Sky Striker Deck #754462 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Stun
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 8 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Sky Striker Ace link-monster chains (Raye, Zeke, Kagari, Zero, Camellia, Azalea) building a board that pressures and banishes or destroys opposing cards; Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon synchro pressure from the Extra Deck after Ecclesia access
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Sky Striker Mobilize - Linkage! or a Sky Striker Ace monster and search via Mobilize - Engage! or Ace - Kagari to reach a Link 2 Ace line; hand traps held for the opponent's response
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle and Ghost Ogre as hand-trap interaction to slow the opponent's first combo, then rebuild with Quick-Play Sky Striker spells and Ace monsters
• Recovery: Recycle Sky Striker spells from the GY through Ace - Kagari, Ace - Zero and Lemnisgate, and search with Ace - Zero or Shizuku
• After siding: No side deck is listed (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan to evaluate

Why it scores here

The deck's core is a Sky Striker link engine: 23 archetype-core copies give about a 94 percent chance of at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred), and the Extra Deck supplies 13 Link monsters that chain into one another. Its ceiling is credible from card text alone, since Mobilize, Lemnisgate and the Ace monsters can recycle spells from the GY and keep extending, but no recorded boards exist, so the median and ceiling are both Inferred. Interaction is dense, with 12 hand traps, 17 negation-text cards and 21 removal-text cards, yet several of those answers are over the copy limit or Forbidden, so the list as built cannot be played. The deck is Illegal (four Forbidden cards and four over-limit copies), so per the rubric the score is capped at 30 and is structural-only. Popularity was not credited: the archetype usage stats confirm the list is real, not that it is strong, and the score was not built by averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo profile (primary), no secondary blend applied. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 56, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 44. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-6); side_deck_empty (0). Final formula: Illegal deck: not a normal Final Contextual score. Pre-cap blend = 0.80*55 + 0.20*44 = 53.0; banlist modifier -6 gives 47; capped at 30 under rubric Step 2 (theoretical / structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · 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 Sky Striker core with about 94 percent core access in a 5-card hand (Inferred)
• Large Link Extra Deck (13 Links) with strong chaining and redundancy
• Layered hand traps and negations that cover the common going-second interruptions

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: four Forbidden cards and four over-limit copies make it unplayable as built
• No side deck, so no adaptation after game 1
• Low main-deck efficiency: 26 distinct names with 36 level-0 spells and traps

Critical choke points

• Sky Striker Mobilize - Linkage! (3 copies, about 0.25 in 5 cards) is the main starter and is a single-card gate for the first Ace
• Hand-trap dependence on Ash Blossom and Ghost Belle leaves the going-second line exposed if they are absent

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is Illegal: 8 violations listed in legality (4 Forbidden, 4 over copy limit); Main 55 and Extra 15 are within size rules for tcg; Archetype usage: 9 of 17 core cards present (52.9 percent); Side deck is empty (0 cards)
• Observed: Usage statistics show the Sky Striker core is widely used (58 to 88 percent inclusion for key Aces)
• Inferred: Archetype-core access of about 94 percent in 5 cards; Going-first and going-second estimates from hand composition and card text; Combo ceiling and median are text-only reads with no recorded boards
• Provisional: Meta power is null: no dated metagame sample supplied; Matchup and format fit (D13) is a neutral placeholder of 50
• 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 exists in YGOVN for going-first, going-second or matchup Meta power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck title is null, so the name is taken from the archetype only