Galaxy Photon Deck #775154 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 50/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Rank 8/9 Xyz beaters from the 15-card Extra Deck (Number C62 Neo, Galaxy-Eyes Full Armor, Number 107, Galaxy-Eyes Afterglow, Number S38) built from Photon/Galaxy and Galaxy-Eyes material; Galaxy Photon Dragon and Photon Delta Wing / Galaxy Soldier bodies that turn Level 4 and Level 8 material into an Xyz on turn 2
• Turn 1 (going first): Search or Special Summon a Level 4 Photon/Galaxy body (Galaxy Soldier, Photon Delta Wing, Galaxy Summoner) and convert it into a Rank 4 or Rank 8 Xyz; Galaxy Expedition and Accellight supply a second body
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ghost Belle, Ghost Mourner, Tachyon Transmigration or Forbidden Droplet to answer the opponent's first play, then rebuild a Galaxy-Eyes Xyz from the GY with Galaxy Cleric / Galaxy Photon Dragon recursion
• Recovery: Galaxy Summoner and Galaxy Cleric shuffle GY Photon/Galaxy cards back into the Deck to draw 2; Galactic Charity adds draw when a Galaxy Xyz is on field
• After siding: None: the deck runs an empty Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan in the evidence

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Level 4 or Level 8 body through its 10 searcher-text cards (about 65% at least one in a 5-card opening hand, Inferred), but each individual starter is only about 25% per opening hand at three copies, so the first-turn engine is not dependable. Its ceiling comes from a 15-card Xyz Extra Deck with several 3000-4000 ATK finishers and about 15 negation/removal-text cards, which lift interaction and closing power. The median is weaker: no recorded boards exist, the Main Deck carries 28 distinct cards including off-plan Dark Hole, Forbidden Droplet and Ghost support, and only 4 of 12 archetype core cards are present. Popularity of Galaxy Photon in the usage data confirms the list is real, but it did not earn points by itself, and the score was built from the system rather than an average of card scores. The empty Side Deck and missing combo data hold the score in the middle band.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: archetype purity / bloat (-3); no side deck (-2); interaction density (1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional); 0.80*55.1 + 0.20*48 - 4 = 49.7 -> 50

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

• Searcher density (10 searcher-text cards) gives about 65% chance of a Level 4/8 starter in the opening 5
• Extra Deck Xyz finishers at 3000-4000 ATK with real closing power
• Layered negation and removal text (15 negation, 16 removal) across Main and Extra
• Legal in OCG with all cards at 3 legal copies; no banlist exposure

Weaknesses

• Only 4 of 12 archetype core cards present; the 4000-ATK and Number 38/90 core Xyz are absent
• Off-plan tech (Dark Hole, Forbidden Droplet, Ghost support) dilutes the Main Deck
• Empty Side Deck gives no post-side adaptability
• No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median are text-only

Critical choke points

• Every Rank 4 and Rank 8 Xyz needs Level 4 or Level 8 material; a 3-copy starter appears in only about 25% of opening hands
• Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon exists only as 2 copies in the Main Deck, so the Galaxy-Eyes Xyz line depends on a single small card pool

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 within OCG size rules; no violations; All 28 Main and 15 Extra distinct cards are at Unlimited with 3 legal copies; Usage stats: 4 of 12 archetype core cards present (33.3%); Hypergeometric draw odds from the resolved list
• Inferred: Consistency (D1/D2) read from draw odds and card text; Interaction quality (D7) from negation and removal text; Ceiling and going-second read from Extra Deck and card text
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit (no dated metagame sample)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied; combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent no win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) Side Deck is empty, so post-side performance cannot be assessed Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample