Shining Sarcophagus Deck #771213 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Ritual, Fusion/Link
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 45 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual or Fusion Summon a 3000-ATK boss (Black Chaos, Magician of Dark Chaos, Black Luster Soldier, Dark Magician the Dragon Knight) off Dark Magician and Light and Darkness Ritual searches; Link or Fusion boss plays from Extra (Master of Chaos, Chaos Angel, Timaeus, The Dark Magicians) once the board is established
• Turn 1 (going first): Search with Magician's Rod, Dark Magical Curtain or Dark Magical Circle into a Dark Magician or Light and Darkness Ritual line; Mulcharmy draw is not reliable without empty hand
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse, then Kuriboh and Mulcharmy Purulia to draw; rebuild the Dark Magician or Light and Darkness Ritual engine on the next turn
• Recovery: Recover through searchers that regain Dark Magician or Ritual Spells from the GY (Preparation of Rites, Soul Servant, Mind Shuffle) and Kuriboh recursion
• After siding: Not evaluable: no side deck is supplied, so no post-side plan can be scored

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional starter: a searcher package (21 searcher-text cards) gives about 96% odds of at least one searcher in a 5-card opening hand, and the 17-card archetype core gives about 92% odds of at least one core card. Interaction is layered through Ash Blossom, Dominus Impulse, Kuriboh and Mulcharmy, which supports the Interruption Resilience and Interaction scores. Conversion is credited only as a text-based read because no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median scores are Inferred and not averaged from card scores. Popularity was not rewarded, since the archetype core is only 3.3% exact-name purity and no tournament data exists. The deck is capped to 30 because two copy-limit violations make it Illegal, and it has no side deck, so the score is theoretical and structural only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (copy-limit violation) (-4); No side deck (-4). Final formula: Structural 54.7 (Midrange profile) -> 0.80*54.7 + 0.20*40 = 51.8, plus context modifiers (-8) = 43.8; then capped to 30 because the deck is Illegal (over copy limit). Meta provisional. Theoretical/structural-only result.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.92 · 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 gives reliable access to the engine
• Layered negation and hand-trap package (Ash Blossom, Dominus Impulse, Kuriboh, Mulcharmy)
• Boss ATK ceiling from Ritual and Fusion bosses (3000+ ATK)
• Full Extra Deck with several Link bosses covering different board states

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse exceed the Semi-Limited limit
• No side deck for best-of-3
• Loose main deck: 14 singletons and 3.3% exact-archetype purity
• Many 1-copy ritual and boss pieces raise dependency on single cards

Critical choke points

• Light and Darkness Ritual is a single copy, so the Ritual boss route depends on one card
• Dark Magician or Dark Magician Girl must be present for most Fusion and Ritual lines
• Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse must be legal (2 copies) before the list can be used

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main Deck 45, Extra Deck 15, Side 0 (within OCG size rules); Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Dominus Impulse each run 3 copies over a Semi-Limited limit of 2; Searcher-text count 21 and archetype-core count 17 from the resolved card list; Boss ATK values from card data; Archetype purity 3.3% exact-name
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter and core estimates (0.92 to 0.97); Dark Magician to Light and Darkness Ritual to boss route as a conversion read; Interaction density from negation-text and hand-trap counts
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Format and matchup fit (D13)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first, going-second, matchup, brick and starter rates) Side deck is empty, so post-side performance cannot be scored Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample