forbidden Deck #770549 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Tempo, Toolbox
• 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 monsters (Kagari, Zero, Zeke, Azalea) chaining Sky Striker spells into board pressure and direct attacks; Dragon that Devours the Dogma and Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon from the Extra Deck, although their Albaz and Ecclesia support cards are absent from the Main Deck
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Sky Striker starter (Linkage!, Engage!, Widow Anchor) or a searcher, then Link Summon a Sky Striker Ace to push the board while spell-based interaction (Mystical Space Typhoon, Twin Twisters, Mecha Shark Cannon) clears the opponent's setup
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the hand-trap suite (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Ghost Belle, Evenly Matched, Droll and Lock Bird) to stop the opponent's first engine and then rebuild a Link board from the remaining hand
• Recovery: Recursion through Sky Striker Ace monsters returning from the GY and spell recycling via Sky Striker Mobilize - Engage!, Radiant Typhoon Vision and Sky Striker Special Maneuver - Lemnisgate!
• After siding: Not assessable: the deck runs no Side Deck (side_count 0), so no post-side plan exists in the evidence

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal as submitted: three copies each of Ash Blossom and The Fallen and The Virtuous exceed their Semi-Limited limit of two, so the normal Final Contextual score is capped and this evaluation is theoretical and structural only. Structurally it is a Sky Striker Midrange shell with a Link-heavy Extra Deck, and its starter access is modest: each three-copy starter has about a 25 percent chance of appearing in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred, hypergeometric). Its interaction density is high, with 13 hand traps and about 15 negation and removal texts, so it scores on resilience and end-board interaction rather than on combo output. No combo boards, tournament record, guides or side deck exist in the evidence, so combo, meta and side-deck dimensions rest on text inference or are provisional. Popularity and the archetype's stated usage did not earn points, and no card scores were averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 48.8, Going First ≈ 47, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: Banlist and copy-limit exposure (-15); Engine dependency and conflict (-2). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*48.8 + 0.20*42 - 17 = 30.4; capped as theoretical-only because the deck is Illegal

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

• High hand-trap and negation density gives strong interruption resilience and going-second coverage
• Link-heavy Extra Deck with redundant Sky Striker Ace routes gives multiple ways to convert a starter
• Spell recycling through Sky Striker Ace monsters supports recovery after a disruption

Weaknesses

• Illegal as submitted: two cards exceed their copy limits
• Low starter density for three-copy engine pieces (about 25 percent in an opening hand)
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Dragon that Devours the Dogma and Ecclesia depend on archetype cards absent from the list

Critical choke points

• The Sky Striker Ace Link summon chain depends on having a Sky Striker Ace in hand or GY and spell count in the GY
• Hand-trap coverage depends on a small number of key Semi-Limited and Limited cards

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main Deck is 56 cards and Extra Deck is 15, within size rules; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and The Fallen & The Virtuous exceed the Semi-Limited limit of two; No Side Deck is present (side_count 0); Card texts and banlist status come from the resolved card data
• Observed: Composition counts: 13 hand traps, 15 negation texts, 20 removal texts, 5 searcher texts
• Inferred: Starter accessibility is roughly 25 percent for three-copy starters in a 5-card hand (hypergeometric); Hand-trap reach on the going-second hand is about 81 percent; Interaction density is high and supports resilience and end-board quality; Going-first and going-second power estimates are text-based
• Provisional: Meta Power is null: no dated metagame sample; Matchup and format fit (D13) rest on archetype-level context only
• 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 absent no win-rate telemetry; 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 performance cannot be evaluated no guides attached for the archetype