Sky Striker Deck #765008 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 58/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link Summon Sky Striker Ace monsters (Kagari, Zero, Azalea, Camellia) from Extra Deck, growing ATK and pressuring with direct attacks and Azalea Temperance at 2500 ATK; Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon / Albion the Branded Dragon (2500 ATK) as a late boss when the Branded and Ecclesia pieces are present
• Turn 1 (going first): Opening searcher (Sky Striker Mobilize - Engage or Linkage) fetches a Sky Striker monster or Ace, then a Link Summon of an Ace monster with Ash Blossom, Droll and Maxx C held for the opponent's turn
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird and Maxx C to interrupt the opponent's first summon or search, then rebuild through Mobilize, Raye and the Ace Link Summons
• Recovery: Spells in the GY enable Lemnisgate and Ace effects to recycle Sky Striker spells, and Triple Tactics Talent and Droll provide card advantage after the first line is stopped
• After siding: Not applicable: Master Duel is single-game and the deck runs no Side Deck

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens on a searcher: P(at least one of the 8 searcher-text cards in a 5-card opening hand) is about 0.69, and Mobilize Engage and Linkage fetch Sky Striker pieces. Its Extra Deck of 13 Link monsters gives many Ace summon routes, so the line converts into repeated Link Summons with growing ATK and direct pressure. Interaction is the strongest part of the system: six hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll, Maxx C), Widow Anchor, Crossout Designator, Mystical Space Typhoon and Fallen and the Virtuous give layered answers, and 13 negation-text cards back them up. Weak points are the 12 Dimensional Barrier / Forbidden Crown / Triple Tactics slots that do not always fit the plan, the missing recorded combo boards, and the lack of any side deck for Master Duel's single game. Popularity (Sky Striker is a high-usage archetype) and the card-level scores were not averaged in and did not earn points; the 58 comes from consistency, interaction and conversion on the deck as a system.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange, D13 dropped and renormalized over 95 (meta-neutral). Structural ≈ 62, Going First ≈ 64, Going Second ≈ 63, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 56. Modifiers: engine_conflicts (-2); banlist_exposure (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural(62) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(56) + ContextModifiers(-3) = 57.8 -> 58 (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.69 · 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: 8 searcher-text cards give a 0.69 chance of a searcher in the opening 5
• Layered interaction: 6 hand traps plus Widow Anchor, MST, Fallen and Crossout cover both turns
• Deep Ace Link set (Kagari, Zero, Azalea Temperance) gives repeatable Extra Deck access
• Legal, full 40/15 build with copy limits respected

Weaknesses

• No recorded combo boards, so floor and median output cannot be measured
• No side deck: Master Duel gives no post-side adaptation
• Several narrow or conditional slots (Dimensional Barrier, Forbidden Crown, Triple Tactics) lower brick resilience
• Albion and Ecclesia are single-copy, costly Extra Deck picks that may not be reachable on most hands

Critical choke points

• Mobilize Engage / Linkage searcher: losing both to disruption removes most of the first-turn engine
• Ace Link summon permissions (once-per-turn per name) limit repeat plays in one turn
• Hand traps (Ash, Droll, Maxx C) on the opponent's turn: using them early leaves the Ace line exposed

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in master-duel: 40 Main (range 40-60), 15 Extra (range 0-15), 0 Side (range 0-15), no violations, restricted copies within limits; Restricted cards run at or below legal copy counts: Maxx C 1 of 1, Radiant Typhoon Vision 1 of 1, Crossout Designator 1 of 1, Droll 2 of 2, Chant 2 of 2, Eldam 1 of 2, Fallen and the Virtuous 2 of 2; Main Deck composition 40 cards: 22 Spell, 3 Trap, 15 Monster; Extra 15 = 13 Link, 1 Synchro, 1 Fusion; Hypergeometric probabilities recomputed and consistent with the evidence (0.3376 for a 3-copy card in hand of 5, 0.694 for the 8-card searcher group)
• Observed: Archetype usage: Sky Striker core cards at 100 percent inclusion in the usage table (Camellia, Azalea, Zeke, Amatsu, Maxx C, Engage)
• Inferred: Consistency and brick estimates from hypergeometric draw odds and card text; Combo ceiling, median and interaction quality read from card text (no recorded boards); Going-first and going-second structure from the hand-trap and searcher distribution
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit: no dated metagame sample or tournament link supplied
• 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 usage_statistics in_this_deck flags contradict the card list for several Extra Deck cards (Kagari, Zero, Camellia, Zeke, Amatsu, Hayate, Shizuku, Azalea) that are present in this deck; core_present_pct 48 is therefore unreliable and was not used Sky Striker Ace - Azalea Temperance (56741506) is in the deck but absent from the usage table no win-rate telemetry: going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied