Sky Striker Deck #765467 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 59/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link Summon a board of Sky Striker Ace Link monsters (Zero, Kagari, Hayate, Shizuku) with Spell-GY pumps and Raye/Zeke/Azalea follow-ups; Radiant Typhoon and Ecclesia/Albion Extra Deck follow-ups when Spells are in the GY
• Turn 1 (going first): Mobilize Engage or Linkage to search a Sky Striker card, then Link toward a board while holding Ash Blossom and Widow Anchor for interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Ghost Mourner, Droll and Maxx C to interrupt the opponent's summons, then rebuild the Link board from the GY
• Recovery: Spell-GY recursion through Lemnisgate, Camellia, Shizuku and Mobilize searches to rebuild Link monsters after a single negation
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs zero side-deck cards, so there is no defined post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Sky Striker engine: 3-copy Mobilize Engage and Linkage plus Widow Anchor give it several ways to reach a live starter, and the archetype-core group is present in about 99% of opening hands (Inferred hypergeometric). Its interaction is layered across nine hand traps and about 13 negation-text cards, so the deck can contest the opponent's summons on both turn orders; this carries most of the score. Conversion is credited from the structural Link-chain text only, because no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median scores are Inferred and carry wide uncertainty. Points are docked for the empty side deck, which leaves no post-side plan, and for the lack of any tournament or meta sample, which keeps Meta Power provisional. Popularity was not used to earn points, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 63, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: Empty side deck (-3). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers; 0.80*63.2 + 0.20*55 - 3 = 58.5, rounded to 59

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.34 · 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 plus many negation-text cards cover both turn orders
• Redundant engine starters (3x Mobilize Engage, 3x Linkage, 3x Widow Anchor)
• Full, usable Extra Deck of 13 Links plus Synchro and Fusion with a common Sky Striker core

Weaknesses

• Empty side deck: no post-side plan
• No recorded boards, so the ceiling and median are text-only inferences
• High Spell density (22 of 40) may create Spell-only dead hands

Critical choke points

• Single-negation or floodgate-style answers to the first Mobilize or Link summon
• Spell-GY thresholds for Raye, Eldam and Lemnisgate when GY Spells are thin

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status with 40 main, 15 extra, 0 side; legal copy counts for all restricted cards; Card text and types for all 40 main and 15 extra cards; Usage statistics show the archetype core is largely present (Sky Striker Mobilize, Widow Anchor, Ash Blossom)
• Inferred: Starter access probabilities (hypergeometric); Interaction density from negation and removal text; Going-second hand-trap group probability; Floor, median and ceiling from text only (no boards)
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13)
• 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 going-first/second, matchup or brick/starter rates Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample Data inconsistency: usage statistics marks several Extra Deck cards as in this deck=false (Kagari, Sky Striker Ace = Zero, Camellia, Azalea, Zeke, Amatsu, Hayate, Shizuku, Little Knight, Ecclesia, Albion) although the cards list shows them with copies in the Extra Deck; the missing core cards list is therefore unreliable and was not used for scoring Deck title is null in the export