Forbidden Deck #773218 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Stun, 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: Sky Striker Ace link monsters and Surgical Striker - H.A.M.P. pressure after Sky Striker Mobilize searches and Special Summons (Inferred from card text); Hand-trap and negate interaction (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Droll & Lock Bird, Dark Ruler No More) to protect the board and grind the opponent out (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Sky Striker Mobilize or Special Maneuver starter, search a Sky Striker Ace, Link Summon Zeke, Azalea or Zero for board presence (Inferred; no recorded boards)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre or Droll to answer the opponent's first engine play, then convert through Sky Striker Ace Raye or Roze (Inferred)
• Recovery: Sky Striker searchers (Mobilize Engage, Mobilize Linkage, Ace Shizuku, Ace Kagari) and draw spells (Pot of Desires, Upstart Goblin, Radiant Typhoon Vision) to refill the hand (Inferred)
• After siding: Not available: the deck has 0 Side Deck cards, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

This is a Sky Striker link-engine list with a heavy interaction suite, and it is scored as a system rather than from its cards. Its archetype core is present at about 56% in the opening five (Inferred), and six Sky Striker searchers and draw spells give it some recovery. The interaction density (9 hand traps, 18 negation-text cards, 21 removal-text cards) is the strongest part of the list and earns the largest dimension score. Popularity and the Sky Striker archetype share did not earn points, and no card scores were averaged into the deck score. The list cannot be scored normally because Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is run three times against a Semi-Limited limit of two, so the final score is capped at 30 and labelled structural-only. There are no recorded boards, no tournament link and no side deck, so the ceiling, median and post-side dimensions are low-confidence reads.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, 0 Stun secondary weight applied; primary profile used per rubric. Structural ≈ 53, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: illegal_copy_limit_cap (-12). Final formula: Illegal cap: 0.80*Structural(53) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) + modifiers = ~40 before cap; capped at 30 (theoretical/structural only). Meta Power null (provisional).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.56 · 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

• Dense interaction: 9 hand traps and multiple negate and removal effects
• Draw and search redundancy from Pot of Desires, Upstart Goblin, Radiant Typhoon Vision and Sky Striker searchers
• Extra Deck uses most of its 15 slots on the Sky Striker link web

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy count on Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring (3 vs limit 2)
• No side deck, so no best-of-3 plan
• High hand-trap and tech count raises brick risk
• No recorded combo boards to measure the real floor and median

Critical choke points

• Sky Striker Ace monster on board is needed for most Mobilize and link lines
• Opponent's first engine play must be answered by a hand trap; a single answer can be the whole turn

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0; sizes within the OCG rules; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring run 3 vs Semi-Limited limit 2 (Illegal); Archetype core 8 copies; Sky Striker 30 cards; 14 Link monsters in the Extra Deck; Restricted cards Droll & Lock Bird, Harpie's Feather Duster, Reinforcement of the Army and Solemn Judgment each run 1 copy within Limited limit
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter probability (~0.56) and brick risk from hypergeometric estimates; Interaction density read from card text (hand traps, negation, removal); Going-first and going-second plans from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit: no dated metagame sample or tournament link; Median output (D4): no combo boards exist
• 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 and going-second splits unknown no side deck; post-side adaptability unmeasured Meta Power provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied