Shining Sarcophagus Deck #774388 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links
30 Main, 9 Extra, incl. Dark Magician Girl the Magician's Apprentice x3, Dark Magician the Magician of Black Magic x3, Droll & Lock Bird x3 - Skill: Light the Way to the Future. Created Oct 27, 2026 by YGO Mod.
Deck Shining Sarcophagus Duel Links
Created by: YGO Mod (20517634)
Created On: 10/27/2026
Light the Way to the Future
Main Deck (30)
- Dark Magician Girl the Magician's Apprentice x3
- Dark Magician the Magician of Black Magic x3
- Droll & Lock Bird x3
- Gandora-G the Dragon of Destruction x2
- Moremarshmallon x1
- Nibiru, the Primal Being x3
- Photon Jumper x1
- Silent Magician Zero x1
- Silent Swordsman Zero x1
- Witch of the Black Forest x1
- Dark Magical Curtain x1
- Forbidden Droplet x2
- Future Silence x3
- Shining Sarcophagus x2
- The Gaze of Timaeus x1
- Turn Silence x2
Extra Deck (9)
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54± 8/ 100
Power Score
Structural
58
Reliability
48
Going First
54
Going Second
63
Deck — Deck Power Evaluation
Final Contextual Deck Power: 54/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)
| Overall score | Value |
|---|---|
| Structural Deck Power | 58 |
| Going First | 54 |
| Going Second | 63 |
| Meta Power | provisional |
| Tournament Reliability | 48 |
- Primary strategy: Midrange
- Secondary strategies: Stun, Toolbox
- Format: duel-links
Legality
Main 30 / Extra 9 / Side 0 — status: Legal.
Identity & game plan
- Win condition: Extra Deck boss (Underworld Goddess of the Closed World, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Dark Magician of Destruction, Chaos Angel, Galaxy-Eyes Photon Lord) once the Shining Sarcophagus engine is online; Gandora-G the Dragon of Destruction scaling off banished cards, plus Dark Paladin and Number 68 as board presence
- Turn 1 (going first): Open with a Dark Magician Girl or Future Silence search toward Shining Sarcophagus, establish the Sarcophagus, then play Dark Magician / Moremarshmallon and extend into a Link, Xyz or Fusion boss
- Turn 2 (going second): Use Droll & Lock Bird, Nibiru, Turn Silence and Forbidden Droplet to disrupt the opponent's first board, then rebuild through searchers into an Extra Deck boss
- Recovery: Re-search Shining Sarcophagus or a Sarcophagus-mentioning monster through Dark Magician Girl, Future Silence or Witch of the Black Forest after the engine is interrupted
- After siding: None: the deck runs no Side Deck cards, so there is no post-side plan
Why it scores here
The deck reliably opens into searchers (3 Dark Magician Girl, 3 Future Silence) that fetch the Shining Sarcophagus engine, but the engine itself is thin at 2 copies, so a live Sarcophagus in the opening five is only about 31% (Inferred). Its real strength is system-level interaction: six hand traps, two Turn Silence, two Forbidden Droplet and several negate-capable Extra Deck monsters give it layered answers to an established board, which is why the going-second and end-board dimensions score highest. Closing power comes from a nine-slot Extra Deck of 2500 to 3500 ATK bosses, but no recorded boards exist, so the floor and median are text-only inferences. The score comes from consistency, interaction and resilience on the system, not from the Shining Sarcophagus archetype being popular and not from averaging the card scores; no tournament or meta share was supplied, so Meta Power stays provisional.
