Galaxy Photon Deck #689508 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 61/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: none
• Format: duel-links

Legality

Main 20 / Extra 9 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Summon a high‑ATK Xyz boss (e.g., Number 38) and attack for lethal damage; Control the board with multiple negations and a board‑breaker
• Turn 1 (going first): Search and Special Summon Galaxy‑Eyes Photon Dragon, then use Hyper Galaxy or Tachyon Transmigration to bring out a boss Xyz monster
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the larger 6‑card hand to activate Drowning Mirror Force or Tachyon Transmigration, then summon the boss Xyz monster on opponent’s turn
• Recovery: Galaxy Soldier and Photon Jumper recycle Galaxy‑Eyes monsters and key spells, allowing the engine to restart after disruption
• After siding: No side deck; rely on flexible hand options and the extra‑deck to adapt mid‑game

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens with at least one core starter (Galaxy‑Eyes Photon Dragon or a searcher) giving a solid T1 engine, and it can convert that into a high‑ATK Xyz boss such as Number 38 for strong pressure. Multiple negation traps and effect‑negating Xyz monsters provide decent resilience to disruption. However, the deck’s low archetype purity, missing core boss Xyzs, and lack of a side deck limit its consistency and adaptability, keeping the overall power in the low‑to‑mid range.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 62, Going First ≈ 67, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 56. Modifiers: Side Deck Absence (-2); Low Archetype Purity (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 1 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Very high probability of opening with a core starter
• Multiple negation and board‑breaker tools
• Access to several high‑ATK Xyz bosses

Weaknesses

• Low archetype purity and many off‑archetype cards
• Missing several core boss Xyz monsters
• No side deck for post‑side adaptation

Critical choke points

• Reliance on Galaxy‑Eyes Photon Dragon to start the engine
• Need to assemble specific Xyz materials for boss monsters

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Core starter probability from archetype_core_group
• Inferred: High proportion of level‑8 monsters creates moderate brick risk; Best‑case board could field Number 38 with multiple attacks; Typical hands usually only produce a single Galaxy‑Eyes Photon Dragon; Two negation traps plus several effect‑negating Xyz monsters give resilience; Searchers recycle resources but high tribute costs keep economy average; Interaction density includes 2 negations, 5 removals and Drowning Mirror Force; Going‑second hand can contain Drowning Mirror Force or Hyper Galaxy; Boss Xyz monsters have high ATK but limited access caps closing power; Only 20 cards with many off‑archetype copies lowers compactness; All 9 extra‑deck slots filled with relevant Xyz/Link options; No side deck present, removing post‑side adaptation; Multiple search and summon steps raise execution complexity
• Provisional: Matchup coverage lacks tournament data
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied