Sky Striker Deck #770432 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 36/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Tempo, Toolbox
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 57 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 8 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link-based Sky Striker Ace board with Extra Deck Link and Synchro/Xyz follow-up (Inferred from card text; no recorded boards); Super Starslayer TY-PHON - Sky Crisis and Lava Golem as large-body follow-up (Inferred from card text)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Sky Striker searcher (Mobilize - Engage!, Linkage!) or Radiant Typhoon searcher, then Special Summon Sky Striker Ace and Link up. Forbidden and over-limit cards cannot legally be run, so this plan is theoretical only.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Ghost Ogre, Droll and Lock Bird, Nibiru) to answer the opponent's first board, then continue through Sky Striker Ace Link summons. Theoretical only until the copy counts are fixed.
• Recovery: Recover through Sky Striker Mecha - Hornet Drones and Radiant Typhoon searchers, plus Mulcharmy draw effects, to rebuild hand after one interruption (Inferred).
• After siding: No side deck is supplied (Side Deck size 0), so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck's score is structural only because it is illegal: eight cards exceed their copy limits, including four Forbidden cards (Called by the Grave, Triple Tactics Talent, Anti-Spell Fragrance, Albion the Branded Dragon), so no normal contextual score is given. Consistency is the strongest part of the system: 15 archetype-core copies give P(at least one in a 5-card opening hand) of about 0.80, and about 0.63 for 10 searcher-text cards. Hand traps (10 cards, about 0.70 for at least one in a 6-card hand going second) and Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre and Infinite Impermanence give real end-board interaction. Conversion and median output cannot be measured because the evidence has no recorded boards, so those scores are text-only inferences. The archetype's exact-name purity is only 37.5%, with Radiant Typhoon, Mulcharmy, Branded, Greed and Dominus cards mixed in, which lowers main-deck efficiency and pilot error tolerance. Archetype popularity (usage stats) confirms the list is recognisable but earned no points, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: balanced (default; strategy is Midrange with Tempo/Toolbox secondaries). Structural ≈ 50, Going First ≈ 54, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: illegal copy-limit cap (-12); banlist exposure (0). Final formula: Theoretical only. 0.80*Structural(50) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) = 48 before the illegal-deck cap; the cap is the -12 modifier (maximum allowed), giving 36. Meta provisional.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.8 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.2 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Archetype core of 15 copies gives about 0.80 access to a Sky Striker starter in an opening hand
• Ten hand traps and 13 negation texts give strong going-second interaction
• Link-heavy Extra Deck offers multiple summon routes from the Sky Striker Ace core

Weaknesses

• Eight cards exceed their legal copy limits, including four Forbidden cards, so the list cannot be played as built
• Archetype purity is 37.5%; Radiant Typhoon, Mulcharmy, Branded, Greed and Dominus cards dilute the engine
• No side deck, so there is no adaptation plan
• No recorded boards, so conversion and median output cannot be verified

Critical choke points

• Sky Striker Mobilize - Engage! and Linkage! as the only consistent Sky Striker searchers
• Single-copy Mystical Space Typhoon and Harpie's Feather Duster for backrow removal
• Albion the Branded Dragon (Forbidden) is the only Branded Fusion route, so removing it changes the Branded support

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Eight copy-limit violations and four Forbidden cards (legality); Banlist statuses for all restricted cards; Main 57 and Extra 15 counts are within size rules; Archetype purity 37.5% (composition); Core usage: Sky Striker Ace - Camellia and S:P Little Knight are absent from the list
• Observed: Usage statistics confirm the Sky Striker core is real and accessible (26 stat rows)
• Inferred: Consistency estimates from hypergeometric draw odds (about 0.80 starter access, about 0.20 brick); Interaction and going-second estimates from card text; Dimension scores D1 to D11 and D14 from text and composition
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and D13 matchup fit: no dated metagame sample; Side deck adaptability (D12): no side list
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry; going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred Meta Power provisional without a dated metagame sample No side deck supplied; post-side plan cannot be assessed