Forbidden Deck #448700 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Control, Toolbox
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link-summon Sky Striker Ace monsters (Kagari, Shizuku, Hayate, Kaina, Zeke, Camellia) and attack or sweep the board with the Ace link monsters and Super Starslayer TY-PHON - Sky Crisis.; Accesscode Talker and TY-PHON as large-body closers once the board is cleared with Raigeki, Lightning Storm or Harpie's Feather Duster.
• Turn 1 (going first): Turn 1: Sky Striker Mobilize - Engage! or Sky Striker Airspace - Area Zero to find a Sky Striker card, then use Sky Striker Ace - Raye or Widow Anchor to start a Link line through the Extra Deck Ace links.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Called by the Grave (if legal), Forbidden Droplet and Evenly Matched to answer the opponent's first board, then convert with Raigeki or Lightning Storm into a link line.
• Recovery: Recover spells from the GY with Sky Striker Mecha Modules - Multirole and Sky Striker Ace - Kagari's spell search, then rebuild the link line from the Deck.
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; sideboarding is not evaluated.

Why it scores here

This list is illegal: two copies of Called by the Grave are run where the format allows none, so the score is a theoretical, structural-only cap and not a normal final rating. Structurally the deck is a Sky Striker link engine that can reach strong Extra Deck boards through Raye, Widow Anchor and the Mobilize spells, and it has good interaction density from Raigeki, Lightning Storm, Harpie's Feather Duster, Forbidden Droplet and Evenly Matched. The main weakness is brick risk: with only four main-deck monsters in 40 cards, roughly 43% of opening five-card hands contain no monster, and about 49% of six-card hands on the second turn, so the engine depends on spell chains that often stall. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points, and the score was built from the system's consistency, interaction, and closing power, not by averaging individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 47, Going First ≈ 48, Going Second ≈ 48, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: Illegal copy limit (-6); Banlist exposure (-4); Hard-garnet / brick burden (-2). Final formula: Illegal: theoretical cap applied. Structural 47 and Tournament Reliability 35 give 0.80*47 + 0.20*35 = 44.6 before modifiers; modifiers of -12 bring it to about 33, capped at 30 because the deck is illegal. Meta provisional.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.34 · 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

• Strong removal and negation package (Raigeki, Lightning Storm, Harpie's Feather Duster, Droplet, Called by the Grave)
• Extra Deck covers Sky Striker Ace links with 1500 ATK plus TY-PHON and Accesscode Talker for closing power
• Multiple searchers and GY-spell recursion support recovery

Weaknesses

• Only four main-deck monsters, so about 43% of opening hands have no monster
• Illegal copy count on Called by the Grave
• No side deck registered, so there is no best-of-3 adaptability

Critical choke points

• Starter Sky Striker monster (Raye or Widow Anchor) required before most Link lines
• Negation-dependent turns that fail if the opponent responds to the Spell chain

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is Illegal: Called by the Grave runs 2 copies against a limit of 0; Sizes 40 main / 15 extra / 0 side are within limits; Limited cards Harpie's Feather Duster, Reinforcement of the Army and Hornet Drones run 1 copy each (legal); Card stats and text from the evidence pack
• Inferred: Brick rate from hypergeometric draws of 4 main monsters; Interaction density and closing power read from card text; Ceiling and median from card text only, since no recorded boards exist
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit (no dated metagame sample or tournament link); Post-side plan (no side deck)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no side deck registered usage statistics show no core cards present in this list