Sky Striker Deck #765790 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 57/100 (±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 (Zero, Kagari, Engage Zero) and attack with Ace links, backed by the Extra Deck bosses Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon and Albion the Branded Dragon (2500 ATK each).; Direct and piercing pressure from Ace links such as Hayate, plus Widow Anchor and Triple Tactics Talent to take control of a boss monster.
• Turn 1 (going first): Use Sky Striker Mobilize - Engage! (or Linkage!) on turn 1 while no monsters are in the Main Monster Zone to search or draw a Sky Striker card, then play Raye or Hornet Drones and link into an Ace.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Ghost Ogre, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C) to interrupt the opponent's first summon or search, then rebuild through Sky Striker spells and Ace links.
• Recovery: Sky Striker Special Maneuver - Lemnisgate! and Ace monsters recycle Sky Striker spells from the GY, and Raye and Kagari can return from the GY or add spells back to hand.
• After siding: Not applicable: the list runs 0 side cards, so there is no post-side plan (no side plan exists in the evidence).

Why it scores here

The deck opens a functional plan reliably enough: the Sky Striker engine (Mobilize Engage!/Linkage!, Raye, Widow Anchor, Hornet Drones) gives several independent T1 and T2 starts, and the 27-copy archetype core is almost always present in an opening hand. Conversion into pressure runs through Ace link summons into Zero, Kagari and the 2500-ATK Branded and Ecclesia bosses, but no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median are text-inferred and scored conservatively. Interaction is the strongest part of the system: 11 hand traps and 12 negation-text cards let the deck answer both on the first summon and on the second turn, while Sky Striker spells recycle from the GY to sustain resource grind. Off-archetype splash (Pot of Desires, Forbidden Droplet, Fallen and the Virtuous, Maxx C, Radiant Typhoon Vision; 26 of 55 cards) and the lack of any side deck cap the score; the score comes from consistency, interaction and engine redundancy on the whole system, not from Sky Striker's popularity and not from averaging individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 63, Going First ≈ 68, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-2); engine conflicts / off-archetype splash (-3); engine compactness (2); no side deck / weak post-side plan (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural(63) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(60) = 62.4; + ContextModifiers(-5) = 57.4 -> 57 (Meta provisional, no dated metagame sample)

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

• 11 hand traps across five names give strong going-second and interruption coverage
• Recursion (Lemnisgate, Raye, Kagari) supports resource grind
• Full Extra Deck with redundant Ace link summons and 2500-ATK bosses
• Three-copy starters give consistent engine access

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Only 52.7% exact-name purity with 26 off-archetype copies
• Four single-copy Limited cards cap flexibility
• No combo evidence or win-rate data to validate the ceiling

Critical choke points

• Engage and Linkage require no monsters in the Main Monster Zone, which can conflict with Raye and Widow Anchor sequencing
• Ace link summons need Sky Striker monsters on the field, so a board wipe or early hand-trap loss can stall the engine
• Single-copy Limited cards (Hornet Drones) are not replaceable with extra copies

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in master-duel with 40 main, 15 extra, 0 side; All six Limited and Semi-Limited cards are at legal copy counts; Hypergeometric probabilities (0.3376, 0.3943, 0.8762, 0.998); Composition counts (11 hand traps, 12 negation text, 10 removal text, 52.7% purity)
• Observed: Usage statistics: Sky Striker core inclusion rates
• Inferred: Starter and brick consistency estimates; Interaction quality from card text; Going-first and going-second plan quality; Combo ceiling and median from text only
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated sample); Matchup and format fit (D13); Tournament reliability (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot records are absent No win-rate telemetry, so going-first, going-second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred usage_statistics marks Extra Deck cards (Camellia, Azalea, Zeke, Amatsu, Kagari, Ecclesia, Albion, Hayate, Shizuku) as in_this_deck:false even though the card list runs them, so the 'missing_core' list is unreliable No side deck, so post-side performance is unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied