Sky Striker Deck #774161 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · 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: Sky Striker Ace Link monsters (Kagari, Hayate, Zero, Shizuku, Azalea) and Raye/Roze boards built from Sky Striker Mecha and Mobilize spells in the Graveyard, with Link Summons from Ace-based material chains.; Fusion summons of Elder Entity Norden or Mudragon of the Swamp through Super Polymerization, a thin secondary route with only 2 Fusion targets.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a Sky Striker Mecha or Mobilize spell (or Raye/Mecha Hornet Drones) to start the engine while holding Ash Blossom and Ghost Ogre/Ghost Belle to protect the first Link line.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand's hand traps (15 copies, Ash, Ghost Ogre, Ghost Belle, Infinite Impermanence, Evenly Matched) to interrupt the opponent's board, then rebuild with Raye or Roze.
• Recovery: Recover through Sky Striker Mobilize Engage and Ghost Belle to add cards from the Graveyard and Deck, then re-Link from Ace monsters returned via Kagari and Zeke.
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has an empty Side Deck (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan and no sideboard adaptability.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens an engine most of the time: with 10 Sky Striker core copies the opening-hand probability of at least one core card in 5 cards is about 0.65, and the Mecha and Mobilize spells give it multiple starters (Inferred). Its conversion is credible on paper, with 13 Link and 2 Fusion Extra Deck monsters, but there are no recorded boards, so the ceiling and median are text-based only and the median is scored lower than the ceiling. Interaction is the strongest area: 15 hand traps plus Raigeki, Harpie's Feather Duster, Forbidden Droplet and Forbidden Crown give it layered answers on the end board, and a 6-card going-second hand has about an 87% chance of holding one hand trap (Inferred). Two Lava Golem, three Super Polymerization (only 2 Fusion targets) and three Trap Trick are weak in this list and cost main-deck efficiency and opening-hand quality. The deck is illegal as built (three Ash Blossom and three Super Polymerization against a limit of 2), has no Side Deck, and has no tournament or win-rate evidence; popularity and archetype usage were not counted as power, and dimension scores were not averaged from card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 54, Going First ≈ 56, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Illegal copy limit (cap) (-12); Engine and Extra conflict (-3); No side deck (-2). Final formula: Uncapped: 0.80*Structural(53.9) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) + Modifiers(-5) = 47.1; Illegal cap applied: score set to 35 (theoretical/structural-only, no normal Final score)

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

• 27 Quick-Play spells give the engine several starters
• 15 hand traps and 5 continuous-trap-style answers give layered interaction
• Link Extra Deck (13 Links) gives many Link-chain routes

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: 3 Ash Blossom and 3 Super Polymerization exceed the limit of 2
• Lava Golem x2 is off-archetype and hard to Special Summon
• Super Polymerization x3 has only 2 Fusion targets
• No side deck and no combo or tournament evidence

Critical choke points

• Sky Striker Mecha / Mobilize starters, which need an empty Main Monster Zone
• Ash Blossom copies (3 in list, 2 legal)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization exceed legal copies (2) in the TCG format; Main deck 55 and Extra deck 15 are inside the size rules; Side deck is 0 cards; Exact-name archetype purity 42.9%
• Inferred: Hypergeometric opening-hand consistency; Hand-trap coverage going second; Text-based interaction density
• Provisional: Meta power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit (no tournament data)
• 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 rate) Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck is illegal as built, so the score is capped