Cipher Deck #785949 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Stun
• 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 Summon a Galaxy-Eyes or Photon boss (Neo Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon 4500 ATK, Galaxy-Eyes Full Armor Photon Dragon 4000 ATK, Number 62 4000 ATK) from the Extra Deck and push damage through a board that the hand traps have already thinned.; Galaxy-Eyes Cipher X Dragon and Galaxy-Eyes Cipher Dragon, which can take control of or destroy opposing monsters through Xyz material.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a Level 4 or Level 8 starter from Galaxy Soldier, Photon Delta Wing, Ghost Ogre and Snow Rabbit, or Galaxy Summoner, then use Galaxy Expedition or Photon Orbital to reach a Photon or Galaxy Xyz boss. Keep Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler and Ghost Ogre up for the opponent's first response.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Ghost Ogre, Droll and Lock Bird) to answer the opponent's first summon or search, then build a Xyz boss from whatever starter survives. The deck relies on its hand traps to make this plan work.
• Recovery: Recover through Galaxy Wizard and Photon Orbital searches, Galaxy-Eyes Afterglow Dragon's Special Summon from hand, and Seventh Ascension's ability to banish itself and return a card to the hand.
• After siding: Side in Solemn Strike, Solemn Judgment, Triple Tactics Thrust and Harpie's Feather Duster against spell/trap-heavy or boss-heavy opponents. The deck is illegal as built, so this plan only applies once the copy counts are fixed.

Why it scores here

This list is built around a Photon/Galaxy/Galaxy-Eyes Xyz family with a hand-trap shell, and its power is judged as a system rather than as an average of card scores. Its three-copy starters (Galaxy Soldier, Photon Delta Wing, Ghost Ogre and Snow Rabbit, Schwarzschild Infinity Dragon) give a fairly reliable way to get a Level 4 or 8 monster on board, and the Extra Deck has enough high-ATK Xyz bosses to close games. Interaction is the deck's strongest area: nine hand traps and roughly nine negation effects let it answer the opponent's first moves on either turn order. The main reasons it scores this low are the illegal copy counts (three Seventh Tachyon against a limit of one, three Ash Blossom against a limit of two), which cap the evaluation, and the absence of any recorded boards or tournament results, which leaves the floor, median and ceiling as text-based estimates. Popularity of the Cipher archetype did not earn points, and this is a theoretical, structural-only read. (Inferred)

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange profile used; the Stun traits (hand traps, interaction) are reflected in the dimension scores but the weight profile is not blended. Modifiers: none.