Greed Deck #770541 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Toolbox
• 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: Link Summon Sky Striker Ace monsters (Kagari, Zero, Zeke, Azalea) and attack with the Ace engine; Sky Striker Ace - Raye Tribute and Special Summon chain plus Link-board pressure; The Dragon that Devours the Dogma only with Ecclesia or Fallen support
• Turn 1 (going first): Sky Striker Mobilize - Linkage! or Sky Striker Ace - Raye as a starter, then Link-summon from the Extra Deck while the Main Monster Zone is empty
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, Ghost Belle & Haunted Mansion, Droll & Lock Bird and Forbidden Droplet to answer the opponent's first engine, then rebuild the Sky Striker board
• Recovery: Sky Striker Ace - Raye and Sky Striker Mecha - Widow Anchor recover from the GY; Mobilize - Engage! and Radiant Typhoon Vision search and draw
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no Side Deck and no post-side data exists

Why it scores here

The list is Illegal: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and The Fallen & The Virtuous are each run three times against a Semi-Limited limit of two, so it is capped low and scored as a theoretical, structural-only read. Its Sky Striker core is real: the 3-copy starters give roughly a 25% chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand, and 13 Link monsters plus Fusion and Synchro in the Extra Deck give it real access to Link-based pressure. Its interaction density is high (11 hand traps, 18 negation texts, 20 removal texts), which supports a strong going-second plan, but the 65 off-archetype copies mean the list does not run a coherent Greed engine. No combo boards, usage stats, tournament link or Side Deck exist, so the score rests on card text and hypergeometric estimates rather than observed output. Popularity and archetype label played no role in the score, and no card scores were averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Stun secondary as a qualitative read only; weights are the Midrange profile. Structural ≈ 52.5, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: Illegal copy-limit violations (-15); Banlist exposure (-4); No Side Deck (-3); Archetype label mismatch (-2). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 50.4 before modifiers, then capped to 35 because the list is Illegal (theoretical/structural-only); 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

• Sky Striker Link engine with a 13-Link Extra Deck and multiple Ace monsters
• Dense hand-trap and negation package (11 hand traps, 18 negation texts) for going second
• Draw and search support: Pot of Sloth, Pot of Desires, Upstart Goblin, Mobilize - Engage!, Radiant Typhoon Vision

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy counts on two Semi-Limited cards
• Off-archetype dilution: exact-name purity 7.1%, so the Greed label does not describe the list
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan for best-of-3
• Starter access depends on conditions such as an empty Main Monster Zone

Critical choke points

• An empty Main Monster Zone is required by most Sky Striker starters
• Starter density is 3-copy cards with low hand odds (about 25% in a 5-card opening hand)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and The Fallen & The Virtuous each run 3 copies against a legal limit of 2; Size is legal (55 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side) for tcg; Card text and stats for all 37 distinct cards; Banlist: Limited and Semi-Limited cards as listed in restricted_cards
• Inferred: Starter access is roughly 25% per 3-copy group in a 5-card opening hand; Interaction density and going-second answer set; Midrange primary profile with Stun secondary, a qualitative read; Brick risk from conditional Sky Striker effects and off-archetype dilution
• Provisional: Meta Power and format fit (no dated metagame sample exists); Going-first and going-second power values (no game-level data)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no archetype usage statistics: core and meta-standard comparison unavailable no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN: going-first, going-second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No Side Deck: post-side plan cannot be evaluated