Galaxy Photon Deck #772989 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 20/100 (±6 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Theoretical only: boss monsters that are present in the list (Galaxy-Eyes Cipher X Dragon 4000 ATK, Galaxy-Eyes Full Armor Photon Dragon 4000 ATK, Destiny HERO - Dogma and Destro-Dogma 3400 ATK, Destiny End Dragoon 3000 ATK) reached through Xyz, Fusion or Destiny HERO summons. No recorded line exists to confirm any of them.; Horus (King's Sarcophagus) recursion and Kaiju summons from the GY, which are text-level only.
• Turn 1 (going first): Text-level only: open on Trade-In or D - Force, search a Destiny HERO or Horus piece, then summon a Level 8 boss. The combination of archetypes is not coherent, so this plan is unverified.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird, Solemn Judgment, Solemn Warning, Infinite Impermanence) to stop the opponent's first play, then a boss. Hand-trap density is high enough to matter but the follow-up is weak.
• Recovery: Not established. Several recursion effects exist in text (King's Sarcophagus, Imsety, Destiny HERO - Malicious), but they serve different archetypes and no line connects them.
• After siding: Not applicable. The Side Deck is empty (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The list is Illegal because it runs Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, a Forbidden card, in the Extra Deck, so it receives a capped, structural-only score and not a normal Final Contextual score. The rubric's system-level read is poor: only 1 of the 18 Galaxy Photon core cards is present (5.6%), exact archetype purity is 0%, and 70 of 70 main-deck archetype copies belong to unrelated sub-archetypes (Destiny HERO, Kaiju, Horus, Solemn, Cipher, Forbidden and others). Those engines do not share a turn-1 plan, so bricks and conflicting Normal Summons are likely. The deck does have real strengths: seven hand traps, 20 removal-text cards, and several 3000+ ATK bosses in the Extra Deck. Those strengths push Interaction and Closing scores up, but they do not offset the incoherent engine. Popularity did not earn points (usage stats show the list is off-core), and card scores were not averaged. No combos, tournament results or win-rate telemetry were supplied, so the combo and meta scores are text-only inference or provisional.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 40.6, Going First ≈ 35, Going Second ≈ 40, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 30. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-10); Engine conflicts (-2). Final formula: Illegal deck: normal formula 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + modifiers = 0.80*40.6 + 0.20*30 - 12 = 26.5, then capped at 20 for Illegal status (theoretical/structural-only). Meta Power provisional/null.

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

• Seven hand traps and eight negation or removal cards give real interaction
• Several 3000+ ATK boss monsters in the Extra Deck
• Searchers (9 searcher-text cards) and draw spells (Trade-In, Imsety) give some consistency

Weaknesses

• Illegal: Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon (Forbidden) in the Extra Deck
• No Galaxy Photon core engine (1 of 18 core cards present, 0% exact archetype purity)
• Engines split across Destiny HERO, Kaiju, Horus, Cipher and Solemn with no shared starter
• Empty Side Deck means no post-side adaptation

Critical choke points

• Any single hand trap or floodgate answer blocks the only line that lacks a full archetype engine
• The Forbidden Extra Deck card makes the entire list illegal until it is removed

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0 counts (legality block); Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon is Forbidden and run at 1 copy (illegal); Only 1 of 18 usage-standard core cards is present; exact archetype purity is 0%
• Inferred: Hypergeometric starter and hand-trap estimates (P 0.25 and 0.58); Engine conflicts across Destiny HERO, Kaiju, Horus, Cipher and Solemn; Interaction quality from card text (7 hand traps, 15 negation, 20 removal)
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit (D13) (no tournament link or meta data)
• 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 exists in YGOVN for going-first/second, matchup, brick or starter rates Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck title is null in the export