Shining Sarcophagus Deck #771244 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Boss monsters from the Ritual and Fusion zones (Black Chaos, Magician of Dark Chaos - Black Chaos, Black Luster Soldier, Master of Chaos, Dark Magicians fusions) once a Dark Magician or Light and Darkness Ritual line resolves.; Link and Fusion pressure (Dark Paladin, Dark Cavalry, Timaeus, Accesscode Talker) to close after the boss monsters are summoned.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on Mulcharmy or Impcantation starters plus Dark Magical Curtain or Dark Magical Circle for a Dark Magician or Ritual-spell search, then ritual-summon a 7-8 Level boss; hand traps (Ash, Kuriboh, Evenly Matched) held for the opponent's first activation.
• Turn 2 (going second): Go second by holding Droll & Lock Bird, Ash Blossom, Kuriboh and Nibiru / Theia to interact with the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Mind Shuffle, Mulcharmy draws and Light and Darkness Ritual recursion.
• Recovery: Recover from a lost board through Mulcharmy and Impcantation draws and searches, Ragged Records of Rites from the GY, and Light and Darkness Ritual recursion from the GY.
• After siding: Not evaluable: the list has no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan to assess.

Why it scores here

The deck's score is structural and capped low because it is illegal: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring runs 3 copies against an OCG Semi-Limited limit of 2, so the normal Final formula is not used. Its consistency rests on a 16-card archetype-core group with a 0.80 chance of at least one copy in an opening 5 (Inferred), backed by 23 searcher-text cards and 11 hand traps, which gives it a reliable early interaction layer. Interaction is the strongest part of the system: 27 removal-text and 7 negation-text hints across hand traps, Droll & Lock Bird, Harpie's Feather Duster and Evenly Matched support both the going-first and going-second plans. The ceiling is credible from text alone (3000-ATK Ritual and Fusion bosses such as Black Chaos, Black Luster Soldier and Master of Chaos), but no recorded boards exist, so no median or floor could be measured and the output was not averaged from card scores. The deck mixes Dark Magician, Light and Darkness Ritual, Mulcharmy, Impcantation and Prophecy sub-archetypes, while the declared archetype Shining Sarcophagus has no card in the list, which weakens engine focus and raises brick and pilotability costs. Popularity and usage stats do not add points here, since the core-card match is only 44%.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 56, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-4); illegal_copy_limit_cap (-15). Final formula: Illegal cap: normal 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 0.80*56 + 0.20*45 = 53.8, less 4 for banlist exposure, gives about 50; capped at 35 because the list is illegal (Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring 3 copies vs OCG limit 2).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.8 · 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 interaction: 11 hand traps and 27 removal-text cards cover both turns
• 16 archetype-core copies give about an 80% chance of an opening starter
• Multiple boss routes (Ritual and Fusion) reach 2800 to 3000 ATK

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is 3 copies against a limit of 2
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan
• Engine split across several sub-archetypes, with 0% exact-name purity against the declared Shining Sarcophagus archetype

Critical choke points

• Ritual summons need Light and Darkness Ritual or Impcantation Inception plus tribute or banish fuel; losing the Ritual spell to a hand trap or board wipe stops the boss line
• Single-copy searchers and Ritual spells are the only access to several bosses

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main Deck 60 and Extra Deck 15 are within OCG size limits; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is 3 copies against a legal limit of 2 (Illegal); Droll & Lock Bird, Harpie's Feather Duster and S:P Little Knight are Limited at 1 copy each and are compliant; Extra Deck breakdown: 7 Fusion, 7 Link, 1 Xyz
• Observed: Usage stats: Mulcharmy Fuwalos inclusion 80% and Droll & Lock Bird 75.6% across the archetype, with 44.4% core-card presence in this list
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter probability from hypergeometric estimate (0.80 for the core group); Interaction density from the removal-text and negation-text hints; Toolbox classification from hand traps, removal text and mixed sub-archetypes
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit: no dated metagame sample or tournament link
• Data gaps: Deck title is null, so the deck is named only by its archetype 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 for YGOVN (going-first, going-second, matchup, brick or starter rates) The declared archetype Shining Sarcophagus has no card in the list; the deck's real engines come from related sub-archetypes No Side Deck submitted Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied