Shining Sarcophagus Deck #773151 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 47/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 57 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Dark Magician / Light and Darkness Ritual boss monsters (Magician of Black Chaos MAX, Black Luster Soldier, Dark Magician of Chaos) and Extra Deck link/fusion closers, reached through searcher-driven access.; Chaos Angel, Underworld Goddess and Dark Paladin from the Extra Deck once the board is established.
• Turn 1 (going first): Use the 20 searchers to find Shining Sarcophagus or a Dark Magician / Light and Darkness Ritual piece, then convert to a ritual or Dark Magician boss; hold Ash Blossom or Infinite Impermanence for the first interaction.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence) plus Super Polymerization or Spell Shattering Sword to answer the opponent's board, then rebuild through the Sarcophagus and Dark Magician searchers.
• Recovery: Recursion from the GY through Dark Magician Pharaoh, Magician Navigation and Secrets of Dark Magic, plus Light and Darkness Ritual's GY effect, to rebuild after a clear.
• After siding: Not available: the deck runs no side deck, so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck opens reliably: 20 searchers give a 0.90 chance of at least one in the opening five, so the Dark Magician and Light and Darkness Ritual pieces are usually reachable even though only 2 Shining Sarcophagus are run. Conversion is real but unmeasured, since no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling (Ritual or Fusion bosses at 2800 to 3500 ATK) is a text-based read and not an observed average. Survival rests on 4 hand traps and about 11 negation effects; the going-second chance of at least one hand trap is only 0.37, and there is no side deck to reinforce it. The score comes from consistency, closing power and interaction across the whole system, not from averaging card power, and the archetype's popularity earned no points because the exact-name purity is only 5.6 percent.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox 100% (Midrange not blended into the weights). Structural ≈ 53, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: No side deck (-3); Identity dilution (-2); Banlist exposure (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers (-6); 0.80*53.3 + 0.20*50 - 6 = 46.6, rounded to 47

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.17 · 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 (20) gives high access to the engine on going first
• Strong closing bosses (Chaos Angel 3500, Underworld Goddess 3000, Black Luster Soldier 3000) with banish and negate text
• Two-card interaction core of Ash Blossom and Infinite Impermanence, plus Super Polymerization for a fusion answer

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so no post-side plan
• Low exact-archetype purity (5.6 percent) suggests the engine splits across sub-archetypes
• Going-second hand-trap chance is only about 0.37, and there are no floodgates

Critical choke points

• Shining Sarcophagus at 2 copies makes the Sarcophagus engine unreliable on its own; access depends on searchers
• Light and Darkness Ritual (2 copies) is the gate to the Ritual bosses
• Four hand traps are the only going-second interaction

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status: 57 main, 15 extra, 0 side, no violations, restricted-card copy counts within limits; Shining Sarcophagus-family and Dark Magician card texts read from the evidence excerpts; Archetype-purity counts (4 exact of 72 non-Extra-free copies, 5.6 percent)
• Inferred: Searcher access probability (0.90 at least one searcher in 5) and Shining Sarcophagus hand probability (0.17); Hand-trap going-second probability (0.37); Interaction and recursion breadth from card text; Going-first and going-second power estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power is null: no dated metagame sample supplied; D13 matchup fit scored at neutral without tournament data
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent no side deck: post-side and matchup evaluation cannot be scored no win-rate telemetry: going-first, going-second and matchup rates are unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied