Trickstar Deck #712415 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Toolbox
• Secondary strategies: Tempo, Mechanic: Link
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link Summon Sky Striker Ace and Trickstar Link monsters off Sky Striker Mobilize and Trickstar searches, then push damage with Link monsters (Inferred from card text); Recovering Sky Striker Ace monsters from the GY through Ace Link and Raye/Roze text (Inferred from card text)
• Turn 1 (going first): Search a Sky Striker or Trickstar monster, Link Summon an Ace, then extend through Mobilize and Light Stage (Inferred; no recorded boards)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Nibiru, Ghost Belle, Droll & Lock Bird and Forbidden Droplet to disrupt the opponent's board, then rebuild from the Sky Striker Ace searches (Inferred)
• Recovery: Ace monsters in the GY, Trickstar Reincarnation, and Sky Striker Ace searches (Inferred)
• After siding: None; the deck has an empty Side Deck and cannot adapt in a best-of-3 (Verified)

Why it scores here

The list is Illegal in OCG: five copy-limit or banlist violations, including two Forbidden cards (Called by the Grave and Triple Tactics Talent), so it receives a capped, theoretical score rather than a normal contextual one. Structurally, the deck's core Sky Striker and Trickstar searchers give it a reasonable chance of a live starter, with an archetype-core group probability of about 0.72 in the opening 5 (Inferred). The main deck is weakened by 20 tech and 8 hand-trap cards, 14 singletons, and only 12.9% exact-name archetype purity, which raises brick risk and lowers conversion. Combo evidence is absent, so conversion and floor scores rest on card text alone. Usage statistics confirm the list is a recognised variant, but popularity is not scored, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score. The base blend of 36 was reduced by an illegality modifier of -11 to give 25.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 37, Going First ≈ 33, Going Second ≈ 36, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 30. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-11). Final formula: Illegal cap: uncapped 0.80*Structural(37) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(30) = 36, reduced by the illegality modifier to 25 (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.72 · 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 searcher text (15 cards) gives a high chance of a live Sky Striker or Trickstar starter
• Full Link and Fusion Extra Deck with explicit Sky Striker Ace coverage
• Hand traps and negation give a going-second option

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy counts and two Forbidden cards
• Low exact-name archetype purity (12.9%) with 20 tech slots
• No side deck, so no post-side plan
• No recorded boards or win-rate data

Critical choke points

• Sky Striker Mobilize - Engage! and Super Polymerization are over the copy limit, so the legal version runs fewer searches and Fusion access
• Ace Link monsters depend on a Sky Striker or Trickstar starter being available

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0 against OCG size rules; Five copy-limit violations and two Forbidden cards, read from the ban field; Archetype-core inclusion and copy counts from usage statistics; Exact-name purity 12.9%, role-tag counts, Extra Deck breakdown
• Inferred: Starter access probability 0.72 for the archetype-core group; Brick and tech dead-card risk; Conversion, floor and ceiling estimates from card text; Going-first and going-second estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament data)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median, and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchup, or brick and starter rates Meta Power provisional without a dated metagame sample Deck title is null in the export