Sky Striker Deck #736342 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 61/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Control
• Secondary strategies: Combo
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Control the board with Sky Striker Ace link monsters and chip damage via direct attacks
• Turn 1 (going first): Use Sky Striker Mobilize - Linkage! or Engage! to summon a Sky Striker Ace link, recycle spells with Lemnisgate! and apply continuous negation/control
• Turn 2 (going second): Set up hand traps (Infinite Impermanence, Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, etc.), draw with Upstart Goblin, then use board‑wipes and link summons to seize advantage
• Recovery: Recycle spells via Sky Striker Mecha - Lemnisgate! and Forbidden Droplet, re‑summon Ace links, and re‑establish engine after disruption
• After siding: No side deck; rely on hand‑trap flexibility and extra‑deck options to adapt after side

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens its engine about half the time thanks to multiple starter spells, then converts that into a Sky Striker Ace link and a cascade of spell recycling and negation. Hand‑trap density and tech cards give it solid resilience to disruption, while the extra‑deck provides versatile win‑conditions. However, the large 55‑card main deck and low exact‑archetype purity limit consistency, and the absence of a side deck reduces adaptability. Overall the system scores modestly across consistency, interaction and resource loops, yielding a contextual power around 61.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Control. Structural ≈ 61, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 68, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: Large main deck size (-4); Low exact‑archetype purity (-3); Missing key Sky Striker Ace links (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.44 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Very high chance to have at least one core Sky Striker card in opening hand
• Extensive hand‑trap suite for disruption control
• Strong spell recycling loops via Lemnisgate! and Forbidden Droplet
• Versatile extra‑deck with many Link options

Weaknesses

• Large 55‑card main deck reduces consistency
• Low exact‑archetype purity introduces off‑archetype variance
• No side deck limits post‑side adaptability
• Missing several staple Sky Striker Ace links (Camellia, Azalea, Zeke, etc.)

Critical choke points

• Need a starter (Linkage! or Engage!) in opening hand to launch engine
• Many effects require 3+ spells in GY, creating a resource bottleneck
• Absence of side deck prevents targeted matchup adjustments

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: core group appears in hand 99.7% (probabilities); role counts hand trap 11, tech 21, negation_text 17, removal_text 17; Extra Deck breakdown 12 links, 2 fusion, 1 xyz; side deck count 0
• Inferred: starter probability ~0.44 (5‑card hand) and ~0.51 (6‑card hand); monster proportion 29% reduces brick risk; combo ceiling potential from Linkage! + Lemnisgate! chain; median output modest (single Ace link); hand‑trap density gives resilience; spell recycling loops provide resource economy; board‑wipe suite gives going‑second power; link monster ATK values give offensive pressure; large deck size and low purity lower efficiency; extra deck saturation with situational links; complex sequencing raises pilot error tolerance
• Provisional: no tournament data; archetype meta‑share unavailable
• 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