Galaxy Photon Deck #773021 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon / Galaxy-Eyes Tachyon Primal and Number 107 / Dragluxion boards, with 3000-ATK Photon bodies closing the game; Light and Darkness Dragonlord / Bystial Lubellion pressure once the hand-trap shell has cleared the way
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a hand-trap-plus-starter combination (Tachyon Primal, Afterglow, Transmigration) and try to reach a Galaxy-Eyes Xyz; the 13 hand traps are dead on T1 unless a starter is also drawn
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Droll & Lock Bird, Nibiru and Artifact Lancea to disrupt the opponent's summons and searches, then convert the surviving board into a Photon or Tachyon Xyz
• Recovery: Galaxy-Eyes Photon and Tachyon Primal recursion plus Mulcharmy Fuwalos draw are the rebuild tools; no reliable grind engine is evidenced
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs zero side cards, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The list reliably opens Galaxy-Eyes starters often enough (about 68% for at least one of the 11 core-group copies in a 5-card opening hand, Inferred) but the engine is split across Galaxy-Eyes, Light and Darkness Dragon, Bystial, Mulcharmy, Seventh, Starliege and Cyclone cards, with only 5 of 18 archetype-standard core cards present (27.8%). Interaction is the deck's real strength: 13 hand traps and 18 negation-text cards give strong going-second disruption (about 81% chance of at least one hand trap in a 6-card opening, Inferred). Conversion and median output cannot be measured because no combos are recorded, so the ceiling and floor are text-only reads. The deck has no side deck, three cards exceed their copy limits, and one card is Forbidden, so the list is Illegal and its score is capped low as a structural-only read. Popularity and archetype usage were not credited, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 48, Going First ≈ 40, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: illegal_list_cap (-12); no Side Deck (0); engine conflicts (0). Final formula: Illegal list: unconstrained 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability = 46.6, then illegal-cap modifier -12 → 35 (Meta provisional; not a normal Final Contextual score)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.68 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.32 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Hand-trap density (13) gives strong going-second interaction
• Several independent Galaxy-Eyes and Tachyon starters with recursion
• High end-board ATK from Photon Dragon, Number 107 and Dragluxion

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Seventh Tachyon and Ash Blossom over copy limit, Catapult Turtle Forbidden
• Only 5 of 18 archetype-standard core cards present
• 71 of 82 archetype-tagged copies are off the exact archetype, splitting the engine
• Zero side deck

Critical choke points

• Galaxy-Eyes Xyz summon depends on the 68% core-group draw
• Hand-trap timing decisions are required on both turns

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 56 main, 15 extra, 0 side; Catapult Turtle Forbidden; Seventh Tachyon limit 1 (run 3); Ash Blossom limit 2 (run 3); Card text and stats for all 45 distinct cards; Archetype core: 5 of 18 standard core cards present
• Inferred: P(>=1 core-group copy in 5-card hand) ≈ 0.68; P(>=1 hand trap in 6-card opening going second) ≈ 0.81; Hand-trap dead-draw risk and engine split across sub-archetypes; Interaction density is strong based on text roles
• Provisional: Meta Power (null); Matchup/format fit (D13 = 45)
• 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 deck title is null in the export