Sky Striker Deck #772671 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 40/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link-chain of Sky Striker Ace monsters into Extra Deck Ace boss monsters (Sky Striker Ace - Zeke / Zero / Azalea, Super Starslayer TY-PHON - Sky Crisis) for board pressure and direct attacks; Hand-trap and negation-supported disruption (Ash Blossom, Artifact Lancea, D.D. Crow, Solemn Judgment, Forbidden Crown) to win the board after the opponent's first summon
• Turn 1 (going first): Sky Striker Mobilize - Engage! / Linkage! to search a Sky Striker card, then Link Summon Ace monsters off Sky Striker Ace - Raye / Roze and Mecha Hornet Drones or Widow Anchor for a board
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold up Ash Blossom, D.D. Crow and Artifact Lancea (12 hand traps) to answer the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Ace Link Summons and Mobilize searches
• Recovery: Spells in the GY enable Sky Striker Mecha - Shark Cannon, Lemnisgate!, and the Ace summons' GY effects; the deck relies on Mobilize and Upstart Goblin / Pot of Desires to refill hand
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no Side Deck (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck's 32 Sky Striker core copies make it very likely (P(at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand) ≈ 0.99, Inferred) that a starter is live on turn 1, which is where most of the consistency credit comes from. Interaction is broad rather than deep: 12 hand traps and 15 negation/removal text cards give it multiple answers to a first-turn summon or Spell/Trap activation, and the Link-based Ace monsters give a credible closing board. The score is capped low for two reasons, not because of popularity: the list is Illegal (3 copies of a Semi-Limited card), and there is no combo data, no tournament link, and no Side Deck, so floor, median and post-side performance are not measurable. Only 42.9% of the main deck is the exact Sky Striker archetype, with 40 off-archetype copies (Forbidden, Artifact, Greed, Mulcharmy, Radiant Typhoon, D.D., and 18 generic cards), which dilutes engine coherence. The score was built from the 14 system-level dimensions on the Combo weight profile, not by averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 57.5, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-2). Final formula: No reliable metagame, so Meta is provisional: 0.80*57.5 + 0.20*50 = 56.0; modifiers -2 gives 54.0; deck is Illegal (copy limit), so the normal Final is not applied and the score is capped at 40 as a theoretical, structural-only read

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.99 · 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

• Very high probability that at least one Sky Striker core card is live in the opening hand
• 12 hand traps and 15 negation/removal cards give layered answers
• 14 Link/1 Xyz Extra Deck with a coherent Sky Striker Ace theme

Weaknesses

• Illegal: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring run at 3 copies, over the Semi-Limited limit of 2
• No Side Deck, so no best-of-3 adaptation
• Only 42.9% exact-archetype purity; 40 off-archetype copies dilute the engine
• No combo or tournament data to confirm floor or median output

Critical choke points

• Sky Striker Mobilize searches and Spell count in GY gate many effects (Shark Cannon, Lemnisgate!, Ace GY effects)
• Going first with few hand traps depends on the Mobilize/Ace chain not being interrupted

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 3 copies of Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring vs legal limit 2 (Illegal); Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0 counts and archetype spread; Card text and stats for all listed cards; Copy histogram and role-hint counts
• Observed: Usage statistics show the Sky Striker core is the deck's archetype standard (inclusion % from the export)
• Inferred: Starter probability ≈ 0.99 for the core group in 5 cards; Interaction density and hand-trap coverage read from card text; Going-first and going-second estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power (null: no dated metagame sample); D13 matchup/format fit and D12 side adaptability (no data)
• Data gaps: Illegal copy limit: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring run 3 copies against a Semi-Limited limit of 2, so the deck gets no normal Final score No combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No Side Deck (side_count 0); no best-of-3 data usage_statistics.in_this_deck is false for Sky Striker Ace - Camellia, Amatsu, Zeke, Hayate, Azalea, Shizuku and Kagari, but those cards are present in the cards list (copies 1 or 3); the stats join looks inconsistent and was not used for core-presence scoring No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN; going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or unknown