Sky Striker Deck #773324 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link Summon chains of Sky Striker Ace Link monsters (Zeke, Azalea, Camellia, Kagari, Hayate, Shizuku) that build attacking boards of 1500-2000 ATK, supported by Sky Striker Ace Raye and Zero recursion; Fusion or Synchro closers from the Extra Deck (The Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon, Garura) when the Link chain is interrupted
• Turn 1 (going first): Sky Striker Mobilize - Engage! or Mobilize - Linkage! with no monsters in the Main Monster Zone to fetch or Special Summon a Sky Striker Ace, then Link Summon through Ace-based material
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Droll & Lock Bird) to break the opponent's starter, then Link Summon from a Sky Striker Ace Special Summoned from the hand or Extra Deck
• Recovery: Sky Striker Ace - Raye and Sky Striker Special Maneuver - Lemnisgate! recur Sky Striker Aces and Spells from the GY to rebuild Link material
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan (D12 scored as a gap)

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a starter: the Sky Striker archetype core has a 97.7% chance of at least one card in a 5-card opening hand, and the Main Deck carries five Mobilize and Special Maneuver starters plus searchers that reach Aces. Its Link-based Extra Deck and recursion from Raye, Zero and Lemnisgate let it rebuild after one interruption. Interaction is the strongest component, with 12 negation-text cards and 5 hand traps plus Lightning Storm and Mystical Space Typhoon, which covers both going-first and going-second turns. The score is held down by three copy-limit violations that make the list illegal, a non-existent Side Deck, a 45-point median output (no recorded boards), and a spell-heavy Main Deck (44 spells, 11 monsters) with 14 tech cards that raise error exposure. Popularity (Sky Striker is the archetype's standard list) earned no points, and the score was built on the system rather than by averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 56, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: copy-limit violations (Ash Blossom, The Fallen & The Virtuous, Super Polymerization each run 3, legal 2) (-10); no side deck (-2). Final formula: Illegal list: 0.80*Structural(56) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) = 54 before modifiers; modifiers -12 gives 42; capped to 35 for illegal status. Theoretical/structural only. Meta provisional.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.98 · 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

• Core Link Ace chain is accessible (97.7% at least one archetype card in hand 5)
• Strong interaction density: 12 negation-text and 11 removal-text cards, 5 hand traps
• Extra Deck is well covered: 10 Link, 4 Fusion and 1 Synchro with the key Link Aces
• Recursion through Raye, Zero and Lemnisgate

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy-limit violations on three cards
• Empty Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Spell-heavy Main Deck (44 spells, 11 monsters) with 14 tech cards
• No recorded boards, so combo floor and median cannot be measured

Critical choke points

• Sky Striker Ace monsters as Link material: many lines need a live Ace before a Link Summon
• Mobilize starters need an empty Main Monster Zone, so an early monster removes the opening

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Three copy-limit violations (Ash Blossom, The Fallen & The Virtuous, Super Polymerization) under the OCG Semi-Limited list; Main 55 and Extra 15 are within the OCG size rules; Archetype core inclusion and composition figures from the export
• Inferred: Starter accessibility 0.977 and searcher access 0.51 from hypergeometric draw estimates; Negation and removal density from card text; Going-first and going-second estimates from text, not from boards
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament data); Side deck adaptability (no side deck registered)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Side Deck is empty