Sky Striker Deck #770548 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Stun
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Sky Striker Ace link-chain into Ace-based boss monsters (Zero, Kagari, Hayate, Zeke, Azalea), with Mobilize and Lemnisgate recursion feeding Spells into the Graveyard; Ecclesia and Dragon Dogma Fusion/Synchro boss through the Albaz/Ecclesia subpackage (only 1 copy each, so unreliable)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Sky Striker Mobilize - Engage! or Mecha Hornet Drones (both need an empty Main Monster Zone) to fetch an Ace, then Link-summon toward Raye/Roze into Ace-based links; hand traps held for the opponent's first interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre and Droll as hand traps against the opponent's starter; go to the engine after the board is cleared
• Recovery: Rebuild from Graveyard Spells: Lemnisgate and Kagari/Shizuku recover Sky Striker Spells; Ghost Belle and Ghost Ogre recover Graveyard monsters after a hand-trap play
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs 0 side cards, so there is no post-side plan at all

Why it scores here

The deck's score comes from its system: the Sky Striker engine (29 exact-name copies, with the 17-card archetype core giving a Inferred ~85% chance of at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand) and a 13-card hand-trap suite that gives a Inferred ~81% chance of having one when going second. Its Extra Deck is compact (13 Link, 1 Fusion, 1 Synchro), which helps Extra Deck efficiency. Its ceiling is text-based only, since no recorded boards exist, and its median output cannot be measured. The deck is capped low because it is illegal: Ash Blossom and The Fallen & The Virtuous are each run 3 times against a 2-copy Semi-Limited limit, and it has no side deck to adapt. Popularity did not earn points: the archetype core is only 32% present in this list, and 42 of 56 Main Deck cards are off the exact archetype name, so this is a splash-heavy, off-archetype build. Card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo primary (structural weights); Stun is recorded as the secondary strategy but its weights are not blended. Structural ≈ 54, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Illegal copy-limit violations (-12); Banlist exposure (-4); No side deck (-3); Off-archetype dilution (-3); Recursion-dependent engine (-2). Final formula: Structural-only (Illegal deck). Uncapped 0.80*54 + 0.20*45 = 52.2 + modifiers -9 = 43, then capped at 30 for copy-limit violations; Meta provisional/null

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.85 · 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

• Engine density: 29 exact Sky Striker cards and an 85% core-access estimate
• Real hand-trap suite (13) with strong going-second coverage
• Compact, Link-heavy Extra Deck with 1 Fusion and 1 Synchro for flexibility

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: two cards over their Semi-Limited copy limit
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Splash-heavy: 42 of 56 Main Deck cards are off the exact archetype name
• No recorded combos or tournament data; the ceiling is text-only

Critical choke points

• Sky Striker Mobilize - Engage! and Mecha - Hornet Drones require an empty Main Monster Zone to start the engine
• Ace link chains depend on a populated Graveyard of Sky Striker Spells for recursion
• Going second depends on a single hand trap landing before the opponent's starter

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0; main size is within the 40–60 rule; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and The Fallen & The Virtuous are each over copy limit (3 vs 2); Limited and Semi-Limited statuses for the restricted cards as listed; Type, race, attribute and text for every distinct card
• Inferred: ≈85% chance of at least one archetype-core card in a 5-card opening hand; ≈81% chance of at least one hand trap in a 6-card going-second hand; Dimension scores for consistency, recursion and interaction quality
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and archetype meta-share (no tournament link); D13 matchup and format fit
• Data gaps: Deck title is null; the deck is identified only by archetype and id No combos supplied (total_combos 0), so D3/D4 are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and pilot match record are absent No win-rate telemetry; going-first/second, matchup, and brick/starter rates are Inferred Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No side deck, so D12 has no performance data