Cipher Deck #469944 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Toolbox
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 53 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Xyz Summon high-ATK Galaxy-Eyes / Photon / Number Xyz monsters (Cipher X, Number 62, Neo C62, Number C107, Full Armor) from a 15-card Extra Deck and close with 4000+ ATK boards.; Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon and Galaxy-Eyes Solflare Dragon as extra-deck-free bodies that feed the Galaxy/Photon engine through Galaxy Soldier and Galaxy Wizard.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Galaxy Soldier or Galaxy Wizard to reach a Galaxy/Photon starter, then Galaxy Expedition or Galaxy Summoner into a Level 8 Xyz (Photon Emperor, Galaxy-Eyes Afterglow) for a 3000+ ATK Xyz.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Evenly Matched, Maxx "C") to break the opponent's first combo, then rebuild through Galaxy Soldier and Galaxy Wizard into an Xyz.
• Recovery: Galaxy Photon Dragon and Galaxy Summoner can rebuild from the GY via their once-per-turn effects; Galaxy Soldier can re-search a Galaxy monster from the Deck.
• After siding: Not applicable: the list has no Side Deck, so no post-side plan exists in the submitted form.

Why it scores here

The list is illegal as submitted: two Forbidden cards (Called by the Grave, Triple Tactics Talent) and two copies each of Maxx "C" and Droll & Lock Bird exceed OCG limits, so the score is structural-only and capped low. Within that theoretical read, the Galaxy/Photon engine opens reasonably often (hypergeometric P(at least one archetype-core card in a 5-card opening hand) ≈ 0.80, Inferred) and the Extra Deck gives several high-ATK Xyz closers. Output is scored from the system (engine cohesion, hand-trap density, Extra Deck coverage), not from averaging card scores. The deck has no recorded boards, so floor, median and ceiling are text-inferred only and the ceiling is not reported as the typical result. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points, and the usage-statistics core-card list reads as unreliable because it marks Extra-Deck cards present in the deck as absent.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 58, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-12). Final formula: 0.80*Structural(58) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(42) + Modifiers(-12) = 43 uncapped; Illegal cap applied -> 35. Meta provisional.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.8 · 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 Galaxy/Photon engine with multiple starters and recursion
• Several high-ATK Xyz closers in a 15-card Extra Deck
• Strong negation package (hand traps plus Tachyon Transmigration)

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy and banned-card count in the submitted list
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptability
• High-complexity Xyz-material lines with many once-per-turn effects
• Many tech and situational slots reduce main-deck consistency

Critical choke points

• Galaxy Soldier / Galaxy Wizard as the only frequent Galaxy-monster searchers
• The Extra Deck Xyz needs two Level 8 materials on the field

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 53 / Extra 15 / Side 0 within OCG size rules; Called by the Grave and Triple Tactics Talent are Forbidden in OCG and run 2 copies each; Maxx "C" and Droll & Lock Bird are Limited and run 2 copies each; No Side Deck present
• Inferred: Hypergeometric consistency estimates (P≈0.80 core in 5; P≈0.83 hand-trap in 6); Engine coherence across Galaxy / Photon / Galaxy-Eyes sub-archetypes; Hand-trap and negation density as interruption resilience; Closing power from Xyz ATK values in the Extra Deck
• Provisional: Meta Power and format fit (no dated sample); Tournament reliability (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: Illegal list: Forbidden and over-limit cards are present, so this is a structural-only read No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-inferred No tournament link: meta-share and per-pilot record absent Usage statistics mark Extra-Deck Xyz cards present in this deck (e.g., Number 62, Number 107, Cipher X) as absent; the core-present % (40) is likely a matching artifact and was not used to score No win-rate telemetry for going-first/second, matchups or brick rates Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied