Sky Striker Deck #773330 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Combo, 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: Link-chain pressure: Sky Striker Ace link monsters (Raye, Zeke, Kagari, Zero, Azalea) convert Sky Striker Spells in the GY into board and attacks, with Super Starslayer TY-PHON - Sky Crisis as a late-game Xyz finisher.; Hand-trap and Solemn-based negation to win the interaction exchange and let the Link engine go unopposed on the field.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Sky Striker Mobilize or Raye starter, use Mobilize - Linkage!, Widow Anchor, or Hornet Drones to reach a Link Summon, and keep Ash, Droll, or Solemn up for the opponent's first answer.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold 2 to 3 hand-traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Droll and Lock Bird, Solemn Judgment) to stop the opponent's first board, then rebuild the Link engine from the GY with Lemnisgate or Camellia.
• Recovery: Use Sky Striker Spells in the GY for recursion (Lemnisgate, Camellia, Raye GY effect) and draw or search with Pot of Desires, Upstart Goblin, and Radiant Typhoon Vision to rebuild after a broken opening.
• After siding: Not available: the deck has no Side Deck (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

This deck is Illegal in OCG because it runs 3 copies each of Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and The Fallen & The Virtuous, where the limit is 2; per the rubric it is capped and evaluated as theoretical/structural only. Structurally the system opens its engine reliably: 32 archetype-core copies give about 99% odds of at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred), and Sky Striker Spells in the GY give recursion. Its interaction density is high, with 9 hand traps and 17 negation-text cards, so it can contest the opponent's first board, especially going second (about 68% for at least one hand-trap in a 6-card hand, Inferred). Weaknesses are the 0-card Side Deck, the 40% exact-archetype purity with 42 off-archetype copies (Branded, Solemn, Greed, Harpie, and others), and the Albaz/Ecclesia Extra-Deck cards without a main-deck Fallen of Albaz starter. Popularity did not earn points: 5 of the 8 most-used core cards (per usage_statistics) are not in this list, and the score was built from the deck's dimensions, not by averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: primary Midrange profile; secondary Combo noted for Link-engine character but not blended into weights. Structural ≈ 62, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: illegal_copy_limit (-30); no_side_deck (-4). Final formula: Illegal deck: standard formula not applied; capped at 30 as theoretical/structural only. Structural 62 = Midrange-weighted dimensions; Tournament Reliability 50; Meta provisional/null.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.99 · 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 Sky Striker starters are multi-copy (Mobilize Linkage x3, Raye x3, Widow Anchor x3), giving high odds of a live engine on turn 1.
• Layered interaction: 9 hand traps plus Solemn and Droll give strong going-second defence.
• GY recursion via Spells (Lemnisgate, Camellia, Raye) lets the engine rebuild after disruption.

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: two cards over their OCG copy limits.
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation.
• Low exact-archetype purity (40%) with 42 off-archetype copies, including Branded, Solemn, Greed, Harpie and Mulcharmy.
• Albaz Dragon and Ecclesia Extra cards have no main-deck Fallen of Albaz enabler.

Critical choke points

• The Link engine depends on Sky Striker Spells in the GY; a single early disruption can leave an empty GY and no follow-up.
• Many conditional Sky Striker effects require an empty Main Monster Zone, which fails when the opponent forces a monster onto the field.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Illegal, with Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and The Fallen & The Virtuous each run 3 copies against a limit of 2.; Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0; main and extra sizes are within OCG size rules.; Card text and banlist status for the listed cards come from the evidence pack.; Usage stats: 16 of 24 core cards present (66.7%).
• Inferred: Consistency: core-archetype group p(at least one in 5-card hand) about 0.99; hand-trap group 0.677 going second.; Interaction density from role tags (9 hand traps, 17 negation text cards) and card text.; Recursion and resource-economy reads from card text.; Going-first and going-second dimension reads.
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample).; Matchup and format fit (no tournament link or meta sample).
• 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, going-second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown. Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample. Deck is Illegal, so the standard Final Contextual formula was not applied.