Sky Striker Deck #773872 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 59/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link Summon Sky Striker Ace monsters (Zero, Kagari, Zeke, Camellia, Azalea) into repeated board-control and pressure; Grind through Sky Striker recursion (Lemnisgate from GY, Engage and Zero/Kagari/Shizuku searches) and Pot of Sloth / Mulcharmy card flow
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Mobilize - Linkage (3 copies) with an empty Main Monster Zone to Special Summon an Ace from the Extra Deck, then Link into a second Ace (Zero or Zeke)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash x3, Droll, Maxx C, PSY-Framegear Gamma) and Forbidden Droplet / Forbidden Crown to disrupt the opponent, then rebuild through Raye or Roze
• Recovery: Lemnisgate from the GY to return Ace monsters, Engage and Zero/Kagari searches for Sky Striker spells, and Pot of Sloth or Mulcharmy for card advantage
• After siding: No side deck was submitted, so no post-side plan is evidenced

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Sky Striker line: by hypergeometric estimate about 88% of 5-card openers contain at least one of 13 starter-capable cards, led by Mobilize - Linkage and Raye (Inferred). Its Link Summon engine has many independent Ace routes through the 14 Link monsters in the Extra Deck, so a single interruption rarely ends the line. Interaction is dense (six hand traps, two Forbidden spells, Mystical Space Typhoon and Widow Anchor), and recursion through Lemnisgate, Engage and Pot of Sloth supports grind. The score is held back by the single Ace-source bottleneck (only Raye x3 and Roze x1 in the Main Deck), the empty-zone conflicts between starters and a 17-monster Main Deck, and an Extra Deck slot (Super Starslayer TY-PHON - Sky Crisis) that cannot be summoned without Level 12 monsters. The score was derived from consistency, median output and interaction on the whole system, not from Sky Striker's popularity or from averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 65.6, Going First ≈ 70, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 56. Modifiers: Dead Extra Deck slot (TY-PHON) (-2); Engine conflict (empty Main Monster Zone starters vs monster-heavy hand) (-2); Banlist exposure (Limited one-copy key cards) (-1). Final formula: No reliable metagame: Final = 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*65.6 + 0.20*56 - 5 = 58.6, rounded to 59

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.88 · 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

• Link Summon engine with 14 Link monsters and many distinct Ace routes (Zero, Kagari, Zeke, Camellia, Azalea, Hayate, Shizuku)
• Dense interaction: six hand traps, Forbidden Droplet, Forbidden Crown, Mystical Space Typhoon, Widow Anchor
• Card flow and recursion: Pot of Sloth x3, Mulcharmy x3, Lemnisgate x2, Engage x2 search
• Starter access ≈ 0.88 at least one of 13 starter-capable cards in a 5-card opener (Inferred)

Weaknesses

• Super Starslayer TY-PHON - Sky Crisis is a dead Extra slot: no Level 12 monsters in the Main Deck
• Ace-source bottleneck: only Raye x3 and Roze x1 in the Main Deck; ≈ 0.43 chance of one in the opener
• Monster-heavy Main Deck (17) conflicts with three empty-Main-Monster-Zone spells
• Low exact-name purity (50.9%) with 11 singleton slots and off-archetype engines (PSY-Frame, Radiant Typhoon, Greed, Forbidden)
• No side deck submitted

Critical choke points

• First Ace Link: requires Linkage with an empty Main Monster Zone, or Raye/Roze to reach an Ace
• Empty Main Monster Zone is needed by Linkage, Engage and Widow Anchor simultaneously
• Going second, the hand traps (Ash, Droll, Maxx C, Gamma) are the main answer to an opposing board

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Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 40 main, 15 extra, 0 side; all Limited and Semi-Limited copies within the Master Duel limit; Copy histogram and Extra Deck breakdown (14 Link, 1 Xyz) from the deck list; TY-PHON requires two Level 12 monsters; the Main Deck contains no Level 12 monsters; Archetype purity 50.9% and role-tag counts from the deck list
• Inferred: At-least-one-starter ≈ 0.88 and Ace-source ≈ 0.43 (hypergeometric); Going-first and going-second power blends; Hand-trap coverage ≈ 0.65 on going second; Board-breaking and interaction quality from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit (D13) and side-deck adaptability (D12)
• 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, brick/starter rates); those signals are Inferred Usage statistics in_this_deck flags contradict the deck list: Sky Striker Ace - Amatsu, Camellia, Azalea, Zeke, Hayate, Shizuku, Kagari and Zero are all in the Extra Deck but flagged false, so core_present_pct 48 is an exporter error; reconciled to 20 of 25 (80%) by hand No side deck submitted; no post-side plan evidence Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied