Sky Striker Deck #770275 — 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: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro beaters from the Extra Deck (Blackwing Armed Wing, Blackwing Armor Master, Goyo Guardian, Colossal Fighter, Dark End Dragon) backed by removal and hand-based interaction; Dark Armed Dragon and The Dark Creator as large main-deck bodies that need DARK monsters in the GY
• Turn 1 (going first): Upstart Goblin, Trade-In, Card Destruction or Solar Recharge to dig for a Tuner plus non-Tuner pair, then Synchro Summon into a board-breaking or removal-backed beater
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (D.D. Crow, Necro Gardna) and Book of Moon, Nobleman of Crossout, Mask of Restrict or Mystical Space Typhoon to stall the opponent's board before the Synchro line
• Recovery: Graveyard recursion through Plaguespreader Zombie, Dark Grepher, Sangan search and Trap Eater, plus Blackwing Vayu's GY effect
• After siding: Not assessable: the deck runs zero side-deck cards, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

This is a theoretical, structural-only read because the list is Illegal: it runs one copy of Giant Trunade, which is Forbidden in OCG, and the cap places the score at 30. Structurally the 55-card main deck is a Midrange Synchro shell with strong card flow (Upstart Goblin, Trade-In, Card Destruction, Solar Recharge, Charge of the Light Brigade) and a dense interaction suite (Heavy Storm, Mystical Space Typhoon, Twister, Nobleman of Crossout, Book of Moon, Mask of Restrict, Royal Decree, two D.D. Crow hand traps). Its end-board is credible, with 2300 to 2800 ATK Synchro and main-deck beaters. The engine is the weak point: the archetype label is Sky Striker but no Sky Striker card is in the list (exact-name purity 0%); the 70 off-archetype copies are split across Blackwing, Lightsworn, Chaos and generic cards, and the Chaos and Lightsworn lines compete for GY resources. The 25 non-monster main-deck cards and a 40% chance of having no archetype core in the opening hand (Inferred) point to brick risk. Popularity or archetype label did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary; Toolbox secondary noted but profile not blended. Structural ≈ 52, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-6); engine_conflict (-4); no_side_deck (-2). Final formula: No reliable metagame: min(Illegal cap 30, 0.80*Structural(52) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) + Modifiers(-12)) = 30; Meta provisional; score is theoretical-only because the list is Illegal

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · 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 card flow and draw/search density for finding Synchro pieces
• Layered interaction suite with hand traps, spell/trap removal and monster removal
• Strong main-deck and Extra Deck beaters at 2300 to 2800 ATK

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Giant Trunade (Forbidden) at 1 copy
• Archetype label Sky Striker has no Sky Striker cards; engine identity is ambiguous across Blackwing, Lightsworn and Chaos
• Zero side-deck cards
• 25 non-monster slots with several narrow cards raise brick and dead-card risk

Critical choke points

• Synchro Summon requires a specific Tuner plus non-Tuner pair, which the mixed-archetype main deck does not reliably supply
• Giant Trunade must be removed for the list to be legal, which changes the interaction package

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Giant Trunade is Forbidden in OCG and is run at 1 copy (illegal); Main deck 55 cards and Extra Deck 15 cards are within the OCG size rules; Exact-name archetype purity is 0%; 70 copies are off-archetype
• Inferred: Hypergeometric starter and archetype-core probabilities (0.25 and 0.39); Going-first and going-second plans and the recovery route; Dimension scores for engine, brick, interaction and closing power
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit (D13), since no tournament or metagame sample is supplied
• 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 and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample Archetype label Sky Striker does not match any card in the list