Sky Striker Deck #773742 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 38/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link-summon Sky Striker Ace monsters (Zero, Kagari, Hayate, Shizuku, Zeke, Azalea) into a board of 1500-2000 ATK Link monsters, using Sky Striker Mobilize/Special Maneuver spells for recursion and search.; Direct attacks from Sky Striker Ace - Hayate and board pressure from Lava Golem (3000 ATK) when it can be Special Summoned.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Sky Striker starter (Mobilize - Linkage!, Raye, Widow Anchor, Mobilize - Engage!) and link into Kagari or Zero, holding Ash Blossom and Ghost Belle to protect the first link.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, Ghost Belle, Evenly Matched, Infinite Impermanence) to answer the opponent's first board, then rebuild with Sky Striker Ace monsters from the Extra Deck.
• Recovery: Recover through Spell recursion from the GY (Lemnisgate, Camellia, Shizuku and Zero searches) and Sky Striker Ace - Roze from the hand after an Ace is summoned.
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; a best-of-3 event would have no adaptation path.

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a connected system and not as an average of its card scores. It reliably opens a Sky Striker starter in a large share of hands (about 0.65 for a 10-copy archetype core in a 5-card hand, Inferred), then converts that into Link Ace monsters with redundant Link routes through Zero, Kagari, Hayate and Shizuku. Its interaction is dense (15 hand traps, 16 negation-text cards, 20 removal-text cards, Inferred from text), which helps on going second, but many of those cards are dead without a target. Popularity does not earn points: the Sky Striker core shows 44% of the archetype's common cards present and no tournament record is attached. The deck is Illegal (Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization each run 3 copies against a limit of 2), and it has no side deck, so it is capped as a theoretical, structural-only read.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); no Side Deck (-2). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(55) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(48) = 54; context modifiers -8 gives 46; Illegal-deck cap applied gives 38 (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.65 · 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 interaction: 15 hand traps and 16 negation-text cards
• Multiple independent Link routes (Zero, Kagari, Hayate, Shizuku, Zeke, Azalea)
• Spell recursion from the GY supports the Link chain

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy counts for Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization
• No side deck in a format that may be best-of-3
• Dead hand traps and tech cards in many opening hands
• Only 42.9% exact-name archetype purity

Critical choke points

• Ash Blossom at 3 copies is illegal, so a legal list must cut to 2
• The first Sky Striker Ace Link needs two monsters on the field, so a single hand trap or removal can stop it

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0 (within TCG size rules); Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization run 3 copies against a Semi-Limited limit of 2; Harpie's Feather Duster and Reinforcement of the Army are Limited at 1 copy; Sky Striker Mecha - Hornet Drones is Limited at 1 copy; Archetype purity 42.9% (exact name) and 13 Link / 2 Fusion Extra Deck cards
• Inferred: D1 engine access uses the archetype-core probability (0.65) as a proxy; D5 and D7 come from card text, not recorded interaction data; D3 and D9 ceiling are inferred from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power is null because no dated metagame sample is attached; D13 matchup fit is placeholder 50
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry exists for this deck (going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates) Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck title is null; archetype is taken from the Sky Striker archetype field