Harpie Deck #774163 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Stun
• 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 Link Ace monsters (Kagari, Hayate, Zero, Shizuku, Azalea, Zeke, Camellia) summoned off Sky Striker Spell recursion and Link-material chains; Hand-trap-supported board stabilisation followed by Link beatdown; Raigeki and Harpie's Feather Duster as non-engine removal
• Turn 1 (going first): Sky Striker Mecha - Widow Anchor or Sky Striker Mobilize - Linkage! while controlling no monsters, searching or Special Summoning a Sky Striker Ace, then Link Summoning from the Extra Deck
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre, Evenly Matched, Infinite Impermanence or Cosmic Cyclone for the opponent's first engine or board, then Link Summon through the gap
• Recovery: Sky Striker Spells in the GY enable Camellia, Zeke and Azalea recursion; Sky Striker Mobilize - Engage! searches one Sky Striker card when no monster is in the Main Monster Zone
• After siding: None: the list runs no Side Deck, so there is no evidenced post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system: a Sky Striker Link engine whose Spells recur from the GY, backed by 15 hand traps and 20 removal-text cards. Its strongest reads are interaction density (16 negation-text and 15 hand-trap cards, with Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle and Ghost Ogre at 3 copies each giving redundant going-second answers) and recursion-based route redundancy. Its weak points are conditional Sky Striker Spells that need an empty Main Monster Zone, 27 Spells in a 55-card Main Deck, no combo evidence for floor or ceiling, and no Side Deck. The deck is Illegal (Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization each run 3 copies against a limit of 2), so the Final score is capped at 35 and is structural-only. Popularity and archetype usage were not credited as power, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: illegal_copy_limit (-6); no Side Deck (-3); banlist exposure (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 53 before modifiers; modifiers -11 give 42; Illegal-deck cap applied, final 35 (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.86 · 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

• 15 hand traps plus 16 negation-text cards give dense going-second interaction
• Triple-copy Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle and Ghost Ogre provide redundant answers
• Sky Striker Spell recursion through Camellia, Zeke and Azalea offers route redundancy
• Archetype core of 17 copies has about 0.86 chance to appear in opening hand

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy limit on Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization
• No Side Deck, so no best-of-3 adaptation
• No combo evidence, so floor, median and ceiling are text-only estimates
• Over half of the Main Deck is Spells with conditional clauses requiring an empty Main Monster Zone
• Off-archetype Extra Deck slots (Elder Entity Norden, Mudragon of the Swamp)

Critical choke points

• Sky Striker Mobilize - Engage! (4 searcher-text cards, about 0.32 chance in opening hand) is the main route to Sky Striker card access
• Link Summons need monsters in the Main Monster Zone, which conflicts with the Spell-first lines that require an empty zone

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization each at 3 copies against a limit of 2; Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0 within TCG size rules; Banlist status of Harpie's Feather Duster, Reinforcement of the Army and Sky Striker Mecha - Hornet Drones (Limited); Archetype usage: Ash Blossom, Feather Duster, Infinite Impermanence at 100% inclusion; Effect Veiler at 60% and missing from this list
• Inferred: Opening-hand probability estimates for the archetype core and hand traps; Interaction density and resilience read from card text; Going-second plan from hand-trap draw odds
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit: no dated meta sample or tournament link
• 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 unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck title is null; archetype label 'Harpie' conflicts with the card spread (Sky Striker 30, Harpie 1) No Side Deck supplied