AC03-JP014 フォトン・デルタ・ウィング Photon Delta Wing Level 4 LIGHT Machine Effect Monster ATK 1800 DEF 900 (1) If this card is Normal Summoned: You can Special Summon 1 “Photon Delta Wing” from your hand or Deck in Defense Position, but you cannot Special Summon monsters for the rest of this turn, except LIGHT monsters. (2) Your opponent cannot declare attacks while you control another “Photon Delta Wing”. Translation from YGOrganization

My knowledge of rank 4's isn't very good, so mind telling me what you can instantly make with this?

Minerva, Exciton, Utopia Double, Light Dragon @ Ignister, any of usual photon/galaxy rank 4 monsters, Ptolemaeus, and others but those are the ones from the database that jump out at me the most.

Besides the usual Galaxy/photon lineup, there's Exciton Knightand also the Exosisters. Also LIGHT link monsters.

Sad thing is you can't even make the Galaxy link 2 since it requires a monster with 2k+ atk as a material. The new ~~link~~ rank 4 does boost their attack by 500 but that requires you to make it before your normal summon

Which link 4?

My bad, meant rank 4 with Galaxy Photon Dragon

Utopia Double otk?

The galaxy photon dragon rank 4 from PHHY

Interesting , but I feel like he has no place in my Galaxy deck , kinda usable if my opponent forced me to start first , but is there even a way to protect him? For a generic lvl 4 , Photons have better options in a Galaxy deck

Yeah. Can't use him to get out GEPD for Afterglow into 62>C62/107 assuming blast is gone and your opponent doesn't have anything to stop you from doing this If you had Blast and GalPho then you can protect him but it would be better to go for 90/38/Solfare instead than getting those 2 out without a normal imo. (Or if you somehow draw 3 orbitals) Galaxion could use him but again there's better options. If only it could SS itself if you didn't control anything like Thrasher and still let you SS the other copy.

its an instant galaxy photon dragon to then add galaxy hundred and send emperor to the grave to get a second normal summon u can use for things like wizard and continue combos

He isnt once per turn. Could use him twice with emp and recovering him from gy with galaxy eyes

Would have been way better if it had 2000 attack

Effective:

He's decent, having a 1 card starter def helps.

But he doesn't start anything. It makes galaxy photon dragon that searches 1 card. There is no combo from there, you need other cards (as always, with this deck).

Still better than nothing.

it's really not reduces the chance of them making actually good cards

Well thats a horribly unfun way to look at cards. This one isnt even bad

Unexpected. Hopefully this doesn't clear the chance of C105's retrain

Shouldnt we base the likelihood of that on fake number 1's set number? Like do we have a gap between that card and whatever extra deck monster is after it? Also by retrain do you mean like Leo utopia? Is there a scene or something that they could turn into a new card for 105?

There’s the duel against Yuma where it got equipped with Number 80 and Number C80, literally the exact same as Leo Utopia.

Yeah, Fake 1 would be better. I haven't followed the set spaces lately. And yes, Yuma vs Alito 3 had C105 equipped with 80 and C80

I wouldn’t hold out for it.

Animation Chronicle usually don’t do the retrain I think

Ultimate Leo Utopia Ray came from an Animation Chronicle

It’s as anime-ish as the Neos + Yubel fusion in my opinion. It keep the anime effect and design, and even has a summon animation in Duellinks, which is exclusive for anime cards

It shares that one with c39 doesn't it?

C105 equipped with C80

Oh… Good point

Honestly that sounds like a pipedream to me.

Wouldn't be impossible.

We got Leo Utopia, which is a kinda similar case, and the FA series too

With Delta Wing being printed, Anime Zexal Kaito is only missing [Photon Specter](https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Photon_Specter) now. Still have 3 remaining slots left, expecting Axel and Alito to get something here (and maybe Jack).

And a bunch of draw spells

Oh yeah for spell/trap, we are missing a bit. Personally want the field spell cause that card was gorgeous in the anime.

Will it search?

Konami will 100% change [the effect](https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Photon_World) when they print it. Given Photo/Galaxy does not have a field spell yet Konami should buff that card well.

I think thats it as far as Kaito is concerned. Though it is odd that Heartland is ahead of Kaito and Shark. Either way the first open slot has to be a GX/5Ds card and the 2nd could be 5Ds too. Hoping the last slot is an Zexal slot and will be an Alito trap or spell.

