Shining Sarcophagus Deck #773711 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link and Xyz pressure from Orcust/Mekk-Knight Link monsters (Enlilgirsu, Longirsu, Galatea) and Zombie Vampire, once Shining Sarcophagus or Orcust Harp Horror has put the engine online; Dark Paladin and Dark Magician of Destruction as Fusion/Special Summon follow-ups through Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Shining Sarcophagus or Orcust Harp Horror, search the next Sarcophagus or Orcust piece with Future Silence, Gandora or Orcustrated Babel, and Link Summon into Orcust Link monsters
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Skull Meister, Nibiru and Droll to stop the opponent's first summon or search, then rebuild through Harp Horror and Girsu
• Recovery: Recurse banished and GY Orcust monsters (Harp Horror, Cymbal Skeleton, Crescendo) and Orcustrated Babel to re-Link, using Galatea-I and Galatea to refill Extra Deck access
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so no post-side plan can be evaluated

Why it scores here

This list has an engine that is hard to find. Only 4 of 61 archetype-named copies are exact Shining Sarcophagus cards, and the rest is spread across Orcust, Dominus, Dark Magician, Mekk-Knight and Solemn, so the 'archetype core' probability (98%) mostly measures that some Orcust card appears, not that a working engine appears. Interaction is the deck's strongest area: 10 hand traps, 17 negation texts and 28 removal texts give it layered answers to the first summon or search. The floor is weak because Dominus Impulse and Dominus Spark have no Dominus monsters to support them, and 18 tech cards plus 26 Level 0 spells and traps add dead draws. The deck runs no side deck and has no combo, tournament or win-rate data, so the score rests on structure and text reads only. It is illegal as built, so the score is capped and labelled theoretical. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange profile; Stun not blended. Structural ≈ 53, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: illegal-copy-limit (-18); no-side-deck (-3). Final formula: Illegal deck: theoretical/structural-only. Structural 53 (Midrange) is capped to 35 because two cards exceed copy limits; the normal 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability formula is not applied.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ — · 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 hand-trap and negation coverage (10 hand traps, 17 negation texts)
• Broad Link Summon access with 9 Link monsters in the Extra Deck
• Recursion from the GY through Harp Horror, Cymbal Skeleton and Crescendo

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy counts for Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse
• Exact archetype purity is only 5.7%, so the engine is diffuse
• Dominus traps with no Dominus monsters
• No side deck

Critical choke points

• Shining Sarcophagus and Harp Horror as the only archetype-specific starters
• Galatea and Galatea-I as the Extra Deck gate for Link access

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main deck is 55 cards, Extra Deck 15, Side 0; within size rules; Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse exceed Semi-Limited copy limit (3 vs 2); Exact Shining Sarcophagus purity 5.7% (4 of 70 archetype-named copies)
• Inferred: Engine is diffuse across Orcust, Dominus, Dark Magician and Solemn; Interaction density is high from hand-trap and negation text; Floor is weakened by Dominus traps without Dominus monsters
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit (D13) have no dated sample; Going-first and going-second splits are estimates
• 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 splits are Inferred No side deck; post-side plan cannot be evaluated No guides attached for the archetype Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample