Cipher Deck #772282 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 55/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon engine into a 4000-4500 ATK Xyz (Neo Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon, Number C107, Number 62, Full Armor); Galaxy Knight (2800 ATK) Normal Summon and Galaxy Soldier / Galaxy Wizard tribute recursion into Extra Deck Xyz
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Galaxy Soldier, Galaxy Wizard, Photon Orbital, Photon Sanctuary or Accellight to reach a Level 4/8 Photon or Galaxy board, then search and Xyz or Link Summon
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Monster Reborn or Reinforcement of the Army for a Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon or Galaxy line, then force through with Tachyon Transmigration or Galaxy Trance (Inferred, no side or timing data)
• Recovery: Galaxy Photon Dragon recycles Photon/Galaxy cards from the Xyz material, Galaxy Cleric and Galaxy Wizard retrieve, and Tachyon Spiral of Destruction returns a Tachyon card from the GY (Inferred from card text)
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; the deck cannot adjust to matchups within this list

Why it scores here

The deck's reliable opening is a Level 4 or Level 8 Photon/Galaxy starter in hand: several openers run 3 copies each, so P(at least one opener in 5) is roughly 0.85 to 0.93 (Inferred), well above the single-card 0.34 figure. It converts through Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon into a 15-card Extra Deck of Xyz and Link monsters with a 4000 to 4500 ATK ceiling, which is the main source of its closing power. Interaction is real but thin: 5 negation-text cards and 11 removal-text cards, with no hand traps and no side deck, so the list has little answer to a single well-timed hand trap or floodgate. Post-side adaptability and matchup fit cannot be measured from this data (no side cards, no tournament link, no win-rate telemetry), so D12 is low and D13 is Provisional. The score comes from the connected engine, the Xyz conversion and the interaction read on the system, not from Cipher or Galaxy-Eyes popularity and not from averaging card scores; usage statistics matched only 1 of 25 core cards and earned no points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 59, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: No side deck (-2); Engine condition conflicts (-2); Compact related-engine coherence (2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); Structural 59.1, TR 48, modifiers -2, final 54.9 rounded to 55

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.85 · 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

• Three-copy openers plus Galaxy Soldier and Galaxy Wizard give a high opener rate
• Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon engine feeds a strong Xyz ceiling
• Compact engine across Galaxy-Eyes, Photon and Galaxy

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so there is no post-side adjustment
• Several conditional cards can go dead on the wrong board
• Thin interaction: no hand traps and no floodgate

Critical choke points

• Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon (3 copies) is the central engine piece for both Xyz and Link routes
• Two 2000+ ATK monsters are needed for its Tribute Summon

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal under OCG BanList; Monster Reborn and Reinforcement of the Army at 1 copy each (Limited); Main 40 and Extra 15 within size_rules; side 0 within [0,15]; Hypergeometric draw odds from the resolved list; usage statistics: 1 of 25 core cards present
• Inferred: Opener probability and brick rate estimates; Engine coherence and conflict reads from card text; Interaction density from negation and removal text; Going-first and going-second estimates
• Provisional: Meta power (null, no dated sample); Matchup and format fit (D13)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent no win-rate telemetry for going-first/second, matchup, brick or starter rates no side deck registered, so D12 cannot be scored from performance usage statistics show only 1 of 25 core cards present, which is a conflict signal and not a power input