Shining Sarcophagus Deck #771901 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Black Chaos (3000 ATK) and Magician of Dark Chaos - Black Chaos, reached through Light and Darkness Ritual and Dark Magician recursion (Inferred from card text); Extra Deck threats: Dark Magician of Destruction, Master of Chaos, Timaeus, Dark Paladin, and Chaos Angel, all of which are absent from the recorded boards (no combos supplied)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a searcher such as Dark Magician Girl, Mulcharmy, Magician's Rod, or Dark Magical Circle to add a Dark Magician or Light and Darkness Ritual piece, then begin the Ritual route (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Respond to the opponent with Ash Blossom, Kuriboh, Nibiru, Droll & Lock Bird, and Solemn cards, then rebuild through Mulcharmy draws and searchers (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recur Dark Magician and Light and Darkness Ritual pieces from the GY and banishment with Skull Archfiend of Chaos, Soul Servant, and Dark Magician, the Pharaoh's Servant (Inferred)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs zero side cards, so no post-side plan exists (Verified)

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal: Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse are each run three times against an OCG limit of two, so it receives a capped, structural-only score. The structure is a searcher-dense Dark Magician and Light and Darkness Ritual shell: the searcher group reaches at least one live piece in 93% of opening five-card hands, and the archetype core reaches at least one in 88%. Its interaction is broad (six hand traps and eleven negation-text cards), but it runs no side deck and has no recorded boards, so there is no measured ceiling or median. The Extra Deck and the Shining Sarcophagus theme are thin, with 72 off-archetype copies and only 4% exact-name purity, so the score comes from consistency and interaction on the system, not from the archetype's popularity or from averaging individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange 80% / Combo 20% (disclosed; Midrange is the primary profile). Structural ≈ 56, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 57, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Copy-limit violation (-8); No side deck (-2); Banlist exposure (-2). Final formula: Illegal cap applied: the normal 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + modifiers (≈ 42 before cap) is replaced by a low structural-only cap of 30; Meta Power is null (Provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.93 · 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 and recursion text gives high probability of finding a live engine piece
• Six hand traps and multiple negation effects provide layered interaction
• Boss threats (Black Chaos, Magician of Dark Chaos, Black Luster Soldier) are present at 2800–3000 ATK

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy counts for Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse
• No side deck, so no best-of-3 adaptation
• High off-archetype density (72 copies) weakens engine coherence

Critical choke points

• Light and Darkness Ritual (2 copies) is the main Ritual enabler for the boss route
• Dark Magician-named pieces are spread across several sub-archetypes, so a missing starter weakens recovery

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 are within OCG size rules; Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse exceed the OCG copy limit of 2 (3 run each); Solemn Judgment, Harpie's Feather Duster, Droll & Lock Bird, and S:P Little Knight are Limited at 1 copy each; Archetype purity is 4% exact-name; 72 copies are off-archetype
• Inferred: Searcher-group P(≥1 in hand 5) ≈ 0.93 and archetype-core P ≈ 0.88; Hand-trap group P(≥1 in hand 6) ≈ 0.48; Ritual route to Black Chaos is the primary win condition
• Provisional: Format fit (D13) and Meta Power, pending a dated metagame sample
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample Deck title is null and the side deck is empty