Sky Striker Deck #774290 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 60/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Toolbox
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 42 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link-summon Sky Striker Aces (Zero 2000 ATK, plus 1500-ATK Aces) from Mobilize-enabled Extra Deck access, with Runick Fusion pressure gated by Runick Quick-Play spells; Runick Fusion monsters (Geri, Freki, Hugin, Sleipnir) summoned from the Extra Deck by Runick spells that also skip the next Battle Phase
• Turn 1 (going first): Mobilize - Linkage!/Engage! (or Raye/Roze) to build a board, then Link-summon an Ace and recurse Spells through Kagari/Zero/Camellia; keep Ash/Ghost Belle/Droll up for the opponent's first Special Summon
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash, Ghost Belle, Droll, Maxx C) to break the opponent's first line, then Runick spells (Destruction, Freezing Curses, Slumber) to remove or neutralise the board while Mobilize rebuilds
• Recovery: Runick Fountain and Sky Striker Special Maneuver - Lemnisgate! return Quick-Play Spells and Aces from GY/Deck, with Sky Striker Ace - Raye/Roze revival from GY after a Link Monster is destroyed
• After siding: Not applicable: Master Duel has no sideboard in this list (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan to score

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional plan: 9 copies of the Linkage, Engage and Raye starters give about a 72% chance of at least one starter in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred), and 11 searcher-text cards add redundancy. Its conversion ceiling comes from Mobilize chaining into Link-summoned Aces and Spell recursion through Kagari, Zero and Lemnisgate, which is what the card text supports. Interaction is the strongest part of the system: 6 hand-trap-text cards, 10 negation-text cards and 16 removal-text cards give layered answers that hold up after one disruption. The deck is not a 3-archetype average: its Sky Striker core is weakened by Runick spells that conflict with Mobilize's Extra Deck restriction, and the combo median and matchup fit are unmeasured, so the score sits in the mid-60s rather than higher. Archetype popularity and usage statistics confirm the list is real and accessible, but they added no points by themselves, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 64.8, Going First ≈ 68, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 56. Modifiers: Engine conflict (-2); Banlist exposure (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional, no dated metagame sample)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.72 · 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 interaction: hand traps, negation and removal text across Main Deck
• Redundant starters (Linkage, Engage, Raye) plus searcher text
• Full Extra Deck with Link Aces giving multiple routes
• Recursion through Lemnisgate, Fountain and Aces

Weaknesses

• Three-archetype main deck (Sky Striker, Runick, Radiant Typhoon) with 43.9% exact-name purity
• Runick spells skip the Battle Phase and conflict with Mobilize's Extra Deck restriction
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptability
• Combo median and matchup fit are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Mobilize (3 copies) as the main Extra Deck gateway; a Mobilize-less hand relies on Raye or Roze
• Sky Striker Ace Link Monster removal (Amatsu/Azalea effects) as the only route after disruption on the Extra side

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 42 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side, all Limited/Semi-Limited copies within legal max; Card text and copy counts from the evidence pack; Archetype purity 43.9% and spread (Sky Striker 25, Runick 16, generic 8, Radiant Typhoon 5, Forbidden 2, C 1); Extra Deck composition: 11 Link, 4 Fusion
• Observed: Archetype usage stats list the Sky Striker core (33 rows)
• Inferred: P(≥1 starter in 5-card hand) ≈ 0.72 from hypergeometric counts; Going-first and going-second power estimates from text and draw odds; Engine conflict between Mobilize's Extra restriction and Runick Extra Deck summons
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup fit (D13)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference usage_statistics in_this_deck flags contradict the cards list: Sky Striker Ace - Camellia, Kagari, Zero, Hayate, Amatsu, Zeke, Shizuku, Azalea and S:P Little Knight are in the deck's Extra list but reported as not in this deck, so the core_present_pct of 48% is unreliable for Extra cards No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry; going-first/second and matchup signals are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample Master Duel side deck absent; post-side scoring is limited to the absence of one