Sky Striker Deck #756687 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 7 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link-summon chain of Sky Striker Ace monsters into a large Link board, with Sky Striker Mobilize searches supplying Ace spells and monsters.; Hand-trap disruption (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Ghost Belle, Droll, D.D. Crow, Evenly Matched) plus Mulcharmy card draw to win the attrition game.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a Sky Striker Mobilize (Linkage or Engage) to search a Sky Striker card, then Normal Summon Raye or a Mulcharmy and Link-summon an Ace (Zero, Kagari, Camellia, Azalea) for board and recursion.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Ash, Ghost Ogre, Droll, D.D. Crow) to stop the opponent's first summon, then rebuild through Mulcharmy draw and Ace Link monsters.
• Recovery: Recover Sky Striker spells from the GY through Shizuku, Kagari and Zero search effects, and use Pot of Desires or Pot of Sloth for card advantage.
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so no post-side plan can be scored; the deck cannot adapt between games in this export.

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system, not as an average of its card scores. Its core Sky Striker engine is reliably accessible: the 16 archetype-core copies give about an 83% chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand (hypergeometric, Inferred), and the Mobilize search cards give it a second route when the first starter is missing. Its interaction density is high, with 11 hand traps and two Solemn cards, and it can answer going-second boards through Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Droll and D.D. Crow. However, the list is illegal in its current form: three Semi-Limited cards are over the copy limit, Droll is over its Limited cap, and Albion, Called by the Grave and Triple Tactics Talent are Forbidden. Because of this, the score is capped at 35 and labelled structural-only. Popularity of the Sky Striker archetype and its usage statistics confirm the list is accessible but do not add points. No combo boards were supplied, so floor, median and ceiling are text-based Inferred reads.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 56, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); illegal-deck cap (-11). Final formula: No reliable metagame (Meta provisional): 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + modifiers = 0.80*55 + 0.20*48 - 8 ≈ 46; Illegal-deck cap applied → 35 (theoretical / structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.83 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.17 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Accessible Link-summon engine with 16 archetype-core copies and two search routes
• Dense interaction: 11 hand traps and 2 Solemn cards
• Card advantage from Pot of Desires, Pot of Sloth and Mulcharmy

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy-limit overages on 6 cards
• Forbidden Albion, Called by the Grave and Triple Tactics Talent
• No Side Deck
• Low archetype purity (40%) and heavy off-archetype spread

Critical choke points

• Sky Striker Mobilize (Linkage/Engage) is the main search; with 6 copies in the deck, it is the single largest choke point
• Albion is Forbidden, so the Fusion slots and the Fallen of Albaz line need to be rebuilt

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 55 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side; 7 copy-limit violations including 3 Forbidden cards; Card texts for Sky Striker Mobilize, Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Mulcharmy and Pot of Desires; Archetype core usage: 16 copies, 83% inclusion
• Inferred: P(at least one core copy in hand 5) ≈ 0.83; Going-first and going-second structural reads from card text and hand-trap density; Pilotability from Link-summon sequencing complexity
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup fit (D13); Median and floor output (D4) without combos_evidence
• 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 Side Deck registered — post-side plan cannot be scored no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN — going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied