Cipher Deck #691083 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 52 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Xyz boss on the field (Galaxy-Eyes / Number / Cipher Xyz at 3000-4500 ATK) built from Galaxy searchers and Photon/Galaxy monsters; Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon recursion through Galaxy Soldier, Galaxy Wizard and Galaxy Hundred
• Turn 1 (going first): Search with Galaxy Soldier / Galaxy Wizard / Galaxy War Drake, then Xyz Summon a Level 8 boss off Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon or Galaxy Photon Dragon
• Turn 2 (going second): Open a hand trap (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird) to answer the opponent's first combo, then continue through a Galaxy Xyz
• Recovery: Re-search Galaxy monsters from the Deck and recycle Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon from the GY via Kuriphoton / Galactikuriboh
• After siding: Not applicable: the deck runs zero Side Deck cards, so no post-side plan exists

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a searcher line: the searcher-text group has 13 copies and about a 78% chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred, hypergeometric). Its ceiling comes from Xyz bosses at 3000-4500 ATK and layered negations, but no recorded boards exist, so the combo ceiling and median are text-only reads (Inferred). Hand traps (11 copies, about 78% at least one in a 6-card going-second hand) and several negation effects give it real interaction, but the Galaxy starters are redundant rather than the same engine, so resilience stays moderate. The list is illegal: it runs 2 copies of Triple Tactics Talent and 1 of Called by the Grave, both Forbidden, which caps the score at 30 and makes this a theoretical, structural-only read. Popularity and archetype usage were not credited, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 56, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); no side deck (-4); illegal cap (-12). Final formula: Illegal cap applied: uncapped 0.80*Structural(56) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(48) + modifiers(-12) = 42, capped to 30 because the deck is over the copy limit on Forbidden cards. Meta Power provisional/null.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.78 · 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

• Searcher density of 13 copies gives about a 78% chance of a starter in hand (Inferred)
• Eleven hand traps and fifteen negation effects give real going-second interaction (Inferred)
• Xyz boss suite reaches 3000-4500 ATK with layered protection and removal text (Verified card data)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Forbidden cards run over the copy limit (Verified)
• No side deck and no post-side plan (Verified)
• Low archetype purity (3%) means the deck is a multi-subtheme pile rather than one engine (Verified composition)
• No recorded boards, so combo floor and median are unmeasured (Verified data gap)

Critical choke points

• Galaxy searchers are the only route to Level 8 Xyz materials; losing them to hand traps or negations stalls the Xyz plan (Inferred)
• Going-first hand of 5 has only about 0.27 chance per 3-copy card, so the boss line often depends on one card (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 52, Extra 15, Side 0 are within OCG size limits (min main 40, max 60); Triple Tactics Talent (2 copies, legal 0) and Called by the Grave (1 copy, legal 0) are Forbidden; Extra Deck is 15/15 Xyz; off-archetype copies 65 and exact purity 3%
• Inferred: Searcher-text group P(>=1 in hand5) = 0.78; Hand-trap group P(>=1 in hand6 going second) = 0.78; Consistency, brick rate and resilience scores from text and probabilities
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); D13 matchup and format fit (no tournament context)
• 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 absent no win-rate telemetry: going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample