Sky Striker Deck #762985 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Sky Striker Ace Link-summon board presence with direct attacks and Link-chained pressure (Inferred from card text; no recorded boards); Sky Striker Mobilize / Mecha backrow-and-Spell recursion into repeated Link Summons (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Sky Striker monster or Mobilize Engage to fetch a Sky Striker Spell, then Link Summon an Ace from the Extra Deck using Raye / Roze / Hornet Drones bodies (Inferred; ~50% chance of at least one archetype-core card in a 5-card hand)
• Turn 2 (going second): Six-card hand with Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, or Solemn Judgment to protect the starter, then rebuild through Sky Striker Ace - Zeke / Camellia / Azalea (Inferred)
• Recovery: Spells in the GY enable Ace - Kagari / Shizuku / Camellia recursion and Sky Striker Spell searches (Inferred from text)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs zero side-deck cards

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal in TCG: it runs three copies of Radiant Typhoon Chant (Limited, one legal copy) and one Maxx "C" (Forbidden), so it is capped and scored as a theoretical, structural-only read. Its engine is a Link-based Sky Striker package: the archetype-core cards are present but only about half of 5-card hands contain one, which holds back starter reliability (Inferred). Interaction (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Solemn Judgment, Evenly Matched, Infinite Impermanence) is strong for a Combo deck, but the Forbidden and Limited cards are the reason the score is capped. No combo boards or guides exist, so floor, median and ceiling are text-only inferences. Popularity and archetype usage were not credited, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 48, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 42, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12); zero side deck (-4). Final formula: Illegal cap: 0.80*Structural(48) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) = 46.4; modifiers -12 (banlist exposure) and -4 (zero side) = 30.4, rounded to 30 and held as a theoretical-only score

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.51 · 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

• Searcher density (11 cards) and Link-based Ace access give the engine several entry points
• Strong protection and interaction suite (Ash Blossom, Droll, Solemn Judgment, Infinite Impermanence, Ghost Belle)
• Legal copy limits are met for most of the archetype core (Ace Link monsters at 3 copies)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Maxx "C" is Forbidden and Radiant Typhoon Chant is over its Limited copy count
• Only about half of opening hands contain an archetype-core card
• Zero Side Deck, so no post-side plan

Critical choke points

• Sky Striker Mobilize Engage (2 copies, Semi-Limited) is the main Spell search for the engine
• Radiant Typhoon Chant over-limit means the list must be fixed before any normal score applies

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 sizes are within TCG size_rules; Maxx "C" is Forbidden and run once; Radiant Typhoon Chant is Limited and run 3 times; Extra Deck: 13 Link, 1 Synchro, 1 Fusion; Archetype exact-name purity is 37.1%
• Inferred: P(>=1 archetype-core in opening 5) ≈ 0.51; Engine conversion and interaction quality are read from card text only; Going-first and going-second scores are structural estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit (D13): no dated metagame sample
• Data gaps: no combos supplied; floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot records absent no win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchups or brick rate Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied