Galaxy Photon Deck #771415 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 51/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Xyz Summon a large Galaxy-Eyes / Photon / Number boss (Galaxy-Eyes Full Armor Photon Dragon, Neo Galaxy-Eyes Photon Howling, Galaxy-Eyes Antimatter Dragon) from Photon/Galaxy searches and Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon Xyz material routes.; Number-series Xyz boards (Number 38 / Number 90 / Number 107) that negate and dominate the field once established.
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon Mulcharmy Fuwalos or Photon Delta Wing, search with Galaxy Soldier / Photon Orbital / Photon Jumper, and build toward a Level 8 Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon Xyz route.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C, and Solemn Judgment to disrupt the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Galaxy Summoner and Galaxy Expedition.
• Recovery: Galaxy Summoner, Galaxy Expedition, Galaxy Wizard and Galaxy War Drake recycle Photon/Galaxy monsters from the GY; Galaxy Zero can revive a Photon/Galaxy monster from the GY.
• After siding: No side deck is registered in the export, so no post-side plan can be evaluated.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional Photon/Galaxy plan. Eleven searchers and roughly 0.68 probability of at least one searcher in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred) give it a credible route to Level 8 Xyz material, and Mulcharmy and Photon Delta Wing add early bodies. Its conversion ceiling is high because the Extra Deck holds several 4000+ ATK bosses, but no recorded boards exist, so the median is scored conservatively as text-only inference. Interaction comes from four hand traps and several negation or removal spells. Score comes from consistency, interaction, and closing power on the system, not from the Galaxy Photon archetype's popularity, and no card scores were averaged. The side deck is empty and there is no tournament or matchup data, so Meta Power stays provisional and side adaptability is scored low.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 53, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: No side deck (-3); Limited copies in format (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); Structural 56.6 → 55.3, minus 4 modifiers = 51

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

• Eleven searchers and recycling effects give a consistent route to Xyz bosses
• Extra Deck is fully used with 4000+ ATK Xyz options
• Four hand traps plus several negation and removal spells

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so no adaptation for best-of-3
• Engine splits across many sub-archetypes (71 off-archetype copies)
• Limited-copy interaction is thin on repeat disruption

Critical choke points

• Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon (3 copies) is the main Level 8 starter; without it the Xyz route stalls
• Heavy reliance on Photon/Galaxy searchers to reach Xyz material

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal under OCG BanList: all Limited and Semi-Limited copies are within legal limits; Main 56 and Extra 15 meet size rules; Extra Deck contains 15 Xyz monsters
• Inferred: Starter and searcher access probabilities via hypergeometric draw; Ceiling and interaction read from card text; Brick risk and resilience scores
• Provisional: Meta Power and format fit (no dated meta sample); Side deck adaptability (no side deck supplied)
• 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 side deck supplied — post-side plan cannot be scored no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied