Sky Striker Deck #774295 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 67/100 (±5 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link Summon Sky Striker Aces from the Extra Deck and attack with 1500-2000 ATK Links, backed by Ecclesia and Albion boss threats; Recursive Sky Striker Ace loops through Raye, Kagari and Zero to keep Link pressure on board
• Turn 1 (going first): T1 Sky Striker Mobilize - Engage or Linkage to search an Ace or Spell, then Link Summon an Ace with Raye or Widow Anchor support for board and removal
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre or Maxx C as hand traps, then rebuild through Engage and Linkage once the opponent has committed a board
• Recovery: Spell recursion via Kagari, Zero and Lemnisgate plus searchers (Engage, Linkage, Radiant Typhoon) to refill after a single interruption
• After siding: No sideboard in Master Duel; the deck relies on its main-deck tech (Forbidden Droplet, Crown, Triple Tactics) and does not adapt between games

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional plan: four 1-card or 2-card starters (Engage, Linkage, Raye, Widow Anchor) run 3 copies each, giving about 0.85 P(at least one starter in a 5-card opening hand) (Inferred), and searchers (Engage, Linkage, Typhoon Eldam/Swen, Radiant Typhoon Chant) raise access further. Conversion is strong because 13 Link monsters and the Ace recursion lines let the deck rebuild boards after the first interruption, and it has 6 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Maxx C) plus Droplet/Crown and Widow Anchor for end-board interaction. Weaknesses are the 28 Spells with 27 off-archetype copies (50.9% exact archetype purity), which add brick and conflict risk, and the absence of recorded combo boards, so the median and ceiling are text-only inference. Popularity (Sky Striker core usage) confirms the list is real and accessible but did not earn points on its own, and the score was built from the system dimensions, not by averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Combo secondary (ratio not disclosed as a numeric blend; Midrange profile used as the structural base). Structural ≈ 69, Going First ≈ 70, Going Second ≈ 72, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 68. Modifiers: engine conflicts / off-archetype spread (-2); banlist exposure (0). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); 0.80*69.4 + 0.20*68 = 69.1, then modifiers -2 = 67

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.85 · 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

• Four 3-copy starters with searchers and high draw odds
• Six hand traps plus Droplet, Crown and Widow Anchor cover the first board
• Deep Link Extra Deck with Ace recursion lines

Weaknesses

• Half the Main Deck is off-archetype Radiant Typhoon, Forbidden and Branded cards
• No sideboard and no recorded boards to validate the median
• Conditional Spells (Mobilize family) depend on an empty Main Monster Zone

Critical choke points

• Empty Main Monster Zone requirement on Engage, Linkage, Widow Anchor and Shark Cannon
• Single-card Ace summon routes through Raye and Widow Anchor

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 40 / Extra 15 legal for master-duel, copy limits all met; Restricted card banlist statuses and legal_copies; Archetype purity 50.9% and off-archetype spread; Usage stats show Lemnisgate typical 2 copies
• Inferred: P(starter) 0.85 and hand-trap odds from hypergeometric estimates; D3/D4 ceiling and median from card text only; Interaction and recovery quality from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); D12 side deck (no sideboard in Master Duel); D13 matchup fit (no archetype meta share)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchup, brick or OTK rates Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied deck title is null in the export usage_statistics missing_core lists Kagari, Zero, Camellia, Hayate, Amatsu, Zeke, Azalea and Shizuku as absent, yet cards[] lists them in zone extra; the in_this_deck flags conflict with the card list and were not used for scoring no sideboard in Master Duel; post-side dimension cannot be measured