Galaxy-Eyes Deck #773453 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Control, Toolbox
• Format: tcg

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Xyz pressure from Galaxy-Eyes and Photon Xyz monsters (e.g. Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon, Neo Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon, Number 62 variants) built off Galaxy and Photon starters and Mulcharmy draw fuel; Hand-trap and negation-based interaction that protects the Xyz line and wins the exchange of card advantage over a long game
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a starter from the Photon/Galaxy/Mulcharmy group, use Mulcharmy draws and Galaxy Expedition or Galaxy Defense Robot Orbital 7 to reach a Level 8 Xyz base, and hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre or Ghost Belle for interaction (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the high hand-trap density (15 cards) to answer the opponent's first board, then build a Galaxy-Eyes Xyz from the surviving resources (Inferred)
• Recovery: Mulcharmy draw effects and Galaxy Summoner or Galaxy War Drake recursion from the GY, plus Photon Emperor revival, rebuild the board after a single answer (Inferred)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the list has no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan. Best-of-3 play would start from the same main deck and the two over-limit cards would need to be fixed first

Why it scores here

This deck is scored as a connected Galaxy-Eyes Xyz system, not as an average of its card scores. Its strongest part is interaction: 15 hand traps, 18 negation-text cards and 15 removal-text cards make it hard to run a single line through unanswered, and the going-second hand-trap probability (about 0.86 in a six-card hand) supports this. Engine access is decent for the archetype core (about 0.94 that a five-card hand holds at least one archetype card), but the 27 distinct main-deck cards, many of them single-purpose tech cards, dilute the Xyz line and give a 56-card main deck with a high brick risk. There is no recorded combo data, so ceiling and median scores come only from card text and are Inferred. Popularity is not counted: the archetype usage stats confirm this is a real build, but they do not raise the power score. The deck is Illegal because Seventh Tachyon and Ash Blossom are over their copy limits and it has no Side Deck, so the score is capped and labelled structural-only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-8); no_side_deck (-4). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(55) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) + ContextModifiers(-12) = 41, capped at 35 because the list is Illegal (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.94 · 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

• Dense interaction: 15 hand traps, 18 negation-text and 15 removal-text cards
• High archetype-core access: about 0.94 chance of at least one archetype card in a five-card opening hand
• Good Xyz coverage: 15 Extra Deck Xyz monsters across Photon, Galaxy, Cipher and Masquerade routes

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: Seventh Tachyon and Ash Blossom exceed their copy limits
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan
• 56-card main deck with 27 distinct names: low compactness and high brick risk
• Only 14.1% of copies use the exact Galaxy-Eyes archetype name, which weakens engine coherence

Critical choke points

• The Xyz base: most finishers need a specific Level 8 or Rank 8 material, and no single copy of most finishers is guaranteed
• Hand-trap dependence when going second
• Over-limit copies of Seventh Tachyon and Ash Blossom

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 56 main, 15 extra, 0 side; Seventh Tachyon 3 copies vs limit 1; Ash Blossom 3 copies vs limit 2; Hand-trap, negation and removal text counts from role_hint_tags and text_role_hints; Archetype purity 14.1%; usage stats show Galaxy-Eyes core is standard; Extra Deck: 15 Xyz, all single copies
• Inferred: Opening-hand probabilities for starters (0.94 core, 0.86 hand trap going second); Going-first and going-second plans and recovery paths; Interaction quality read from card text; Consistency and brick-rate estimate from the 27-name main deck
• Provisional: Matchup fit and format fit (no tournament link or dated meta sample); Meta Power (null)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent no win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, starter or brick rates) Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied deck has no Side Deck, so post-side performance cannot be scored