Sky Striker Deck #773726 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±10 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Stun
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link Summon R.B. and Sky Striker Ace link monsters, then convert the board with Link 3 R.B. The Brute Blues and Super Starslayer TY-PHON - Sky Crisis (Extra Deck boss monsters).; Hand-trap-supported disruption that protects a single boss monster while the R.B. and Mulcharmy draw engines build card advantage.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a starter from the R.B. or Sky Striker groups (Stage Landing, Funk Dock, Hayate, Hornet Drones) and link into a Link 2 or Link 3 monster; keep one hand trap (Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Ghost Ogre) for the opponent's first activation.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Droll & Lock Bird, Ghost Mourner) to answer the opponent's first board, then build a Link board from the surviving resources.
• Recovery: Recover with R.B. Stage Landing and R.B. Funk Dock from the Deck and GY, Mulcharmy draw effects, and R.B. Operation Test to re-summon Level 3+ R.B. monsters from the GY.
• After siding: Not available: the deck runs no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The evidence shows a real but incoherent system: the R.B. group (23 copies) and the Mulcharmy and Mecha Phantom Beast sub-archetypes give the deck a plausible opening, with about an 80% chance of at least one archetype core card in a 5-card opener (Inferred). The deck's strongest component is its interaction: 21 hand traps and heavy negation and removal text give it a high chance of having a response when going second (about 95% for at least one hand trap in a 6-card hand, Inferred). Its offensive ceiling depends on Link 3 R.B. The Brute Blues and a single copy of Super Starslayer TY-PHON, and the core Sky Striker Ace - Camellia is absent. No combo boards were recorded, so floor, median and ceiling are text-only inferences and are reported as low-confidence. The deck runs no side deck and its list is Illegal (Ash Blossom over its copy limit), so the score is capped and reported as theoretical and structural-only. The score was built from the deck's system-level consistency, interaction and resilience, not from the individual card scores, and the Sky Striker archetype's popularity does not raise it.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 51, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: Illegal copy-limit violation (-4); No side deck (-2); Illegal cap (-8). Final formula: Illegal deck: theoretical cap applied. Structural 51 → 0.80*51 + 0.20*40 = 49 before modifiers; modifiers −6 → 43; capped to 35 under the Illegal rule. Meta provisional.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.8 · 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

• Heavy hand-trap and negation density gives strong going-second interaction (Inferred)
• Two R.B. recursion engines (Stage Landing, Funk Dock) give resource recovery (Inferred)
• Extra Deck carries a 1500-ATK Link 3 boss and a 2900-ATK Xyz boss (Verified stats)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Ash Blossom over its copy limit (Verified)
• Low archetype purity: 7% exact Sky Striker name, with 66 off-archetype copies (Verified)
• Core Sky Striker Ace - Camellia is missing despite 90% usage (Verified usage stat)
• No Side Deck (Verified)
• No recorded combos, so no measured conversion data (Verified gap)

Critical choke points

• Single copy of the key boss link monsters makes Extra Deck access a choke point
• Ash Blossom over copy limit must be fixed before the list is playable

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring at 3 copies vs limit 2; Main 56, Extra 15, Side 0 counts; Archetype purity 7% and sub-archetype spread; Core Sky Striker Ace - Camellia missing (90% usage)
• Observed: Usage statistics for archetype core cards
• Inferred: Hand-trap and negation density as interaction quality; Hypergeometric opening-hand estimates; Going-first and going-second power estimates; Recovery plan from card text
• Provisional: Matchup and format fit (no dated metagame sample); Tournament reliability
• 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 results are unknown Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample Deck title is null in the export No Side Deck, so no post-side evidence