forbidden Deck #770540 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Sky Striker link-chain board: Sky Striker Ace Link monsters (Zero, Kagari, Azalea, Zeke) convert recursed Sky Striker spells into attacks and piercing/direct pressure.; Dogma (Fusion) and Ecclesia (Synchro) finishers via Albaz/Ecclesia support, which is sparse in this list.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Sky Striker Spell (Mobilize, Linkage, Widow Anchor) while controlling no monsters, summon Raye or Roze, and link into Ace Link monsters; keep hand traps for the opponent's first answer.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash, Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre, Droll) against the starter, then Solemn or Forbidden Droplet/Crown to clear or neutralize the board; Pot draws rebuild.
• Recovery: Pot of Sloth and Pot of Desires draw; Sky Striker spells in the GY are recycled by Kagari, Lemnisgate and Camellia.
• After siding: Not available: the list runs 0 side-deck cards, so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system: a Sky Striker starter package (Mobilize, Linkage, Widow Anchor, Raye, Roze) feeding Sky Striker Ace Link monsters, supported by 11 hand traps and 18 negation-text cards. Its reliable strength is interaction: it protects its starters and ends the opponent's turn with Solemn, Forbidden Droplet and Forbidden Crown. Recorded combo data is absent, so the conversion and median dimensions are text-only inference and carry low weight in confidence. The deck is illegal as built, with Ash Blossom and The Fallen & The Virtuous each run at 3 copies against a 2-copy limit, so the score is capped and reported as structural-only. Popularity was not rewarded: the Sky Striker archetype share and usage stats confirm the list is real but do not raise the score. No card scores were averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 53, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Banlist exposure: copy-limit violations (-12). Final formula: Illegal cap: 0.80*Structural(53) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) + modifiers(-12) = 39, capped at 30 for an Illegal list; structural-only. Meta provisional.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.51 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.49 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Layered interaction: hand traps, Solemn-family negations, and Forbidden Droplet/Crown.
• Draw density from Pot of Sloth, Pot of Desires, Upstart Goblin, and Radiant Typhoon Vision.
• Sky Striker recursion via Kagari, Lemnisgate and Camellia gives some recovery.

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: two cards exceed their copy limits.
• No side deck, so there is no best-of-3 adaptation.
• Low exact-archetype purity (5.7%); the engine is spread across Sky Striker, Greed, Solemn, Branded, Mulcharmy and Radiant Typhoon.
• Fusion and Synchro finishers (Dogma, Ecclesia) are weakly supported.

Critical choke points

• The Sky Striker starter count (Mobilize, Linkage, Widow Anchor, Raye, Roze) is the single gate for the engine; the proxy brick rate is about 0.49.
• The Ace Link monsters depend on Sky Striker spells in the GY, so a clean board reset can strand the recursion.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality is Illegal: Ash Blossom and The Fallen & The Virtuous each run 3 copies against a 2-copy legal limit.; Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0; Main and Extra counts are within size rules.; Limited cards (Droll & Lock Bird, S:P Little Knight, Sky Striker Mecha - Hornet Drones, Solemn Judgment) are each run once.
• Observed: Sky Striker is the dominant sub-archetype (29 copies), with 13 Link monsters in the Extra Deck.
• Inferred: Starter access estimates (0.25 per 3-copy card, 0.51 for the core group) and the brick proxy (0.49).; Interaction density from hand traps and negation text.; Midrange strategy classification.
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit: no dated metagame sample and 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 match record are absent. No win-rate telemetry: going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown. Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied. No side deck and no guides attached.