Sky Striker Deck #765822 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 57/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link-based boards (Sky Striker Ace Link monsters such as Zero, Kagari, Hayate and Shizuku) converting Sky Striker Spell recursion into direct attacks and removal; Sky Striker Mobilize (Linkage and Engage) search and Raye or Roze Special Summon engines feeding the Link Extra Deck
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Sky Striker Mobilize or Raye starter, use Mobilize to search, and build a Link board. Keep Ash Blossom, Droll and Effect Veiler up as interaction for the opponent's first answer.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll and Lock Bird, Effect Veiler, Infinite Impermanence, Ghost Belle) to stop the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Sky Striker Spells in the Graveyard.
• Recovery: Use Sky Striker Ace Link recursion (Camellia, Zeke, Azalea) and the Graveyard Spell count to rebuild the engine from Deck and GY after a board wipe or Mystical Space Typhoon.
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered (side_count 0), so no post-side plan can be evaluated. Scored as provisional.

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a connected system and not as an average of its card scores. Consistency comes from three copies each of the Sky Striker Mobilize and Raye starters, a 3-copy Ash Blossom and about 0.995 probability of at least one archetype-core card in the opening hand (a proxy; Inferred). Interaction is dense, with 16 negation-text cards and 10 removal-text cards, and about 85% of going-second hands hold at least one hand trap, which carries the going-second game. The ceiling is credible because the 12 Link Extra Deck monsters give many routes to pressure, but no recorded boards exist, so the median is set low and the ceiling is only inferred from card text. Popularity did not earn points: the archetype core is present (about 56% of core cards run), and exact archetype purity is only 51%, which costs points on engine coherence. The weak spots are the Branded and Ecclesia splash, which lacks Fallen of Albaz monsters, and the absence of a Side Deck.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 63.1, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 67, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 56. Modifiers: Off-archetype dilution (-2); Engine conflict (Branded/Ecclesia splash) (-2); Banlist exposure (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers = 0.80*63.1 + 0.20*56 - 5 ≈ 57

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

• Dense negation and removal package with hand traps that carry going second
• Multiple engines (Mobilize, Raye, Roze) plus Link recursion for redundancy
• Legal list with a clear Link route and 12 Link Extra Deck monsters

Weaknesses

• Only 51% exact archetype purity; 27 off-archetype copies dilute the engine
• Branded and Ecclesia Extra Deck slots lack the Fallen of Albaz support they need
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan

Critical choke points

• Sky Striker Mobilize and Raye starters (3 copies each), each about 34% to be in a 5-card opening hand
• Several effects require 3 or more Spells in the GY, which slows recovery

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal Master Duel list: 40 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side; Banlist: 7 Limited or Semi-Limited cards, all within legal copy counts; Usage: core cards present 14 of 25 (56%)
• Inferred: Starter access about 0.34 per 3-copy starter in a 5-card hand; About 85% of going-second hands hold a hand trap; Engine conflict from the Branded and Ecclesia splash
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Side Deck adaptability (no Side Deck); Matchup fit
• 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: going-first, going-second and matchup rates are unknown Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample No Side Deck registered, so post-side adaptability cannot be measured