Sky Striker Deck #770607 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: 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 (Zero, Kagari, Raye-driven boards) and attack with Spell-GY ATK boosts and direct damage from Sky Striker Ace - Hayate.; Hand-trap and removal-driven board control (Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre, Lightning Storm, Mystical Space Typhoon) to win a longer game.
• Turn 1 (going first): Mobilize - Engage! or Linkage! to search a Sky Striker card, pivot into Sky Striker Ace - Raye or Zero, and Link Summon into Zeke/Azalea while keeping Ash Blossom up.
• Turn 2 (going second): Open with hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre, Droll & Lock Bird) to stop the opponent's first summon, then rebuild a Link board from the Spell-heavy GY.
• Recovery: Recover through Sky Striker Mobilize searches, Sky Striker Special Maneuver - Lemnisgate! recursion of Ace and Spell cards, and Mulcharmy Fuwalos draw.
• After siding: Not applicable: the deck has no Side Deck, so no post-side plan exists in the submitted list.

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal as submitted: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and The Fallen & The Virtuous are each run three times against a legal limit of two, so the structural read below is theoretical only and the final score is capped. Structurally the list is a Link-driven Sky Striker shell with a dense hand-trap and negation layer (11 hand traps, 13 negation-text cards), which earns interaction and going-second credit. Its opening-hand consistency is moderate: each three-copy starter has roughly a 25% chance of appearing in a five-card opener, and the 33 Spells plus 37 level-0 cards raise brick risk. No combo boards, guides, win rates, or tournament results exist for this deck, so the combo floor, median, and ceiling are text-only inferences. Popularity and archetype usage were not counted as power, and the score was not produced by averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary with the Balanced-style Toolbox weights blended at roughly 80/20 for D8 and D11 (disclosed approximation). Structural ≈ 51, Going First ≈ 48, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-3). Final formula: Raw: 0.80*Structural(51) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) = 48.8; minus 3 banlist modifier = 45.8; Illegal legality cap applied, theoretical/structural-only, final 35. Meta Power provisional (null).

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

• Layered negation and hand-trap package (11 hand traps, 13 negation-text cards) for interruption.
• Strong going-second hand-trap density (about 76% chance of at least one hand trap in a six-card hand).
• Recursion routes through Sky Striker Mobilize searches and Lemnisgate! recovery.

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy counts on two Semi-Limited cards make the list unplayable as submitted.
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation.
• High Spell and level-0 density (33 Spells, 37 level-0 cards) raises brick risk.
• No combo data, guides, or tournament results to confirm the floor, median, or ceiling.

Critical choke points

• Extra Deck Link Ace summons: most of the engine stops without a live Sky Striker Ace in the Extra Deck route.
• Mobilize searches that enable Spell-GY boosts and recursion.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 counts within the TCG size rules.; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and The Fallen & The Virtuous run 3 copies against a legal limit of 2 (Semi-Limited).; Limited cards Droll & Lock Bird, Harpie's Feather Duster, Reinforcement of the Army, and Solemn Judgment run at legal 1-copy limits.; Composition: 33 Spells, 12 Link monsters, 3 Fusion monsters, 11 hand-trap-tagged cards.
• Observed: Archetype usage: Sky Striker core cards appear in the archetype usage table; this deck runs 22.7% of the listed core cards.
• Inferred: Starter consistency: about 25% per three-copy starter in a 5-card opener.; Hand-trap coverage: about 76% for a six-card going-second hand.; Engine route redundancy from Mobilize, Lemnisgate!, and Mulcharmy recursion.
• Provisional: Meta and matchup fit (D13) and any tournament reliability, because no dated meta sample or tournament link exists.
• 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/second, matchup, brick/starter rates). Meta Power provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied. No Side Deck submitted.