Trickstar Deck #769019 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link-monster beatdown: Sky Striker Ace links (Zeke, Azalea, Zero, Kagari, Camellia) using the Extra Monster Zone, with Sky Striker Ace - Raye and Roze recursion and Sky Striker Mobilize spells to refill the board; Trickstar and Blue Tears link beats (Trickstar Noble Angel, Colchica) plus Mudragon, Garura and Favorite HERO Flame Wingman as Extra Deck backup
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Sky Striker Mobilize or Radiant Typhoon Vision searcher on T1, Light Stage or Candina to reach a Sky Striker Ace, link into a Zeke or Azalea, and use MST, Harpie's Feather Duster or Lightning Storm to clear backrow
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Droll & Lock Bird and Nibiru for the opponent's first activation or summon wave, then convert with a Sky Striker link once the opponent's board is cleared
• Recovery: Recover with Sky Striker Ace - Raye or Roze from the GY, Trickstar Reincarnation to revive a Trickstar, and the Sky Striker spell-count thresholds (3 Spells in GY) to reuse Mecha effects
• After siding: Not available: the deck runs no Side Deck, so every matchup is played through the main 55 cards

Why it scores here

The deck can usually open a functional Sky Striker link route: 14 searcher-text cards give about a 78% chance of at least one starter in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred), and the link chain of Zeke, Azalea and Zero is a real conversion path. Interaction is the strongest part of the system: 10 hand traps, Mystical Space Typhoon, Harpie's Feather Duster, Lightning Storm and two Blue Tears / Forbidden backrow and monster answers give layered disruption, which is why the end-board and resilience scores are the highest. The weaknesses are structural rather than popularity-driven: only 9 of 55 main cards share the exact Trickstar name (12.9% purity), the rest are Sky Striker plus generic and off-archetype staples, so bricks and conflicting plans are common. No combos were recorded, so the floor and median are text-only inferences. The list is Illegal (Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization each run 3 copies against a limit of 2), so the final score is capped at 30 and is a theoretical, structural-only read; the score was not produced by averaging card scores or by the archetype's popularity.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary; Toolbox secondary reflected in D5, D8 and D14 weighting (approximately 80/20 by judgement). Structural ≈ 53, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-2); no_side_deck (-3); engine_conflicts (-4). Final formula: No reliable metagame: uncapped = 0.80*Structural(53) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) + ContextModifiers(-9) = 42; capped to 30 because the list is Illegal (theoretical/structural-only per rubric Step 2)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.78 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.22 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Layered interaction: 10 hand traps plus MST, Harpie's, Lightning Storm and Blue Tears / Forbidden backrow and monster answers
• Dense searcher density (14 cards) makes a starter likely in the opening hand
• Sky Striker link chain gives a real Extra Deck conversion route with 12 Link cards

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: two cards exceed their copy limits
• Low exact-archetype purity (12.9%) produces brick and plan-conflict risk
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation
• No recorded combos, so the floor and median are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• A single Sky Striker Ace link route depends on Mobilize or Radiant Typhoon Vision for the starter; losing the searcher effectively stops the Link line
• Hand-trap coverage drops if the opponent goes first and the hand has no hand trap in the 5-card opening hand

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Illegal, with Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization each run at 3 copies against a limit of 2; Main 55 and Extra 15 are within the OCG size rules; Side is 0 of 15 allowed; Archetype purity is 12.9% exact-name; Sky Striker is the largest sub-archetype at 23 copies
• Observed: Usage stats: Droll & Lock Bird, Trickstar Candina, Trickstar Light Stage and Angel of Blue Tears are core cards in this archetype at 75-100% inclusion; this deck runs all of them
• Inferred: P(>=1 searcher in 5-card hand) ≈ 0.78 for the 14-card searcher group; Hand-trap coverage ≈ 72% for going-second 6-card hands; Structural score 53 is computed from the Midrange weight profile and the dimension scores above
• Provisional: Meta Power is null: no dated metagame sample is supplied; D13 matchup and format fit is a neutral placeholder at 50
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: the 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 in YGOVN: going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Side Deck is empty: post-side performance is unmeasurable no guides attached to the archetype