Shining Sarcophagus Deck #770871 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 41 / Extra 21 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro and Fusion extra-deck boards (Cosmic Blazar Dragon, Centur-Ion Legatia, Centur-Ion Auxila, Elfnote June Pride, Arcanite Magician) that are reached through Shining Sarcophagus and Centur-Ion searchers; Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl beatdown plus the Elfnote Continuous Spell and Trap board-building lines
• Turn 1 (going first): T1 Shining Sarcophagus or Centur-Ion starter, then Elfnote or Centur-Ion searches toward a Synchro Summon; Droll & Lock Bird and Ash Blossom are held for interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre and Maxx C as hand traps; once the opponent summons, use Mulcharmy draw triggers and Centur-Ion monsters to rebuild the board
• Recovery: Mulcharmy Fuwalos and Purulia draw triggers plus Centur-Ion Primera and Trudea recursion from the Deck and GY
• After siding: Not evaluable: the Side Deck is empty, so no post-side plan exists in the export

Why it scores here

This list is illegal in OCG: three Forbidden cards (Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Crystal Wing Synchro Dragon, Baronne de Fleur) are run, and the Extra Deck holds 21 cards against a 15-card limit, so the score is capped and reported as structural and theoretical only. The 14-core Shining Sarcophagus/Centur-Ion/Elfnote/Mulcharmy group opens a functional starter in about 89% of five-card hands (Inferred), which earns a moderate engine-access score. The archetype is split across several sub-archetypes (exact-name purity 3.2%), and there is no recorded combo corpus, so conversion and median output are text-only inferences with low confidence. Interaction is meaningful through Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C and Ghost Ogre, but the deck has no sideboard, so there is no post-side plan. Popularity and archetype-usage statistics confirm the list is real and accessible but did not add points, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 43, Going First ≈ 40, Going Second ≈ 42, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); extra_deck_over_limit (-3). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional); Illegal deck, so the result is capped and labelled theoretical/structural-only

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.89 · 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

• Large archetype core (14 copies) gives high starter access in the opening hand
• Layered hand-trap and negation suite: Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit
• High extra-deck ceiling through Cosmic Blazar Dragon and Centur-Ion Legatia

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: three Forbidden cards and a 21-card Extra Deck
• Sub-archetypes (Centur-Ion, Elfnote, Mulcharmy) conflict for slots and reduce engine coherence (exact-name purity 3.2%)
• No Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan and no adaptability
• No combo corpus, so the floor and median are unknown

Critical choke points

• Shining Sarcophagus or the Centur-Ion starter must be live on T1 for the Synchro plan to work
• Extra Deck summons depend on tuner and non-tuner bodies that the hand may lack

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: OCG legality violations: three Forbidden cards and a 21-card Extra Deck; Composition: 41 Main, 21 Extra, 0 Side; 60 off-archetype copies; Hand-trap count 6 and removal-text count 8 from card text
• Inferred: Core-group starter access about 0.89 in 5-card hands; Interaction density and redundancy read from card text; Going-first and going-second splits
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Format fit (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied; floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Side Deck is empty, so post-side behavior cannot be assessed