Photon/Galaxy: Rank 8 Spam

[Zextra]

So, with the release of the Zexal Collection Tin 2013 being less than a week off, this deck might become playable very soon, and it will likely be one of my primary casual decks.

 

Comments and suggestions are much appreciated.

 

 

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inb4 "Random Tricky is random".

But seriously, I don't know what he's doing there...

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[evilfusion]

3 Galaxy Knights...excessive. It takes up your turn's Normal Summon, and you need a Galaxy-Eyes in the Grave to make it worthwhile, and you need a Photon/Galaxy on the Field to Normal Summon it this way. With all the high Level monsters in your Deck already, this will clog badly. Wizard can already search Knight if you need it THAT badly.

 

3 Galaxy-Eyes is acceptable if the Deck relies on it as its primary ace. But this Deck doesn't to the extent that it should, giving WAY too many options for clogging. Amusingly, my current Photon/Galaxy Deck only runs 2 and finds that it clogs at times. I imagine your Deck would be enduring hell.

 

3 Cyber Dragon...um...why? You don't run other Level 5s outside of Thrasher + Satellite or the random Tricky. Sure, it's LIGHT and 2100 ATK, but it's genuinely mediocre in a Photon/Galaxy Deck because it lacks synergy with the entire rest of the Deck. Maybe if you were running Photon Slayer... (PS: Don't run Photon Slayer).

 

This Deck lacks Honest.

 

3 Photon Caesar are fine, but look awful next to 3 Galaxy-Eyes and 3 Galaxy Knights. You're running 9 Level 8 monsters that all lack a REAL easy way to Summon them or use them to their fullest. You're either going to clog like hell and get crushed, or you'll get a lot of the combo pieces (Trade-In, Sanctuary, etc) and nothing to do with them.

 

Photon Lead...ugh...are you trying to clog on purpose? Photon Lead has 2 targets in this Deck: Satellite and Wizard. While they're good targets, Lead is already a -1 and will not help a Deck that struggles to maintain card advantage, and this Deck looks like it'll clog bad enough without potentially dead draw -1s that only serve a use early game.

 

For that matter, Tricky becomes bad because it's a -1. Sure, you can ditch one of your useless cards, but...the whole advantage of Photon Sanctuary is to minimize the loss in resources due to how Photon/Galaxy have trouble maintaining advantage.

 

Your Deck lacks Dark Hole.

 

3 Trade-In is iffy. You NEED 3 because you're running 9 Level 8 monsters. But you shouldn't need that many because you shouldn't be running so many dead-draw Level 8 monsters.

 

2 Galaxy Expedition is fine here, because you run an absurd number of high Level Photon/Galaxy monsters. But it dead draws often, and with 2, your problems may be worse.

 

Galaxy Zero is amazing.

 

Foolish Burial is a -1, and while it's an amazing card, it cannot possibly help you enough to justify it. You have almost no options in this Deck, and no way to capitalize on sending key cards to the Graveyard. With the exception of Galaxy-Eyes, most of them don't WANT to be in the Graveyard, but rather be in your hand or Deck.

 

You're running 2 Xyz Reborn. These cards dead-draw by default as you need to have Xyz Summoned already, and your Xyz needs to have been sent to the Graveyard. Even if this is easy to do, only under certain situations is Xyz Reborn considered an epic card. Your Deck doesn't accomplish this situation easily or frequently enough.

 

And those are your only Traps. You literally have no method of defense. You will undoubtedly be screwed over again and again by this Deck's build. If you can't pull off amazing combos within 2 turns, you have almost no hope of winning. And you run so many cards that will be unable to do anything without other specific cards, and if they combo together, they eat up your resources with no method of compensation.

 

I can already see typical opening hands of Photon Satellite, Cyber Dragon, Photon Caesar, Galaxy-Eyes, Xyz Reborn, and Photon Lead. And that's still an acceptable hand because you can SS Cyber, use Lead for Satellite, Tribute both for Caesar, SS another, Xyz a Rank 8, and set Xyz Reborn. You're still screwed if they can kill your Rank 8 and/or open MST. Your combos use up too many resources.

[Zextra]

Wow, I can't believe I don't have Dark Hole in there...

 

And yeah, I know it's more or less a mess - it's no as cloggy as it seems, though, and surprisingly, it tests pretty well (and the situation in my signature happens more than you would think). Nevertheless, I know that it shouldn't be the case and thus I should scrap it and redo it completely.

 

I do want to run Xyz Reborns, though, since being able to revive a Dyson or a Neo Galaxy-Eyes is pretty fun.

[Judαs]

I am testing this deck, and Cyber Dragon really doesn't fit for me, and rarely do I get the chance to make a Rank 5. :( Otherwise it seems very good, and it's very easy to make Neo-Dragon. Also why don't you have Tachyon in extra?

 

EDIT: Oh evilfusion pretty much said the rest.

[Zextra]

I am testing this deck, and Cyber Dragon really doesn't fit for me, and rarely do I get the chance to make a Rank 5. :( Otherwise it seems very good, and it's very easy to make Neo-Dragon. Also why don't you have Tachyon in extra?

Yeah, I'm getting rid of them - I don't know what made me run it in the first place, really.

As for why it doesn't have Tachyon, that's due to this build being from September last year :p

EDIT: Does it look any better?

[evilfusion]

Looks quite a bit better.

 

You can keep a Rank 5 in the Extra if you still use Satellite, due to Thrasher + Satellite.

 

Not really fond of Xyz Reborn still, but it can do well. I'd maybe run 1 maximum, though.

[Zextra]

I think that sounds fine - I'll cut Xyz Reborn to 1. As for the Rank 5s, I'll add them in.