Galaxy Photon Deck #768217 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 14 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Galaxy-Eyes and Photon Xyz boards (Galaxy-Eyes Cipher X Dragon 4000 ATK, Number 62 and Number C62 Prime Photon Dragon 4000 ATK, Number C107 4500 ATK) built from Galaxy Soldier, Photon Delta Wing, Orbital 7 and Mulcharmy Fuwalos starters; Galaxy Photon Dragon and Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon boards, with Dragluxion and Number 107 as alternate Xyz bosses
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a Level 4 Photon or Galaxy starter (Photon Delta Wing, Orbital 7, Galaxy Summoner), search a Galaxy or Photon monster, and build a Level 8 Xyz with hand traps held back as protection
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit and Nibiru to interrupt the opponent's first board, then rebuild a Galaxy-Eyes Xyz from the hand or GY
• Recovery: Recover through Photon Orbital, Galaxy Wizard and Galaxy Photon Dragon, which return or add Photon and Galaxy cards to the hand or GY
• After siding: None. The deck has no Side Deck, so no post-side plan is evidenced

Why it scores here

This is an Illegal OCG list: Seventh Tachyon is run 3 copies against a limit of 1 and Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring 3 against a limit of 2, so the score is structural-only and capped at 35. Structurally the deck reliably finds a starter (about 0.83 chance of at least one searcher in an opening 5, Inferred) and has real interaction density, with 8 hand traps and 12 negation and 14 removal text hits. Its top-end boss power is high (several 4000 to 4500 ATK Xyz in the Extra Deck), but there are no recorded boards, so the combo median is unmeasured and the ceiling is text-only. The archetype core is only 46% present (6 of 13 standard cards), and popularity or usage share did not earn points. Scores were built from the system (consistency, interaction, resilience, Extra Deck coverage), not by averaging card scores, and the absent Side Deck and missing tournament data cap the reliability and format-fit dimensions.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary; Combo secondary (Xyz boss conversion). Structural ≈ 54, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-5); no_side_deck (-2). Final formula: Illegal cap: uncapped 0.80*Structural(54) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) + Modifiers(-7) = 46, capped to 35; theoretical/structural-only, Meta provisional

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.83 · 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

• Strong Extra Deck boss coverage with several 4000 to 4500 ATK Xyz monsters
• Dense interaction: 8 hand traps and text-based negation and removal on about 12 to 14 cards
• Good starter access: about 0.83 chance of a searcher in the opening 5

Weaknesses

• Illegal: two cards exceed their copy limits
• No Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan
• Core archetype presence is only 46% of the standard list
• No recorded boards, so combo output is unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Single-copy Level 4 starters (Galaxy Summoner, Photon Orbital) gate the Galaxy-Eyes Level 8 boss route
• Hand trap timing depends on going-second hands

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal copy counts: Seventh Tachyon 3 vs limit 1 and Ash Blossom 3 vs limit 2; Main 55, Extra 14, Side 0 (within OCG size rules); Usage stats: 6 of 13 core cards present (46.2%); Card text and stats for all resolved cards
• Inferred: At least one searcher in opening 5: 0.83; Engine accessibility and brick risk from hypergeometric estimates and composition; Interaction quality from negation and removal text reads; Going-first and going-second power estimates
• Provisional: Meta power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament data); Post-side adaptability (no Side Deck)
• Data gaps: No recorded combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot records are absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first or second, matchup, brick or starter rates) No Side Deck, so post-side performance cannot be assessed Meta power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample