Galaxy Photon Deck #769290 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 20/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 7 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro/Link board pressure from Elfnote and Power Patron monsters (June Pride, Vidolium, Medius, Mediclius) backed by Ars Magna and Theorealize support, plus Mulcharmy card draw to rebuild; Going-second grind: Mulcharmy draw and hand-trap disruption (16 hand-trap-tagged cards) to outlast an opponent's board
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Elfnote Lucina, Regina or Tinia (Special Summon from hand) and search an Elfnote monster, then extend into an Elfnote or Power Patron Synchro/Link. Lucina is illegal at 3 copies, so this line exists only on the as-submitted list.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre and Effect Veiler, Skull Meister or Nibiru as hand traps to stop the opponent's first summon or effect, then rebuild through Mulcharmy draw.
• Recovery: Mulcharmy Fuwalos and Purulia draw on opponent summons; Medius and Theorealize Past Lull recur Power Patron and Synchro monsters from GY or banish.
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no side deck (0 of 0-15 allowed in OCG), so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The list is illegal as submitted: seven copy-limit or Forbidden violations, including four Forbidden cards and three over-limit Limited or Semi-Limited cards. Under the rubric it is capped and scored structurally only. Its engine is a mix of Elfnote, Power Patron, Ars Magna, Mulcharmy and Medius, and the labelled Galaxy Photon archetype has zero exact-name copies, with only 2 of 18 core usage cards present, so popularity earned no points. The structural read credits the 16 hand-trap-tagged cards, which give about 89 percent odds of at least one hand trap in a going-second six-card hand, and the Mulcharmy draw engine for recovery. It loses points for a 0-card side deck, no recorded combos, and a multi-step, decision-heavy line. The structural score was computed from dimension scores on the system, not from averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 52, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-6); Engine conflict (-2). Final formula: Meta-neutral: Structural renormalised over 95 weights (D13 excluded) = 52; Final = 0.80*52 + 0.20*40 + modifiers(-8) = 42 pre-cap; Illegal cap applied, final 20

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · 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

• 16 hand-trap-tagged cards give strong going-second disruption (about 0.89 odds of at least one in 6 cards)
• Mulcharmy draw effects and 19 searcher-text cards provide recovery and card flow
• Broad Extra Deck coverage across Synchro, Link, Xyz and Fusion with Power Patron and Elfnote closers

Weaknesses

• Illegal as submitted: Forbidden cards and copy-limit violations must be removed before any normal score applies
• No side deck, so no post-side plan and no answer to hate after game one
• Engine is a multi-archetype mix with no recorded combos, so the ceiling and median are unverified

Critical choke points

• Single-copy Elfnote and Power Patron starters (Lucina and Tinia are Limited) are the only route to the Elfnote Synchro chain
• Going first, a hand without a searcher or starter has about 0.11 chance of a live opening (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: 7 copy or Forbidden violations; Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0; within OCG size rules; Forbidden: Called by the Grave, Triple Tactics Talent, F.A. Dawn Dragster, Crystal Wing Synchro Dragon; Limited/Semi-Limited copy limits per the BanList field; Usage stats: 2 of 18 Galaxy Photon core cards present; archetype labelled Galaxy Photon with zero exact-name copies
• Inferred: Hypergeometric consistency: P(at least 1 searcher-text in 5) 0.89; P(at least 1 hand trap in 6 going second) 0.89; Engine accessibility and brick rate estimated from text and copy counts; Interaction and recovery quality read from card text tags; Pilotability from multi-step line count in text
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format-fit scoring (D13 excluded from structural weights)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry (going-first or going-second, matchup, brick, starter or OTK rates) Meta Power provisional without a dated metagame sample Deck title is null and the archetype label (Galaxy Photon) does not match the engine cards No side deck, so post-side adaptability cannot be scored