Shining Sarcophagus Deck #773437 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 51/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox
• Format: duel-links

Legality

Main 30 / Extra 9 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck boss (Underworld Goddess, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Super Starslayer TY-PHON, Dark Magician of Destruction) reached through the Shining Sarcophagus search and summon chain; Gandora-G gaining ATK from banished cards, with Gaze of Timaeus as a Fusion route
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a searcher (Dark Magician Girl, Gadget Trio, Future Silence or Shining Sarcophagus) and reach a Sarcophagus-mentioning monster or spell, then build toward an Extra Deck link or Xyz boss
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Droll & Lock Bird, Effect Veiler, Nibiru or Silent Magician Zero to interrupt the opponent's board, then convert with Gandora-G or a Link/Xyz boss
• Recovery: Recover through the multiple searchers (13 copies, about 96% at least one in a 5-card opening hand) and the hand-trap/negation suite, not through the Graveyard
• After siding: No side deck is built (side 0 of 0 to 9 allowed) and no post-side evidence exists; no post-side plan can be scored

Why it scores here

The deck opens a functional plan through several searchers (13 copies, about 96% to have at least one in a 5-card opening hand), but the Shining Sarcophagus starter itself is only 2 copies (about 31% in a going-first 5-card hand), so Turn 1 access depends on search chains rather than the starter. Conversion is strong on paper: the Extra Deck carries nine boss and engine cards (Link, Xyz and Fusion) that the archetype supports, and the main deck adds 4 hand traps and 8 negation-text cards for interruption. Going-second resilience comes from Droll & Lock Bird, Effect Veiler and Nibiru. The score is held down by engine conflicts (Gravekeeper's support and Necrovalley, Gadget, and off-archetype Silent Magician and Dark Magician pieces that do not feed the Sarcophagus engine), by the absence of any recorded boards, and by the absence of tournament and post-side evidence. Archetype popularity and the presence of core cards did not earn points on their own, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 58, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: Engine conflicts and off-engine bricks (-3); Thin starter density (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers = 0.80*58.3 + 0.20*48 - 5 ≈ 51

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.31 · 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

• Legal list with full Extra Deck (9 of 9) and an archetype core largely present (21 of 23 core cards once Extra Deck cards are counted)
• Multiple searchers (13 copies) give consistent access to the engine after the starter
• Strong Extra Deck closing power: 3000, 2900 and 2800 ATK bosses
• Interaction suite of 4 hand traps, 8 negation-text cards and 5 removal-text cards

Weaknesses

• Only 2 copies of the Shining Sarcophagus starter
• Off-archetype and Gravekeeper's/Gadget pieces that do not feed the Sarcophagus engine
• No recorded boards, no tournament data, no post-side plan

Critical choke points

• Shining Sarcophagus must be reached through a searcher; a hand without a searcher or the starter is weak
• Necrovalley conflicts with banish-based recovery and Gandora-G scaling

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in duel-links (BanDuelLink); Necrovalley 1 of 1 (Limited); Photon Jumper 1 of 2 (Semi-Limited); Main 30 and Extra 9 within size rules; side 0 within 0-9 allowed; Extra Deck composition: 4 Link, 3 Xyz, 2 Fusion
• Inferred: Starter and searcher hypergeometric estimates (0.31 and 0.96); Engine conflict and brick assessments; Interaction density from card text
• Provisional: Meta power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link); Post-side plan (no side deck)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied usage statistics in this deck appears to ignore Extra Deck cards (Masquerena, Underworld Goddess, Galaxy-Eyes, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Dark Magician of Destruction, Sanaphond, Knightmare Phoenix, S:P Little Knight all listed in cards but flagged absent in core cards/missing core cards), so core presence was recomputed from the cards list guide data snippet is empty ( ) with no sections