Does Anime ArcV Kaito have any unprinted stuff? They might lump them together

Arc V kite uses ciphers, a deck that's literal pack filler in terms of main deck with literally a single good card and literally incompatible with the photon stuff

and there's literally nothing stopping them from making it decent whilst tying it into other support at the same time

Making them good and tying them to photons to do not go hand in hand. Ciphers literally nome of the current cypher cards could be retrofitted into usefulness for a photon deck and at that point your not printing support, you're printing a while new deck/archetype.

Not really? Decks get redefined all the time. These 2 happen to have the same end goal. So bam 'Cipher Steve' special summon, search a Photon, slap down a galaxy, eat a number.

Yeah, redefined to give them their own identity, not subsume them into a bigger archetype for no reason. At that point you're not making cipher support, because the current cards remain unusable, you're making galaxy photon support with a veneer of cipher. Your cipher Steve for example does fuckall to actually enable ciphers, it exclusively enables photons. It doesn't even search **it's own archetype**. Also, the two decks don't even have the same goal, really. Ciphers are almost controlly I their playstyle, partly, yes, because of how slow the deck is, but also because the deck restricts itself from attacking a lot. Meanwhile photon galaxy is primarily OTK focused. Look, it's fine to make one or two cards that kinda tie the two archetypes together, but cipher need their own, exclusive support to make what they currently have work.

Cipher is also OTK focused, the game plan is to summon a cipher dragon xyz, steal an enemies monster then slap down Cipher Interference and swing for big damage.

It's more of a secondary plan, frankly, considering its literally only an OTK with Neo Cipher Dragon. Cipher eff preventing you from attacking directly with anything except themselves is horrible for actually OTKing, meanwhile it does make for a decent control loop as you convert your opponents monsters into your own (intended via rank up, realistically more via linking away).

3 cards are good. All xyzs and even then I usually have them in my side deck for other options which are much better for the first game.

Isn't this a really good starter for photons? Normal this, bring out another and immediately summon Galaxy Photon Dragon to search any card?

the light lock is rough for your end boards but it pretty solid

What part of the endboard isn't light?

Not being able to summon number 97 is very unfortunate

Why would I be going for 97 on my end board? Assuming I'm first, I want 90, 38, solflare if I can get a GEPD in hand and Blast if I can. Going second, I want to get 62/c62 out with Afterglow for the OTK.

To be fair, isn’t that only really an issue going second? I’m pretty sure Galaxys mostly summon light extra deck monsters going first.

Imagine thinking that being locked to Light attribute monsters is a bad thing for Galaxy/Photon. Say you don't play the deck without saying you don't play the deck lmao

Your locked out of Bagooska and Abyss Dweller it can be pretty rough to not be able to run them in some matchups

Don't they play 3 photon sanctuary which is similar but a spell?

That’s not a bad idea

That is... actually not bad for Photon. That's an instant Rank 4, which post-PHHY can mean Galaxy Photon Dragon which is an instant searcher. The Light lock is a bit annoying but overall, yeah, this is a good 2 of. Holy crap everyone, we've done it. **Photon finally has a starter!**

With Photon Jumper we already had a starter with Galaxy Hundred but it was not enough. This card seems very good and I can imagine there being some shenanigans because the summon effect is not HOPT and we can get an additional NS through Emperor. Also playing 3 is not bad either because you can play 1, tutor the second and easily recycle one with Solflare.

Yeah, it’s finally a good normal summon.

If it just didn't require normal summon :/ Deck already has 2 really strong normal summons as of summoner and wizard. Edit: you don't use wizard or summoner as starters obviously. You want to get to galaxy photon dragon without normal summoning for the best end board. You save your normal summons for wizard and summoner -> revive wizard.

Yeah a 1 card Galaxy Photon Dragon (which can search any Photon/Galaxy card, send any Photon/Galaxy card to the GY, or modify levels) is not as good as a starter that requires graveyard setup (Galaxy Summoner) or an additional normal summon (Galaxy Wizard) to work

I mean this eats 1 or your 2 normal summons. You get to the rank 4, that searches you 1 card, then what? You need other cards to pop off still. And in full combo you want to normal summoner and revive wizard for another search. This deck is so extremely reliant on its normal summons. If you need to burn 1 normal summon before getting to photon dragon, your end board is usually only 1 rank 8 xyz (number 90) and solflare, because you don't have enough searches to access more gas.

