Galaxy Photon Deck #771965 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Gimmick Puppet Xyz pressure (Number C15 Giant Hunter, Number 15 Giant Grinder, Fantasix Machinix) converting removal and destruction into board advantage; Late-game Extra Deck boss plays (Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS, Super Starslayer TY-PHON, Dingirsu, Therion King Regulus, Imsety) once the Gimmick Puppet engine is online
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Gimmick Puppet starters (Little Soldiers, Terror Baby, Fiendish Knight) and Mulcharmy draw engines, then go to a Puppet Xyz and clear the opponent's first board with removal
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 9 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre, Droll & Lock Bird) and negation text to break the opponent's first summon, then rebuild through Puppet recursion
• Recovery: Recover from GY through Puppet monsters that Special Summon from the GY (Dreary Doll, Rouge Doll) and the Puppet Spells that banish from the GY (Condolence Puppet, Service Puppet Play)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no side deck and the list is illegal as built, so there is no post-side plan to score

Why it scores here

The deck is illegal as built: it runs 3 copies each of Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Dominus Impulse where the OCG Semi-Limited cap is 2, so the score is capped at 30 and the evaluation is structural only. Its engine is a Gimmick Puppet Xyz and recursion package with several redundant starters (Little Soldiers, Terror Baby, Fiendish Knight, Rouge Doll), and a 75% probability of at least one searcher in the opening 5, which supports a reasonably live opening (Inferred). Interaction is the strongest part of the system: 9 hand traps, 15 negation-text cards and 25 removal-text cards give layered answers that are stronger going second (68% chance of a hand trap in the opening 6, Inferred). The deck is labelled Galaxy Photon but only 2 of the 15 archetype core cards are present and exact-name purity is 0%, so popularity or archetype share earned no points, and the score comes from the Gimmick Puppet system's consistency, interaction and Extra Deck endboard, not from averaging card scores. Heavy off-archetype density (16 tech cards, 70 off-archetype copies), the lack of any side deck and the absence of combo or win-rate data pull the score down.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 51, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); empty_side_deck (-4); archetype_label_mismatch (-2). Final formula: Illegal list: normal formula (0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability, Meta provisional) computes ≈50, then capped at 30 as an illegal, structural-only evaluation

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.32 · 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

• Layered interaction: 9 hand traps, negation text and removal text
• Several redundant Gimmick Puppet starters and recursion routes
• Strong Extra Deck endboard options at 2500–3000 ATK

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy counts on two Semi-Limited cards
• No side deck
• Label and engine mismatch: Galaxy Photon name with a Gimmick Puppet build and 0% exact-name purity
• 16 tech cards and 70 off-archetype copies reduce compactness

Critical choke points

• Puppet Xyz material pool: most of the engine needs a Level 8 or Level 4 Puppet Xyz on board
• Legality: the deck cannot be played as built until Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse are cut to 2 copies

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse at 3 copies against a Semi-Limited limit of 2; main 55 and extra 15 are within size rules; Composition: 9 hand traps, 16 tech, 13 searcher-text, 15 negation-text, 25 removal-text cards; Archetype purity 0% exact-name, 70 off-archetype copies, side deck 0; Usage stats: 2 of 15 Galaxy Photon core cards present (13.3%)
• Inferred: Starter and searcher probabilities from the hypergeometric table; Consistency and brick estimates from card text and composition; Going-second hand-trap advantage from the 68% probability; Interaction quality from removal and negation text
• Provisional: Meta Power is null; no dated metagame sample; Format fit and tournament reliability; no tournament link
• 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/second, matchup, brick/starter/OTK rates) Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample Deck has no title and no side deck Guide coverage is a single YGO News article with no section content