Galaxy Photon Deck #774812 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 57/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Xyz and Galaxy-Eyes 3000-4500 ATK boss monsters (Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon, Galaxy-Eyes Tachyon Primal, Galaxy-Eyes Afterglow Dragon, Galaxy Photon Dragon, Neo Galaxy-Eyes Photon Howling) built from Photon and Galaxy searches and summons; Interaction-led board control: Mind Mirror Force, Dominus Spark, Dominus Purge and hand traps (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Droll and Lock Bird, Maxx C) stall the opponent until the Xyz boss arrives
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Galaxy or Photon searcher (Galaxy Wizard, Galaxy Defense Robot Orbital 7, Photon Orbital) or Photon Delta Wing, search the second Level 4 or Level 8 starter, and build toward a Level 4 Xyz (Galaxy Photon Dragon) or Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon; hold Mind Mirror Force or a hand trap for the first opposing interruption
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand to hold Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Droll and Lock Bird or Maxx C against the opponent's first search or Special Summon, then rebuild the Xyz line from the board with Galaxy Expedition or a searcher
• Recovery: Galaxy Summoner and Photon Emperor recur monsters from the GY, Photon Vanisher and Galaxy War Drake re-Special Summon from GY, and Galaxy Photon Dragon can add a Photon or Galaxy card back to hand after detaching material
• After siding: No side deck is registered in the export (Side Deck size 0), so no post-side plan can be verified

Why it scores here

The deck's score comes from the system as a whole: eight 3-copy engine cards (Galaxy Wizard, Galaxy Defense Robot Orbital 7, Photon Delta Wing, Galaxy Hundred, Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon) and 15 searcher-text cards give it a high chance of a live searcher, and the 6 hand traps plus 16 negation-text cards give a dense, layered interaction suite. It reliably opens a starter in most hands (about 80 percent of 5-card hands contain a searcher, Inferred), converts into 3000-4500 ATK Xyz bosses with a broad 13-card Xyz extra deck, and recovers through GY-recursion monsters. The main weaknesses are a 56-card main deck with 35 distinct cards, an 8-card Dominus and Mirror Trap block that dilutes the Galaxy engine, a roughly 45 percent proxy brick rate for the core engine in a going-first 5-card hand, and an empty side deck. Score was not raised by Galaxy Photon's popularity or by any card's individual score; no card scores were averaged, and no combo or tournament data was supplied.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 62.1, Going First ≈ 68, Going Second ≈ 70, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: engine conflicts (-2); banlist exposure (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional, D13 dropped and weights renormalised to 95 for the meta-neutral structural score)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.55 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.45 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense searcher redundancy: 15 searcher-text cards and three 3-copy engine searchers
• Layered interaction: 6 hand traps, 16 negation-text cards and 22 removal-text cards
• Broad Extra Deck coverage with 13 Xyz and 2 Link monsters, including multiple 3000+ ATK bosses
• GY recursion lines that let the deck continue after an interruption

Weaknesses

• No side deck (Side Deck size 0), so no post-side plan
• 56-card main with 35 distinct cards and 22 one-ofs lowers consistency
• Off-theme Dominus and Mirror Trap block (11 copies) dilutes the Galaxy engine
• Core-group proxy brick rate about 45 percent in a going-first 5-card hand

Critical choke points

• Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon Special Summon requires Tributing 2 monsters with 2000+ ATK
• Galaxy Photon Dragon and Level 4 Xyz lines need two Level 4 monsters on the field
• Photon Vanisher requires a Photon or Galaxy monster already on the field
• Single-copy hand traps Droll and Lock Bird, Maxx C and Crossout Designator are one-ofs

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in OCG: main 56 (40-60), extra 15 (0-15), no violations; Restricted counts: Crossout Designator 1 (Limited), Droll and Lock Bird 1 (Limited), Maxx C 1 (Limited), Ash Blossom 2 (Semi-Limited); Copy histogram and type composition match the card list; Extra Deck: 13 Xyz and 2 Link
• Observed: Usage stats: Galaxy-Eyes Afterglow, Droll and Lock Bird, Galaxy Summoner, Photon Emperor, Photon Delta Wing and Galaxy Expedition are core and present
• Inferred: Starter access about 0.80 (searcher group) and about 0.55 (core group); Proxy brick rate about 0.45 going first; Hand-trap P about 0.51 going second; Interaction-driven control shell with Xyz closing
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit (D13); Tournament reliability assumptions
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference (D3/D4 Inferred) No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No side deck in export (Side Deck size 0): D12 scored on absence; confirm if a side exists Usage-stat core matching conflicts with the card list: Hope Harbinger, Number 90, Full Armor, Number C62, Number 107 and Dragluxion are in the Extra Deck list but flagged in this deck false, so core coverage 6 of 12 may be a matching error No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied