Sky Striker Deck #765883 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 58/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link Summon Sky Striker Ace monsters from the Extra Deck (Zero, Kagari, Zeke, Azalea and others) and convert board presence into ATK and direct pressure.; Kagari gains ATK per Spell in the GY, and Spell recursion (Lemnisgate, Raye, Zero) rebuilds the Link engine after disruption.
• Turn 1 (going first): Turn 1 Mobilize (Linkage or Engage) to search a Sky Striker, supported by Widow Anchor or Hornet Drones to clear the Main Monster Zone and keep a hand trap up.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Impermanence or Droll to answer the opponent's first summon or set, then rebuild through Mobilize and Link Summons.
• Recovery: Raye and Zero recursion from the GY, plus Radiant Typhoon Chant and Vision draws, rebuild the Link board after one interruption.
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan. Best-of-3 play has no adaptation option in this list.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably reaches a starter in the opening hand: the searcher group (Mobilize, Widow Anchor, Raye, Roze) gives about 0.74 odds of at least one searcher in 5 cards (Inferred). Its Extra Deck covers eight Sky Striker Ace Link monsters plus Ecclesia and Albion, so most Link routes stay available. The 9 hand traps and 13 negation or removal texts give it real interaction, and the Spell recursion cards keep it going after disruption. Scoring is held back by the lack of any recorded board data, which leaves the combo ceiling and median as text-only inference, and by the empty Side Deck, which caps post-side adaptability. Popularity did not earn points: the archetype usage stats confirm the list is real, but they were not added to the score, and no card scores were averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 62.1, Going First ≈ 67, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-1); engine conflicts (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional): 0.80*62.1 + 0.20*55 = 60.7, then modifiers -3 = 57.7, rounded to 58

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.74 · 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

• Redundant searchers (Mobilize Linkage and Engage, Widow Anchor) give consistent turn 1 access.
• Extra Deck coverage is strong: 13 Links, including eight Sky Striker Ace monsters.
• Nine hand traps and 13 negation or removal texts across main deck interaction.
• Spell recursion (Raye, Zero, Lemnisgate, Chant, Vision) allows rebuilding after disruption.

Weaknesses

• No Side Deck, so there is no post-side adaptation.
• Only 47.3% exact-name purity; off-archetype pieces dilute the engine.
• Combo ceiling and median are not measurable from the export (no recorded boards).
• Conditional empty-MMZ starters can produce dead hands.

Critical choke points

• Opening Mobilize or Engage with an empty Main Monster Zone; a board-holding hand loses its searcher.
• Hand-trap timing: Ash, Ghost Ogre, Droll and Impermanence must be held rather than used, so the first summon is often the only window.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is legal in master-duel: 40 main, 15 extra, 0 side; every restricted card is within its legal copy limit.; Exact-name archetype purity is 47.3% (26 of 55 archetype-name copies); 13 singleton main-deck slots.; Usage statistics show the archetype core and the Extra Deck Link Aces are standard for this archetype.; Two Sky Striker guides are attached to the archetype.
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter access: P(at least one searcher-text card in 5) ~0.74.; Hand-trap coverage on the going-second turn: P(at least one hand trap in 6) ~0.81.; Link Ace routes and Spell recursion provide interruption recovery.; Going-first and going-second power estimates are weighted blends of dimension scores.
• Provisional: Meta Power is null; no dated metagame sample is supplied.; Matchup and format fit (D13) is a neutral placeholder pending dated meta data.
• 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 are absent. No win-rate telemetry: going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates are Inferred or Unknown. Usage statistics flag Extra Deck cards (Kagari, Zero, Camellia, Azalea, Zeke, Amatsu, Hayate, Shizuku, Ecclesia, Albion, Little Knight) as not in this deck, which conflicts with the card list where they are present in the Extra Deck. The core_present_pct of 56 is therefore understated; this evaluation uses the card list. No Side Deck registered, so post-side performance cannot be assessed. Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied.