Sky Striker Deck #772734 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Stun
• 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: Sky Striker Ace Link-Summon board: Link Aces from the Extra Deck supported by Sky Striker Spells; Hand-trap and negation control (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Solemn Judgment) that protects the board
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Sky Striker Mobilize - Linkage! or Engage!, which need no monsters in the Main Monster Zone, to reach an Ace Link, then Link into Zero or Kagari (Inferred from card text)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre, Evenly Matched, Droll) to answer the first summon or activation, then rebuild with Ace Link summons
• Recovery: Raye and Roze from hand plus Widow Anchor and Shark Cannon from the Main Deck; Lemnisgate! recurs Aces and Spells from the GY
• After siding: None: Side Deck size is 0, so the list has no post-side plan

Why it scores here

This list is an illegal OCG build: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and The Fallen & The Virtuous are each run three times against a limit of two, so the normal Final score is capped at 35 and the evaluation is structural-only. The Sky Striker engine is coherent at the system level, with 28 exact-name Sky Striker copies and a core group that opens almost always (P≥1 ≈ 0.99 in a 5-card hand), but no single Main Deck starter opens reliably (Mobilize - Linkage! P≥1 ≈ 0.25 in hand 5). Interaction is the strongest part of the list: 12 hand traps, 17 negation-text cards and 22 removal-text cards carry the going-second and end-board profile. The deck has no side deck, so the best-of-three plan, the matchup read and tournament reliability all score low, and the Dragon that Devours the Dogma depends on a Fallen of Albaz card that is not in the list. Archetype popularity confirms the list is real but earned no points, and no card scores were averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 65, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: copy-limit violations (-8); no side deck (-4). Final formula: Illegal cap: min(0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + Modifiers, 35) = min(0.80*57 + 0.20*45 - 12, 35) = min(42.6, 35) = 35; theoretical/structural-only (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · 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

• Coherent Sky Striker Link engine: 28 exact-name copies, and the core group almost always opens
• Dense interaction: 12 hand traps and 17 negation-text cards for going second and end-board protection
• Full Extra Deck (15/15) with broad Link coverage

Weaknesses

• Copy-limit violations on Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and The Fallen & The Virtuous make the list illegal
• No side deck, so no post-side plan
• Off-archetype cards (42 of 70) dilute the engine
• Dragon that Devours the Dogma depends on Fallen of Albaz material that is absent from the list (Inferred)

Critical choke points

• Sky Striker Mobilize - Linkage! is the only three-copy starter; P(≥1 in 5 cards) ≈ 0.25
• Several openers (Linkage, Engage, Widow Anchor, Shark Cannon) require no monsters in the Main Monster Zone, which restricts the opening

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55 and Extra 15 are within size rules; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and The Fallen & The Virtuous are over the copy limit (3 vs 2); Side Deck size is 0; Sky Striker exact-name purity is 40%
• Observed: No recorded boards (total combos 0)
• Inferred: Mobilize - Linkage! starter P≈0.25 in a 5-card hand; Sky Striker core group P≥1 in hand 5 ≈ 0.99; Hand-trap coverage P≥1 in a 6-card hand ≈ 0.79; Dragon that Devours the Dogma and Ecclesia lack their Albaz material
• Provisional: Matchup and format fit; Meta Power
• 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 No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample No side deck, so post-side performance cannot be assessed Fallen of Albaz absent from the list; Dragon Dogma and Ecclesia effects known only from excerpts