Yes that’s true but for your combo to work you need emperor on the field Delta Wing doesn’t 1. Summon Delta Wing 2. Activate Delta Wing’s effect 3. Summon 2nd Delta Wing 4. Overlay both Delta Wings for Galaxy Photon Dragon 5. Detach 1 Xyz material add Galaxy Hundred from your deck to your hand 6. Activate Galaxy Hundred to send Photon Emperor to the GY 7. Use Photon Emperor’s effect to revive itself and get a second normal summon 8. Summon Galaxy Summoner via Photon Emperor’s effect 9. Revive Photon Delta Wing 10. Activate Galaxy Photon Dragon effect to make Photon Delta Wing level 8 11. Overlay both Photon Photon Delta Wing and Photon Emperor into Galaxy Eyes Photon Lord And that’s not even including Galaxy Expedition and Galaxy Trance

And then what? That ends on solflare and number 90, same as any other way of getting to galaxy photon dragon with using normal summon (normal any lvl 4 + vanisher from hand). Also you have 2 photons under number 90 so it's negate does not destroy. Galaxy photon dragon almost always searches galaxy 100, if you already have that you go for soldier or wizard, or some kind of extender you don't have access to yet, or trance if you have target in gy.

Ok then, what happens when you don’t have Galaxy Hundred/Foolish Burial in your hand or you don’t have a way to send Photon Emperor to the graveyard

Then you don't play, same as even with this card. This deck has no 1 card combos.

So Photon/Galaxy players, how useful is this? Easy Rank 4 access seems usable since you can get into the small Galaxy dragons but idk what the deck really needed

They needed a starter. A bunch of their cards were extenders/dumpers and a quick way to get Galaxy Photon out is a nice way to help them start a duel

Would this not be a starter? It's a 1 card R4 which could get you searching with one of the Photon/Galaxy R4s, or are they not able to capitalize from there?

Yeah, it’s what I was talking about in my comment. They could use this to get out Galaxy Photon in one card, letting you search for another to get more plays

Gotcha, that's my mistake. Not enough caffeine in me yet

It's a starter that makes the r4 searcher. But it eats your normal summon for it, so you need other cards to play, since you can't search wizard unless you also open with a way to send emperor to gy for 2nd normal summon. I'm not sure if this has any place in the deck, since it's basically same end board as normal summon orbital -> special vanisher from hand etc. Aka it's not as usefull as you would think :/ Also it has below 2k attack, so it can't be used to make 1 card solflare or special GEPD from hand.

Personally I could see it replacing any Thrasher/advancers you might be using, but mostly as a backup. Gonna have to try it once it comes out to really say if it's better though. Also you can use it to make blast to get GEPD out or even Galaxion if you don't have one in hand

Not that useful , Galaxy doesn't have a lack of lvl 4's , for a Normal summon I'd rather get Galaxy Wizard or Galaxy Summoner , and Photon Vanisher is a special summon that searches Galaxy Eyes Photon Dragon , this card has no place in the deck unless in a niche situation if the opponent can't destroy one of the Deltas. What Galaxy needs would be more negates or board blocks (to be more annoying in other words) or some protection on the bosses , C62 was a good start by not being affected by monsters , but it's not enough.

Blast Dragon gives them a broad protection effect and you usually always get him out. Plus, Delta is a one-card Galaxy Photon Dragon, the Rank 4 searcher

Blast Dragon only protects monsters with 2k+ attack tho , need Galaxy Photon Dragon for that , bringing out Galaxy Photon Dragon , Photon Blast , and 2 lvl 4 monsters to use that effect uses too much resources and seems hard to bring out. Being a 1 card Galaxy Photon Dragon doesn't really give too much to the deck when it already doesn't have problems with lvl 4s

A majority of their Rank 8’s have 2k+ ATK, so it’s going to protect them almost always no matter what. And it isn’t that hard, to be honest. Galaxy Photon, Blast Dragon and C62 is the norm for me when playing the deck. Hell, sometimes I can even grab 90 as well for a negate and search if my OTK doesn’t kill them or if I have to go first. And never said they have problems with 4’s. Delta gives them the option to dip into the Deck for a second, allowing you to not have to use more cards just to get other 4’s for your two main Rank 4’s

Oh I misunderstood your comment , on that matter , Galaxy really has need for lvl4's support , Photon Blast can protect the the board but cannot protect himself , if he is somehow gone or negated (which happens often) there is no protection left, having extra protection on the boss monster would be sweet.

>Photon Thrasher is a special summon that searches Galaxy Eyes Photon Dragon No, it's Photon Vanisher that add the Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon.

