Sky Striker Deck #774292 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 57/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link-summon Sky Striker Ace monsters (Kagari, Zero, Hayate, Zeke, Azalea, Shizuku, Amatsu, Camellia) from the Extra Deck, then close with Ace-Link attacks and Super Starslayer TY-PHON - Sky Crisis as a 2900 ATK Xyz finisher (Inferred from card text).; Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon (2500 ATK synchro) and S:P Little Knight as additional boards; Ecclesia is a GY-cost body for Fallen and the Virtuous.
• Turn 1 (going first): Turn 1: Mobilize Engage or Mobilize Linkage (empty Main Monster Zone) to search a Sky Striker card or draw, then Raye or Roze to reach the Ace-Link ladder (Inferred).
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom and Maxx C as hand traps (4 copies), use Forbidden Droplet or Forbidden Crown to negate a board, then rebuild with Sky Striker Mobilize and Ace-Link summons (Inferred).
• Recovery: Lemnisgate and Chant return Ace monsters and spells from the GY; Raye and Roze recur from the GY; Kagari and Shizuku search a Sky Striker Spell after Special Summon (Inferred).
• After siding: No side deck in Master Duel (side 0), so no post-side plan exists; this is a single-format constraint, not a deck flaw.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens into a Sky Striker spell start: with 25 archetype-named copies, P(at least one archetype card in a 5-card opening hand) is about 0.99, and P(at least one searcher-text card) is about 0.72 (Inferred from hypergeometric estimates). Converting that opening into pressure depends on Sky Striker Ace monsters (Raye x3, Roze x2) feeding the Extra Deck Ace-Link ladder, which gives a high ceiling, but the no-combo-data state means the median is unverified. Interaction is layered across Ash Blossom and Maxx C hand traps, Forbidden Droplet and Forbidden Crown negates, and Widow Anchor, which supports end-board resilience. The score does not come from popularity: archetype usage is 52% of core present by the card list, and the score is not an average of card scores; the weak points are the Branded/Ecclesia Extra slots, which the list cannot activate, and the 49% archetype purity.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo profile applied as-is; Midrange recorded as a secondary label only, not blended. Structural ≈ 63.6, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: Engine conflicts (Branded/Ecclesia) (-3); Low archetype purity (-1); Single-copy staples at Limited (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers = 0.80*63.6 + 0.20*58 - 5 = 57.5, rounded to 57

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

• Archetype core present almost every opening hand (Inferred from hypergeometric proxy)
• Layered interaction: hand traps, negates, and MST-style removal (Inferred)
• Recursion and draw density through Lemnisgate, Chant, Goblin and Talent (Inferred)
• Wide Ace-Link ladder gives a high attack ceiling in the Extra Deck (Verified stats, Inferred use)

Weaknesses

• Two Branded/Ecclesia Extra slots and two Fallen and the Virtuous copies are not supported by the list (Inferred from card text)
• Archetype purity 49%: the build carries many off-archetype staples
• No combo, tournament or win-rate data; median and floor are unverified
• Heavy reliance on Ace monsters (5 in main) to start the Ace-Link engine

Critical choke points

• Ace monsters Raye and Roze (5 copies combined) gate most Link summons
• Empty Main Monster Zone requirement on Mobilize, Widow Anchor and Hornet Drones

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal: 42 main, 15 extra, 0 side; all restricted cards within legal copies; Archetype usage: 33 stat rows; 13 of 25 core cards flagged present, but Extra-Deck in_this_deck flags conflict with the card list; Card stats and texts from the card list
• Inferred: Starter access from hypergeometric odds (P=0.32 per Mobilize, 0.72 searcher group); Ace-Link ladder ceiling from card text; Interaction quality from text roles; Going-first and going-second plans from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link); Side adaptability (not applicable in Master Duel)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied (combos_evidence total 0) — combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent usage_statistics in_this_deck flags conflict with the cards list for several Extra-Deck cards (Kagari, Camellia, Zero shown not in deck, but present with copies in cards); the cards list was used no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Side deck absent for Master Duel, so D12 and post-side plans are unscored