Galaxy Photon Deck #448772 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

57 Main, 15 Extra, incl. Artifact Lancea x3, Galaxy Soldier x3, Photon Delta Wing x3. Created Mar 5, 2025 by YGO Mod.

Created by: YGO Mod (20517634)

Created On: 03/05/2025

Official AI Deck Power Analysis

MidrangeConfidence: LowEvaluated Oct 23, 2026

25± 10/ 100

Power Score

Structural 52

Reliability 40

Going First 45

Going Second 55

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

Overall score	Value
Structural Deck Power	52
Going First	45
Going Second	55
Meta Power	provisional
Tournament Reliability	40

Primary strategy: Midrange
Secondary strategies: Combo, Stun
Format: tcg

Legality

Main 57 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

Win condition: Xyz/Link boss pressure from Galaxy-Eyes and Photon Xyz monsters (Galaxy-Eyes Cipher X Dragon, Number 62, Full Armor Photon Dragon) once a starter lands; Negate-and-overwhelm: Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon and Afterglow Dragon as backup boss sources through hand-trap and negation chains
Turn 1 (going first): Open a Galaxy Soldier or Photon Delta Wing starter and extend into an Xyz; hand traps are often dead on turn 1, so the plan is thin when going first
Turn 2 (going second): Use the hand-trap suite (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Effect Veiler, Droll, Infinite Impermanence) to disrupt the opponent's combo, then take the board with a Xyz boss
Recovery: Galaxy Hundred, Photon Jumper and Galaxy Summoner recover searchers and graveyard Photon/Galaxy monsters; no measured recovery data
After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no side deck (Side Deck size 0) in a best-of-3 format

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system: its Xyz and Link bosses (Galaxy-Eyes Cipher X, Number 62, Full Armor Photon) give high closing power once a starter lands, and its 18 hand-trap and 19 negation-text cards give strong interaction density. Its weaknesses are structural: 18 hand traps in a 57-card main deck create brick risk on going first, the starter line (Galaxy Soldier and Photon Delta Wing) has only about a 0.24 chance of appearing in a 5-card opening hand per 3-copy card, and the deck has no side deck. Only 4 of 25 archetype-core usage cards are present, so the deck deviates heavily from the standard build. The deck is Illegal (three Limited/Semi-Limited cards over their copy limits and two Forbidden cards run), so the final score is capped at 25 and is theoretical/structural only. Popularity or archetype usage did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

#	Dimension	Score	Evidence
D1	Engine Accessibility & Consistency	50	P(at least 1 of a 3-copy starter in 5 cards) = 0.245 per starter; the 2-card bootstrap rests on Galaxy Soldier plus Photon Delta Wing (Inferred)
D2	Opening-Hand Quality & Brick Management	35	18 hand traps and several conflicting Normal Summon and hand-trap cards create a high dead-card rate going first (Inferred)
D3	Combo Conversion & Ceiling	60	Strong Xyz ceiling from Cipher X, Full Armor and Prime Photon, but no recorded boards to confirm it (Inferred)
D4	Combo Floor & Median Output	40	No combo boards are recorded, so the median and floor are unknown and only text-based (Inferred)
D5	Interruption Resilience & Route Redundancy	55	Multiple negate and hand-trap lines give some recovery after one interruption, but the lines are not measured (Inferred)
D6	Resource Economy, Recovery & Grind	55	Searchers (14 searcher-text cards) and Galaxy Hundred support recovery, but no resource data exists (Inferred)
D7	End-Board & Interaction Quality	70	Breadth of 18 hand traps and 19 negation-text cards; face-up layering through Galaxy-Eyes monsters (Inferred from text)
D8	Going-Second & Board-Breaking Power	65	Going-second hand-trap density is high (91% chance of at least one hand trap in 6 cards), with a Xyz boss to take the board (Inferred)
D9	Offensive Pressure & Closing Power	70	Closing via 3000-4000 ATK Xyz bosses with direct and attack-redirect text; no measured board data (Inferred)
D10	Main Deck Efficiency & Flexibility	45	57 main cards with 30 distinct cards; many singletons and a heavy tech/hand-trap slant reduce coherence (Inferred)
D11	Extra Deck Efficiency & Coverage	60	13 Xyz and 2 Link Extra cards give broad coverage, but several Extra slots depend on specific starters (Inferred)
D12	Side Deck Adaptability	15	No side deck is run (Side Deck size 0), so no post-side adaptability exists (Verified)
D13	Matchup Coverage & Format Fit	45	No tournament or metagame data is supplied; archetype core presence is 16% (Provisional)
D14	Pilotability & Error Tolerance	35	Multi-step Xyz sequencing and many hand-trap timing decisions raise the skill floor (Inferred)

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary with a Combo secondary; hybrid weights not exactly blended, Midrange profile used for the structural score. Structural ≈ 52, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); hand_trap_brick_burden (-3). Final formula: No reliable metagame: uncapped Final = 0.80*Structural(52) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) + ContextModifiers(-9) = 41; capped to 25 because the deck is Illegal (theoretical/structural only)

Probability & combo summary

Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ — · 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 Xyz and Link boss ceiling (Cipher X, Full Armor, Prime Photon, Number 38)
Dense interaction: 18 hand traps and 19 negation-text cards
Searcher density (14 searcher-text cards) supports starter access

Weaknesses

Illegal list: two Forbidden cards and three over-limit cards
18 hand traps create brick and dead-card risk going first
No side deck (Side Deck size 0)
Only 4 of 25 archetype-core usage cards present

Critical choke points

Galaxy Soldier and Photon Delta Wing are the only Level 4-5 starters with 3 copies each; a sparse opening hand has about a 0.24 chance of either per card
Dependence on Rank 8 Galaxy-Eyes Xyz for Cipher and Full Armor lines

Recommended changes

Priority	Remove	Add	Reason
1	Called by the Grave and Triple Tactics Talent	Legal substitutes (not in the evidence list; identify before adding)	Both are Forbidden in TCG, so the deck cannot be legally built as listed
2	One copy each of Seventh Tachyon, Ash Blossom and Droll & Lock Bird	Legal copies only (1 Seventh Tachyon, 2 Ash Blossom, 1 Droll)	Brings the list within the copy limits
3	One or two hand traps	Core starter or a legal Galaxy/Photon searcher	Reduces going-first brick risk and improves starter access

Evidence & confidence

Verified: Legal status Illegal: Forbidden and over-limit cards present (Called by the Grave, Triple Tactics Talent, Seventh Tachyon, Ash Blossom, Droll); Main 57 and Extra 15 within the TCG size rules; no side deck; Hand-trap group size is 18 cards
Inferred: Opening-hand consistency from hypergeometric draw odds; Dimension scores D1-D14 from card text, composition and usage-stat gaps; Going-first versus going-second read from hand-trap density
Provisional: Meta and matchup fit (D13) with no dated metagame sample
Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate or going-first/second telemetry exists in YGOVN Meta Power provisional: no dated metagame sample Evidence inconsistency: usage core cards lists Galaxy Photon Dragon (85747929) as not in deck, but cards[] shows 2 copies in the Extra Deck No side deck in the export, so post-side adaptability cannot be scored

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