Galaxy Photon Deck #773454 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Xyz boss from the Extra Deck (Neo Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon 4500 ATK, Number 62 / Number C62 4000 ATK, Galaxy-Eyes Cipher X Dragon 4000 ATK) reached through Galaxy-Eyes and Photon starters; Mulcharmy draw-engine attrition and Galaxy-Eyes Photon Change Dragon tribute/summon pressure
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Level 3-4 or Photon/Galaxy starter (Galaxy Expedition, Galaxy Defense Robot Orbital 7, Mulcharmy monsters) and build toward a Rank 8 Xyz boss; hold Ash Blossom / Ghost Ogre / Ghost Belle for the opponent's first interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, Ghost Belle & Haunted Mansion, Droll & Lock Bird, Infinite Impermanence, Nibiru) to break the opponent's first summon, then Xyz into a 4000+ ATK boss
• Recovery: Mulcharmy monsters draw cards when the field is empty, and Galaxy-Eyes Afterglow Dragon / Photon Delta Wing re-enter the field from hand or GY
• After siding: None: the Side Deck is empty, so the list has no post-side plan; the deck can only be evaluated on its Main and Extra structure

Why it scores here

This list reliably opens a Galaxy-Eyes / Photon Xyz starter at roughly one in four 5-card hands per 3-copy card, and its Extra Deck of 15 Xyz monsters gives several 4000+ ATK boss routes once a Rank 8 material is present. Its strength is the system rather than any single card: 15 hand-trap cards and 18 negation-text cards give multiple answers to the first disruption, and the going-second hand has about an 86% chance of at least one hand trap. The score is held down by structure, not by card quality. Seventh Tachyon (3 copies vs 1 allowed) and Ash Blossom (3 copies vs 2 allowed) make the list Illegal, so this is a theoretical, structural-only score capped at 35. The Side Deck is empty and no combo boards, win rates or tournament data are recorded, so the median and matchup dimensions remain Inferred or Provisional. Popularity of the Galaxy Photon archetype did not add points, and card-level scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Banlist / copy-limit exposure (-8); No Side Deck (-4); Illegal-list cap (-7). Final formula: 0.80*Structural(57) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) = 54.6; modifiers -12 = 42.6; capped to 35 because the list is Illegal (theoretical/structural-only); Meta Power provisional

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

• 15 hand traps and 18 negation-text cards give layered answers to the opponent's first interaction
• Boss monsters at 4000–4500 ATK with a full 15-card Xyz Extra Deck
• Going-second hand has ~86% chance of at least one hand trap

Weaknesses

• Illegal: Seventh Tachyon and Ash Blossom exceed copy limits
• Exact archetype purity 0%; 71 off-archetype copies split the engine
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan
• Median and ceiling unmeasured: no combo boards recorded

Critical choke points

• Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon / Photon Change Dragon as the only Level 8 Xyz material source
• Hand-trap density means a turn-1 hand with no starter is a dead hand when going first

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 within size rules 40–60 / 0–15 / 0–15; Seventh Tachyon 3 copies vs Limited 1; Ash Blossom 3 copies vs Semi-Limited 2 (over copy limit); Boss stats (Neo Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon 4500 ATK, Number 62 4000 ATK); Archetype purity 0% exact-name, 71 off-archetype copies; Side Deck empty
• Inferred: P(≥1 starter in 5-card hand) ≈ 0.25 per 3-copy card; going-second hand ≈ 0.86 for hand traps; Engine ceiling from card text of Galaxy-Eyes Cipher X / Neo Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon chains; Brick risk from situational cards and hand-trap density; Interaction breadth from negation and removal text tags
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13) with no tournament data
• 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 — brick, starter, and matchup rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck title is null; Side Deck is empty so no post-side plan can be evaluated