Sky Striker Deck #773400 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 63/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link-chain Sky Striker Ace monsters (Zero, Kagari, Engage Zero, Zeke, Azalea) and Raye/Roze Ace pressure, using Mobilize and Mecha starters to get the board going; Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon / Albion the Branded Dragon as high-ATK closers, if their enablers are reachable
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a Sky Striker Mobilize or Mecha starter (empty Main Monster Zone), search or Special Summon an Ace, and Link-summon into Kagari or Zero for board and extra draws
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Droll and Lock Bird, Ghost Ogre, Maxx C) to break the opponent's first line, then transition into Ace Link summons
• Recovery: Recur Sky Striker spells and Raye from the GY via Lemnisgate and Mobilize, then rebuild with Link Summons from the Extra Deck
• After siding: Not applicable: Master Duel is a single-game format and the deck runs no side deck

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a live engine: about 14 starter-type cards (six Sky Striker Mobilize, three Mecha Widow Anchor, one Hornet Drones, three Raye, one Roze) give roughly a 90% chance of at least one in a five-card opening hand (Inferred, hypergeometric). Its interaction layer is dense, with eleven hand traps and several negate or removal spells, which supports a strong going-second plan (about 88% chance of at least one hand trap in six cards, Inferred). Conversion is strong on paper because thirteen Link monsters, including triple-copy Kagari and Zero, give a high ceiling, but no recorded boards exist, so the floor and median are text-only estimates. Popularity and archetype usage stats confirm the list is a real, accessible build, and they earned no points by themselves. The score was built from the system's consistency, interaction and closing power, not from averaging card scores. Points are held back for the conditional empty-Main-Monster-Zone starters, two Extra Deck slots with weak enablers, and the absence of side and matchup data.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 68, Going First ≈ 68, Going Second ≈ 73, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-2); engine compactness (2); Extra Deck dead weight (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); 0.80*67.8 + 0.20*55 = 65.4, then modifiers -2 = 63.4 → 63

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.9 · 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

• High starter access from about 14 starter-type cards (Inferred ~0.90 in a 5-card hand)
• Eleven hand traps plus Mystical Space Typhoon and Forbidden Crown give layered interaction
• Thirteen Link monsters, including triple-copy Kagari and Zero, give a high ceiling and extra-deck access
• Compact main deck with a single engine theme (52.7% exact-name purity)

Weaknesses

• No recorded combo boards, so floor and median are text-only
• Several starters need an empty Main Monster Zone, which conflicts with other board-building lines
• Ecclesia and Albion have weak enablers in this list
• Triple Tactics Talent is conditional (needs an opponent monster effect during your Main Phase)
• Zero side deck and no matchup data limit D12 and D13

Critical choke points

• Sky Striker Mobilize needs an empty Main Monster Zone; if the opening hand is Mobilize-only with a monster out, it may not convert
• Raye (3 copies) is the main Ace source in hand and only ~0.34 to draw in 5
• Hornet Drones (1 copy, Limited) is a single starter route

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in master-duel; 40 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side within size rules; Restricted cards are within legal copies: Limited 1 copy each, Semi-Limited 2 copies each; Card text and role hint tags from the evidence excerpts; Usage statistics: 27 archetype rows, core cards and typical copy counts
• Inferred: P(≥1 starter-type card in 5) ≈ 0.90 and P(≥1 Mobilize in 5) ≈ 0.58 from hypergeometric estimates; Going-second hand-trap coverage ≈ 0.88 in six cards; Interaction density and closing power from card text; Extra Deck access for Ecclesia and Albion is weak without a Fallen-of-Albaz enabler
• Provisional: Meta Power is null; matchup fit (D13) is Provisional without a dated meta sample; Side-deck adaptability (D12) is not applicable in a single-game format
• Data gaps: No combos supplied (combo data total 0): combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference Usage statistics conflict with the cards array: 10 core entries (e.g. Kagari, Zero, Hayate, Azalea, Zeke, Camellia, Ecclesia, Albion, Amatsu, Shizuku) are flagged in this deck false but appear in the cards list. core-card presence (60%) is unreliable; this scoring uses the cards array No tournament link: archetype meta share and per-pilot match record are absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first/second, matchup, brick or starter rates Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample No Fallen of Albaz card in the list, so Ecclesia and Albion enablers cannot be confirmed