Dimension scores
| # | Dimension | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| D1 | Engine Accessibility & Consistency | 58 | P(at least one Shining Sarcophagus in opening 5) ≈ 0.31 with 2 copies; 3 Dark Magician Girl and 3 Future Silence search the engine, P(≥1 searcher in hand 5) ≈ 0.92 (Inferred) |
| D2 | Opening-Hand Quality & Brick Management | 55 | Hand-trap and tech cards (Droll, Nibiru, Turn Silence, Forbidden Droplet) are dead without a board, and 9 Extra Deck cards need specific materials, so some hands are conflicting or dead (Inferred) |
| D3 | Combo Conversion & Ceiling | 60 | No parseable boards exist, so conversion is inferred from the Extra Deck options (Underworld Goddess, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Dark Magician of Destruction) and the searchers (Inferred) |
| D4 | Combo Floor & Median Output | 48 | combos_evidence has zero scored boards, so floor and median are unmeasured and only textually inferred (Provisional) |
| D5 | Interruption Resilience & Route Redundancy | 62 | Multiple negation routes (Droll, Nibiru, Turn Silence ×2, Forbidden Droplet ×2) and several engine starters give independent lines after one interruption (Inferred) |
| D6 | Resource Economy, Recovery & Grind | 55 | Gandora-G converts banished cards into ATK and Witch of the Black Forest recovers a monster from the Deck, but no resource signature was measured (Inferred) |
| D7 | End-Board & Interaction Quality | 70 | Six hand traps, Turn Silence, Forbidden Droplet, and Underworld Goddess negating all face-up monsters give dense layered interaction (Inferred semantic read; card-role flags verified) |
| D8 | Going-Second & Board-Breaking Power | 68 | Droll, Forbidden Droplet, Underworld Goddess and Gandora-G target the opponent's established board when going second, with no going-second split observed (Inferred) |
| D9 | Offensive Pressure & Closing Power | 66 | Extra Deck bosses at 2500 to 3500 ATK (Chaos Angel 3500, Underworld Goddess 3000, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon 3000) give strong closing stats (Verified stats) |
| D10 | Main Deck Efficiency & Flexibility | 62 | 30 main slots over 16 distinct cards with 3-copy staples and a single-copy tech layer; exact-name archetype purity is only 20.5%, so slots are spread across related and generic cards (Verified composition) |
| D11 | Extra Deck Efficiency & Coverage | 58 | Nine Extra Deck slots spanning Fusion, Synchro, Xyz and Link, with several specific-material requirements (Galaxy-Eyes needs a Photon card, Dark Magician of Destruction needs Dark Magician) (Verified composition, Inferred flexibility) |
| D12 | Side Deck Adaptability | 25 | The deck runs 0 Side Deck cards, so post-side adaptability is structurally absent; no post-side data exists (Provisional) |
| D13 | Matchup Coverage & Format Fit | 50 | No tournament link or meta share was supplied; the usage stats show a 100% inclusion core, which confirms the list is archetype-standard but not its format fit (Provisional) |
| D14 | Pilotability & Error Tolerance | 42 | Multi-step lines with conditional summon requirements, Sarcophagus-dependent once-per-turn effects and many branching decision points lower repeatability (Inferred) |
How the score was computed
Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 58, Going First ≈ 54, Going Second ≈ 63, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: unrecoverable choke point (-2); no side deck (-2); engine compactness and redundancy (2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional): 0.80*57.6 + 0.20*48 - 2 = 53.7, rounded to 54
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
- Dense searcher and hand-trap layer (11 searchers, 6 hand traps) for consistency and interaction
- Extra Deck bosses at 2500 to 3500 ATK with several negate options
- Legal in format with a complete list: 30 Main, 9 Extra, copy limits respected
Weaknesses
- Only 2 Shining Sarcophagus copies, so the core engine is unreliable in opening hands
- No Side Deck, so there is no post-side adaptability
- No recorded combos, guides or tournament data, so floor and median are unmeasured
Critical choke points
- Shining Sarcophagus (2 copies) is the engine's main gate for many Sarcophagus-dependent effects
Recommended changes
| Priority | Remove | Add | Reason |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | None | A Side Deck of up to 9 cards covering the most common opposing boards | A 0-card Side Deck gives no post-side route, the deck's largest structural gap |
| 2 | One Forbidden Droplet | A third Shining Sarcophagus | Raises engine access from about 31% toward the Sarcophagus-focused plan the searchers point at; keeps the same interaction count |
Evidence & confidence
- Verified: Legal size and copy-limit status for all 16 distinct Main cards and 9 Extra cards; Card stats and role flags from the export; Usage stats show a 100% inclusion core for several Extra Deck bosses; Hypergeometric draw odds for the Main Deck
- Inferred: Starter access and brick risk from draw probabilities and searcher density; Interaction quality from text-role hints and negation text; Going-second strength from hand-trap density
- Provisional: Meta Power (no dated sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link); Post-side plan (no Side Deck)
- Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inferences No tournament link: archetype meta share and per-pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN, so going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Guide has no usable content (snippet is ' ', section_count 0) usage_statistics core matching marks Extra Deck cards such as Underworld Goddess, Galaxy-Eyes Photon Lord, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Dark Magician of Destruction, Chaos Angel and I:P Masquerena as in_this_deck:false even though they are present in the Extra Deck, so core_present_pct (50) is understated and was not used
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