Sky Striker Deck #773937 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 62/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Control, Tempo
• Format: master-duel

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Sky Striker Link monsters (Zero at 2000 ATK, plus Kagari, Camellia, Zeke and Azalea) pressure the opponent after Mobilize - Engage! or Linkage! finds the Sky Striker pieces and Raye or Roze provide the Link material.; Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon (2500 ATK Synchro) as a conditional board presence; Albion the Branded Dragon is reachable only if the Fallen of Albaz requirement can be met.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Mobilize - Engage! or Linkage! to search a Sky Striker card, use Raye or Roze as Link material, and Link Summon an Ace (Kagari or Zero) while keeping Ash Blossom, Droll and Maxx C for the opponent's turn.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Droll, Maxx C and the Forbidden spells to answer the opponent's first board, then rebuild the Link line with Engage and Lemnisgate.
• Recovery: Sky Striker Special Maneuver - Lemnisgate! returns Aces from the GY, Raye's GY effect re-summons an Ace after it is destroyed, and Hornet Drones or Widow Anchor restore Main Monster Zone control.
• After siding: None. No sideboard was submitted and Master Duel is a single-game format, so adaptation is limited to in-game choices (Provisional).

Why it scores here

Sky Striker reliably opens a functional line: the Engage and Linkage searchers and Widow Anchor are built to work on an empty Main Monster Zone, so a hand without monsters is rarely dead, and the Ace Link Summons then convert into Zero and the Link-1 and Link-2 Aces. The floor is held up by layered interaction (two Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Droll, Maxx C, two Forbidden Droplet, two Forbidden Crown, three Widow Anchor, Crossout Designator) and by card flow (Pot of Desires, Upstart Goblin, Radiant Typhoon Vision) that give resilience and grind. The weaknesses are real: only about half of the Main Deck cards are exact Sky Striker, the Albion route depends on a card that is not in the list, and there is no sideboard. No recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median are text-based inference rather than measured output. Archetype popularity (core-inclusion usage stats) and the guides confirm the list is real and playable, but they earned no points; the score comes from the system as a whole, not from averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 65.8, Going First ≈ 72, Going Second ≈ 70, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 64. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-2); engine conflict (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (-3); Meta Power provisional/null (no dated metagame sample)

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

• Layered negation and hand-trap suite: Ash Blossom x2, Ghost Ogre, Droll, Maxx C, Forbidden Droplet x2, Forbidden Crown x2, Widow Anchor x3, Crossout Designator
• Card flow that grinds: Pot of Desires x3, Upstart Goblin x3, Radiant Typhoon Vision, Engage x3
• Engine built for monster-less hands: Engage, Linkage and Widow Anchor work on an empty Main Monster Zone
• Redundant Link Ace coverage across eight Link monsters with multiple recovery routes via Lemnisgate and Raye

Weaknesses

• Exact archetype purity 52.7%; 26 off-archetype copies dilute the engine
• Hand traps depend on opponent actions and can be dead on going-first turns
• Albion the Branded Dragon's Fusion recipe names Fallen of Albaz, which is not in the list; that Extra slot is likely unreliable
• No sideboard and no recorded boards, so the deck's ceiling and median are unverified

Critical choke points

• Engage x3 as the main searcher: P(at least one in opening 5) about 0.34
• Five Main Deck Sky Striker Ace monsters (Raye x3, Roze x2) as the Link material source
• Hand-trap set on the second turn: P(at least one hand trap in going-second 6) about 0.58

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in Master Duel: 40 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side; every Limited and Semi-Limited card is at or below its legal copies; Copy histogram 10 x1, 6 x2, 6 x3 sums to 40 Main Deck cards; Exact archetype purity 52.7% with 26 off-archetype copies
• Observed: Usage stats: 15 of 25 core cards present (60%); 100% core-inclusion for several Sky Striker Aces (usage, not power)
• Inferred: Hypergeometric estimates: Engage 3 copies P(at least one in opening 5) about 0.34; archetype-core group about 0.998; Hand-trap P(at least one in going-second 6) about 0.58; Albion's Fallen of Albaz requirement makes that Extra slot unreliable from card text; Interaction quality (negate and removal) is a semantic read of card text
• Provisional: Meta Power is null (no dated metagame sample); Format fit (D13) and tournament reliability are not anchored to any tournament data; Post-side plan is not applicable in a single-game format
• 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, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample Fallen of Albaz is not in the resolved card list, so the Albion route cannot be verified from the evidence