Shining Sarcophagus Deck #771958 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 50 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Shining Sarcophagus engine: search and special-summon Shining Sarcophagus monsters, then convert into Dark Magician and Link/Xyz boards (Accesscode Talker, Number 38, Number 100 are the non-banned closers in the Extra Deck); Dark Magician / Dark Magician Girl beatdown with Gandora-G and Timaeus as board presence
• Turn 1 (going first): Turn 1 Normal Summon Gadget Trio or Dark Magician Girl the Magician's Apprentice, search Shining Sarcophagus or a Sarcophagus-mentioning spell, then set up Sarcophagus plus a second monster for Ties That Bind or Gandora-G summons
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Maxx C and Droll & Lock Bird as hand traps; respond to the opponent's first search or summon, then rebuild through Shining Sarcophagus
• Recovery: Future Silence and Shining Sarcophagus searches restart the engine from the Deck; Soul Servant and Dark Magician recursion from the GY refill resources
• After siding: Not evaluable: the list has no Side Deck (0 of 15 slots used), so no post-side plan exists in the evidence

Why it scores here

The deck is illegal in OCG as built: four Forbidden cards (Triple Tactics Talent, Charmer Quartet in Bloom, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Cross-Sheep) are run, so under the rubric it receives only a theoretical, structural-only read capped low. Its engine is the Shining Sarcophagus search loop, which the probability table makes reasonably reliable (P of at least one archetype-core card in a 5-card opening hand is about 0.93, Inferred), and it carries 7 hand traps and 11 negation-text cards, giving moderate interaction. Output is weak to unverifiable: no recorded boards exist, so ceiling and median are text-only inference and the median is scored below the ceiling. Archetype purity is only 13.8% exact-name, with 56 off-archetype copies, and the deck has no Side Deck; popularity and archetype usage stats confirm the list is real but did not earn points. Scores were built from the system (engine access, interaction, resilience, Extra Deck coverage) and not from averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 49, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 48, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers; Illegal deck so theoretical/structural-only and capped low

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

• Shining Sarcophagus search loop gives high archetype-core access (about 0.93 for at least one core card in a 5-card hand, Inferred)
• Seven hand traps and 11 negation-text cards provide layered interaction

Weaknesses

• Four Forbidden cards make the list illegal as built
• Exact archetype purity is only 13.8%, so the engine is diluted by 56 off-archetype copies
• No Side Deck, so there is no post-side adaptation
• No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Shining Sarcophagus x3 is the single engine start; if it is not drawn, the Sarcophagus search and special-summon lines do not run

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Four Forbidden cards are run in OCG (Triple Tactics Talent, Charmer Quartet in Bloom, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Cross-Sheep); Main deck is 50 cards and Extra deck is 15 cards, within size rules; Side Deck is empty
• Inferred: Shining Sarcophagus engine access is about 0.93 for at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand; Interaction density is moderate from 7 hand traps and 11 negation-text cards; Going-second hand-trap access is about 0.62
• Provisional: Meta power is null; no dated metagame sample is supplied; Matchup fit is unknown without tournament data
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: the combo floor, median, and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and match records are absent No win-rate telemetry for going first/second, matchups, or brick/starter rates No Side Deck, so post-side performance cannot be assessed Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample