Sky Striker Deck #765614 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Toolbox
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Stun
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Black Chaos / Black Luster Soldier / Magician of Dark Chaos via Light and Darkness Ritual, with Yummy and Mulcharmy as secondary board and card-advantage lines; Link and Synchro beatsticks (S:P Little Knight, W:P Fancy Ball, Fantastical Dragon Phantazmay) once the Yummy Link-1 extension is live
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Link-1 or Level-1 starter from Yummy/Mulcharmy/Kuriboh and extend into a Link or Synchro, protected by Ash Blossom and Ghost Ogre; no reliable full-combo opener in the evidence
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom x3, Ghost Ogre x3, Ghost Belle x2, Droll & Lock Bird x2, Kuriboh x3) to interrupt the opponent's first board, then a Ritual or Synchro follow-up
• Recovery: Mulcharmy draws and searcher text (11 copies of searcher-tagged cards) to refill the hand after a hand-trap or disruption
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so no post-side plan can be assessed

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal as submitted: it runs 3 copies of Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring against a limit of 2, so it is scored structurally only and capped at 30 rather than given a normal final score. Structurally (about 49) it has real interaction, with 11 hand traps and 24 removal-tagged text hits, and the hand-trap density gives it a reasonable going-second read. Its main weakness is the list itself: only 3 of 70 cards are Sky Striker (4.3% exact-name purity), and the rest are split across Yummy, Light and Darkness Ritual, Mulcharmy, Kuriboh and at least ten other sub-archetypes, so the Sky Striker name does not make it a coherent engine. No combos were supplied, so the ceiling and median are text-only inferences. The score comes from the system's consistency, interaction and going-second read, not from averaging card scores, and not from the archetype's popularity or any meta share.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox primary, Midrange secondary (not separately blended in this pass). Structural ≈ 49, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: Illegal cap (-17). Final formula: No reliable meta: 0.80*Structural(49) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) = 47 before the legality cap; Illegal cap applied (-17) for a final of 30 (theoretical, structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ — · 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

• Dense hand-trap and negation suite (11 hand traps, Ash Blossom and Ghost Ogre at 3 copies each)
• Layered removal and negation through Called by the Grave, Harpie's Feather Duster, Spell Shattering Sword and Droll & Lock Bird
• Card-advantage and recovery through Mulcharmy and searchers

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy count on Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring (3 vs 2)
• Very low exact-name Sky Striker purity (4.3%) and several unrelated engines in one list
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptability
• Engine dispersion makes the starter route unreliable and hard to pilot

Critical choke points

• Reducing Ash Blossom to 2 copies is required before any normal score can be given
• Light and Darkness Ritual line depends on a single Ritual Spell copy, with no redundancy

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality is Illegal: 3 copies of Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring against a limit of 2 (Semi-Limited); Main 55 and Extra 15 are within the size rules; Side is 0; Exact-name Sky Striker purity is 4.3% (3 of 70 cards)
• Observed: Copy histogram: 21 singles, 2 doubles, 10 triples; Core Sky Striker staples missing: Camellia (in the Extra Deck only), Zeke, Shizuku, Hayate, Engage, Amatsu
• Inferred: Hypergeometric opening-hand estimates for starters, hand traps and the archetype core group; Interaction and resilience reads from card text tags; Going-first and going-second splits estimated from hand-trap density
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13); Tournament reliability (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) exists in YGOVN Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample No side deck registered