Sky Striker Deck #773408 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 61/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link-chain from Sky Striker starters into Sky Striker Ace - Zero, Engage Zero and Camellia boards, closing with direct attacks (Hayate) and recursion from the GY (Raye, Lemnisgate).; Hand-trap and negation stall (Ash, Droll, Ghost Ogre, Infinite Impermanence, Forbidden Crown) that keeps the opponent off a board while the Link engine comes online.
• Turn 1 (going first): Turn 1 Sky Striker Mobilize - Linkage!, Engage!, Hornet Drones or Widow Anchor while no monsters are in the Main Monster Zone, then Link Summon an Ace (Raye, Roze, Kagari, Zero) from the Extra Deck.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold a hand trap (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Ghost Ogre, Infinite Impermanence, Maxx C) to break the opponent's first summon or search, then rebuild the Link board from the starter that remains.
• Recovery: Raye and Lemnisgate recur from the GY; Engage, Reinforcement of the Army, Radiant Typhoon Vision, Kagari and Zero search Sky Striker cards back to hand.
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; any sideboarding must be built in future lists.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional plan: 16 of its 40 Main Deck cards are Sky Striker starters or Aces, giving roughly a 94% chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand (hypergeometric, Inferred), and the going-second hand-trap density (11 cards, P of at least one in a 6-card hand about 0.88) gives it strong interaction for both turn orders. The Link engine converts through many independent Link summons, and recursion from the GY supports a second and third starter after disruption. The score is not earned by Sky Striker's popularity or by averaging card scores; it comes from consistency, interruption resilience and interaction on the system. Points are held back by the absence of a Side Deck, by 47% off-archetype copies, by Albion the Branded Dragon and Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon having no clear route in the list, and by the absence of any recorded combo boards to confirm the ceiling.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 67.7, Going First ≈ 70, Going Second ≈ 72, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: No Side Deck (-3); Limited key cards (-2); Unreachable Extra Deck cards (-2); Engine compactness (2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional, no dated meta sample): 0.80*67.7 + 0.20*60 - 5 = 61

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.94 · 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 Sky Striker starter package with 3-copy redundancy across Linkage, Engage, Widow Anchor and Raye
• 11 hand traps plus 12 negation-text cards give strong going-second interaction
• 13 real Link Extra Deck cards with multiple recursion and search routes

Weaknesses

• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan
• 47% off-archetype copies dilute the engine
• Albion and Ecclesia have no clear summon route
• No recorded combo boards to confirm the ceiling or median

Critical choke points

• Sky Striker Mobilize - Linkage!, Engage! and Hornet Drones all need an empty Main Monster Zone; a monster on board before they resolve removes that opener
• Raye and Roze are the only Main Deck Aces, so Extra Link Aces depend on Zero or Kagari being reached

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in Master Duel: 40 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side; Limited and Semi-Limited copy counts respected; Composition: 16 starter-class cards, 11 hand traps, 12 negation-text, 10 removal-text, 13 Link Extra Deck cards; Archetype purity 52.7% exact name; 26 off-archetype Main copies; Usage stats: 15 of 25 core cards present (60%)
• Observed: Usage stats show 25 core Sky Striker cards with inclusion around 60 to 100%
• Inferred: At least one starter in a 5-card hand about 0.94 (hypergeometric); Hand trap at least one in 6 going second about 0.88; Going-first and going-second power estimates from card text; Albion and Ecclesia have no clear summon route
• Provisional: Meta power (null) and matchup fit (D13) need a dated metagame sample
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry; going-first, going-second and matchup signals are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied