Sky Striker Deck #772743 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: 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, Hayate, Zeke, Azalea) and push damage with ATK from Spell-based recursion; no recorded lines to confirm it works.; Field control from Raigeki, Lightning Storm, Harpie's Feather Duster and Mystical Space Typhoon-style removal followed by a Link board.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Sky Striker Mobilize or Raye starter, use Mobilize - Linkage! and Hornet Drones to set up the Extra Monster Zone, and Link into Zero or Kagari (Inferred from card text).
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Droll & Lock Bird and Nibiru to answer the opponent's first summon, then use Raigeki or Lightning Storm to clear the board (Inferred).
• Recovery: Recover Spells from the GY through Mobilize - Engage! and Kagari's search, and rebuild the Link board from Raye and Mecha monsters (Inferred from text; no combo data).
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has 0 Side Deck cards, so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck is illegal in OCG: it runs 3 copies each of Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and The Fallen & The Virtuous against a Semi-Limited limit of 2, so the score is capped and labelled structural-only. Structurally it is a Link-based Sky Striker engine with 10 hand traps and 14 negation-text cards, so its interaction breadth is its best trait (D7 60). Its main-deck efficiency is poor: 36 of 55 cards are Spells, 19 are tagged tech, and 26 distinct cards are spread thin (D10 30). The two The Dragon that Devours the Dogma copies in the Extra Deck need Fallen of Albaz, which the main deck does not run, so they are likely dead slots (Inferred from card text). No combos were supplied, so the ceiling and median are text-only inference, and the Side Deck is empty. Popularity and archetype usage do not add points, and no card scores were averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 43, Going First ≈ 42, Going Second ≈ 40, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: Illegal copy-limit cap (-11). Final formula: Illegal cap: 0.80*Structural(43) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(35) = 41, then capped to 30 by the illegal-deck rule (theoretical/structural-only)

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

• Broad hand-trap and negation coverage (10 hand traps, 14 negation-text cards).
• Link-heavy Extra Deck with real ATK ceilings (Zero, Kagari).

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy counts for two Semi-Limited cards.
• 36 Spells and 19 tech cards make the deck thin and brick-prone.
• Two Dogma Extra slots need Fallen of Albaz, which is absent from the main deck.
• Empty Side Deck.

Critical choke points

• Ash Blossom and Mobilize - Linkage! as the main opening interaction and starter.
• Sky Striker Ace monsters needed for Link Summons are not reliably present.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0; legal size range for OCG.; Ash Blossom and The Fallen & The Virtuous both run 3 copies against limit 2.; Limited cards run 1 copy each.; Extra Deck: 13 Link, 2 Fusion.
• Observed: Usage stats show Sky Striker core cards in the archetype pool (27 rows).
• Inferred: Starter access and brick rate from hypergeometric odds and text.; Dogma summonability needs Fallen of Albaz (card text).; Interaction breadth from text role tags.
• Provisional: Meta Power and archetype meta-share (no dated metagame sample).
• Data gaps: Illegal copy counts make the Final score theoretical only. No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference. No tournament link; archetype meta-share and match record absent. Usage-stat inconsistency: Camellia, Kagari, Zeke, Hayate, Azalea, Shizuku and Amatsu show in this deck=false and appear in missing core cards, but they are present in the Extra Deck card list, so usage matching for Extra cards looks wrong. archetype core probability (0.9924) rests on that inconsistent usage matching and was not used. No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN.