Galaxy Photon Deck #772283 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 51/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck Xyz bosses at 4000–4500 ATK (Neo Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon, Neo Galaxy-Eyes Cipher Dragon, Number C107) once a Level 8/9 material base is on board; Mass negation and control-swap Xyz effects (Number 107, Number 90, Number C107) that turn a stalled board into a closing turn
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Galaxy/Photon monster (Galaxy Soldier, Photon Vanisher, Galaxy Wizard) to reach the Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon line, then Xyz into a Level 8/9 boss using Galaxy Knight or Afterglow as material (Inferred from card excerpts)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Tachyon Transmigration (2 copies) and the Xyz negation effects to answer the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Galaxy Expedition and the Photon searchers (Inferred; the deck has zero hand traps and no side deck)
• Recovery: Recycle the graveyard through Galaxy Cleric (draw 2 by shuffling 5 Photon/Galaxy cards), Photon Orbital and Galaxy Expedition, then re-Xyz from the remaining Level 8 monsters (Inferred)
• After siding: None. The deck runs zero side cards, so no post-side plan exists in a best-of-3 context

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Galaxy/Photon monster in hand-summon lines (Galaxy Soldier, Photon Vanisher, Galaxy Wizard) and has 14 searcher-text cards, which gives about a 0.90 chance of at least one searcher in the opening five cards (Inferred). Its starter density is thin, though: each 3-copy starter appears in only about 34% of opening hands, and ten singletons plus singleton tech (Monster Reborn, Reinforcement, Accellight, Seventh One, Cipher Ascension) add brick risk. The ceiling comes from a 14-Xyz, one-Link Extra Deck with 4000–4500 ATK bosses and mass negation, but no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median are text-based and cannot be checked against play data. The score is built from the system (engine redundancy, Xyz boss power, interaction density, and recursion) and not from averaging card scores; the Galaxy Photon popularity signal (archetype usage) was not counted as power. The deck has no side deck and no hand traps, so going-second resilience and post-side adaptability are weak, and the 51 final score reflects that.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo (meta-neutral: D13 dropped, weights renormalized over the remaining 97). Structural ≈ 58, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 46. Modifiers: No side deck (-3); Level 8 material bottleneck (-2); Engine conflicts (-2); Mass negation and Xyz control (2); Banlist exposure (0). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; Structural 58.1 renormalized without D13)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.34 · 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

• Redundant hand-summon starters (Galaxy Soldier, Photon Vanisher, Galaxy Wizard) with 14 searcher-text cards
• Strong Extra Deck bosses: Neo Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon and Neo Galaxy-Eyes Cipher Dragon at 4500 ATK, Number C107 at 4500 ATK
• Layered negation from Number 107, Number 90, Number C107 and Tachyon Transmigration
• Legal list with 40 main and 15 extra; no copy-limit violations

Weaknesses

• No hand traps, floodgates or side deck, so going-second and post-side options are thin
• Each 3-copy starter shows only ~34% chance in an opening 5
• Level 8 material bottleneck for the 14 Xyz bosses
• Sub-archetype spread (Galaxy-Eyes, Photon, Cipher, Chaos, Number, Signature move) with no exact-name core

Critical choke points

• Reaching a Level 8/9 Xyz material base (Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon, Galaxy Knight, Afterglow are the only main-deck Level 8s)
• Opening a Galaxy/Photon monster to start the hand-summon line; a dead opener stalls the turn

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 40, Extra 15, Side 0, all within OCG size rules; Monster Reborn and Reinforcement of the Army are Limited at 1 copy each (legal); Card stats and text from the evidence excerpts
• Observed: Usage statistics: Galaxy-Eyes Afterglow Dragon 72.4%, Tachyon Transmigration 69.0%, Galaxy Expedition 58.6% inclusion
• Inferred: Opening-hand hypergeometric consistency (0.34 per 3-copy starter, 0.90 searcher group); Going-first and going-second plans derived from card text; Level 8 material bottleneck and sub-archetype engine conflict; Interaction and recovery quality from negation/recursion text
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13); Floor and median output (no recorded boards)
• 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 usage_statistics core_present flags (in_this_deck false) conflict with the card list: Number 38, Number 90, Galaxy-Eyes Full Armor, Number C62, Number 107 and Number 62 are present in the Extra Deck (zone extra) but were counted absent, so the 16.7% core-presence figure is unreliable (score uses the card list) side deck is empty; no post-side data