Sky Striker Deck #774300 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 58/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Control, Tempo
• 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, Raye lines) for repeated board pressure and direct attacks; Hand-trap and negation driven tempo that lets the Link engine resolve uncontested
• Turn 1 (going first): Turn 1 Mobilize or Upstart Goblin to find or draw an Ace starter, then Link Summon into Kagari or Zero with the Spells in the GY enabling Ace effects
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Forbidden Droplet or Forbidden Crown to stop the opponent's first summon, then rebuild the Link engine from hand and GY
• Recovery: Spells in the GY (Mobilize, Lemnisgate, Chant) fuel recursion and search; Raye and Roze revive from the GY to rebuild the board
• After siding: Not applicable: Master Duel has no in-match sideboarding and the deck runs 0 side cards, so the post-side plan is absent

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional plan: the Sky Striker searchers (9 text-tagged searchers, roughly a 0.72 chance of at least one in an opening five) and the 6 Mobilize copies put an Ace starter in hand often, and the archetype core is present in almost every hand. Conversion is credible but untested, since no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median are text-based inferences and the median is scored lower than the ceiling. Resilience is moderate: 4 hand traps, 12 negation-text cards and recursion from the GY give several routes after one disruption, but the deck has 0 side cards and offers no post-side adjustment. Popularity and guide mentions were not credited; the score comes from consistency, redundancy and interaction on the whole system, not from averaging individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 61, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-1); engine conflicts (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); Structural 60.87 gives 60.3 before modifiers

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

• Dense searcher and draw package (9 searchers, Upstart Goblin, Triple Tactics) gives a stable opening
• Link Ace engine with 12 Link Extra Deck monsters uses all 15 Extra slots
• Multiple interaction layers: 4 hand traps, Droplet, Crown, MST, Widow Anchor

Weaknesses

• No side deck: 0 side cards, so no post-side adjustment
• Off-archetype dilution (49.1 percent exact-name purity)
• Several conditional cards (Triple Tactics, Fallen and the Virtuous) may be dead in some hands

Critical choke points

• Sky Striker Ace Link starters (Kagari, Zero, Raye) need a specific Spell in the GY to enable effects
• Hand traps are the only early answer to a going-second opponent's first board

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal under master-duel BanMasterDuel: 42 main within 40-60, 15 extra within 0-15, all restricted cards within legal copies; Copy histogram and Extra Deck breakdown (12 Link, 1 Synchro, 1 Fusion, 1 Xyz)
• Observed: Usage statistics show the archetype core is widely played (inclusion 60-100 percent for listed cards)
• Inferred: Opening consistency (P >= 1 searcher 0.72) and brick risk; Interaction layering from negation and removal text; Going-first and going-second estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13)
• Data gaps: Usage statistics in this deck flags conflict with the card list: Sky Striker Ace - Kagari, Zero, Hayate, Amatsu, Zeke, Azalea, Shizuku, Camellia, S:P Little Knight, Ecclesia and Albion appear in cards with copies >= 1 but are flagged in this deck false, so core-card presence (52) is unreliable; the card list was treated as ground truth no combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN, so matchup and turn-order figures are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied deck title is null