Shining Sarcophagus Deck #774405 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 57/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Control, Extra Deck summon engine
• Format: duel-links

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck boss monsters (Chaos Angel, Underworld Goddess, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Galaxy-Eyes, TY-PHON) protected by Shining Sarcophagus and negation; Gandora-G and Dark Magician the Magician of Black Magic gaining ATK and pressure off Sarcophagus-enabled summons
• Turn 1 (going first): Search Shining Sarcophagus or Future Silence (12 searcher-text cards, about 94% to have at least one in a 5-card hand), build a Sarcophagus board, then Extra Deck summon a boss protected by Sarcophagus
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Droll and Lock Bird or Nibiru as hand traps, then Forbidden Droplet, Silent Magician Zero and Turn Silence to stop the opponent's board before extending
• Recovery: Recover from the Graveyard through Gadget Trio, Witch of the Black Forest and Photon Jumper searches, then re-enter Sarcophagus and rebuild the Extra Deck boss
• After siding: Not applicable: Duel Links has no side deck (side size 0), so the only adaptation is re-searching within the Main Deck

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional plan: 12 searcher-text cards give about 94% odds of at least one in a 5-card opening hand, so it usually reaches a Sarcophagus or Future Silence turn one. It converts that plan into pressure through a 9-card Extra Deck with several high-ATK bosses that Sarcophagus protects. It survives disruption well because it runs three Forbidden Droplet, three Silent Magician Zero, two Turn Silence and Underworld Goddess, giving layered negation for both the boss and the engine. The score comes from consistency, interaction density and Extra Deck coverage on the system, not from averaging card scores, and not from Shining Sarcophagus being a known archetype: usage statistics confirm the list is real but do not raise the score. The main limits are the absence of recorded boards for combo ceiling and median, the lack of any post-side or matchup evidence, and the 20.5% exact-archetype purity, which signals engine conflicts.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange only (Control secondary noted, not blended). Structural ≈ 62, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 68, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: Engine conflicts / low exact-archetype purity (-2); Sarcophagus choke point (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.94 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.06 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense searcher text (12 cards) gives high odds of a live opening hand
• Layered negation across Droplet, Silent Magician Zero, Turn Silence and Underworld Goddess
• Full Extra Deck of high-ATK bosses, with 20 of 22 core-list cards present
• Hand traps (Droll, Nibiru x2) give a second-player plan

Weaknesses

• Exact-archetype purity is only 20.5%, so the engine is split across several archetypes
• No recorded boards, so combo ceiling and median are unmeasured
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Shining Sarcophagus is 2 copies and gates much of the protection and summoning

Critical choke points

• Shining Sarcophagus (2 copies): P(at least one in 5) about 0.31, so a Sarcophagus-dependent line often needs a searcher first
• Opponent's Maxx-style or mass-summon interaction with no protected answer in the Main Deck

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal: 30 Main, 9 Extra, 0 Side (Duel Links limits 20-30 / 0-9); Photon Jumper Semi-Limited with 1 of 2 legal copies run; Archetype core list has 22 cards, 20 present (by Extra-zone card list); Card text and ATK/DEF values from the evidence pack
• Observed: Usage statistics: 25 archetype rows; 17 Main Deck cards match the core list
• Inferred: P(>=1 searcher in 5) about 0.94 via hypergeometric; Layered negation and protection quality from card text; Going-first and going-second power estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power (null: no dated metagame sample); D13 matchup fit placeholder at 50
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry: going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred usage statistics.core-card presence (54.5%, 12 of 22) conflicts with the Extra-zone card list, which contains 20 of the 22 core cards; the matcher appears to skip Extra-Deck copies (Number 90, Chaos Angel, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Dark Magician of Destruction, I:P Masquerena, Sanaphond, S:P Little Knight, Underworld Goddess all show in this deck false), so core coverage is understated guide data has one guide with an empty snippet and no sections Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied