Sky Striker Deck #765118 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 58/100 (±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: Link-summon Sky Striker Ace monsters (Kagari, Zero, Zeke, Azalea and others) off the Mobilize/Ace chain and convert the resulting board into pressure, with Widow Anchor and the hand-trap wall protecting the engine.; Stun-style interaction: negate or destroy the opponent's key monster or Spell/Trap and rebuild with the Sky Striker Spell recursion (Chant, Vision, Lemnisgate).
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Mobilize (Engage or Linkage) to search a Sky Striker card, play Ace monsters to reach a 2-link, and hold Ash Blossom or Infinite Impermanence for the first opposing activation.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre and Snow Rabbit, Ghost Mourner, Droll and Lock Bird, Maxx C) to stop the opponent's first board, then rebuild with a Mobilize search and a Link Summon.
• Recovery: After a hand trap or board wipe, recover with Mobilize and Radiant Typhoon searchers, Sky Striker Spell recursion from the GY, and Ace Link Summons for additional board.
• After siding: No side deck is built (Side Deck size 0), so there is no post-side plan in the evidence; the score does not credit one.

Why it scores here

The deck scores on the system rather than on its card list: it reliably opens a live Sky Striker starter (Mobilize search, about 0.74 chance of at least one searcher in a 5-card hand), and nine searcher-text cards and three copies of each main starter keep the engine accessible. Its strongest dimension is interaction: nine hand traps, eleven or so negation effects and seven removal-text cards (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Ghost Mourner, Droll, Maxx C, Crossout Designator) give it layered end-board and going-second protection. Resilience is good because a disrupted Mobilize line can be rebuilt through Spell recursion and the Radiant Typhoon searchers. Floor, median and ceiling are scored separately, and no combo boards exist to anchor the ceiling, so those numbers are text-based inference. Popularity was not credited: the archetype usage stats confirm the list is real, but they did not add points, and card scores were not averaged. The Branded/Ecclesia splash (Albion, Ecclesia, two Fallen & The Virtuous) has no Fallen of Albaz in the list, which costs points through modifiers and the pilotability/extra-deck scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 64, Going First ≈ 64, Going Second ≈ 67, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: Branded/Ecclesia splash without Fallen of Albaz (-3); Engine conflicts across sub-packages (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; Structural 63.9 rounded to 64; 0.80*63.9 + 0.20*60 - 5 = 58.1)

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

• Layered interaction: nine hand traps, negation-text cards and removal-text cards
• Redundant Mobilize starters (three each of Engage and Linkage) and Sky Striker searchers
• Spell recursion (Chant, Vision, Lemnisgate) rebuilds after disruption
• Full, legal 40/15 list with no banlist violations

Weaknesses

• Branded/Ecclesia splash lacks Fallen of Albaz, leaving Albion and Ecclesia largely dead
• Usage statistics contradict the card list for several Extra Deck cards (see data gaps)
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptability
• Ace-dependent Link Summons need specific Ace monsters, and only three Aces are in the Main Deck

Critical choke points

• Mobilize (Engage/Linkage) plus an Ace monster on the field: if the Mobilize and Ace line is stopped, the Link chain stalls
• The three main-deck Ace monsters (Raye x2, Roze x1) gate most Link Summons

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal 40/15/0 list with copy limits met (legality block); Card text for each card (card excerpts); Copy histogram and Extra Deck breakdown (composition); Hand-trap, negation and removal text-role counts (composition)
• Inferred: Starter and hand-trap hypergeometric probabilities (computed from the list, treated as estimates); Interaction quality and resilience reads from text; Going-first and going-second estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power (null; no dated metagame sample); D13 matchup and format fit
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference (combo data total combos 0) No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent usage statistics in this deck flags contradict the card list: Kagari, Zero, Ecclesia, Albion, Camellia, Azalea, Zeke, Amatsu, Hayate and Shizuku are listed as not in the deck (copies_in_deck 0) but appear in the Extra Deck with copies, so core-card presence 56 is unreliable No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN; going-first/second and matchup signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck has no title (title null) and no side deck