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my friend play that deck, and as i see, its lack of end board if support lock light because light monster doesn't have good boss monster, cant access to bagooka or dweller, doesn't have good card that discard from hand to trigger jumper, also its lack of recovery, ect. The best play for deck now is mix with bystial so its becomes weaker dragon link ( 2 card combo with end board 1 sphere 1 no90 , have branded beast , hand take back one starter via solflare( can be galaxy summoner) ) but doing that really cost a leg for 3 lubellion

Your friend must be playing the deck wrong then. I play it and your end goal is to get C62 with a Galaxy Photon and Afterglow attached, or have Afterglow attach a Photon Dragon, along with Blast Dragon for protection and any other hard hitters you can make (I can usually get 3-4 Xyz out including them). Jumper and Emperor are the two cards you always dump, thanks to Jumper’s search and Emperor’s self-summon (this can be done with Galaxy Hundred, as it sends any Photon or Galaxy card). Galaxy Photon Dragon is usually the Rank you go into immediately due to its search, which Delta Wing lets you get out easily. Your friend isn’t playing the deck correctly if they’re having trouble doing most of this because I can do this and more very consistently. Again, their end goal became C62 for an immediate OTK thanks to its massive ATK gain and self-immunity

Yugioh players: This Photon support is good but not what the deck needs. The deck needs a good starter. Photons: *gets a good starter* Yugioh players: This Photon support is good but not what the deck needs. My opponent can easily negate this card's summon or destroy it before it can get its effect off unlike other card's in this game, therefore it's not good nor worth playing. Never change yugioh community. Never change.

Eh my main issue with it is that it's not 2k :v

TBH if it could either SS itself when nothing is on your field like thrasher while keeping the summon additional copy effect or if it had 2K atk it would have been good. (And if it had both it would likely have been used in every Galaxy/Photon deck) We already have stuff that wants to be normaled that are better in Wizard and Summoner even if we have a 2nd normal in emperor.

Translated: "The card doesn't single handedly do everything a single card needs for this deck, therefore it isn't good."

Not that I'm complaining, but I expected some of Mr. Heartland's cards printed. We got Fake Number 1, sure. But we need other cards from his Infection deck

One of Kaninja's main deck monsters might be here instead, since Konami did print the spell "Ninjitsu Art of Mosquito Marching" last year but none of the main deck monsters for some reason.

Konami isn't doing a good job with Animation Chronicles for some reasons. I hope they start to print anime cards in core sets, like how they did with Dark World Corridor

Agreee, especially if they are doing more reprints in Animation Chronicles from now on. If this year there are more slots Konami could easily print Zarc's spells/traps here.

Don’t forget about Spirt Mask for Ancient Treasures, Geo Gremlina, Cobal, Strength/Hanged Man for Arcana Force, and Photon Specter

Hopefully they do it for anime cards that doesn't look like they got forced out of this year's pack because of the stupid reprints.

Maybe they could print those with Heart monster archetype he used in the manga in Premium Pack 2024. They could make them work as a both Rank 4-8 main deck to get both of his anime and manga boss monsters.

His infection deck was just 1 monster and random STs. There is no way they can make a strategy out of that.

Konami can do everything if they want. They could make the main deck monser search the Infection spells/traps and boost the burn damage, for example

Lol, having Photon and Infection cards sat side by side in this Set tickles me considering that Kite and Heartland hated each others guts. Still holding out hope that 012 is either a Mosquito card or Infection Fly. Given that we just had the Fire Duelist Pack, I wouldn't be surprised if 006 is an Axel card and 016 is an Alito card for cross media promotion.

I was surprised we got a OCG Twitter reveal on a Saturday. Than I checked and saw that AC2023 comes out the end of this coming week. :o Can probably expect misc. reveals for at least once a day from now until Wednesday. Anyway. Simple, nice little card. I know the Deck would have loved to have had this back during the ZEXAL-era. (So back when it wasn't really a "Deck" so much as a bunch of cards Kite happened to have used once or twice.) Maybe one day we can get Photon Trade and Photon Sublimation. (Not gonna lie, as a Cipher fan, I'd love those to be included in those Spells if/when they ever get made. Here's to them being that generous when the time comes.)

Happy to see this finally printed. Always thought it was cool. Also, isn't this card a starter for Galaxy/Photon, which is what they needed for the deck?

I imagine 012 will be Infection Fly, which Heartland played. 016 I would expect to be an Alito card since I believe he still has some anime-only S/T. But I could see it being some Number C support, since Vector is probably coming to Duel Links before the next Duelist Chronicles and there is almost nothing good to give away in his event. 006 will probably be either the Wheel Tuner or some GX card. And if it is a GX card, a Volcanic Trap would make the most sense.

Or Bonfire.

Hmm 1 card galaxy photon dragon, but it eats normal summon, so you can't search wizard and pop off.. Not sure what you can do with this.

Nice! Great to see Photon Delta Wing finally getting printed.

We are waiting for two more card now?

There are three, actually.

One for GX (Super fusion god please) one for Zexal and what one?

Last one is between Armored Xyz (ZEXAL) and Earthbound Prisoner Ground Keeper (ARC-V). It could be either one but it being ZEXAL is more likely, specifically Battlin' Boxer support. For ARC-V, I have no idea what it could be.

Oh okay i didn't saw it! I hope Number 1 Infection Buez King support !

Buzz* Thank you 😁

There is one spot right before Buzz King and it is probably Infection Fly. Character cards are placed right next to each other so the other card I mentioned is most likely to be something else.

Okay, so idk either but i'm curious to see it (but i'm more excited to see the GX's one)

Okay now we get Delta Wing which is cool since it's a 1 card starter. I hope that they also print the 1 card XYZ Spell in the future.

So this puts cards on the field and can act like a Walmart Watthopper. It’s got no place in Galaxy decks, but someone might find a cheese strat with it.

Photon players: WAA WE NEED A STARTER Photons get a starter Photon players: WAA THIS STARTER USES THE NS like buddy this isnt cydras be happy

could be good on stellarknight?

New tellar support?

It's not bad for a starter. Even if it gets handtrapped, it's still a Photon monster on the field for more plays, definitely something to test out at least. The Light lock kinda blows, especially if you want to use Galaxy Hundred to summon your opponent's Number, but I'm not crying over it.

Yay, more Exosister support, this card is going to be a huge boost to the consistency of the deck

Won't this turn off Martha?

I double checked now, you are right, I forgot it is for the whole turn and not just after her summon. This does peg it down a lot but it is still worth experimenting with imho. One of the biggest weaknesses with the deck in my experience is that you can start with a hand that does not allow you to xyz summon, having another martha like card(albeit much weaker) could help greatly with the consistency of the deck.

That's why 2 Aratama and 2 Sakitama is a thing

I hooe this is the last reveal of AC3 and they continue with AGOV tomorrow, there are only 3 cards left now in this set iirc

No, we will get the rest of AC03 at least until next week because the product will be released next week. We won't be getting any AGOV reveals just yet, not until we have the article about Super Future Fusion first and Jack's SD first.

>we will get the rest of AC03 at least until next week because the product will be released next week. yeah but with the other sets they also usually keep a few cards unrevealed till release so I thought this would be the same

Yeah, but still no AGOV reveals yet. Not until Super Future Fusion's effect being revealed and another article for Pulse of the King.

They will reveal SFF effect when AC06 will be revealed as Super Fusion God

If the set wasnt so small, I would agree with you on saving some surprises.

First of all, this is RDA erasure. Second of all, pretty sure those start Wednesday Night.

I thought all RDA cards were revealed already? >Second of all, pretty sure those start Wednesday Night. good to know

No, they're 1 or 2 more I've been told.

"Okay, what if we gave Photons their own Solar Flare Dragon?" "By god, Kevin. You're a genius!"

Back to photon again?

There's one more slot left, what are the odds of getting a watered-down XYZ Treasure?

I don't think there's much of a way to nerf that card while letting it be playable.

Maybe put a cap on it at 2 cards max, and restrict special summons to xyz for the turn?

It will probably limit your side while wanting your opponent to use XYZ.

Not impossible, per se, but I wouldn't bet on it.

May I ask, is it typical for photon/galaxy to get support this often? I'm a casual player and often just maintain the decks I have blue/galaxy/buster/watt but didn't we just get support for the archetype less than 6 months ago?

animation chronicle prints cards that have been used on the show in the past. sometimes its random, or sometimes they will print cards that they know complement decks that recently received new support

Yes, it is a fan favorite archetype

Sort of, but it is animation Chronicles, and Photon was an Archetype in technically 2 different Yu-Gi-Oh! Anime’s. Animation Chronicles just typically prints all the cards in the show that didn’t get printed.

I saw the art, and I thought they were trying to remake Gradius and had his friends

so opening combos can get a one card rank 4 with a normal summon i like it as a hard core galaxy photon player then once jumper come the deck will keep getting toys along with the new rank 8 thats basic diabliosis at home the galaxy deck will really be mean and can possibly rip 2 extra deck monster from ur opponents and end on some decent boards itself

If I had a dollar for every time Animation Chronicle released a plane-themed Light Machine for an archetype Kite used, I'd have two dollars. Which isn't much, but it's wierd that it happened twice.