Spell
ContinuousGalaxy Wave
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Each time you Xyz Summon: Inflict 500 damage to your opponent.
Galaxy Wave — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 39 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 38.1 · Deck: 39.3 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Utility
Why it scores here
Galaxy Wave's only printed effect is 500 damage per Xyz Summon, so it converts Xyz activity into small chip damage and nothing more. It is run in 240 of 240 sampled decks, but that presence comes from the Galaxy Photon theme (55.4% of decks) and is not evidence of strength, so it earns no points from deck count. With no combo, guide or usage data, the score rests on the text plus the deck sample, and the card's cheap, low-slot-cost deckbuilding profile is what keeps it from scoring lower.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 50 | Present in 240 of 240 sampled decks at 1.52 copies on average, but no searcher or starter route is recorded in the evidence (observed; no searcher route tabled, inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 25 | Its only effect is a flat 500 damage per Xyz Summon with no board or card gain, and no combo boards were supplied to show it converting into a larger play (verified text; combo stats absent). |
| Resource Economy | 40 | No card draw, search or recursion is printed, and the card is spent to deal 500 damage, so it is roughly card-neutral at best (verified text; inferred economy). |
| Effect & Interaction | 10 | The effect is pure damage to the opponent with no negate, removal or disruption (verified text). |
| Material Utility | 0 | A Spell card cannot be used as Xyz or Fusion material, so the body contributes nothing on this axis (verified frame type). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | A Continuous Spell stays on the field across turns and keeps triggering, but it is exposed to spell/trap removal and has no redundancy printed (verified text; inferred exposure). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 75 | One slot, no garnet or lock restriction, and copies are freely cheap to run in the Galaxy shell (observed deck copies; inferred cost). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Utility / no clear role (default); no secondary role assigned. Intrinsic ≈ 38.1, Deck ≈ 39.3, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Runs in 240 of 240 sampled decks at a stable 1.52 copies on average (observed)
- Low-cost slot: no garnet, lock or self-restriction printed (verified text)
- Clear, simple timing: one trigger per Xyz Summon (verified text)
Weaknesses
- Damage per Xyz Summon is small and does not convert into board or card advantage (verified text)
- No combo, starter or searcher evidence, so combo role is unproven (data gap)
- Zero opponent interaction and zero material value (verified text)
- Galaxy Photon concentration (55.4%) means the deck sample says more about the theme than the card (observed)
Counters / choke points
- Spell/trap removal or backrow destruction on a face-up Continuous Spell (inferred)
- Opponent Xyz-summon restriction or interruption that stops the trigger (inferred)
Best use
Utility / chip-damage add-on in Xyz-heavy Galaxy decks. Decks: Galaxy Photon (archetype 570), Galaxy-Eyes shells (archetypes 1189, 1082). Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Text: each time you Xyz Summon, inflict 500 damage to the opponent; Spell Card, Continuous; legal in TCG, OCG, MasterDuel, DuelLinks
- Observed: Present in 240 of 240 sampled decks; 1.52 copies average, 143 decks at 1 copy; 55.4% of decks are Galaxy Photon (570); top partners co-occur at 70–81%
- Inferred: Acts as a chip-damage add-on in Xyz-heavy lines; no searcher route tabled; Vulnerable to spell/trap removal once face-up
- Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no usage statistics (StatisticsCard) — archetype inclusion % inferred from deck sample only distinct_archetypes (40) counts duplicate archetype names (Galaxy Photon ×3, Galaxy-Eyes ×2, Cipher ×2), so the portability proxy is overstated no banlist token — assumed 3 copies (unlimited)