Sky Striker Deck #772667 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Stun, Link Summon
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link-chain into Sky Striker Ace monsters (Zeke, Azalea, Zero, Kagari, Hayate) whose ATK and direct-attack text pressure the opponent once the board is established.; Raigeki and Hayate direct attacks as a finisher when the opponent's board is cleared.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Sky Striker Mobilize - Engage! or Linkage! (searchers, 5 copies total) and Raye / Roze to reach the Extra Deck Link monsters while keeping Ash Blossom and Droll up as interaction.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, Ghost Belle & Haunted Mansion, Droll & Lock Bird) and Solemn Judgment / Forbidden Droplet to break the opponent's line, then rebuild the Link board from the Deck.
• Recovery: Sky Striker Mecha - Hornet Drones and Sky Striker Mecha - Widow Anchor give a Main Monster Zone-empty plan; Sky Striker Special Maneuver - Lemnisgate! returns Ace monsters and Spells from the GY, and Sky Striker Ace - Shizuku adds a Sky Striker Spell on Special Summon.
• After siding: None. The deck has no side cards, so there is no defined post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck opens reliably: the archetype-core proxy is about 0.98 for at least one core card in an opening 5, and 6 searcher-text cards put a starter in hand about 69% of the time going first. Its interaction is the strongest part of the system, with hand traps, Solemn Judgment, Forbidden Droplet, Mystical Space Typhoon, Raigeki and Harpie's Feather Duster giving layered answers to both board and spell/trap plays. Conversion to a Link board is plausible from the card text, but no recorded boards exist, so ceiling and median are text-based inference only. Score is not from popularity: Sky Striker usage stats confirm the list is real, not that it is strong, and the individual card scores were not averaged. The list is Illegal (Ash Blossom and The Fallen & The Virtuous at 3 copies against a limit of 2), so the Final Contextual score is capped at 30 and the result is theoretical only, and the empty side deck caps adaptability.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 58, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-4). Final formula: Illegal cap applied. Uncapped no-meta formula: 0.80*Structural(58) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) + modifiers(-4) = 51; final capped at 30 because the list breaks copy limits. Theoretical/structural read only.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.69 · 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 interaction: ten hand traps plus Solemn, Droplet, MST, Raigeki and Harpie's
• Compact 15-card Link Extra Deck with Sky Striker synergy
• High archetype-core presence (proxy 0.98 for at least one core card in hand 5)

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy counts: Ash Blossom and The Fallen at 3 copies each
• No side deck, so no post-side plan
• Low exact-name purity (41.4%) with 18 generic and 6 Radiant Typhoon cards

Critical choke points

• Sky Striker Mobilize - Engage!/Linkage! searchers: 5 copies total is the main starter access
• Link-summon legality depends on Main Monster Zone being empty for several Sky Striker effects

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal: Ash Blossom and The Fallen at 3 copies vs legal 2; Main 55 and Extra 15 are within size rules; Side 0; Extra composition: 13 Link, 1 Synchro, 1 Fusion
• Inferred: Hypergeometric draw odds; Dimension scores D1-D11 from card text; Strategy read: Combo with Midrange/Stun support
• Provisional: Meta Power and D13 matchup fit (no dated meta sample); Tournament reliability
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent usage statistics.missing core cards lists Sky Striker Ace - Camellia, Amatsu, Zeke, Hayate, Azalea, Shizuku, Kagari and Mulcharmy as not in deck, but cards[] lists Camellia, Amatsu, Zeke, Hayate, Azalea, Shizuku and Kagari in the Extra Deck; cards[] was used as the source of truth No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) Side deck is empty, so no post-side evidence