Sky Striker Deck #772683 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Tempo, Link, Toolbox
• Format: ocg

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, Roze) into 1500-2000 ATK boards, supported by Spell recursion from the GY; Fusion Summon via Super Polymerization (only 2 Fusion Monsters in the Extra Deck, so this is a thin route)
• Turn 1 (going first): Turn 1 Sky Striker Mobilize - Linkage! or Mecha - Widow Anchor / Raye to open a Sky Striker Ace search or Extra Monster Zone play, then Link Summon Zero or Kagari. Hand traps are held for the opponent's turn.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Ghost Belle, Droll and Lock Bird, Evenly Matched) to break the opponent's first combo, then rebuild a Link board from Raye, Roze and Mobilize - Engage!
• Recovery: Recover Sky Striker Ace monsters from the GY through Zero, Raye and Lemnisgate!, then re-search via Engage! and Mobilize; Radiant Typhoon Vision and Pot of Desires supply the card flow
• After siding: Not possible: Side Deck size is 0, so there is no post-side plan in this list

Why it scores here

The list is Illegal (Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Super Polymerization are each run 3 times where OCG allows 2), so this is a theoretical, structural-only read capped at 35 rather than a normal Final Contextual score. Structurally the deck is a coherent Sky Striker Link engine: roughly 0.85 probability of at least one starter in an opening hand (Inferred), several independent starters (Raye, Roze, Mobilize - Linkage!, Mobilize - Engage!, Widow Anchor, Lemnisgate!), and an 11-card hand-trap suite that gives it strong end-board and going-second interaction. Its weaknesses are a low confidence floor (no recorded boards, so median output is unmeasured), a thin Fusion route, 27 Spell cards that can brick hands, and no Side Deck, which removes any post-side adaptability. Structural power was computed on the Combo profile at about 61, but the legality cap applies. Popularity (Sky Striker archetype usage of about 86% for the core Ace monsters) confirms the list is real and accessible but was not credited as power, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 61, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: Illegal copy-limit violation (-12). Final formula: Illegal list: theoretical/structural-only. Structural 61 (Combo profile) and Tournament Reliability 50 are reported, but the Final score is capped at 35 by the Illegal rule. The unconstrained 0.80*61 + 0.20*50 = 59 is not reported as the final score.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.85 · 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

• Several independent starters (Raye, Roze, Mobilize - Linkage!, Mobilize - Engage!, Widow Anchor) give good turn-1 access
• 11 hand traps provide layered interaction and strong going-second answers
• Link-based Extra Deck with 13 Link monsters gives flexible summoning routes

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy counts: 3x Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and 3x Super Polymerization against a limit of 2
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptability
• 27 Spells and conditional hand traps create dead-hand risk
• Only 2 Fusion monsters make Super Polymerization a thin route

Critical choke points

• Mobilize / Widow Anchor / Raye turn-1 play: if the opponent answers these, the Link board needs a second starter
• Hand-trap timing on the opponent's turn, which requires holding the right card

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: two cards over copy limit (OCG BanList); Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 sizes within OCG main 40-60 and extra 0-15 limits; Per-copy hypergeometric probabilities (3-copy 0.2529, 1-copy 0.0909); No side deck (Side Deck size 0)
• Observed: Core Ace monsters appear in about 86-92% of archetype lists (usage stats, not power)
• Inferred: At least one starter in an opening hand is about 0.85; Structural score about 61 on the Combo profile; Hand-trap and end-board interaction strength; Ceiling and pressure estimates from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: Deck list is Illegal (two cards over the OCG copy limit), so no normal Final score is possible No combos supplied, so floor, median and ceiling are text-only No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent No win-rate telemetry; going-first and going-second splits are Inferred No side deck, so post-side performance cannot be assessed Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample