Sky Striker Deck #765016 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 54/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Sky Striker Ace link monsters (Zero, Kagari, Camellia, Zeke, Azalea) and Ecclesia/Albion extra-deck bosses converting Mobilize/Raye engine pressure into board and damage; Recursion of Sky Striker Ace monsters and Spells from the GY to rebuild the board after a disruption
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Mobilize (Linkage or Engage) or Raye to search or summon a Sky Striker Ace, link into Zero/Kagari, and protect the line with Infinite Impermanence or Ash Blossom held up
• Turn 2 (going second): Use a hand trap (Droll & Lock Bird, Ghost Ogre, Ash Blossom, Maxx C) on the opponent's first summon or search, then rebuild through Raye and Lemnisgate recursion
• Recovery: Recover Sky Striker Spells and Aces from the GY through Lemnisgate, Camellia, Zero and Raye to re-establish a board after a disruption
• After siding: Not evidenced: the deck runs zero side-deck cards, so no post-side plan is available

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens an engine: three Mobilize copies and three Raye copies bring the link-line starters into hand, and P(at least one of the six Mobilize copies in a 5-card opening hand) is about 0.58 (hypergeometric, Inferred). Interaction is layered across the whole game through 11 hand traps and a set of Spell/Trap answers, which earns the strongest scores on D7 and D5. Conversion and median output are scored from card text only because no recorded boards exist, so D3 and D4 carry low certainty. The score comes from consistency, interaction and extra-deck efficiency on the system; the deck's popularity (Sky Striker is a widely played archetype) earned no points, and no card scores were averaged. Off-archetype copies (Branded, Greed, Forbidden, Ecclesia, Radiant Typhoon) lower exact-name purity to 52.7% and cost points on engine coherence and efficiency, and the empty side deck caps post-side adaptability.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 60, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: engine conflicts / off-archetype dilution (-2); no post-side plan (-2); banlist exposure (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); 0.80*59.8 + 0.20*55 = 58.8, then modifiers −5 → 54

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.58 · 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

• Layered hand-trap and Spell/Trap interaction across both turn orders
• Full, efficient Extra Deck with 13 Link monsters and multiple Ace access routes
• Recursion from the GY through Lemnisgate, Camellia, Zero and Raye for interruption recovery

Weaknesses

• Off-archetype copies dilute the engine and lower exact-name purity to 52.7%
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptability
• No recorded boards, so combo conversion and median output rest on text inference

Critical choke points

• Mobilize Linkage and Engage: six copies in total, and the deck's engine opens through them
• Single-copy Mystical Space Typhoon and Maxx C limit the removal and draw answers

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal 40/15/0 with Limited and Semi-Limited copy limits respected; Copy histogram 1:7, 2:6, 3:7; Hand-trap count 11 and tech count 17 from role tags; Exact-name purity 52.7% and extra-deck breakdown 13 Link / 1 Synchro / 1 Fusion
• Inferred: Engine accessibility from hypergeometric odds (P ≈ 0.58 for the Mobilize group); Interruption resilience from hand-trap redundancy and recursion text; Going-second hand-trap coverage (P ≈ 0.88); Ceiling and median from card text only, since no boards exist
• Provisional: Meta power (null); Matchup and format fit (D13 at 50)
• 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 flags Camellia, Azalea, Zeke, Amatsu, Hayate, Shizuku, Kagari and Zero as in_this_deck=false while the cards list includes them in the Extra Deck, so core_present_pct is unreliable; the Extra Deck was read from the cards list no win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) exists in YGOVN Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied