Cipher Deck #789955 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Tempo
• 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: Galaxy-Eyes and Photon Xyz bosses (Neo Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon at 4500 ATK, Galaxy-Eyes Cipher X Dragon at 4000 ATK) built from Level 8 and Level 4 monsters that Galaxy Soldier, Photon Delta Wing and Galaxy Summoner put on the field.; Galaxy Photon Dragon and Number 107 Tachyon Dragon as Extra Deck followups once the field is stable; direct attacks are not a primary plan.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Galaxy Soldier or Photon Delta Wing to put a Level 4 or Level 8 LIGHT monster onto the field, then use Galaxy Summoner or Galaxy-Eyes Afterglow Dragon to reach a Xyz boss while Ash Blossom and Effect Veiler hold up interaction.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre and Effect Veiler for the opponent's first activation, then rebuild the Galaxy engine from the Deck with Galaxy Soldier and Seventh Tachyon once the opponent's board is spent.
• Recovery: Rebuild through the Deck with Galaxy Soldier, Galaxy Wizard and Galaxy Summoner searches; Extra Deck Xyz summons can be re-run from materials that remain on the field.
• After siding: Side in Solemn Strike, Solemn Judgment, The Great Gallant Bandit and Hey, Space Trunade! against interaction-heavy or Extra Deck-heavy opponents; the side deck is coherent but has no measured post-side results.

Why it scores here

The deck is scored on its system as a connected Galaxy and Photon Xyz engine, not by averaging card scores. Three copies of Galaxy Soldier and Photon Delta Wing plus Galaxy Summoner give a reasonable chance of a Level 4 or Level 8 starter, and a searcher is present in most hands. Nine hand traps (Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Ghost Ogre, Droll & Lock Bird) give a credible answer to the opponent's first activation and make the going-second plan the stronger half. The Extra Deck carries several high-ATK Xyz bosses, but there are no recorded boards to measure how often those bosses actually land, so the closing score is inferred. Popularity was not credited: the archetype label is Cipher, but only 2 of 55 copies carry the exact archetype name, so the score comes from how the Galaxy, Photon, Seventh and Mulcharmy pieces interact. The deck is illegal (Seventh Tachyon at 3 copies and Ash Blossom at 3 copies exceed their limits), so the final contextual score is capped at 30.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 54, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + modifiers = 0.80*54 + 0.20*48 - 6 = 47; capped to 30 because the deck is Illegal (copy-limit violations), so this is a theoretical/structural-only score.

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

• Nine hand traps and negation-text cards give layered interaction on both turns.
• Three copies each of Galaxy Soldier and Photon Delta Wing provide starter density for a Level 4 or Level 8 Xyz route.
• Extra Deck bosses reach 4000 to 4500 ATK with several negation and removal effects.

Weaknesses

• The deck is illegal: Seventh Tachyon and Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring exceed their copy limits.
• Only 2 of 55 archetype copies use the exact archetype name, so engine coherence depends on several sub-archetypes working together.
• No recorded boards exist, so the realistic output of the deck is unmeasured.

Critical choke points

• Galaxy Soldier or Photon Delta Wing must appear in the opening hand for the Level 4 or Level 8 engine to start.
• Xyz bosses need a correct material chain, so one missing Level 4 monster stops the Extra Deck route.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Seventh Tachyon runs 3 copies against a limit of 1; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring runs 3 copies against a limit of 2.; Main 40, Extra 15 and Side 15 are within the OCG size rules.; Card text for the hand traps and Xyz bosses was read from the evidence excerpts.
• Observed: No recorded boards are present, so no measured combo frequency is available.
• Inferred: Starter access from hypergeometric estimates (about 0.34 per 3-copy card).; Interaction density and hand-trap value from text.; Going-second strength from hand-trap probability (about 0.81).
• Provisional: Matchup fit and Meta Power, since no dated metagame sample is supplied.; Post-side plan quality, since no post-side results exist.
• 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 are absent. No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN for going-first, going-second, matchup or brick rates. Core-card report conflicts with the card list: Galaxy-Eyes Solflare Dragon and Galaxy-Eyes Cipher Blade Dragon appear in the Extra Deck list but are reported missing from the usage statistics, so the core-coverage figure is unreliable. Meta Power is Provisional because no dated metagame sample is supplied.