Shining Sarcophagus Deck #773327 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 51/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion, Xyz or Link boss (Timaeus, Dark Magician of Destruction, Master of Chaos, Zeus, Starslayer) after the interaction suite clears the board; Shining Sarcophagus engine summons (Ties That Bind, Future Silence, Gadget Trio, Moremarshmallon) that put extra monsters on board
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a searcher (Dark Magician Girl, Gadget Trio, Shining Sarcophagus, Future Silence) to add a Sarcophagus-linked monster, then hold hand traps (Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Infinite Impermanence) and Solemn Judgment / Solemn Warning for the opponent's first summon or spell
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps from a six-card hand (Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Droll and Lock Bird, Nibiru, Evenly Matched) and the Solemn trap pair to stop the opponent's first line, then go to the Extra Deck once the field is clear
• Recovery: Recover through searchers (Shining Sarcophagus, Future Silence, Gadget Trio), Mulcharmy draw effects when the field is empty, and the Dark Magician Fusion chain from the Extra Deck
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so no post-side plan can be evaluated

Why it scores here

The deck opens a functional plan reasonably often: the 15-card Shining Sarcophagus core gives about 81% odds of at least one core card in a 5-card opening, and the 12 searcher-text cards give about 72%. Its strongest feature is interaction density, with roughly 16 negation and 18 removal-text cards and 12 hand traps, which keeps it live through an opponent's first line and gives it a strong going-second hand. Closing power comes from several 2800 to 3000 ATK bosses in the Extra Deck, but those bosses depend on the interaction suite clearing the board first. The score is held down by an 18.6% exact-archetype purity (81% off-archetype copies), a Mulcharmy draw engine that requires an empty field while the Sarcophagus and trap lines need cards on the field, a 55-card main deck with 22 tech cards, and no side deck. Popularity and archetype usage did not add points, and card scores were not averaged; the score reflects consistency, interaction, and conversion on the whole system.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox primary; Midrange used only as the strategy label, not as weights. Structural ≈ 58, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: engine_conflicts (-3); banlist_exposure (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural(58) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(42) + ContextModifiers(-4) = 50.8, rounded to 51; Meta Power provisional

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · 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

• Layered interaction: about 12 hand traps, 16 negation-text and 18 removal-text cards
• Strong going-second hand: hand-trap group about 0.79 odds in a six-card hand
• Deep Extra Deck with several 2800 to 3000 ATK bosses and fusion/xyz/link coverage
• Legal in OCG with all restricted cards at or below their legal copy limits

Weaknesses

• Low archetype purity (18.6%) with 16 different sub-archetypes, so engine coherence is weak
• Mulcharmy's empty-field condition conflicts with the field-based Sarcophagus, Gadget and trap lines
• 22 tech-tagged cards in 55 main slots reduce consistency and starter density
• No side deck, so there is no best-of-3 adaptation

Critical choke points

• Shining Sarcophagus (3 copies) as the monster-summon enabler for most Sarcophagus lines
• The Dark Magician Fusion chain, which depends on Dark Magician or Dark Magician Girl being in the field or GY

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal OCG list: 55 main, 15 extra, 0 side, no violations; Copy limits: six restricted cards, all at or below legal copies; Opening-hand hypergeometric odds (3-copy card 0.2529 going first); Card texts for Mulcharmy (empty-field condition), Solemn Warning, Solemn Judgment and Master of Chaos
• Inferred: Engine accessibility approx 0.81 for the core group; Brick and conflict estimates from text (hand traps and empty-field conditions); Interaction density (16 negation, 18 removal) and going-second hand-trap odds
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link); Median output and ceiling (no recorded boards)
• 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/second, matchup, brick and starter rates) exists in YGOVN usage_statistics matches inconsistently for the Extra Deck: S:P Little Knight, Dark Magician of Destruction, I:P Masquerena and Master of Chaos are listed as in_this_deck false although they appear in the Extra list, so core coverage (36.8%) is understated Deck title is null No side deck, so no post-side plan evaluation Meta Power provisional