Sky Striker Deck #765866 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 62/100 (±6 · 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: Sky Striker Ace Link chain from the Extra Deck (Zero, Kagari, Azalea, Zeke) that recurs Sky Striker Aces and Spells from the GY, with Kagari and Shizuku gaining ATK from GY Spells; Late-game Extra Deck boards (Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon, Albion the Branded Dragon, Super Starslayer TY-PHON - Sky Crisis) once the Ace engine is established
• Turn 1 (going first): With an empty Main Monster Zone, play Sky Striker Mobilize - Engage! or - Linkage! to add a Sky Striker card, then Widow Anchor or Lemnisgate to negate or take control of a monster and set up a Link Summon of an Ace
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, or Maxx C (6 hand-trap copies) to break the opponent's first summon, then Forbidden Crown or Widow Anchor to neutralise a boss and Raye or Roze to re-establish the Ace engine
• Recovery: Recover from the GY through Sky Striker Special Maneuver - Lemnisgate!, Raye and Roze GY triggers, and Kagari/Shizuku re-summons that add Spells back to hand
• After siding: No side deck is run (0 of 15 slots); no post-side plan can be evaluated

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a connected system: a Sky Striker Mobilize starter set (6 copies, about 0.58 chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand), a 12-copy Link engine in the Extra Deck with a 0.99 chance of at least one core card in hand, and six hand traps plus Forbidden Crown provide interaction on both turns. Ceiling (D3) and floor (D4) are scored separately; no recorded boards exist, so D4 is a conservative mid-range read and not a measured median. Interaction (D7) and resilience (D5) carry the score because the deck has several independent starters and GY recursion. Weak points are a spell-heavy main deck with 26 off-archetype copies, a single-choke Mobilize line that needs an empty Main Monster Zone, and no side deck. Popularity and usage statistics confirm the list is real and accessible but earned no points, and no card scores were averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 67, Going First ≈ 70, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 62. Modifiers: Empty-MMZ engine conflict (-2); Off-archetype dilution (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.58 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.01 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Six Mobilize starters and 0.99 archetype-core presence in a 5-card hand give consistent access to the engine (Inferred)
• Six hand traps plus Forbidden Crown and Forbidden Droplet cover both going first and going second (Inferred)
• Extra Deck is fully used with multiple Ace Link routes, so the engine has redundancy after disruption (Inferred)

Weaknesses

• No side deck; no post-side plan or adaptation data (Verified 0 side slots)
• 26 off-archetype main-deck copies and 27 Spells dilute the engine and create dead-draw risk (Verified composition, Inferred impact)
• Mobilize starters need an empty Main Monster Zone, which clashes with the 13 main-deck monsters (Inferred)
• No recorded boards, so ceiling and median cannot be measured (Verified gap)

Critical choke points

• Mobilize - Engage!/Linkage! require no monsters in the Main Monster Zone; a monster already on the field removes the starter
• Sky Striker Ace = Zero requires 2 Sky Striker Ace monsters to be Link Summoned, so the Ace count is a choke point
• Hornet Drones (1 copy, Limited) is the only token-based Sky Striker route

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal under BanMasterDuel with 40 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side; Restricted copies: Maxx C, Radiant Typhoon Vision and Hornet Drones (Limited, 1 each); Droll & Lock Bird and The Fallen & The Virtuous (Semi-Limited, 2 each); Card stats and text as listed in evidence; Composition: 27 Spells, 13 monsters, 12 Link, 26 off-archetype copies
• Observed: Archetype usage: Sky Striker core cards at 100% inclusion in the usage export; Two guides exist for the archetype (guide_id 1370 and 337)
• Inferred: P(≥1 of 6 Mobilize copies in hand5) ≈ 0.58; P(0 monsters in opening 5) ≈ 0.12; P(≥1 hand trap in 6 going second) ≈ 0.65; Interaction and recursion read from card text (semantic reads)
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13); Going-second and turn-order balance without win-rate data
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter/OTK rates) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown usage_statistics.in_this_deck and missing_core ignore Extra Deck cards: Kagari, Zero, Hayate, Amatsu, Camellia, Zeke, Shizuku, Azalea, Ecclesia and Albion are in the deck's Extra list but flagged in_this_deck:false; the real core-present count is about 21/25 (missing: Mystical Space Typhoon, S:P Little Knight, Triple Tactics Talent, Reinforcement of the Army) Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied deck title is null in the export