Shining Sarcophagus Deck #773967 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 61/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 29 / Extra 9 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Shining Sarcophagus grind into Dark Magician, Gandora-G, and Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon bosses backed by conditional negates.; Lava Golem plus Gandora-G board wipe into large ATK monsters and Extra Deck removal.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Shining Sarcophagus or a searcher, establish Sarcophagus plus a monster that mentions it, and add Silent Magician Zero or Turn Silence for interaction.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Lava Golem to tribute two opposing monsters, then clear with Gandora-G or convert through Underworld Goddess, S:P Little Knight, and Knightmare Phoenix.
• Recovery: Rebuild Sarcophagus with Gadget Trio, Dark Magician Girl the Magician's Apprentice, or Future Silence; use Sarcophagus search and revival to re-establish the board.
• After siding: No Side Deck is present; a real post-side plan would require swapping Lava Golem, Photon Jumper, or Dark Magical Curtain for matchup-specific interaction.

Why it scores here

The deck's power comes from the Shining Sarcophagus engine: roughly 83% of five-card hands contain at least one of Shining Sarcophagus, Future Silence, Gadget Trio, or Dark Magician Girl the Magician's Apprentice, and those starters funnel into a continuous search and revival loop. The median turn is modest, usually Sarcophagus plus one boss and a conditional negate, while the ceiling adds Gandora-G board wipes, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, and layered Silent Magician, Silent Swordsman, and Turn Silence interaction. The engine is resilient to monster-effect removal because Sarcophagus itself cannot be destroyed by monster effects, but it remains vulnerable to spell/trap removal and is a single choke point; the three Lava Golem and several one-of utility cards raise brick risk going first. Going second is stronger thanks to Lava Golem, Gandora-G, and Underworld Goddess, but the empty Side Deck and lack of recorded combo data cap adaptability and certainty. This score reflects the system's consistency, median output, interaction, and turn-order balance; it does not average individual card power, and the archetype's usage share did not earn points because no dated metagame sample is provided.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 62, Going First ≈ 61, Going Second ≈ 65, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.83 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.17 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Shining Sarcophagus is a continuous search and revival engine protected from monster-effect destruction.
• Multiple starters (Sarcophagus, Future Silence, Gadget Trio, Dark Magician Girl the Magician's Apprentice) give about 83% opening access.
• Strong going-second tools in Lava Golem, Gandora-G, Underworld Goddess, S:P Little Knight, and Knightmare Phoenix.
• Access to powerful bosses including Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Dark Magician of Destruction, Chaos Angel, Number 90, and Number 68.
• Layered conditional negation from Silent Magician Zero, Silent Swordsman Zero, Turn Silence, and Dragoon.

Weaknesses

• The deck funnels through Shining Sarcophagus; if it is negated or removed by spell/trap effects, many cards become dead.
• Three Lava Golem and several one-of utility cards create going-first brick risk and Normal Summon conflicts.
• No Side Deck is present, so post-side adaptation is effectively absent.
• No recorded combo data exists, and the inferred median board is modest rather than explosive.
• Some Extra Deck monsters require specific materials that are not always available.

Critical choke points

• Shining Sarcophagus being negated or destroyed by a spell/trap effect.
• Lava Golem preventing the Normal Summon needed for Gadget Trio or Dark Magician Girl the Magician's Apprentice.
• Number 90 and Number 68 requiring Level 8 pairs that are difficult to assemble without Gandora-G.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 29 Main, 9 Extra, 0 Side; no violations; Photon Jumper at 1 copy under Semi-Limited.; Card text for Shining Sarcophagus, Gandora-G, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Silent Magician Zero, and other key cards is present in the evidence.; Usage statistics show a 26-row Shining Sarcophagus sample, but several Extra Deck core flags conflict with the resolved card list.
• Observed: No scored combos were supplied (0 total), so there is no measured combo floor, median, or ceiling.
• Inferred: P(≥1 starter in opening 5) ≈ 0.83 and no-starter hands ≈ 0.17 from the 8-copy starter set.; Median board is inferred as Shining Sarcophagus plus one boss and one conditional negate because no combos are recorded.; Sarcophagus is a single choke point, though its monster-effect destruction protection helps resilience.; Going-second strength comes from Lava Golem x3, Gandora-G wipe, Underworld Goddess, S:P, and Phoenix.
• Provisional: Matchup coverage and format fit cannot be dated because no tournament link or metagame sample exists.; Side Deck adaptability is effectively absent because the Side Deck is empty.
• 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 are absent. No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN — going-first, going-second, matchup, game-level, brick, starter, and OTK rates are Inferred or Unknown. Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied. Usage statistics flag several Extra Deck cards as not in the deck even though the resolved card list includes them; treated as a data conflict.