Sky Striker Deck #773220 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 32/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Stun
• 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: Link Summon Sky Striker Ace link monsters (Zero, Kagari, Raye-based end boards) and attack through a Spell-fueled board; Sky Striker Ace - Raye and Lemnisgate recursion into repeated Ace summons
• Turn 1 (going first): Turn 1: Sky Striker Mobilize - Linkage! or Engage! to search or recur a Sky Striker Spell/Ace, Raye to enable Extra Deck summons, then link out toward Zero/Kagari
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre and Droll to protect the first Link Summon; use Upstart Goblin / Pot of Desires for card flow and Widow Anchor or Mystical Space Typhoon to clear a blocking backrow
• Recovery: Sky Striker Spells in the GY (Lemnisgate, Engage!, Mecha effects) re-enable Ace summons from Deck or GY after a board wipe or hand-trap exchange
• After siding: Not evaluable: side count is 0, so no sided plan exists in this list

Why it scores here

Scored as a system on the evidence list only; no card scores were averaged. The deck is Illegal (Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring at 3 copies against an OCG limit of 2), so the final score is capped low and the evaluation is structural-only. Its engine opens reasonably often: the archetype core group has about a 98.8% chance of at least one card in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred), and Sky Striker Spells in the GY give the Link Aces a real recovery route. Interaction is dense, with 9 hand traps and 18 negation-text cards plus Solemn Judgment and Droll, which supports going second. The deck's weakness is structural: 40 of 55 main-deck copies are off the exact Sky Striker name, the Extra Deck runs 14 Links with many ace variants, and no recorded boards exist to confirm a median or ceiling. Popularity and archetype usage do not earn points; they only confirm the list is real and accessible.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange 100% (Toolbox secondary, not blended into weights). Structural ≈ 44.7, Going First ≈ 46, Going Second ≈ 41, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: illegal_copy_limit (-12). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); Illegal-deck cap applied via modifier

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

• Dense hand-trap and negation suite (9 hand traps, 18 negation-text cards) for going second
• Sky Striker Spell recursion gives a plausible recovery route after disruption
• Full 15-card Extra Deck with 8 Link Aces and recursion/ace-summon enablers

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring at 3 copies (limit 2)
• Only 42.9% exact Sky Striker purity; 40 of 55 main copies are off-name, weakening engine cohesion
• No side deck (side 0), so no post-side adaptability
• No recorded boards, so ceiling and median cannot be checked

Critical choke points

• Sky Striker Ace - Raye and the Spell-count gate on Link Aces: without 3+ Spells in the GY, several engines stall
• Single copies of Solemn Judgment and Droll & Lock Bird are the only answer to some boards (1-copy restricted cards)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Illegal, 55 main / 15 extra / 0 side; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring 3 copies vs limit 2; Card text and types for all listed cards; Sky Striker archetype purity 42.9% exact-name; 30 Sky Striker copies in archetype_spread
• Inferred: Engine consistency estimate from hypergeometric probabilities (P(3-copy card in hand5)=0.25; archetype core group in hand5 = 0.99); Brick risk from 38 level-0 Spell/Trap cards in 55 main; Interaction density from text read (9 hand traps, 18 negation-text cards, 21 removal-text cards); Going-first and going-second estimates
• Provisional: Meta power and archetype meta share (no dated metagame sample, no tournament link)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry: going-first/second and matchup rates are unknown Usage statistics conflict with the card list: missing core cards reports Camellia, Amatsu, Zeke, Azalea, Hayate, Shizuku and Kagari as absent (in this deck false), but each appears in cards[] as an Extra Deck card with copies 1-3. Core-present % (62.5) is unreliable and was not used for scoring Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon and Sky Striker Mecha - Hornet Drones are genuinely absent from the list Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck title is null; scored from archetype and card list only