Sky Striker Deck #773581 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 60/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link-summon Sky Striker Ace link monsters (Kagari, Zero, Camellia, Zeke, Azalea) from the Extra Deck, using Ace monsters from the field, and let their on-summon and on-field effects convert the board into pressure.; Fusion Summon one of the four Fusion Monsters (Garura, Mudragon, Predaplant, Favorite HERO Shining Flare Wingman) through the two Super Polymerization copies; a low-frequency line.
• Turn 1 (going first): With no monsters in the Main Monster Zone, play Sky Striker Mobilize - Linkage! (x3) or Sky Striker Mobilize - Engage! (x2) to add or summon a Sky Striker Ace or Sky Striker card, then Tribute Sky Striker Ace - Raye to Special Summon an Ace from the Extra Deck and link from there.
• Turn 2 (going second): Respond to the opponent's first play with a hand trap (Ash Blossom and Joyous Spring x3, Ghost Ogre and Snow Rabbit x2, Maxx C, or Droll and Lock Bird), then use Sky Striker Mecha - Widow Anchor (x3) or Forbidden Droplet (x3) to negate or control the opponent's monster and rebuild the Ace board.
• Recovery: Spells in the Graveyard are the recovery resource: Sky Striker Special Maneuver - Lemnisgate! (x2) recycles Ace monsters and Sky Striker Spells from the GY, and Sky Striker Ace = Zero can add a Sky Striker Spell from the Deck or GY when Special Summoned, while the three draw spells (Pot of Desires x3, Upstart Goblin x3, Pot of Sloth x2) refill the hand.
• After siding: None: the deck runs zero Side Deck cards, so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional plan: about 78% of 5-card openings include at least one of its ten hand-live enablers (Mobilize Linkage, Engage, Widow Anchor, Shark Cannon, Hornet Drones), a figure computed from the main-deck list and labelled Inferred. It converts that plan into Ace link summons and board control, and seven hand traps plus Droplet and Forbidden Crown give it several answers to a single interruption. Its ceiling and median are text-based only because no recorded boards exist, and it has no side deck, so it does not score well on post-side adaptability or matchup fit. Popularity and the 100% usage stats for the Ace monsters confirm the list is real and accessible, but they earned no points; the score is the system score (Structural 66.5 plus Tournament Reliability 60 minus 5 of modifiers), not an average of card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 66.5, Going First ≈ 74, Going Second ≈ 69, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: Fusion dead weight (-2); No side deck (-2); Limited-card density (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers(-5) = 0.80*66.46 + 0.20*60 - 5 = 60.2

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.78 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.05 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Seven hand traps and six Ace/Spell-based interaction cards give several answers to one disruption.
• Multiple independent hand-live starters (Mobilize Linkage, Engage, Widow Anchor, Shark Cannon, Hornet Drones), so the opening is rarely dead.
• Eleven Link copies across eight Ace-based link monsters give a coherent Extra Deck engine.
• Recovery through Lemnisgate recursion and the draw spells.

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so no post-side plan and no adaptation to a matchup.
• Four Fusion Monsters depend on two Super Polymerization copies, so most Extra Deck slots are unreliable.
• Only 51% exact archetype purity; 27 off-archetype copies (Greed, Forbidden, generic) dilute the engine.
• No recorded combos, so the ceiling and median are text-based only.

Critical choke points

• Sky Striker Mobilize - Linkage! and Engage only work while you control no monsters in your Main Monster Zone; a monster on the field turns them off.
• Every Ace link summon needs an Ace monster as material, so the Ace monsters in the main deck (Raye x3, Roze x2) are the key access points.
• Fusion lines rely on Super Polymerization (2 copies), so a Fusion Monster in hand without it is a dead card.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 40 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side within size rules; no copy-limit violations.; Banlist statuses: Maxx C, Radiant Typhoon Vision, Reinforcement of the Army and Sky Striker Mecha - Hornet Drones are Limited (1 copy run); Droll and Lock Bird and Super Polymerization are Semi-Limited (1 and 2 copies run).; Card text quoted from the evidence excerpts (Mobilize Linkage, Engage, Raye, Ace link monsters, hand traps).
• Inferred: Hypergeometric openings: about 0.78 going first and 0.85 going second for at least one of 10 hand-live enablers; about 0.051 and 0.026 for full bricks.; Going-first, going-second and interruption-resilience reads derived from card text and the probability estimates.; Combo ceiling and floor are text-based only, with no recorded boards.
• Provisional: Meta power, matchup fit and format fit: no dated metagame sample and no tournament link.
• 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, matchup and brick/starter rates are Inferred or Unknown. Meta Power is Provisional: no dated metagame sample. Usage-statistics inconsistency: core cards marks several Extra Deck Aces (Amatsu, Camellia, Azalea, Zeke, Hayate, Shizuku, Kagari, Zero) as in this deck = false, while cards[] lists them in zone extra. The reported core-card presence of 48 and the missing core cards list are therefore understated; this evaluation uses cards[] as the deck list. No Side Deck data: best-of-3 post-side reads are unavailable.