Sky Striker Deck #770282 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Control
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 7 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link-chain into Sky Striker Ace Link monsters (Kagari, Zero, Raye and Roze lines) to push 1500-2000 ATK boards and bounce or banish the opponent's cards; Branded fusion pressure through Albion, which is not usable in this format because it is Forbidden
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Mobilize-Linkage or Raye to Special Summon an Ace, then Link-summon Zero or Kagari using Mobilize-Engage and Widow Anchor as Spell support (structural read, not a recorded line)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Evenly Matched and Droll as hand traps to answer the first activation, then rebuild an Ace-based Link line from the hand
• Recovery: Pot of Desires and Pot of Sloth as draw refuel, with Mobilize-Engage and Radiant Typhoon Vision as searchers for the next Sky Striker Ace
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The evaluation scores the deck as a system: the Sky Striker Link engine has real redundancy in Ace monsters and Link summon routes, but about 41% of copies are off-archetype (Greed draw, Solemn, Mulcharmy, Branded and Egyptian God pieces), which dilutes the engine. The list is illegal in OCG: three Forbidden cards (Albion x2, Called by the Grave, Triple Tactics Talent) and four over-limit Semi-Limited or Limited cards, so it does not receive a normal Final Contextual score and is capped at 25 as a structural-only read. Interaction is the deck's strongest area (11 hand traps and 16 negation-text cards), but the 30 Spells and 37 level-0 cards mean a meaningful share of opening hands are brick or dead cards, and the Link line depends on specific Ace monsters that are not reliably reached on turn 1. No recorded boards, tournament results, or win rates exist for this deck, so the ceiling and median are both text-based inference and were not averaged from card scores. Popularity of the Sky Striker archetype does not earn points here; the usage data only confirms that the archetype core is real.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 45, Going First ≈ 44, Going Second ≈ 40, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: Engine conflicts (off-archetype Branded, Greed, Mulcharmy, Solemn pieces) (-5); Banlist exposure (Forbidden cards in the list) (-4); Hard-garnet / brick burden (-3). Final formula: 0.80*Structural(45) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) = 44, plus context modifiers (-12) = 32; Illegal list capped to 25 (structural-only, not a normal Final score). Meta Power provisional.

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

• Redundant Sky Striker Ace Link routes (Kagari, Zero, Raye, Roze) give several ways to reach a board
• Broad interaction: 11 hand traps and 16 negation-text cards
• Pot draw spells add card flow in a 55-card Main Deck

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: Forbidden and over-limit cards
• 41% off-archetype copies dilute the engine
• No Side Deck and no post-side plan
• No recorded boards or meta data to confirm performance

Critical choke points

• Mobilize-Linkage and Raye as the turn-1 starters, each about 25% to be in the opening 5
• Forbidden Albion and the over-limit Engage and Fallen copies would be removed by legal construction, weakening the plan

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 3 Forbidden cards and 4 over-limit cards; Main 55 and Extra 15 counts are within format size rules; Card text, types and stats from the evidence cards list; Archetype core present ratio (13 of 24 core cards)
• Observed: Usage statistics show the Sky Striker archetype core is commonly run (inclusion 50-90%)
• Inferred: Opening-hand consistency for the starters (hypergeometric estimate); Interaction quality from negation and hand-trap text; Pilot burden and combo routes from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit: no dated metagame sample or tournament link
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN for this format Data inconsistency: Sky Striker Ace - Kagari appears in cards (Extra x3) but is listed as not in deck in usage_statistics.missing_core; the copy count was taken from cards Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample Deck title is null