasured (Inferred) |
| D6 | Resource Economy, Recovery & Grind | 55 | Future Silence and Mulcharmy Fuwalos draw cards, and Gandora-G converts banished cards into ATK; no resource-signature data (Inferred) |
| D7 | End-Board & Interaction Quality | 65 | Turn Silence, Silent Magician Zero, Silent Swordsman Zero, Galaxy-Eyes Photon Lord and Underworld Goddess all carry negation text; interaction_density not supplied (Inferred semantic) |
| D8 | Going-Second & Board-Breaking Power | 58 | Droll & Lock Bird and Nibiru answer going-second boards; no going-second split is recorded (Inferred) |
| D9 | Offensive Pressure & Closing Power | 62 | Extra Deck 2500-3500 ATK boss monsters (Chaos Angel, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Underworld Goddess, Galaxy-Eyes) provide closing power (Verified card stats, Inferred conversion) |
| D10 | Main Deck Efficiency & Flexibility | 58 | 28 Main Deck cards with 10 Spells and 9 off-archetype generics; the size is legal but several cards are situational (Verified composition, Inferred efficiency) |
| D11 | Extra Deck Efficiency & Coverage | 62 | Eight Extra Deck cards spanning Link, Xyz, Synchro and Fusion give broad coverage and flexibility, but several need specific materials (Verified composition, Inferred) |
| D12 | Side Deck Adaptability | 40 | Duel Links has no side deck (side_count 0), so post-side adaptability is structurally unavailable (Verified) |
| D13 | Matchup Coverage & Format Fit | 50 | Archetype meta-share and tournament context are absent; no dated metagame sample was supplied (Provisional) |
| D14 | Pilotability & Error Tolerance | 45 | Multi-step Sarcophagus and Dark Magician sequencing with several optional negation timings is demanding to pilot (Inferred) |
How the score was computed
Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: Single-engine choke point (-2); Banlist exposure (0). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); 0.80*55.3 + 0.20*52 = 54.6, then -2 modifier = 52.6, rounded to 53
Probability & combo summary
- Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.33 · 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 searcher suite gives high access to the engine
- Strong negation and hand-trap coverage across both turn orders
- Eight-card Extra Deck offers varied boss options
Weaknesses
- Shining Sarcophagus is only 2 copies and live in about a third of openings
- Low exact-name purity (22.2%) makes board coherence depend on support cards
- No sideboard and no recorded boards to confirm conversion
Critical choke points
- Shining Sarcophagus on the field is required for most searcher and Extra Deck lines
- Dark Magician summon condition depends on the Sarcophagus being present
Recommended changes
| Priority | Remove | Add | Reason |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mulcharmy Fuwalos | A second Shining Sarcophagus-searching or Sarcophagus-supporting card | Raises Sarcophagus access and reduces dependence on one 2-copy Spell (Inferred) |
Evidence & confidence
- Verified: Main 28 and Extra 8 are within Duel Links size rules; Photon Jumper is Semi-Limited with 1 of 2 allowed copies; all other cards Unlimited; Card text and stats for every listed card
- Observed: Usage statistics show the archetype core (Gandora-G, Turn Silence, Future Silence, Dark Magician Girl) is largely present
- Inferred: Hypergeometric starter, searcher and hand-trap odds; Going-first and going-second function from text and the hand-trap count; Interaction quality from negation and removal text
- Provisional: Meta position and format fit (no dated metagame sample)
- Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry: going-first, going-second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied usage_statistics in_this_deck flags appear to ignore the Extra Deck: I:P Masquerena, Underworld Goddess, Galaxy-Eyes, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Dark Magician of Destruction, Chaos Angel, Sanaphond and S:P Little Knight are listed as missing_core although they are present in the extra zone, so core_present_pct (60%) is understated Guide 1491 has an empty snippet and no sections, so guide content is unavailable
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