Cipher Deck #779655 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±10 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 15 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Xyz pressure from the Galaxy-Eyes and Photon Extra Deck monsters (Neo Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon at 4500 ATK, Galaxy-Eyes Cipher X Dragon at 4000 ATK, Number 62 and Number C62 at 4000 ATK), backed by Galaxy Soldier and Photon Delta Wing as the starters.; Hand-trap disruption (Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, Droll & Lock Bird) that protects the first Xyz board and clears the way for attacks.
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon Galaxy Soldier or Photon Delta Wing, search a Galaxy or Photon monster, then build toward a Level 8 Xyz from the Extra Deck. The plan depends on a 2-card bootstrap, so it is inconsistent when the opening hand misses both starters.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler and Ghost Ogre to stop the opponent's first engine or search, then use a Schwarzschild Infinity Dragon or Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon line to rebuild the board.
• Recovery: Rebuild from the Graveyard using Photon Emperor, Galaxy Summoner and Galaxy Expedition, then re-enter Xyz monsters from the Extra Deck with the remaining Galaxy searchers.
• After siding: Side Triple Tactics Thrust, Solemn Accusation, The Great Gallant Bandit and Illusion Gate against interaction-heavy or board-first opponents. The side deck is coherent, but the illegal copy counts must be fixed before any post-side plan can be evaluated.

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a connected Galaxy-Eyes / Photon / Cipher Xyz system, not as an average of its card scores. Its starters (three Galaxy Soldier and three Photon Delta Wing) give it roughly a one-in-three chance of seeing at least one starter in a 5-card opening hand, so the engine is accessible but depends on a two-card bootstrap. Its strength is interaction: nine hand traps and nine negation-text cards protect the first Xyz board and keep the Extra Deck monsters online. Its closing power is high because the Extra Deck holds several 4000 to 4500 ATK Xyz monsters. The score is held down because the deck is illegal (Seventh Tachyon at 3 copies and Ash Blossom at 3 copies exceed their limits), no recorded boards exist to show how the lines actually convert, and the deck has no tournament record. Popularity did not earn points, and the deck was not credited for the archetype's general strength.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); dependence on Extra-Deck routes (-3); unrecoverable choke point (-3). Final formula: Structural 55.4 (Combo profile) → 0.80·55.4 + 0.20·45 = 53.3 before modifiers; modifiers total −12 → ≈41; the deck is Illegal (copy limits exceeded), so it is capped at 35 and labelled a theoretical, structural-only read. Meta Power is null (provisional).

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

• Strong Extra Deck end-boards (Neo Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon 4500 ATK, Number C107 side at 4500 ATK)
• Layered hand-trap and negation interaction (Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Ghost Ogre, Droll & Lock Bird)
• Searcher density (14 searcher-text cards) that refills hand and Graveyard resources
• Coherent side deck that covers backrow and board-first matchups

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: Seventh Tachyon at 3 copies (limit 1) and Ash Blossom at 3 copies (limit 2)
• Two-card bootstrap on the main starters (Galaxy Soldier, Photon Delta Wing) gives an inconsistent T1
• Heavy reliance on a few Galaxy-Eyes and Photon Extra Deck routes
• No recorded boards, so the conversion and median output cannot be verified

Critical choke points

• The Galaxy Soldier and Photon Delta Wing starters: at least one must be in hand for a T1 Xyz line
• Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon, which is needed for several Xyz and banish lines
• The Seventh Tachyon and Ash Blossom copy limits, which must be fixed before the deck is playable

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Illegal, with Seventh Tachyon at 3 copies (limit 1) and Ash Blossom at 3 copies (limit 2); Main/Extra/Side counts are 40/15/15, within the OCG size rules; Card text for the 14 Xyz monsters, Schwarzschild Infinity Dragon and the hand traps; Archetype usage shows the core Galaxy-Eyes and Photon cards are standard for this build
• Inferred: Engine accessibility: about one-in-three chance of a starter in a 5-card opening hand; Interaction density from negation text and hand-trap count; Going-second hand-trap coverage: about 0.81 chance of at least one hand trap in a 6-card hand; Dimension scores for consistency, interaction and closing power
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup fit (D13), since no dated metagame sample or tournament link was supplied
• Data gaps: No recorded boards exist, so the combo ceiling, median and floor are text-only inference No tournament link exists, so archetype meta-share and pilot match records are absent No win-rate telemetry exists for going-first, going-second, matchup or brick rates Meta Power is provisional until a dated metagame sample is supplied