Sky Striker Deck #773435 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 58/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Link Summon
• Format: master-duel

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Sky Striker Mobilize chains (Linkage / Engage) fetch Sky Striker cards and enable Sky Striker Ace Link Summons (Zero 2000 ATK, Kagari, Zeke, Camellia, Azalea) that build repeatable 1500-2000 ATK link boards; Raye/Roze Ace monsters and Sky Striker Ace Link recursion through the GY spell count; Exciton Knight as a situational board wipe
• Turn 1 (going first): T1: Mobilize Linkage or Engage (or Hornet Drones / Eldam) to set up a Sky Striker Ace Link Summon and keep Ash Blossom, Droll and Infinite Impermanence up as hand traps
• Turn 2 (going second): Open with Ash Blossom, Droll and Infinite Impermanence to disrupt the opponent's first summon or search, then extend through Radiant Typhoon or Sky Striker Ace Links
• Recovery: Spell recursion via Lemnisgate, Kagari and Zeke, plus Ace Link re-summons, rebuilds the board from the GY
• After siding: Not applicable: Master Duel is ranked best-of-one and the list runs 0 side cards

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a starter in most hands: nine starter-enablers (six Mobilize Linkage/Engage, Hornet Drones, Eldam, Swen) give about a 74% chance of at least one in the opening five, and the Sky Striker Ace Link extra deck is internally coherent, so the engine converts into repeated link boards. Interaction is layered rather than single-threaded: three Ash Blossom, two Droll and Lock Bird, two Infinite Impermanence, Maxx C, Crossout Designator and Widow Anchor cover the first summon, the search and the board, and the going-second hand-trap chance is about 76%. Recovery is real but spell-count dependent, since Lemnisgate, Kagari, Zeke and Hornet Drones all need Spells in the GY. The score comes from consistency, median output and interaction across the whole system, not from averaging card scores and not from Sky Striker's popularity, which earned no points since no meta share or win-rate data exists here. Points are held back by dead or conflicting slots: Albion the Branded Dragon needs Fallen of Albaz, which is absent, and the Branded, Ecclesia and Radiant splash does not feed the Ace engine; there is also no side deck for Bo1 adaptation.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 62, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 56. Modifiers: Dead or conflicting splash (-3); Limited-card exposure (0). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; D13 dropped from Structural and weights renormalized over the remaining 95)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.74 · 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

• Consistent Sky Striker starter count with redundant Mobilize copies (3+3)
• Layered hand-trap and negate suite (Ash x3, Droll x2, Impermanence x2, Maxx C, Crossout, Widow Anchor)
• Strong GY-spell recursion across Kagari, Zeke, Lemnisgate and Hornet Drones
• Legal under Master Duel limits; no banned cards

Weaknesses

• Albion the Branded Dragon is a dead Extra slot without Fallen of Albaz
• Half the Main Deck is not Sky Striker (50.9 percent exact purity)
• No side deck and no post-side plan in a best-of-one format
• Heavy reliance on GY spell count for many effects

Critical choke points

• Mobilize Linkage or Engage, the only T1 engine-starters besides Hornet Drones/Eldam/Swen
• Limited Hornet Drones (one copy) for token-based boards

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal: 40 Main / 15 Extra / 0 Side, all Limited and Semi-Limited copies within limit; Copy histogram 14 x1, 7 x2, 4 x3 sums to 40; Albion requires Fallen of Albaz, which is not in the resolved card list; Eight hand-trap or negate-role cards and 12 searcher-text cards by role tags
• Inferred: P(>=1 starter in opening 5) ≈ 0.74 and going-second hand-trap chance ≈ 0.76; Engine consistency and interaction layering from card text; Structural and final scores derived from the Midrange profile
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13)
• 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/second, matchup, starter or OTK rates) usage_statistics in_this_deck flags are false for Extra Deck cards (Kagari, Zero, Zeke, Camellia, Azalea, Hayate, Shizuku, Amatsu, Ecclesia, Albion) that the cards list shows as present; core-card presence is understated Fallen of Albaz is not in the deck, so Albion and Ecclesia mode 1 cannot be used deck title is null Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied