Sky Striker Deck #762783 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 60/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 41 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link-summon Sky Striker Ace monsters from the Extra Deck (Zero at 2000 ATK, the 1500-ATK Aces, Fonix at 3000 ATK as a single copy) and attack with them once the board is cleared or stabilised.; Exciton Knight (1 copy) destroys all other cards on the field when its material and hand-and-field count condition is met.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Mobilize - Engage or Mobilize - Linkage (searcher or Ace-summon routes) and Raye (tribute route) to reach a Sky Striker Ace link, keeping Ash, Droll or Maxx C available as hand traps.
• Turn 2 (going second): Keep a hand-trap-heavy six-card hand (P of at least one of the 6 hand traps is 0.64) and answer the opponent's first summon or search with Ash, Droll, Maxx C, Forbidden Droplet, Forbidden Crown or Widow Anchor before linking.
• Recovery: Recur Spells from the GY with Sky Striker Special Maneuver - Lemnisgate!, and use the Ace-link GY effects and the 3-Spells-in-GY thresholds (Widow Anchor, Kagari, Shizuku) to rebuild the board from the Extra Deck.
• After siding: No side deck was submitted; no post-side plan is evidenced.

Why it scores here

Sky Striker is scored as a Midrange Link engine on the system, not as an average of its card scores. Reliability comes from six 3-copy cards (Engage, Linkage, Raye, Widow Anchor, Ash, Fuwalos), an opener searcher probability of about 0.81, and a Link-heavy Extra Deck that covers a range of link ratings. Interaction is layered: six hand traps (Ash, Droll, Maxx C), two Forbidden Droplet, two Forbidden Crown and Widow Anchor, with Ace-link GY effects and Spell-count thresholds keeping lines alive after disruption. Points are held back by the 26 off-archetype copies (a Mulcharmy trio and a 9-card Radiant Typhoon package), the absence of combo boards and tournament data, and the lack of a submitted side deck. Archetype usage was used only to note deviations, not to earn points, and no card scores were averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 63.5, Going First ≈ 70, Going Second ≈ 67, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: engine_redundancy (2); banlist_exposure (-2); off_archetype_splash (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); 0.80*63.47 + 0.20*58 = 62.4, plus modifiers net -2 = 60.4, rounded to 60

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.81 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.19 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Consistent opener access: three 3-copy search and summon cards plus an 11-card searcher group.
• Layered interaction: six hand traps, four Forbidden negation cards and Widow Anchor.
• Recursion and restart routes through the Extra Deck, GY Spell thresholds and Lemnisgate.

Weaknesses

• 26 of 56 copies sit outside the exact archetype name, which dilutes the engine.
• No measured combo, board or matchup data; ceiling and floor are text-only inference.
• Multi-step sequencing and summon restrictions raise error risk.

Critical choke points

• Opening-hand dependence on Engage, Linkage or Raye for a live Ace link.
• Forbidden Droplet and Forbidden Crown rely on Spells or cards in hand and field to send to the GY, which can fail when the field is empty.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 41 and Extra 15 are within the master-duel size rules (main 40-60, extra 0-15).; All five restricted cards are at or under their legal copy limits.; Card text, ATK/DEF and link ratings are taken from the resolved cards.; Copy histogram: 6 cards at 3 copies, 5 at 2, 13 at 1 (main deck totals 41).
• Inferred: Opener probabilities are hypergeometric estimates from the Main Deck.; Consistency, interaction and recursion dimensions are read from card text.; Going-first and going-second power are derived from D1, D5, D7, D8 and D9 rather than recorded results.
• Provisional: Meta power is null; the format-fit score (D13) is a placeholder without a dated meta sample.; Post-side plan is not scored because no side deck was submitted.
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry for this deck; brick, starter and going-first/second rates are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied usage_statistics in_this_deck flags appear to count Main Deck copies only: six 100%-inclusion Ace links (Camellia, Zeke, Azalea, Shizuku, Hayate, Amatsu) are present in cards[] and composition.extra_deck_breakdown but are flagged missing, so core_present_pct 48 is unreliable no side deck submitted, so post-side behaviour cannot be assessed