Galaxy Photon Deck #774813 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 56/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Xyz
• Format: ocg

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Level-8 LIGHT Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon Xyz line into Number 62 / Number C62 / Neo Galaxy-Eyes Photon Howling 4000-4500 ATK bosses; Galaxy Photon Dragon and Galaxy-Eyes Solflare Dragon pressure, with Photon Trident adding piercing damage
• Turn 1 (going first): T1 starter via Galaxy Soldier, Galaxy Wizard or Photon Delta Wing to reach a level-8 LIGHT monster, then Xyz into a boss while holding hand traps for the opponent's first answer
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Maxx C and Droll & Lock Bird to answer the opponent's board, then Xyz from the surviving Galaxy/Photon monsters
• Recovery: Recur Photon Emperor, Photon Orbital and Photon Jumper from the GY, use Galaxy-Eyes Afterglow Dragon, and rebuild a level-8 monster with Galaxy Summoner or Galaxy Trance
• After siding: None: side_count is 0, so the deck has no post-side plan in best-of-3

Why it scores here

The deck's consistency comes from several overlapping starters: Galaxy Soldier, Galaxy Wizard, Galaxy Hundred and Photon Delta Wing all reach level-8 LIGHT monsters, and a searcher-text card is in at least one opening hand about 80% of the time (Inferred). Its ceiling is set by the Extra Deck, which holds 13 Xyz and 2 Link monsters including multiple 4000+ ATK bosses, and the value of the lines is in the Xyz engine, not in the average strength of the 56 Main Deck cards. Interaction is layered across hand traps, Mind Mirror Force, the Dominus trap package and Photon Stream of Destruction, which gives the deck real resilience once the engine is live (Inferred). It loses points for 25 non-monster Level-0 cards that create bricks, an 8-card Dominus package that does not feed the main engine, an empty Side Deck that leaves no post-side plan, and a complex Xyz sequence that is hard to pilot consistently. No meta-share or tournament result was used, and the score does not come from the deck's popularity or from averaging the individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: 70% Combo / 30% Toolbox; meta-neutral, D13 dropped and weights renormalized over 96.4. Structural ≈ 64, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-1); engine conflict (-2); no side deck (-2); engine compactness (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural(meta-neutral, D13 dropped) + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*64.1 + 0.20*52 - 6 = 55.7, rounded to 56

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.8 · 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

• Several independent level-8 starters plus a searcher-text card in about 80% of 5-card hands (Inferred)
• Extra Deck with 13 Xyz and 2 Link monsters, including 4000+ ATK bosses, and duplicate copies of the key Galaxy/Photon Xyz lines (Verified)
• Layered interaction: hand traps, Mind Mirror Force, Dominus traps, Photon Stream of Destruction (Inferred)
• Legal list with restricted cards at their legal copy counts (Verified)

Weaknesses

• 25 Level-0 spell and trap cards in the Main Deck create brick and dead-draw risk (Inferred)
• The Dominus package and Mind Mirror Force do not feed the main engine (Inferred)
• Side Deck is empty, so there is no post-side plan (Verified)
• No recorded boards, so the ceiling and median are text-only inference (Inferred)

Critical choke points

• Level-8 LIGHT monster needed for Xyz; Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon has 3 copies, P(at least 1 in a 5-card hand) about 0.25
• Hand-trap dependency at going second: P(at least 1 in a 6-card hand) about 0.51
• Xyz Summon of the boss depends on the opponent not answering the starter

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 56 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side; all restricted cards at or below legal copy counts; Card text and copy counts from the resolved deck list; Extra Deck composition (13 Xyz, 2 Link); Usage statistics: archetype core inclusion rates
• Inferred: Hypergeometric consistency estimates (P of at least 1 starter, searcher group, hand-trap group); Brick-rate and going-second estimates from composition; Combo ceiling and floor from card text only (no boards); Interaction quality from card text (interaction_density not supplied); Pilotability from Xyz sequence complexity
• Provisional: Meta Power and D13 matchup fit: no dated metagame sample and no tournament link
• 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 and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Data inconsistency: usage_statistics marks Number 38 (63767246), Number 90 (8165596), Full Armor Photon Dragon (39030163), Number C62 (48348921), Number 107 (88177324) and Dragluxion (44698398) as not in this deck (in_this_deck false, missing_core), but the resolved card list has each as zone extra, copies 1. The card list was used; all 12 archetype-core cards are therefore treated as present, and missing_core should be re-checked upstream No side deck present, so side-deck adaptability cannot be assessed beyond the empty list