Sky Striker Deck #769971 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 56/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link Summon Sky Striker Ace link monsters (Zero, Kagari, Shizuku, Zeke, Camellia, Azalea, Amatsu, Hayate, Kaina, Engage Zero) and convert the chain into board presence and attacks; Attrition through negations and removal (Forbidden Droplet, Ultimate Sky, Widow Anchor, Surgical Striker H.A.M.P., Shark Cannon) followed by Link attacks
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a starter (Mobilize - Linkage, Raye, Engage, Roze, Cyanos, Hornet Drones) on an empty Main Monster Zone, pull an Ace to the Extra Deck, then build Link monsters while Spell recursion fills the GY
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 4 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Maxx C) and Ultimate Sky / Widow Anchor to disrupt the opponent's board, then rebuild through the same starter set
• Recovery: Lemnisgate and Kagari return GY Sky Striker Spells to hand, and Zero and Shizuku add Spells from Deck or GY to restock the starter-and-Spell loop
• After siding: Not applicable: the list runs no Side Deck (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan in this build

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a starter, since about 12 starter-type copies (Linkage, Raye, Engage, Roze, Cyanos, Hornet Drones) give roughly an 85% chance of at least one in an opening 5-card hand, which is an Inferred hypergeometric estimate that ignores the turn-1 monster-zone condition. Conversion is the main strength: the 15-card Extra Deck is entirely Sky Striker Ace links with redundancy (Zero x3, Kagari x3, Shizuku x2), and the Spell recursion keeps the engine running after an early disruption. Interaction is layered across Droplet, Ultimate Sky, Widow Anchor, Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Maxx C and Crossout Designator, so the deck can answer a board without relying on a single card. The score is held back by the absence of recorded boards (no combo floor or median can be measured), a thin 12-monster Main Deck, the absence of a Side Deck, and a 0.8 weight on structural power with no meta sample. Popularity was not rewarded: the archetype usage data confirms the list is a real build but does not raise the score, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: 70% Combo / 30% Midrange, per-dimension weighted average. Structural ≈ 61, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: side_deck_absent (-3); banlist_exposure (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural(61) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(55) + ContextModifiers(-4) = 56 (Meta provisional, no dated metagame sample)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.85 · 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

• Full 15-card Extra Deck of Sky Striker Ace links with redundant copies on key arrows
• Layered interaction: Droplet, Ultimate Sky, Widow Anchor, Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Maxx C and Crossout Designator
• Spell recursion (Lemnisgate, Kagari, Zero, Shizuku) supports multi-turn recovery
• Legal at the OCG size rules and at every restricted-card copy limit

Weaknesses

• Only 12 Main Deck monsters, so the engine leans on specific starters
• No Side Deck (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan
• No recorded boards, so the combo floor and median cannot be measured
• Several 1-copy Limited cards carry starter and answer roles (Hornet Drones, Reinforcement of the Army)

Critical choke points

• Opening starter access depends on 3-copy Linkage and Raye (about 34% each in an opening 5)
• Starters need an empty Main Monster Zone, so an early board or a single disruption can end the turn
• The GY Spell count gates several effects (Kagari, Lemnisgate, Shark Cannon), so early Spell usage can weaken later turns

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 40 and Extra 15 are within size rules; all 6 Limited and Semi-Limited cards are at or under their legal copies; Card text for all 40 Main and 15 Extra cards is resolved from the export; Extra Deck is 15 Link monsters, all Sky Striker Ace links; Archetype purity is 65.5% exact-name
• Observed: Usage statistics show Sky Striker core inclusion across the archetype (11 of 24 core cards present in the Main Deck by the export's own count)
• Inferred: At least one starter in an opening 5 is about 0.85 (hypergeometric, starter-type copies); Combo ceiling and floor are read from card text, not recorded boards; Interaction density and resilience are read from card text; Going-first and going-second splits are estimated from structure and hand traps
• Provisional: Meta Power is null because there is no dated metagame sample; Matchup and format fit (D13) is neutral and unmeasured; Tournament reliability is estimated from structure, with no tournament link
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN, so going-first, going-second and matchup rates are Unknown Meta Power is Provisional with no dated metagame sample usage_statistics marks Sky Striker Ace - Kagari, Camellia, Amatsu, Zeke, Azalea, Hayate and Shizuku as in_this_deck false, but the cards array lists them in the Extra Deck (Kagari x3, Zero x3, Shizuku x2, others x1). The core_present_pct of 45.8% therefore looks like a Main-Deck-only artifact and was not used to score the deck probabilities.archetype_core_group counts Spells and Extra-only cards, so it is not a starter-access measure