Cipher Deck #548677 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Xyz boss ladder: Galaxy-Eyes Cipher X Dragon, Number 62 Galaxy-Eyes Prime Photon Dragon and Galaxy-Eyes Cipher Dragon, built from Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon and Photon/Galaxy Xyz material; Galaxy Photon Dragon and Starliege Photon Blast Dragon as recursive Xyz boards; Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS as a late-game closer
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Galaxy Soldier or Photon Delta Wing, add a Galaxy or Photon starter via Galaxy Soldier or Photon Orbital, Normal Summon into a Level 8 Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon, then Xyz into a 3000+ ATK boss; hold Ash Blossom and D.D. Crow for the first response
• Turn 2 (going second): Respond to the opponent's first summon or search with Ash Blossom, D.D. Crow and Artifact Lancea, then rebuild a Galaxy-Eyes boss from Galaxy Trance, Photon Vanisher or Galaxy Summoner; Dimensional Barrier and Called by the Grave are the only hard interaction (Called is illegal in this format)
• Recovery: Galaxy Journey and Galaxy Photon Dragon recover banished or GY Photon and Galaxy monsters; Photon Emperor and Galaxy Cleric re-enter from the GY
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs zero side cards, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck opens a functional Galaxy/Photon starter about a quarter of the time in a 5-card going-first hand, and a 6-card going-second hand is slightly better, so its engine is real but not reliable; the 13-copy Galaxy-Eyes/Photon core is present in roughly 75% of openings by the hypergeometric estimate. Conversion is a Level 8 Dragon into an Xyz boss at 3000 to 4000 ATK, which gives a strong ceiling, but there are no recorded boards, so the median output cannot be measured and is scored from text only. Interaction is layered (Ash Blossom, D.D. Crow, Artifact Lancea, Dimensional Barrier, Called by the Grave and two Xyz negates), and the going-second hand has about a 68% chance of at least one hand trap, but these benefits are reduced because the list is illegal. The score is derived from consistency, median output and interaction on the system as a whole, not from averaging card scores, and popularity in the Galaxy-Eyes family did not earn points. Because the list breaks copy limits and runs two Forbidden cards, it is capped as a theoretical, structural-only read, and there is no side deck to recover the matchup.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 51.3, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 40, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); weak_post_side_plan (-4). Final formula: Illegal list: uncapped 0.80*51.3 + 0.20*35 - 10 modifiers ≈ 38, capped at 25 as theoretical/structural-only per the Illegal rule; Meta Power provisional (null)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · 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 suite (Ash Blossom, D.D. Crow, Artifact Lancea) with 67% chance of at least one going second
• Galaxy-Eyes Xyz boss ladder with 3000 to 4000 ATK finishers and negate/steal effects
• Recursion through Galaxy Journey, Galaxy Photon Dragon and Photon Emperor

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy counts: Ash x3 (limit 2), Dimensional Barrier x3 (limit 1)
• Two Forbidden cards (Called by the Grave, Triple Tactics Talent)
• Zero side deck; no post-side plan
• Archetype purity 2.9%; many off-archetype sub-archetype cards dilute the engine

Critical choke points

• Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon (3 copies) is the single Level 8 gate to most Xyz lines
• Galaxy Soldier and Photon Delta Wing are the only T1 starters in opening hands

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Illegal, four copy-limit violations (Ash x3, Barrier x3, Forbidden x2); Composition: 55 main, 15 extra, 0 side, 14 distinct Extra Deck cards
• Inferred: Starter hypergeometric estimates (P≈0.25 per 3-copy starter in hand of 5); Consistency and interaction reads from card text
• Provisional: Matchup fit and Meta Power (no dated metagame sample)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry — going-first/second and matchup signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no side deck — post-side adaptability cannot be scored