Galaxy Photon Deck #772284 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 62/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Xyz pressure from Galaxy-Eyes / Photon / Cipher Xyz monsters at Rank 8-10 (Neo Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon 4500 ATK, Neo C107 4500 ATK, Cipher X 4000 ATK, Prime Photon 4000 ATK); Negation and control of the opponent's field through Number 90, Number 107, Neo Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon and Galaxy-Eyes Cipher Dragon effects
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a LIGHT starter (Galaxy Soldier, Photon Vanisher, Photon Orbital, Galaxy Wizard) or Galaxy Expedition / Photon Sanctuary to get a Level 4-5 body, then Xyz into a Level 8 or 9 Xyz monster
• Turn 2 (going second): Respond with Tachyon Transmigration or Galaxy Trance, or detach-based negation from a face-up Xyz, then convert into a Rank 8-10 Xyz on the next turn
• Recovery: Recur Photon and Galaxy cards from the GY with Galaxy Cleric, Galaxy Trance, Galaxy Expedition and Galaxy Wizard tribute, and rebuild the Xyz on the next turn
• After siding: None: the deck runs a 0-card Side Deck, so there is no sided plan in a best-of-3

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a LIGHT starter: eight cards run three copies, and the searcher-text group reaches about 90 percent in a five-card hand (Inferred). Its Xyz density gives a strong closing ceiling, with several 4000-4500 ATK Rank 8-10 monsters, and Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon, Galaxy Wizard and Photon Vanisher give it several routes into those Xyz. Interaction is real but semantic: Number 90, Number 107, Neo Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon and Galaxy-Eyes Cipher Dragon carry negation and control text, and Tachyon Transmigration, Galaxy Trance and Tachyon Spiral add more negation. Floor and median output is unmeasured because no boards are recorded, so those scores are text-inferred. Popularity did not earn points: the archetype usage stats were used only to read deck shape, and card scores were not averaged. The main weakness is the empty Side Deck and absence of hand traps, which cap going-second and post-side play.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange, meta-neutral (D13 dropped and renormalized over 95). Structural ≈ 65, Going First ≈ 68, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: banlist exposure (Limited tech/searchers) (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; no dated metagame sample)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.9 · 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

• Eight cards run 3 copies, including the main LIGHT starters Galaxy Soldier, Photon Vanisher, Photon Orbital and Galaxy Wizard
• 14 Xyz monsters at Rank 8-10 with several 4000-4500 ATK closers
• Negation and control text across Number 90, Number 107, Neo Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon and Galaxy-Eyes Cipher Dragon
• Legal construction: 40 main, 15 extra, 0 violations, both Limited cards run at 1 copy

Weaknesses

• Side Deck is empty (0 of up to 15), so there is no post-side plan for best-of-3
• No hand traps and no floodgates (role_tag_counts), so going-second answers rely on Quick Effect negations from Xyz
• 10 single-copy cards and 2 Limited 1-copy cards add dead-draw risk
• No recorded boards: floor, median and ceiling are text-inferred, not measured
• Usage-stat in_this_deck flags mark Number 38, Number 90, Full Armor, C62 and Number 107 as absent even though they are in the Extra list, so the 16.7 percent core-present figure understates real overlap (data inconsistency)

Critical choke points

• Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon needs 2 monsters with 2000+ ATK tributed (Galaxy Soldier 2000, Photon Vanisher 2000, Photon Thrasher 2100, Galaxy Knight 2800); missing these bricks the main engine
• Photon Vanisher can only be Special Summoned from hand while you control a Photon or Galaxy monster
• Without a Side Deck or hand traps, a single opposing hand-trap or floodgate on going second can stall the Xyz line

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is legal: 40 main, 15 extra, 0 side; no copy-limit violations; Limited cards: Monster Reborn and Reinforcement of the Army, 1 copy each; Copy histogram 10 singles, 3 doubles, 8 triples; 14 Xyz and 1 Link in Extra; Hypergeometric P(>=1 copy of a 3-copy card in 5 cards) = 0.3376
• Observed: Archetype usage stats: 23 rows, 18 core cards; this deck runs 3 by the in_this_deck flag (flag likely excludes Extra Deck cards)
• Inferred: Engine consistency from 3-copy starter redundancy (D1); Brick risk from singles and conditional cards (D2); Interaction density from negation and removal text (D7); Closing power from Xyz ATK values (D9)
• Provisional: Meta Power is null: no dated metagame sample; Matchup fit (D13) and side-deck effectiveness (D12) cannot be measured
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: 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 and starter rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power provisional without a dated metagame sample Usage-stat in_this_deck flags do not match Extra Deck contents (e.g. Number 38, Number 90, Full Armor, C62, Number 107) Deck title is null