Shining Sarcophagus Deck #772818 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Dark Magician / Dark Magician Girl engine feeding Shining Sarcophagus searches into Extra Deck fusion and link boss monsters (Dark Magician the Dragon Knight, The Dark Magicians, Timaeus, Underworld Goddess, Dark Paladin); Hand-trap and negation pressure (Ash Blossom, Artifact Lancea, Nibiru, Dominus Impulse, Destined Rivals) to protect a board or stop the opponent's first big summon
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a searcher (Future Silence, Shining Sarcophagus, Dark Magical Circle, Magician's Rod, Gadget Trio) and convert it into a Sarcophagus-linked summon; the 2-copy starter is the bottleneck (about 16% in a 5-card opening hand)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Artifact Lancea, Nibiru or Dominus Impulse to answer the opponent's first summon, then rebuild the board with a searcher-driven Extra Deck summon
• Recovery: Searchers and draw effects (Mulcharmy Fuwalos/Purulia, Soul Servant, Dark Magical Curtain) rebuild the hand after a disruption; the Main Deck has no dedicated recursion beyond the GY effects of Magician's Rod and Soul Servant
• After siding: None: Side Deck size is 0, so there is no post-side plan to score against best-of-3 opponents

Why it scores here

The deck's score comes from the system, not from averaging its cards: its searcher-driven engine reaches a live starter often enough (about 80% for at least one searcher in an opening 5-card hand), and it has a broad interaction layer of hand traps and negations (about 59% for a hand trap in a 6-card going-second hand) that can answer a first summon. Its ceiling is held back by the Shining Sarcophagus core being only 9 exact-name copies (12% exact-name purity), with 66 off-archetype copies spread across Dark Magician, Dominus, Mulcharmy and Prophecy, which weakens the engine coherence. The list has no side deck, so it has no post-side plan and scores 10 on adaptability. Its popularity (Shining Sarcophagus is a known archetype) and its usage statistics did not earn points on their own. The list is Illegal under OCG copy limits (three over-limit cards), so it is capped at 30 and labelled theoretical and structural-only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 52, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: Illegal copy-limit exposure (-12). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(52) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) = 49.6; modifier -12 (copy-limit and Semi-Limited exposure) gives 37.6; Illegal list capped at 30 and labelled theoretical/structural-only

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

• Searcher density (16 cards) makes a live hand likely
• Broad hand-trap and negation layer for going second
• Extra Deck bosses reach 2800 to 3000 ATK

Weaknesses

• Illegal under OCG copy limits as listed
• Only 9 exact-name Shining Sarcophagus-archetype cards, 12% purity
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Heavy off-archetype spread dilutes engine coherence

Critical choke points

• Shining Sarcophagus needs 2 copies and is about 16% in a 5-card opening hand
• Whole engine depends on the Dark Magician / Sarcophagus searches

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is Illegal: Ash Blossom, Dominus Impulse and Super Polymerization each run 3 copies against an OCG limit of 2; Main 60, Extra 15, Side 0; 31 distinct main-deck cards; Exact-name archetype purity 12% (9 of 75 archetype-related copies); Usage stats: 21 rows, 10 of 19 core cards present
• Inferred: Starter access: P(at least one searcher in opening 5) ~ 0.80 and Shining Sarcophagus ~ 0.16; Interaction density is broad from hand traps and removal text
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit: no dated metagame sample and no tournament link
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry: going-first and going-second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No guides attached for the archetype