Sky Striker Deck #762248 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 53/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Tempo
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link-chain pressure: Sky Striker Ace link monsters (Zero, Kagari, Raye and related Aces) convert Mobilize searches and Ace summons into attacks.; Super Starslayer TY-PHON - Sky Crisis (2900 ATK) as a single-copy Xyz finisher when Extra Deck summons are available.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Mobilize - Engage!/Linkage! searches and a Sky Striker monster, then link into an Ace. Hold Ash Blossom and Maxx C for the opponent's first activation.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird and PSY-Framegear Gamma to break the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Raye and Fuwalos.
• Recovery: Recur Sky Striker Spells and Aces from the GY (Raye, Lemnisgate, Chant) and use Pot of Sloth and Triple Tactics Talent to refill the hand.
• After siding: None. The deck has no side cards (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan in this export.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens its search-and-summon engine: the searcher-text group reaches at least one copy in 74% of going-first five-card hands, and Sky Striker Mobilize and Raye each run three copies. Its Extra Deck of 14 Link monsters and one Xyz gives it a real route from a single starter to multi-Link boards, though no recorded boards exist, so that ceiling is text-only and Inferred. It survives common disruption through six hand-trap and negation effects (Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird, PSY-Framegear Gamma) and recovers spells from the GY. Scoring is based on the system's consistency, interaction and recovery, not on Sky Striker being a popular archetype (usage stats only confirm the archetype is real), and it does not average the individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange, meta-neutral (D13 dropped and weights re-normalized over the remaining 95). Structural ≈ 57.3, Going First ≈ 63, Going Second ≈ 57, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-2); engine conflicts (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural(57.3) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(55) = 56.8; + context modifiers (-4) = 52.8 -> 53. Meta Power provisional (no dated metagame sample).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.74 · 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

• Three-copy starter/searcher core (Mobilize Linkage, Mobilize Engage, Raye) gives reliable early access.
• Six hand traps and multiple negations cover both turns' first activations.
• Large Link Extra Deck (14 Links) with multiple Ace options adds board options per Extra slot.

Weaknesses

• Purity is only 50.9% exact-name; off-archetype spells (Pot of Sloth, Forbidden Droplet, Forbidden Crown, Triple Tactics) take main-deck slots.
• Five Limited and three Semi-Limited cards are in the list, so the deck is exposed to list changes.
• No side deck, so there is no post-side adjustment.

Critical choke points

• Sky Striker Mobilize searches need an empty Main Monster Zone; a board already holding monsters blunts the first search.
• Starslayer TY-PHON is a single copy and the only non-Link finisher.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal under master-duel rules; 40 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side; all Limited and Semi-Limited copy counts are within the legal limit.; Archetype spread: Sky Striker 28, off-archetype 27, exact-name purity 50.9%.; Hand-trap count 6; searcher-text count 9; Extra Deck is 14 Links and 1 Xyz.
• Observed: Usage statistics show the core Sky Striker set is standard (archetype usage stats available, 52% core present with the usage join caveat below).
• Inferred: Starter, hand-trap and brick probabilities are hypergeometric estimates.; Engine and interaction ratings are text-based, not board-verified.; Going-first/second power derived from dimension weights.
• Provisional: Meta Power is null: no dated metagame sample.; D13 matchup and format fit is provisional.
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference. usage_statistics in_this_deck flags contradict the card list: Extra Deck cards (Kagari, Zero, Hayate, Amatsu, Zeke, Shizuku, Azalea, Camellia) are in the deck list but flagged in_this_deck=false, so core_present_pct (52%) is unreliable. No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent. No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, starter or brick rates). Side deck is empty, so D12 has no construction evidence. Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied.