Galaxy Photon Deck #765749 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 49/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Drytron Level-1 2000 ATK bodies and Extra Deck attackers (Borreload Riot Dragon 3000 ATK, Triple Burst Dragon and Hraesvelgr 2400 ATK) pressure the board after a Spirit or Drytron starter lands.; Xyz and Link boards from the Level-1 and Level-4 bodies, with Borreload Riot Dragon negating and destroying a summoned monster when Heavy Interlock is available.
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon a Spirit monster (Ichiki Sayori-Hime, Aratama, or Nikitama) or a Drytron Nova/Fafnir, use the Spirit return to recycle it, and set Torrential Tribute or Mystical Space Typhoon as interaction.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Torrential Tribute to answer the opponent's first summon, then rebuild through Drytron GY summons and Spirit recursion.
• Recovery: Revive Drytron Delta, Zeta or Gamma from the GY, which is a Drytron tribute line, and re-Normal Summon returned Spirits.
• After siding: Not applicable: Master Duel list with 0 side cards; no post-side plan is evidenced.

Why it scores here

The deck is a Midrange system built from three partly disconnected engines: a Drytron core of 13 cards, a Spirit recursion line of 8 cards, and a ritual and Xyz/Link Extra Deck. Its starter access is good for a 40-card main: P(at least one of the 14 starter-type cards in a 5-card opening hand) is about 0.90 (Inferred), and the Spirits return to hand, which gives it repeatable normal summons. Scoring pulls it down on brick risk, since three ritual enablers are single copies and the Paladin of Photon Dragon line has no Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon in the list to follow up with. No recorded boards exist, so the floor, median and ceiling are structural inferences rather than observed outputs. Archetype popularity earned no points, and the score was not built by averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 55.9, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Engine dispersion (-3); Dangling ritual payoff (-2); Single-copy ritual enablers (-2); Spirit self-recursion redundancy (2). Final formula: Meta-neutral: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (D13 dropped and weights renormalised over 95; Meta provisional) = 0.80*55.9 + 0.20*45 - 5 = 48.7, rounded to 49

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.9 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.1 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Drytron core of 13 cards with 2000 ATK Level-1 bodies and multiple enablers
• Spirit monsters return to hand, giving repeatable normal summons and recovery
• Full playset of Mystical Space Typhoon and Torrential Tribute
• Strong Extra Deck ATK ceiling (Borreload 3000, Triple Burst 2400, Hraesvelgr 2400)

Weaknesses

• Three partly disconnected engines (Drytron, Spirit, Ritual/Xyz) with no shared payoff
• Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon, the follow-up for Paladin of Photon Dragon, is absent from the list
• Three ritual enablers are single copies, so several ritual monsters are often dead
• No hand traps, and no side deck for a post-side plan
• Wicked Eraser needs 3 tributes and is a self-destruct board wipe

Critical choke points

• Nova and Fafnir (6 cards) are the only Drytron enablers besides the Spirit starters
• Heavy Interlock (1 copy) is the only route to Borreload Riot Dragon (2 copies)
• Luminous Dragon Ritual (1 copy) is the only route to Paladin of Photon Dragon

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal under master-duel: 40 main (40 to 60), 15 extra (0 to 15), 0 side; no copy-limit violations; Card text and counts for all 35 distinct entries as provided; Core-usage join: all 25 archetype core cards appear in the deck once the Extra Deck is counted (25/25, not the reported 60%)
• Observed: Usage statistics show a small sample: each core card has inclusion 66.7%
• Inferred: Starter access of about 0.90 in hand 5 and 0.94 in hand 6 (hypergeometric, 14 starter-type cards); Brick rate: single-copy ritual enablers make Borreload, Paladin and Augus often dead; Interaction quality from negate and board-wipe text, not from recorded boards; Ceiling and offensive values from card text and ATK
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit: no tournament link or dated metagame sample; Side-deck adaptability: no side list in the format
• Data gaps: No recorded combos: floor, median and ceiling are text-based inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first/second, matchups or brick rate usage_statistics join omits Extra Deck cards: the core-present figure of 60% (15/25) is wrong; all 10 'missing core' cards are in the Extra Deck, so the true figure is 25/25 usage sample is small: every core card has an inclusion of 66.7% (2 of 3 decks) archetype_purity 0% is a labelling artifact, since no card is named Galaxy Photon Core-group probability (33 copies, p=1.0) is trivially saturated and not informative Guide snippets describe a different core (Number 90, Number 38, Number 62, Photon Blast Dragon) absent from this list No side deck, so no post-side evidence