Sky Striker Deck #773936 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 61/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Tempo, Toolbox
• 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, Raye/Roze lines) for repeated Link pressure from the Extra Deck; Sky Striker Ace recursion from the GY and board-control spells (Widow Anchor, Forbidden Crown) that turn one resolved starter into a board
• Turn 1 (going first): Mobilize - Linkage!/Engage! to search or draw a Sky Striker, then Raye or Hornet Drones to Special Summon an Ace, then a Link into Zero or Kagari
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre, Droll & Lock Bird and Infinite Impermanence to stop the opponent's board, then rebuild with Ace Link Summons
• Recovery: Sky Striker Ace monsters returning from the GY via Raye and Lemnisgate, plus Engage/Linkage searches to replace lost starters
• After siding: Not applicable: Master Duel has no Side Deck in this format; the deck runs 0 side cards

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens its engine: three copies each of the Mobilize spells, Raye and Widow Anchor give a P(at least one in a 5-card opening hand) of about 0.34 per card, and searcher text reaches about 0.74 for at least one searcher in a 5-card hand (Inferred). It converts that starter into Sky Striker Ace Link pressure from the Extra Deck, with Zero and Kagari as the most consistent payoffs. Its survival depends on eight hand traps and negation text (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre, Maxx C, Droll, Infinite Impermanence), which give real interruption resilience and going-second interaction; the score does not depend on popularity or meta share. The score is built from the system's consistency, median output and interaction, not from averaging card scores. Points are held back because there are no recorded boards, no tournament or win-rate data, Master Duel has no Side Deck, and Albion needs Fallen of Albaz which the list does not run.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 66, Going First ≈ 64, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-1); engine conflicts (-2); dead extra-deck weight (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.34 · 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

• Three-copy starters and searchers make the engine reliably live on turn one or two
• Eight hand traps and twelve negation or removal effects give strong going-second interaction
• Sky Striker Ace recursion gives the engine a second route after interruption
• Thirteen Link monsters give a deep Extra Deck with several Ace Link options

Weaknesses

• No Side Deck in Master Duel means no post-side adaptation
• Albion requires Fallen of Albaz, which is absent, so one Extra Deck slot is likely dead
• Several 'no monsters in MMZ' conditions conflict with each other and with Mulcharmy
• Spell-heavy list with 14 singletons raises brick risk when the starter is not drawn

Critical choke points

• Sky Striker Ace monsters on the field: most lines need one Raye, Roze or Hornet Drones to Special Summon an Ace
• Hand-trap density: losing the Ash/Ghost Belle/Ghost Ogre/Maxx C cluster to a single board-breaker removes the answer to an opposing combo

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 40, Extra 15, Side 0 are within Master Duel size rules; All restricted cards are within legal copy limits; Sky Striker archetype purity 28/55 exact-name copies and card text match the archetype core
• Observed: Archetype usage stats show the core Sky Striker Ace Link set is standard (100% inclusion for several Aces)
• Inferred: P(≥1 starter in hand5) ≈ 0.34 per 3-copy card; searcher group ≈ 0.74; Consistency, interaction and going-second estimates derived from card text; Albion dead-slot judgement from missing Fallen of Albaz
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates) — signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied deck title is null, so the name is derived from the archetype only