Galaxy Photon Deck #768636 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 55/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Xyz Summon Galaxy-Eyes / Photon Xyz monsters (Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon line, Number 90, Neo Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon) and attack through a board the opponent cannot easily clear; Galaxy Photon Dragon and Link/Xyz boards that are protected by negation and hand traps
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon a LIGHT Level 4 monster (Galaxy Summoner, Photon Orbital, Photon Jumper, Galaxy War Drake) to start the Photon/Galaxy search chain, then keep Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence or Mind Mirror Force up for the opponent's first interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom x2, Infinite Impermanence x2, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C) to answer the opponent's first board, then rebuild with Galaxy Soldier / Galaxy Defense Robot Orbital 7 and Xyz into a Galaxy-Eyes boss
• Recovery: Search and recurse Galaxy and Photon monsters from Deck and GY (Galaxy Wizard, Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon's GY-recovery effects, Photon Orbital equip), then rebuild the Xyz boss from whatever Level 4 or Level 8 monsters remain
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered (Side Deck size 0), so no post-side plan can be evaluated; this is a structural gap, not a modelled plan

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional Galaxy/Photon search chain: the searcher-text group (15 copies) gives about 0.80 chance of at least one searcher in a 5-card opening hand, and the 13-copy archetype core gives about 0.75 chance of at least one core card (Inferred, from hypergeometric estimates). It converts that opening into Xyz pressure through a 13-Xyz Extra Deck with 2 copies of Galaxy Photon Dragon and Number 62, 1 copy each of Number 90 and Neo Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon, and a 4000-to-4500 ATK ceiling on the finishers. It survives disruption through 6 hand traps and 16 negation-text cards, and its end-board interaction (Mind Mirror Force, Dominus Spark, Crossout Designator, Photon Stream of Destruction) is the strongest part of the score. It is weakened by the absence of a side deck, a 56-card main deck that is bloated for a combo-driven shell, and off-archetype Dominus cards that dilute the engine. Popularity did not earn points: the usage statistics only confirm the core is standard, and the score is a system-level read, not an average of card scores. No combos were supplied, so ceiling and median are text-based inferences.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 61, Going First ≈ 64, Going Second ≈ 63, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-2); no side deck (-2); off-archetype dilution (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural(61) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(58) = 60.4; Meta provisional; ContextModifiers -5 => 55

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.8 · 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

• Broad layered interaction: negations, hand traps, and removal-text cards
• Strong Xyz ceiling with 4000-4500 ATK finishers and 13 Xyz in the Extra Deck
• Searcher density (15 cards) keeps the engine accessible
• Core archetype cards are at standard copy counts (usage stats confirm)

Weaknesses

• No side deck at all (Side Deck size 0)
• 56-card main deck is bloated for a combo-driven shell
• Off-archetype Dominus cards and 1-of tech cards dilute the engine
• Limited and Semi-Limited restricted cards form a banlist-exposed interaction core

Critical choke points

• Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon line depends on a LIGHT Level 4 or Level 8 starter; a board clear before Xyz Summon ends the turn
• The Extra Deck boss list needs specific Level 8 or Rank 8 materials; no alternate route is confirmed by text alone

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main Deck 56 cards, Extra Deck 15 cards, Side Deck 0 cards, all within size rules; Restricted cards Crossout Designator, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C at Limited and Ash Blossom at Semi-Limited, all at legal copies; Core archetype usage stats: 10 of 18 core cards present (55.6%); Card text of listed Xyz monsters and the Galaxy Photon Dragon effect
• Inferred: Opening-hand probabilities (0.80 searcher, 0.75 core) from hypergeometric draws; Midrange profile and interaction-led structural score; Engine conflicts from the Dominus sub-archetype; Ceiling and median from text read, since no combos were supplied
• Provisional: Meta power (null) and format fit (D13), pending a dated metagame sample; Post-side plan (D12), since no side deck exists
• 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 No Side Deck is registered for this deck