Galaxy Photon Deck #772184 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 58 / Extra 13 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Xyz Summon a Galaxy-Eyes or Photon Level 8 boss (Galaxy-Eyes Full Armor, Number 62, C62, or Number 107) and protect it with hand traps and negations; Galaxy Photon Dragon and Galaxy-Eyes Antimatter Dragon as lower-cost Xyz follow-ups through Galaxy Expedition and Galaxy Summoner recursion
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Galaxy or Photon starter (Galaxy Soldier, Galaxy Wizard, Mulcharmy Fuwalos), search a Galaxy monster, and build toward a Level 4 or Level 8 Xyz
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Forbidden Droplet, Tachyon Transmigration, and Schwarzschild to stop the opponent's first summon, then rebuild the Xyz through Galaxy Summoner or Galaxy Expedition
• Recovery: Recycle Photon and Galaxy monsters from the GY with Galaxy Summoner, Galaxy Expedition, and Galaxy Journey, then re-Xyz from the remaining Level 4 or Level 8 pieces
• After siding: No side deck is registered (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan; this is a structural read only

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Galaxy or Photon starter, with a 0.79 chance of at least one core Galaxy-Eyes or Photon card in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred). It converts into Xyz boss pressure through a wide Extra Deck of Level 8 and Level 9 monsters, but 10 of the 18 usage-core Xyz monsters are absent, so the realised engine is narrower than the archetype standard. Interaction is layered across hand traps, negations and removal text, but the list cannot be legally played as submitted: three cards exceed their copy limits and one is Forbidden. Because the deck is Illegal, no normal Final Contextual score is given; the 25 is a capped structural read. No combos, tournament data or dated meta were supplied, and the score did not come from averaging card scores or from the archetype's popularity.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 50.5, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 48, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: Banlist and copy-limit exposure (-12). Final formula: Illegal deck: normal formula (0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability = 48.4) is not applied; score is capped low and labelled theoretical/structural-only. Meta provisional.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.79 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.21 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Strong Xyz boss density at Level 8 and Level 9, with 4000 to 4500 ATK options
• Layered interaction: hand traps, Forbidden Droplet, Tachyon Transmigration, and Xyz negations
• Recursion through Galaxy Summoner, Galaxy Expedition, and Galaxy Journey

Weaknesses

• Illegal as submitted: three copy-limit violations and one Forbidden card
• No side deck, so there is no post-side plan
• Missing 10 of 18 usage-core Xyz monsters, so the engine is not the standard build
• Three sub-archetypes (Galaxy, Photon, Galaxy-Eyes) plus Mulcharmy and Bystial dilute coherence

Critical choke points

• A single Level 8 boss depends on Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon or Full Armor, which are low-copy
• Seventh Tachyon and Ash Blossom over-limit copies would be cut in any legal build

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is Illegal: 58 Main, 13 Extra, 0 Side; Seventh Tachyon 3/1, Ash Blossom 3/2, Catapult Turtle 1/0 (Forbidden); Exact archetype purity 0%, with 71 off-archetype copies; No side deck registered; 10 of 18 usage-core cards absent
• Inferred: P(>=1 core in hand5) = 0.79 and brick proxy 0.21; Interaction density from negation and removal text; Going-second hand-trap coverage 0.28
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated sample); Matchup and format fit (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 record absent no win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchups or brick rate Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample No side deck registered