Sky Striker Deck #773583 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 63/100 (±6 · 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: Sky Striker Ace link monsters (Zero, Kagari, Engage Zero, Azalea and related) building a link board, with Super Starslayer TY-PHON - Sky Crisis as a single Xyz payoff (Inferred from card text and composition); Sky Striker Ace - Raye and Roze as Main Deck Ace bodies that feed the Extra Deck summon route
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Sky Striker Mobilize (Linkage or Engage) or Raye/Roze starter while the Main Monster Zone is empty, search a Sky Striker card, and link toward an Ace link monster (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird, PSY-Framegear Gamma) to interrupt the opponent's first board, then rebuild the Sky Striker engine from the Deck (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recur Spells and Ace monsters from the GY (Lemnisgate, Raye GY effect, Engage Zero) and re-enter links (Inferred from card text)
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered (side count 0), so there is no post-side plan; Master Duel is treated as single-match

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens an engine: three-copy starters (Mobilize Linkage, Raye, Widow Anchor, Ash Blossom) and nine searcher-text cards give a 0.74 chance of at least one searcher in a 5-card opening hand, and the Sky Striker core (22 copies) gives a 0.987 proxy for at least one core card in hand (Inferred). Conversion is supported by 14 Link monsters and one Xyz in the Extra Deck, so the system can reach multiple Ace link routes, but no recorded boards exist to measure its real ceiling or median. Interaction is the strongest pillar: 13 negation-text cards, 6 hand traps and 5 removal-text cards give high coverage across both turn orders (about 0.65 chance of a hand trap in a 6-card going-second hand). Popularity from the usage statistics confirms the list is a real, standard build; it did not add points on its own, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 67.8, Going First ≈ 72, Going Second ≈ 68, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: engine conflicts (-2); banlist exposure (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; Structural excludes D13 and re-normalizes weights over 97)

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

• 3-copy starters and 9 searcher-text cards give repeatable opening access
• 6 hand traps plus 13 negation-text cards give interaction on both turn orders
• 14 Link monsters and one Xyz provide several Extra Deck routes with all 15 slots used
• 22 distinct cards with 7 three-copy staples keep the list compact

Weaknesses

• 27 off-archetype copies lower exact-name purity to 50.9% and dilute the engine
• 23 Spells and several Spells that need an empty Main Monster Zone create conditional starts
• Side count 0 gives no post-side adaptation
• Several key cards are Limited or Semi-Limited, so the list is exposed to banlist changes

Critical choke points

• Mobilize Linkage and Engage need an empty Main Monster Zone; a hand of only monsters loses the starter
• Maxx C and Radiant Typhoon Vision are 1-copy Limited cards carrying hand-trap and draw roles
• The single Super Starslayer TY-PHON - Sky Crisis is the only Xyz payoff

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 40 and Extra 15 are legal for master-duel; all restricted copies are within legal limits; Copy histogram 11/4/7 sums to 40; Extra breakdown 14 Link + 1 Xyz; Exact-name purity 50.9% and 27 off-archetype copies from the archetype spread; Card text for hand traps, negation and searcher roles from the evidence
• Inferred: P(>=1 starter in 5) 0.987 and searcher 0.742 from hypergeometric draws; Going-first and going-second plans from text and composition; Combo ceiling and resilience from text, with no recorded boards; Interaction layering and recovery from GY recursion text
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); D13 matchup fit (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 record absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN; brick, starter and matchup rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Usage statistics conflict with the card list: Amatsu, Camellia, Zeke, Shizuku, Azalea, Hayate, Kagari and Zero are marked in_this_deck:false and listed in missing_core, but the cards array shows them in the Extra Deck with copies 1 or 3. The core_present_pct of 48 is therefore unreliable and was not used for scoring No Side Deck supplied (side count 0), so post-side adaptation cannot be measured