Sky Striker Deck #774301 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 59/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Stun
• Format: master-duel

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Sky Striker Ace Link boards (Zero at 2000 ATK, Super Starslayer TY-PHON - Sky Crisis at 2900 ATK) built off Mobilize spells; Albion the Branded Dragon and Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon as off-archetype big-body finishers
• Turn 1 (going first): Mobilize - Linkage! or Engage! to search or add a Sky Striker spell and reach Sky Striker Ace Link summons; hold Ash Blossom or Droll for the opponent's first response
• Turn 2 (going second): Open on a hand trap (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Droll, Maxx C) to answer the opponent's starter, then Mobilize into the Ace Link chain
• Recovery: Sky Striker spell recursion from the GY through Lemnisgate and Ace Raye / Ace Kagari GY effects; Pot of Desires and Upstart Goblin for card flow
• After siding: None: the deck runs no side cards, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens its Sky Striker engine: the two Mobilize starters (six copies combined) give roughly a 58% chance of at least one in the opening five, and the 27 spells and Ace Link monsters supply repeatable follow-ups. Its strongest part is interaction, with eight hand traps, Widow Anchor, Forbidden Crown, Crossout Designator and Mystical Space Typhoon, which gives it a good chance of answering the opponent's first play even when going second. Its ceiling and median output are text-only estimates because no recorded boards exist, so those scores are held near the middle. The deck has no side cards and few main-deck monsters, which caps its adaptability and consistency. The score comes from consistency, interaction and recovery on the system as a whole, not from the Sky Striker archetype's popularity, and not from averaging individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 60, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: No side deck (-2); Ace Link engine cohesion (2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); 0.80*60.2 + 0.20*52 = 58.6, plus modifiers 0 = 59

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.58 · key two-card combo ≈ 0.58 · full-brick estimate ≈ 0 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Extra Deck covers 23 of the 25 usage-core cards when the Extra Deck is counted (usage flags check the Main Deck only)
• Eight hand traps plus negation and removal spells give layered interaction
• Going-second hand has a 76% chance of at least one hand trap (Inferred)
• Sky Striker spell recursion through Lemnisgate and Ace GY effects helps recovery

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation (0 of up to 15)
• Only 13 main-deck monsters against 27 spells; several starters need an empty Monster Zone
• Single-copy Ace Link monsters and a single Xyz finisher make the engine rely on specific draws
• No recorded boards, so the ceiling and median are text-only estimates

Critical choke points

• Mobilize Linkage and Engage (6 copies combined) are the main starter access (about 58% in opening 5, Inferred)
• Sky Striker Ace Link summons need specific Ace monsters in the Extra Deck and Link material on the field
• Going second relies on the hand-trap count to answer the opponent's first play

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 40 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side; all 6 restricted cards within legal copies (Limited and Semi-Limited); Card text read from the excerpts for every listed card; Usage statistics: the archetype core and its 23 of 25 presence when the Extra Deck is counted
• Inferred: Starter access from the hypergeometric calculation (about 58% for the Mobilize pair in opening 5); Brick and dead-card risk from the 27-spell and 13-monster split; Interaction quality from the card text read (12 negation-text, 11 removal-text cards); Going-first and going-second power blends
• Provisional: Meta and format fit: no tournament or meta-share data supplied; Tournament reliability
• 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 exists in YGOVN, so going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied usage statistics in this deck flags appear to check the Main Deck only: Ace Kagari, Ecclesia, Albion and S:P Little Knight are in the Extra Deck list but flagged as absent; read the core presence as 23 of 25 (Inferred) deck title is null, so the name is taken from the archetype only