Sky Striker Deck #736396 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 68/100 (±5 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Control
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox
• 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 win via direct attacks or opponent board removal; Alternate win through Fusion/XYZ heavy board or mass spell recycling
• Turn 1 (going first): Set hand traps, use Sky Striker Mobilize – Engage! to fetch a Sky Striker spell, then activate a Linkage! or Widow Anchor to summon an Ace link and start controlling the field
• Turn 2 (going second): Deploy hand traps (Infinite Impermanence, Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird) to disrupt opponent, then summon a Sky Striker Ace link and attack directly or use board‑breakers like Lightning Storm
• Recovery: Recycle spells from the GY with Forbidden Droplet and Sky Striker effects, generate tokens with Hornet Drones, and use searchers (Reinforcement of the Army, Triple Tactics Thrust) to refill resources
• After siding: No side deck; rely on in‑deck tech and flexible extra‑deck options to adapt after side changes

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens with at least one Sky Striker core card (≈99.7% chance) and a hand trap, giving a solid T1 plan of setting disruption and fetching a Sky Striker spell. Its many negation and removal tools let it convert that plan into board control and direct‑attack pressure, while resource‑recycling effects keep the engine running across turns. Redundancy is high thanks to multiple hand traps and several alternate Ace link summons, but the lack of a side deck and the low archetype purity reduce overall efficiency and matchup certainty.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Control. Structural ≈ 69.33, Going First ≈ 70, Going Second ≈ 80, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 65. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 1 · 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 consistency of core engine presence
• Extensive hand‑trap and negation suite
• Strong board‑control and resource‑recycling tools
• Flexible extra‑deck with many Sky Striker links

Weaknesses

• No side deck limits adaptability
• Low archetype purity; many off‑archetype tech cards increase variance
• Missing several staple Sky Striker links (Camellia, Azalea, Zeke, etc.)
• No concrete combo data; ceiling relies on inference

Critical choke points

• Absence of Sky Striker Ace – Camellia reduces extra‑deck consistency
• Reliance on hand‑trap setup; a hand without traps can brick the turn‑1 plan

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality status Legal; Card copy limits match banlist; Probabilities table values
• Observed: Role tag counts (hand trap 11, tech 21, negation 17, removal 17); Extra deck breakdown (12 links, 2 fusion, 1 xyz); Archetype purity percentages
• Inferred: Engine accessibility based on core group probability; Brick estimate from core group none probability; Combo ceiling and floor from deck design; Resource economy from spell count and recycling effects; Interaction quality from negation/removal tag counts; Going‑second board‑break power from hand‑trap density and board‑breakers; Offensive closing power from link monster ATK and direct attack abilities; Main deck efficiency from purity and distinct count; Extra deck efficiency from coverage of Sky Striker links; Pilotability from number of tech cards
• Provisional: Matchup coverage and meta power lack tournament data
• 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