Cipher Deck #775464 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Galaxy-Eyes / Photon Xyz boss (Number 62, Galaxy-Eyes Full Armor, Number 38 Titanic Galaxy, Galaxy-Eyes Cipher X) reached through Level 8 LIGHT starters, then pushed through hand-trap-protected turns; Recursive Galaxy/Photon board from Galaxy Hundred, Galaxy Photon Dragon and Eternal Galaxy re-using the GY
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon a Level 4 or 8 LIGHT starter (Photon Jumper, Galaxy Summoner, Photon Emperor) into a Galaxy/Photon Xyz; hand traps held for the opponent's first interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Infinite Impermanence, Nibiru) break the opponent's first board, then Galaxy Soldier or Galaxy Summoner rebuilds a Xyz
• Recovery: Galaxy Hundred and Galaxy Photon Dragon add or send Photon/Galaxy cards back from Deck; Eternal Galaxy re-summons a higher-Rank Xyz from the Extra Deck
• After siding: No side deck is registered (side_count 0), so no post-side plan can be evaluated

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Galaxy/Photon LIGHT starter on turn 1 at roughly one-in-three per 3-copy card in a 5-card hand (hypergeometric, Inferred), so the engine is live often enough but not reliably. Its strongest system feature is interaction: 11 hand traps and 16 negation-text cards give a layered defence, with an 88% chance of at least one hand trap in a 6-card going-second hand (Inferred). Its Extra Deck is fully used (13 Xyz, 2 Link) with several Rank 8 bosses at 3000 ATK or more, which carries the closing power, but there are no recorded boards, so combo ceiling and median output are text-only inferences. The score is not earned from the Cipher label (exact-name purity 3.6%) or from any average of card scores. The deck is Illegal (Seventh Tachyon at 3 copies against a limit of 1, Ash Blossom at 3 against 2), so the result is a theoretical structural read capped at 35 and is not a normal contextual score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-12). Final formula: Illegal cap: theoretical structural-only. Raw 0.80*Structural(55) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(48) = 53.6, with banlist exposure modifier -12 gives 41.6, capped at 35 because the list is illegal. Meta provisional, not used.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.34 · 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 interaction: 11 hand traps and 16 negation-text cards cover both going-first and going-second turns
• Full Extra Deck with several 3000+ ATK Rank 8 and Rank 10 bosses and multiple Xyz routes
• Recursion via Galaxy Hundred, Galaxy Photon Dragon and Eternal Galaxy supports the grind

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: 2 copies of Seventh Tachyon and 1 copy of Ash Blossom over the OCG limit
• No side deck, so no best-of-3 adaptation
• Single-copy Extra Deck bosses create access dependence and bricking risk
• Exact-name archetype purity 3.6%; the deck is a multi-sub-archetype build, not a pure Cipher list

Critical choke points

• Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon (1 copy) and the Level 8 LIGHT starters as the only Xyz material source
• Hand-trap timing: a missed hand trap on the first opponent turn leaves the Xyz plan exposed

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal copy limits: Seventh Tachyon 1 (Limited), Ash Blossom 2 (Semi-Limited); copies run 3 and 3; Size 40 main / 15 extra / 0 side; Extra Deck: 13 Xyz, 2 Link
• Inferred: Starter access 0.34 per 3-copy card in 5-card hand; Hand-trap availability 0.876 going second; Interaction density from negation text; Midrange structure from role counts
• Provisional: Meta power (no dated sample); Matchup fit (no tournament data); Side plan (no side deck)
• Data gaps: Illegal list: no normal contextual score can be produced; structural read only No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and pilot record are absent No side deck (side_count 0): post-side evaluation impossible usage_statistics.in_this_deck reads false for about 13 Extra Deck cards that the cards list shows as present (for example Number 62, Number 107, Galaxy-Eyes Cipher Dragon); core coverage (44%) is therefore understated and core deviation is unverified No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN; all consistency numbers are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional with no dated metagame sample