Shining Sarcophagus Deck #771554 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 38/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Toolbox
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Blind-Second/OTK
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 57 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Board pressure from Dark Magician / Light and Darkness Ritual monsters (Black Chaos, Magician of Dark Chaos, Black Luster Soldier) and Extra Deck boss monsters (Chaos Angel, Master of Chaos, Firewall Dragon Singularity), with no recorded boards to confirm any line.; Hand-trap and negation exchanges that trade interaction for tempo, then a late Extra Deck threat.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with searchers and draw engines (Mulcharmy, Dark Magician Girl, Pot of Sloth) to find the single Shining Sarcophagus or a ritual starter; the plan is not reliably assembled from the list alone.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre, Kuriboh and Droll & Lock Bird to answer the opponent's first engine, then convert the remaining hand into a ritual or Extra Deck summon.
• Recovery: Mulcharmy draw effects and Ragged Records / Mind Shuffle searches rebuild hand size after a disruption, but the recovery depends on drawing into a second live starter.
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered (0 of 15 allowed), so there is no post-side plan; the list cannot adapt between games.

Why it scores here

The deck is illegal as submitted: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is run three times against a Semi-Limited limit of two, so the normal Final score is capped and the result is structural only. Scored as a system, the list has a dense interaction suite (eleven hand traps, twelve negation texts, eighteen removal texts) and a Light and Darkness Ritual / Dark Magician core that is accessible through its searchers, so it earns its points for interaction and engine access. It only partly coheres: the Shining Sarcophagus engine is a single copy, 71 of 72 archetype-tagged copies belong to other sub-archetypes, and the 34 distinct main-deck cards include many dead-in-hand pieces, which pulls down brick management, median output, and main-deck efficiency. No recorded boards or tournament results exist, so the combo ceiling and meta fit are inferred from card text, and the usage statistics confirm the list is real but do not make it strong. Popularity did not add points, and the score was built from the system dimensions rather than from averaging individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: 100% Toolbox (secondary Midrange noted; not blended). Structural ≈ 50, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: illegal copy-limit violation (-10). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers; Illegal, so structural-only and capped low

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.9 · 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 hand-trap and negation suite (11 hand traps, 12 negation texts) gives going-second answers
• Light and Darkness Ritual core is reachable through several searchers
• Extra Deck boss monsters have high ATK and removal-like effects

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy count on Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring
• Only one Shining Sarcophagus; the named engine is not reliably live
• Low archetype purity (1.4%) and 71 off-archetype copies weaken engine coherence
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation

Critical choke points

• Single Shining Sarcophagus copy as the nominal engine starter
• Ritual monsters depend on Chaos Form / Light and Darkness Ritual being in hand
• Dead-in-hand risk from hand traps and conditional Mulcharmy effects

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring 3 copies vs legal limit 2 (Illegal); Main 57, Extra 15, Side 0 counts; Archetype purity 1.4% and 71 off-archetype copies; Extra Deck breakdown: 4 Synchro, 6 Link, 1 Xyz, 4 Fusion; Usage stats: 21 rows, core present 52.6%
• Inferred: Hand-trap and negation density as interaction; Hypergeometric starter and hand-trap probabilities; Going-first / going-second split from hand-trap odds; Combo ceiling and median read from card text
• Provisional: Meta and matchup fit (no dated sample or tournament link)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN — brick, starter, OTK and matchup rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no guides attached for this archetype