Galaxy Photon Deck #568940 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 13 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Turn-2 OTK through Number 62 / Number C62 ATK boosts and multi-attacks, with Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon and Galaxy-Eyes Cipher X Dragon as secondary boss threats (Inferred from card text and guide snippets); Galaxy-Eyes Full Armor Photon Dragon and Galaxy-Eyes Cipher Dragon attack pressure and control swings once the engine is live (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Galaxy Soldier, Photon Jumper, Photon Orbital or Galaxy Wizard to search Galaxy/Photon pieces, then use Galaxy Summoner or Galaxy Expedition to reach Level 8 Xyz (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use 8 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Maxx C) to answer the opponent's first play, then rebuild through Galaxy Photon Dragon recursion and Photon Vanisher (Inferred)
• Recovery: Galaxy Photon Dragon and Photon Emperor recover from the GY, and Photon Jumper and Photon Orbital re-search Photon/Galaxy cards (Inferred from card text)
• After siding: Not applicable: side deck is 0 cards, which is standard for Master Duel, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck's Galaxy and Photon engine is coherent on the system level: searchers (about 14 text hits), Galaxy Photon Dragon recursion, and Photon Vanisher give it a plausible route from a single starter to a Level 8 Xyz. Its ceiling comes from the Number 62 / C62 ATK boosts and multi-attacks, which the guides describe as a turn-2 OTK, and from several 4000 ATK Galaxy-Eyes Xyz boss monsters. The eight hand traps and two negation Xyz effects give the deck real interaction density on both turns, and this is what keeps it competitive when the opponent interrupts. The score is held down by an illegal list: two copies of Called by the Grave and one Number 41 are Forbidden in Master Duel, and Maxx C is over its Limited cap. Because the list is Illegal, it receives a capped theoretical score rather than a normal Final score. Popularity was not used to earn points, card scores were not averaged, and there is no combo, tournament, or win-rate data to confirm the ceiling.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo primary with Midrange secondary, disclosed as the Combo weight profile; no secondary weighting applied. Structural ≈ 55.9, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 48, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-10); copy-limit violation (-2). Final formula: Illegal cap: min(0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + Modifiers, 35); unclamped value 0.80*55.9 + 0.20*45 - 12 = 41.7, capped to 35. Meta provisional. Theoretical/structural only.

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

• Coherent Galaxy/Photon/Galaxy-Eyes engine with many searchers (14 text hits)
• High-ATK Xyz bosses (4000 ATK Number 62 / C62, Cipher X, Full Armor) with a turn-2 OTK line described in the guides
• Eight hand traps give real going-second interaction (P(at least 1 in hand 6) = 0.76)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: two Forbidden Called by the Grave, one Forbidden Number 41, and Maxx C over its Limited cap
• Brick risk from 12 tech cards and 8 hand traps in a 40-card main
• No side deck, so there is no post-side adaptation

Critical choke points

• Turn-1 starter access: a 3-copy starter appears in the opening 5 only 34% of the time
• Forbidden and over-limit cards must be removed before the list can be scored normally

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality status and violations (Forbidden / Limited copy counts); Card stats and text from the resolved card list; Main 40 / Extra 13 / Side 0 composition
• Inferred: Starter and hand-trap probabilities from the hypergeometric table; Turn-1 and turn-2 plan from card text and guide snippets; Structural dimension scores D1-D14
• Provisional: Meta Power (null); D12 side-deck score (no side deck); D13 matchup and format fit (no tournament or meta data)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference (combos_evidence.total_combos = 0) No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent usage_statistics core list (Drytron, Shinobi, Ashlan and similar) does not match Galaxy Photon, and none of its 25 core cards are present, so it was not used Guide snippet mentions Number 38, which is not in this list, so the guide may describe a different build No win-rate telemetry exists; going-first and going-second splits are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample