Shining Sarcophagus Deck #773646 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 63/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Control, Toolbox
• Format: duel-links

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Shining Sarcophagus grind into Silent Magician/Swordsman Zero negations plus Extra Deck bosses such as Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Dark Magician of Destruction, and Chaos Angel.; Gandora-G board wipe, Archfiend's Advent monster steal, and Underworld Goddess/S:P Little Knight removal.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Shining Sarcophagus or DMG Apprentice/Future Silence into it, search a Silent Zero or Gandora-G, set Turn Silence, and hold handtraps.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use six-card handtrap density to blunt the opponent's board, then Gandora-G wipe or Archfiend's Advent steal; convert with Extra Deck bosses.
• Recovery: Sarc searches each turn, Witch and DMG Apprentice replenish, Galaxy Journey revives banished LIGHT/DARK monsters, and handtraps support grind.
• After siding: No Side Deck is present; a real post-side plan would need to swap narrow Galaxy/Photon package cards for matchup handtraps or board breakers.

Why it scores here

This Shining Sarcophagus list is a compact 30-card midrange/control engine that usually opens by finding Shining Sarcophagus through 3 copies, 2 DMG Apprentice, or 2 Future Silence (about 76% inferred), then converts into recurring searches, Silent Zero/Turn Silence interaction, and handtrap-backed grind. Its ceiling includes Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Dark Magician of Destruction, Chaos Angel, Underworld Goddess, and a Gandora-G board wipe, but with no recorded combos the typical board is inferred to be much lower than the ceiling: usually Sarc plus one conditional negation and held handtraps. The deck is legal and has strong interaction breadth, yet many one-of tech cards, an unsummonable Master of Chaos in the Extra Deck, and no Side Deck lower consistency and post-side reliability. Popularity/usage share did not earn points, and the score is not an average of card scores; it comes from the system's opening reliability, median interaction, resilience around the Sarc choke point, and absence of combo evidence.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 64, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 65, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 61. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.76 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.24 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Compact Shining Sarcophagus engine with 3 Sarc, 2 DMG Apprentice, and 2 Future Silence gives about 76% inferred opening access.
• High handtrap density (8 copies) gives interaction on both turns.
• Sarc provides recurring search and cannot be destroyed by monster effects, supporting grind.
• Extra Deck has diverse bosses and removal: Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Dark Magician of Destruction, Chaos Angel, Underworld Goddess, S:P Little Knight.
• Multiple negations/removal via Silent Magician Zero, Silent Swordsman Zero, Turn Silence, Dragoon, Number 90, and Gandora-G.

Weaknesses

• No combo evidence; floor, median, and ceiling are text-only inference.
• Many one-of situational cards (Gaze of Timaeus, Dark Magical Curtain, Archfiend's Advent, Witch of the Black Forest, Galaxy Journey, Photon Jumper, Dark Magician the Magician, Silent Swordsman Zero) increase variance.
• Master of Chaos appears unsummonable without a Chaos/Black Luster Soldier Ritual monster.
• No Side Deck; poor post-side adaptability.
• If Shining Sarcophagus is removed by spell/trap or negated, several monsters become vanilla.
• Usage-stat presence flags conflict with the resolved card list, reducing trust in core-comparison signals.

Critical choke points

• Shining Sarcophagus itself: removing it turns off Silent Magician Zero, Gandora-G, Dark Magician the Magician, Archfiend's Advent, and Turn Silence negation.
• No Side Deck or post-side plan in the supplied evidence.
• Dependence on a small number of Sarc-access cards after the first search.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is legal for Duel Links: 30 Main, 9 Extra, 0 Side, no copy-limit violations.; BanDuelLink: Galaxy Journey Limited 1/1; Photon Jumper Semi-Limited 1/2.; Resolved card list includes 3 Shining Sarcophagus, 3 Silent Magician Zero, 2 Gandora-G, and 8 handtrap copies.; Card text excerpts show Sarc search, Silent Zero spell negate, Turn Silence monster-effect negate, and Gandora-G board wipe.
• Observed: No parseable combo boards are present (combo data.total combos = 0).; Usage statistics are available (26 rows); 12/22 flagged core cards present, but several presence flags conflict with the resolved list.
• Inferred: Opening Sarc access via 3 Sarc + 2 DMG Apprentice + 2 Future Silence is about 76% of five-card hands.; Full-brick (no Sarc access) is about 24%, before accounting for hands with only unsearchable monsters.; Shining Sarcophagus is the central choke point; removing it blanks Silent Magician Zero, Gandora-G, DM the Magician, Archfiend's Advent, and Turn Silence negation.; Master of Chaos appears unsummonable because no Chaos/Black Luster Soldier Ritual monster is in the list.; Median board is inferred as Sarc plus one conditional negation, not the Dragoon/Chaos Angel ceiling.
• Provisional: Matchup coverage and format fit cannot be measured without a dated metagame sample.; Meta Power remains provisional/null.
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied usage statistics presence flags conflict with the resolved card list for several Extra Deck cards