Trickstar Deck #707285 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Sky Striker Ace link-summon chain ending in Ace Link Monsters and direct damage (Inferred from card text; no combo boards recorded); Trickstar and Blue Tears follow-up, plus negation and removal to clear the opponent's board
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Trickstar Light Stage or Sky Striker Mobilize - Engage! to search an engine piece, then link into Sky Striker Ace monsters (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Forbidden Droplet, Forbidden Crown, Lightning Storm and hand traps to answer the opponent's board, then rebuild through Sky Striker Ace - Raye and Roze (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recover through Trickstar Reincarnation and Sky Striker Mecha - Widow Anchor, plus Sky Striker Special Maneuver - Lemnisgate! from the GY (Inferred)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has 0 Side Deck cards and no post-side data exists

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal in OCG: five copy-limit or Forbidden violations, so it receives a capped structural-only score rather than a normal contextual score. Its Sky Striker and Trickstar engines have a 0.81 hypergeometric chance of at least one searcher in the opening 5 cards, which supports a moderate consistency read (Inferred). Interaction is dense, with 8 hand traps, 15 negation-text cards and 14 removal-text cards, which lifts the endboard interaction score. Floor and median output cannot be measured because no combos were supplied, and 20 tech cards and a 12.9% exact-archetype purity lower the brick and efficiency reads. The score comes from consistency, interaction and Extra Deck coverage on the system, not from averaging card scores or from Trickstar's popularity, and there is no side deck and no meta data.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Balanced. Structural ≈ 48, Going First ≈ 46, Going Second ≈ 47, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist_exposure_illegal (-10). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); Illegal cap applied, so the final is theoretical/structural-only: 0.80*48 + 0.20*35 = 45.4, less 10 banlist/illegality modifier = 35

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.81 · 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

• Dense interaction package: 8 hand traps, 15 negation-text cards and 14 removal-text cards
• Strong searcher density (15 cards; ~0.81 chance of at least one in opening 5)
• Extra Deck is full and split between Link and Fusion, giving Link coverage for both engines

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: three copy-limit overages and two Forbidden cards
• Large off-archetype spread (61 of 70 archetype-coded copies are off-name), so engines conflict
• 20 tech cards and 40 Spells make the deck clunky and brick-prone
• No side deck, so no post-side plan

Critical choke points

• Sky Striker Ace link chain depends on Spell count in the GY, so early Spell use slows the engine
• Forbidden cards cannot be played in a legal event, so the deck's plan collapses without them

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Illegal; five violations listed (3 copy-limit, 2 Forbidden); Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0 against OCG size rules; Card text for Sky Striker, Trickstar, Blue Tears, and Forbidden engine pieces
• Observed: Composition: 12 Link + 3 Fusion Extra Deck; 40 Spells; 20 tech cards; Usage: Trickstar Candina, Light Stage and Droll & Lock Bird are core cards (inclusion 75-100%)
• Inferred: Opening-hand consistency: ~0.81 searcher in opening 5; ~0.72 core-archetype access; Interaction density read from card text; Going-first and going-second plans from card text
• Provisional: Meta power (no dated sample); Matchup fit and format share (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied; floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent no win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter/OTK rates) Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Side Deck is empty, so post-side is unevaluable