Sky Striker Deck #772707 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Sky Striker Ace link-summon pressure (Zero, Kagari, Raye and Ace Link routes) backed by a Toolbox main deck; Off-archetype extra-deck finishers (Red-Eyes Black Dragon Exceed, The Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon) when the Sky Striker link route is unavailable
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Sky Striker Mobilize - Engage! or Linkage! and Sky Striker Ace - Raye, then Link Summon into Kagari/Zero while protecting the first line with Ash Blossom and Ghost Ogre
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Droll & Lock Bird and Evenly Matched as hand traps to break the opponent's first Link or Synchro, then rebuild a Sky Striker line from the resulting interaction
• Recovery: Spend Mobilize or Radiant Typhoon Vision for draws, use Upstart Goblin and Pot of Desires to refill, and re-Link from the Sky Striker Spells left in the GY
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs zero side-deck cards, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal because Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is run three times against an OCG limit of two, so it receives a structural-only score capped at 35 and is not a normal contextual score. Structurally the deck has real strengths: ten hand traps and fourteen negation-text cards give it strong interaction density (D7 74, Inferred), and its searchers and draw spells keep the Sky Striker link line reasonably accessible (D1 60, Inferred). The weaknesses are the main-deck bloat (56 cards, 38% exact archetype purity), a high-brick main including Lava Golem and situational spells (D2 48), and the complete absence of a side deck (D12 10, which removes any post-side plan). No combo boards were supplied, so ceiling and median are text-only inferences and no win-rate or meta data exists; popularity in the archetype's usage statistics confirmed the list is real but earned no points. The per-dimension scores were weighted into a Toolbox structural profile (about 55) and were not averaged from individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: 0.8 Toolbox / 0.2 Midrange (approximate; primary profile used for weights). Structural ≈ 54.6, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 46. Modifiers: Illegal list cap (-7.9); Banlist exposure (-3); No side deck (-4); Engine conflicts (-3). Final formula: Pre-cap: 0.80*Structural(54.6) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(46) + ContextModifiers(-10) ≈ 42.9; Illegal cap applied → 35. Meta Power null (provisional).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ — · 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

• Ten hand traps and fourteen negation-text cards give strong interaction density
• Multiple Sky Striker starters (Mobilize Engage, Linkage, Raye, Widow Anchor) provide redundancy
• Draw and search density (Upstart Goblin, Pot of Desires, Radiant Typhoon Vision, Mulcharmy) supports resource recovery

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy count of Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring (3 vs 2)
• Zero side-deck cards, so no post-side plan
• Low archetype purity (38%) and a bloated 56-card Main Deck
• Lava Golem and situational spells raise brick risk

Critical choke points

• Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is the main hand trap and is currently illegal in the list
• The Sky Striker Link route depends on a small number of Extra Deck monsters (Zero x3, Kagari x2)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main Deck 56 and Extra Deck 15 fall within the OCG size rules (main 40–60, extra 0–15); Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is run 3 copies against a legal limit of 2; The deck has zero side-deck cards; Ten hand traps and 14 negation-text cards in the composition
• Inferred: Interaction density ≈ high (D7 74); Starter accessibility and searcher redundancy (D1 60); Brick risk from Lava Golem and situational spells (D2 48); Going-second strength from hand traps (D8 66)
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13 50)
• Data gaps: Usage statistics report 7 core Link cards (Camellia, Amatsu, Zeke, Hayate, Azalea, Shizuku, Kagari) as missing even though all appear in the Extra list. The usage matcher appears to ignore Extra-zone copies, so the missing_core list is unreliable. No combos supplied; combo ceiling, median and floor are text-only inferences No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) Deck title is null Side deck is empty, so no post-side evidence exists Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied