Galaxy Photon Deck #768215 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 36/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Control, Toolbox
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Xyz boss from the Galaxy-Eyes and Photon lines (Neo Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon 4500 ATK, Number 62 and Full Armor at 4000 ATK) that negates or removes blockers and attacks through the board; Number 38 / Number 90 / Number 107 style Xyz bosses that negate or banish the opposing board
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Galaxy Soldier or Photon Delta Wing / Photon Jumper line to reach Rank 4 or 8 Xyz Monsters, with Galaxy Trance and Galaxy Summoner as extenders; hold Infinite Impermanence or Effect Veiler for the first interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Evenly Matched, Effect Veiler, Infinite Impermanence, Tachyon Transmigration) to break the opponent's first play, then rebuild a board with Galaxy Photon Dragon or a Rank 8 Xyz
• Recovery: Galaxy Soldier and Photon Emperor recur from the Graveyard as Special Summons; Galaxy Photon Dragon and Galaxy-Eyes Afterglow Dragon can search or return Photon and Galaxy cards
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no side deck (side_count 0)

Why it scores here

This list cannot receive a normal score because it is illegal in OCG: it runs 3 copies of Seventh Tachyon against a Limited limit of 1, and the copy-limit violation caps the evaluation as theoretical and structural only. Structurally, the deck has a real engine, with 6 copies of the Galaxy-Eyes/Photon archetype core giving about a 42% chance of at least one starter in a 5-card opening hand, and a 15-card Extra Deck of Xyz bosses with strong end-board stats. Its interaction density is high (9 hand traps and about 16 negation or removal effects by card text), which supports resilience and going-second play. The score is held down by the thin and tech-heavy Main Deck (about 75 off-archetype copies, 0% exact-name purity), no side deck at all, and no recorded boards to measure combo floor or ceiling. Popularity of the archetype and the card-by-card strength of the Xyz bosses did not earn points on their own, and no card scores were averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Control secondary (about 80/20 in effect; interaction weighting applied through D7 and D5). Structural ≈ 50, Going First ≈ 48, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); no side deck (-4). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 48, then context modifiers -12 total, capped low because the deck is illegal, giving 36 (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.42 · 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

• Large Xyz boss suite with high ATK and negation effects
• Nine hand traps plus broad negation and removal text give interaction density
• Archetype core and searchers give a reasonable chance of a functioning opening hand

Weaknesses

• Illegal: Seventh Tachyon at 3 copies exceeds the Limited limit of 1
• No side deck, so no best-of-3 adaptation
• Low archetype purity (0%) and many tech cards dilute the engine
• No recorded boards or win data to confirm combo output

Critical choke points

• Seventh Tachyon is the only route to the Number 101-107 Tachyon-linked lines in the list; with the legal limit of 1 copy, its availability is capped
• Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon (3 copies) is the central Rank 8 starter; losing it removes most boss routes

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Seventh Tachyon 3 copies vs legal limit 1 (Limited); Main 60, Extra 15, Side 0 counts against OCG size rules; Card text and stats for all listed cards; Archetype usage stats: Galaxy-Eyes Afterglow Dragon and Galaxy Summoner are in the deck, several core Xyz bosses are not
• Inferred: Starter probabilities from the hypergeometric draw table; Interaction density and negation effectiveness from card text; Consistency, brick, and going-first/going-second estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power is null; D13 format fit rests on no dated sample
• Data gaps: No recorded boards, so combo floor, median, and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta share and pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates) Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample Deck title is null in the export