forbidden Deck #770608 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Tempo
• 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 Ace Link monsters (Zero, Kagari, Zeke, Azalea) building board pressure, supported by Sky Striker spell recursion from the Graveyard; Stun-style disruption with hand traps and Lightning Storm / Harpie's Feather Duster clearing the opponent's backrow and attack-position monsters
• Turn 1 (going first): Search or draw a Sky Striker Mobilize (Engage! or Linkage!) to start a Spell-based Link line, using Upstart Goblin and Triple Tactics Thrust for card flow; holds Ash Blossom and Droll for the opponent's first responses
• Turn 2 (going second): Six-card hand with 11 hand traps (P at least one hand trap in 6 cards ~0.76, Inferred) to negate or destroy the opponent's first engine card, then rebuild through Sky Striker Ace monsters
• Recovery: Sky Striker Spells recovered from the GY (Ace - Raye, Camellia, Shizuku text) to re-enable Link Summons; depends on having 3+ Spells in the GY
• After siding: None: the deck runs an empty Side Deck (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

This deck is Illegal as submitted: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and The Fallen & The Virtuous are each run 3 times against a limit of 2, so the score is capped and labelled structural-only. Scored as a system, its Structural value is about 49: the Sky Striker Link engine is accessible through 9 searchers and 2 Mobilize copies, but a 5-card hand contains a given 3-copy starter only about 25% of the time (Inferred), and 33 of 55 Main Deck cards are Spells, which produces a high brick and conditional-dead-card rate. Its interaction is the stronger half, with 11 hand traps, Lightning Storm, Harpie's Feather Duster and Solemn Judgment supporting a going-second plan. Popularity of the Sky Striker archetype was not credited, and card scores were not averaged. The Side Deck is empty and no combos, win-rate or tournament data exist, so the post-side, matchup and meta dimensions stay low or provisional.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary; Stun secondary (not used for weights in this run, Structural uses Midrange only). Structural ≈ 48.9, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); dependence on one Extra-Deck card (-3). Final formula: Illegal cap: computed 0.80*48.9 + 0.20*42 + modifiers (-11) ≈ 36.5, capped to 30 as structural-only theoretical read (Meta 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

• 11 hand traps and multiple negation/removal options across the going-second window
• 9 searcher-text cards give a reasonable chance of finding a Mobilize
• Layered backrow and monster removal (Lightning Storm, Harpie's Feather Duster, Solemn Judgment)
• Sky Striker Link monsters have clear recursion routes from the GY

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy counts on two cards (3 Ash Blossom, 3 Fallen & The Virtuous)
• 33 Spells in 55 Main cards and 18 Main Deck monsters: high brick and dead-card risk plus thin Link fodder
• Empty Side Deck: no post-side adaptability
• The Dragon that Devours the Dogma is a dead Extra slot without Fallen of Albaz
• Heavy reliance on 'no monsters in Main Monster Zone' conditions that fail once the board is developed

Critical choke points

• Access to a Sky Striker Mobilize (≈0.25 per 3-copy card in 5 cards) starts most Link lines
• Monster count for Link materials; a board with no Main Deck monsters stalls the engine
• Opponent's first interaction into an unprotected Link board (no side deck, low monster density)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 counts and size rules; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and The Fallen & The Virtuous exceed legal copies (3 vs 2); Limited and Semi-Limited status on 7 listed cards; Card text for Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Lightning Storm, Solemn Judgment, Sky Striker Ace Zero and Raye
• Inferred: P(at least 1 Mobilize in 5 cards) ≈ 0.25 and P(hand trap in 6 cards) ≈ 0.76 (hypergeometric); Midrange strategy classification from composition and interaction density; Link engine ceiling and floor read from text only (no recorded boards); Interaction quality on the end board
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup/format fit (D13) pending a dated metagame sample; Post-side performance (no side deck to measure)
• 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) Side Deck is empty so post-side cannot be assessed Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied