Galaxy Photon Deck #540773 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Tempo
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 45 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Xyz boss pressure from Galaxy-Eyes / Photon Xyz monsters (Cipher X, Prime Photon, Full Armor) reached through Galaxy searches and Xyz material transfer; Number C62 / Number 62 OTK line on turn 2 per guide snippet (text-only, unverified)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on Galaxy Soldier / Galaxy Wizard / Photon Jumper searches, hold negates (Ash Blossom, Number 90, Number 38) for the first opposing activation, then Xyz Summon from Galaxy monsters
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C, Artifact Lancea) to interrupt the opponent's first search or summon, then rebuild a Photon/Galaxy engine from the Deck
• Recovery: Galaxy Expedition and Galaxy Summoner recycle Level 5+ or Photon/Galaxy monsters from the GY; Galaxy Photon Dragon and Photon Emperor add Photon/Galaxy Spell/Traps or re-summon from the GY
• After siding: Not evaluable: side_count is 0, so no post-side plan exists in the export

Why it scores here

The deck can reliably open a Galaxy/Photon search engine: three copies each of Galaxy Soldier, Galaxy Wizard and Galaxy Trance-adjacent searchers give roughly 30% per copy-group of a starter in the opening five, and the searcher text group sits near 88% for at least one searcher in five cards (Inferred). Its ceiling comes from the Xyz boss pool, with 4000-ATK Cipher X, Prime Photon and Full Armor Photon Dragon, and from the negate density (nine negate-text cards), so interaction and closing power score well as a system. Median output is scored low because no recorded boards exist, and the Triple Tactics cards are dead unless the opponent has already activated a monster effect. The list is Illegal (two Maxx C against a one-copy limit), so the final score is capped at 35 and the evaluation is structural-only. Archetype popularity did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 56, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-10). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 53 before modifiers; banlist exposure -10 gives 43; illegal cap applied to 35 (theoretical, structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.3 · 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

• Dense searcher text (15 cards) and three-copy starter groups give reliable access to the engine
• Nine negate or hand-trap cards support interaction on both turns
• Multiple 4000-ATK Xyz finishers give closing power
• Extra Deck is fully used for Xyz access

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy count: two Maxx C against a one-copy limit
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Triple Tactics cards need an opposing monster effect to activate
• Engine splits across Galaxy, Photon and Galaxy-Eyes sub-archetypes with 0% exact-name purity
• Usage statistics do not match this archetype (core cards are Drytron, Evigishki and similar), so the stat comparison is unreliable

Critical choke points

• Maxx C over the copy limit makes the list illegal as built
• Galaxy searchers and Xyz materials are single-route; losing the early Photon/Galaxy monsters to a board breaker removes most of the engine

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Maxx C at 2 copies against a legal limit of 1 in BanMasterDuel; Composition counts: 45 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side; 14 Xyz and 1 Link in the Extra Deck; Printed stats for the 4000-ATK Xyz finishers
• Inferred: Starter access probabilities from hypergeometric estimates; Interaction density from negate-text tags; Consistency and brick estimates
• Provisional: Meta power (no dated meta sample); Matchup and format fit
• Data gaps: no combos supplied (combos_evidence has no parseable boards), so floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link, so archetype meta-share and pilot record are absent usage_statistics core cards do not match Galaxy Photon (Drytron, Evigishki, Borreload and similar), so the core comparison was not used no side deck in the export, so post-side performance cannot be evaluated no win-rate or matchup telemetry in YGOVN