Sky Striker Deck #772597 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 55/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link-summon Sky Striker Ace monsters (Zero, Kagari, Camellia, Zeke, Azalea and others) from Extra Deck with spell-driven setup, then extend into larger Link boards and direct attacks.; Super Starslayer TY-PHON - Sky Crisis (1 copy) as a late-game XYZ finisher, plus Forbidden Droplet and Raigeki for going-second board clears.
• Turn 1 (going first): Turn 1: Sky Striker Mobilize - Linkage! or Mecha - Widow Anchor / Mobilize - Engage! to find or reach an Ace, then Link Summon an Ace from the Extra Deck while the Main Monster Zone is empty.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Raigeki, Harpie's Feather Duster, or Forbidden Droplet to strip the opponent's board, then rebuild with Sky Striker spells and an Ace Link Summon.
• Recovery: Recur Sky Striker spells from the GY with Ace - Kagari, Ace - Shizuku, and Lemnisgate once 3 or more Spells are in the GY, then rebuild Link material with Ace monsters and Hornet Drones' Ace Token.
• After siding: None. The deck runs an empty Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan in the evidence.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Sky Striker starter in most hands: Linkage, Raye, Engage, Widow Anchor and Hornet Drones together give roughly 85% at-least-one in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred), and the Extra Deck of 14 Link monsters plus one XYZ gives it a strong ceiling for converting that starter into a multi-Link board. Its median is weaker: 35 spells and only 5 Main Deck monsters mean many Sky Striker effects are conditional on an empty Main Monster Zone, and 19 off-archetype copies (Raigeki, Upstart Goblin, Forbidden Droplet, Radiant Typhoon Vision and others) dilute the engine. Interaction is spell-speed-limited with no hand traps, and the empty Side Deck removes any post-side plan. The score comes from consistency, median output and interaction evaluated on the whole 40+15 system; neither the archetype's popularity nor an average of individual card scores was used.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 62.5, Going First ≈ 67, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 51. Modifiers: No side deck (-3); Single-copy Limited starter (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (no dated meta; Meta provisional) = 0.80*62.5 + 0.20*51 - 5 = 55.2

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.85 · key two-card combo ≈ 0.08 · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.15 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense Extra Deck of 14 Link Aces gives multiple Link routes and redundancy for the main engine.
• Spell-GY economy: Kagari, Shizuku, Lemnisgate and Area Zero recover Sky Striker spells, supporting long-game grind.
• Layered interaction in the Main Deck: Raigeki, Feather Duster, Forbidden Droplet, Jamming Waves, Afterburners, Shark Cannon.
• Usage statistics confirm the core Ace lineup (Raye, Zeke, Hayate, Shizuku) is mostly present, so the list is standard and real.

Weaknesses

• Only 5 Main Deck monsters, so most spells are conditional on an empty Main Monster Zone and Link material is scarce.
• 19 off-archetype copies (Raigeki, Upstart Goblin, Droplet, Radiant Typhoon Vision, Triple Tactics Thrust, Hand Destruction and others) dilute the engine.
• No hand traps or floodgates, so opponent interaction such as Ash Blossom and Droll is not answered at speed.
• Empty Side Deck: no post-side plan for best-of-3.
• Single-copy TY-PHON XYZ is a narrow, conditional slot.

Critical choke points

• Going first, the Linkage / Engage / Raye / Widow Anchor / Hornet Drones starter set is the single access point for the engine; a hand with none of them is effectively bricked.
• Almost every Sky Striker spell needs an empty Main Monster Zone, so an opponent's monster or an early Main Deck monster removes many follow-ups.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal OCG list: 40 Main (copy limits respected), 15 Extra, 0 Side; no violations.; Limited/Semi-Limited copy counts: Harpie's Feather Duster 1, Reinforcement of the Army 1, Hornet Drones 1, Mobilize - Engage 2.; Composition: 35 Spells and 5 Main Deck monsters; 14 Link + 1 XYZ in Extra; exact-name purity 65.5%.; Hypergeometric: P(at least one copy of a 3-copy card in a 5-card hand) = 0.3376.
• Observed: Usage statistics show Sky Striker Ace Links (Camellia, Amatsu, Zeke, Hayate, Azalea) at 77–92% inclusion in the archetype.
• Inferred: At-least-one-starter ≈ 0.85 (going first), ≈ 0.90 (going second), from a 12-card starter-set approximation.; The Combo primary strategy and Toolbox secondary are read from card text plus composition.; Interaction quality is judged from card text only; no interaction win-rate data exists.
• Provisional: Meta Power is null: no dated metagame sample was supplied.; Format fit (D13) is Provisional: archetype share is absent.
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median, and ceiling are text-only inference (combos_evidence.total_combos = 0). No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent. usage_statistics in_this_deck flags contradict cards[] for seven Extra-Deck Ace Links (Camellia, Amatsu, Zeke, Hayate, Azalea, Shizuku, Kagari), which are present in this deck. missing_core and core_present_pct (48%) are therefore unreliable; this evaluation treats cards[] as the source of truth. No win-rate telemetry exists (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates); all such signals are Inferred. Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied.