Sky Striker Deck #774348 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link-summon Sky Striker Aces (Kagari, Zero, Shizuku, Raye/Roze routes) off Mobilize and Widow Anchor starts, then attack through a 2000-2900 ATK board; Super Starslayer TY-PHON - Sky Crisis as a single Xyz finisher when the opponent Special Summons from the Extra Deck
• Turn 1 (going first): T1 Mobilize - Linkage! or Mecha - Hornet Drones / Widow Anchor on an empty Main Monster Zone, search or summon an Ace, and link into a Sky Striker Ace board
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird) and Forbidden Droplet / Forbidden Crown / Widow Anchor to break the opponent's board, then rebuild through Ace link summons
• Recovery: Spells in the GY enable Sky Striker recursion and Ace ATK gains; Pot of Sloth and Upstart Goblin refill the hand after a broken line
• After siding: No Side Deck in Master Duel format (side_count 0); no post-side plan is available

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Sky Striker starter: three copies each of Mobilize - Linkage!, Mobilize - Engage!, Ace - Raye and Widow Anchor give roughly a 32% chance per copy-set of at least one in the opening 5, and the 24-copy archetype core is present in about 99% of opening hands (Inferred from hypergeometric estimates). Conversion into pressure relies on the link ladder into Kagari, Zero and Shizuku, which is strong on the system but has no recorded boards to measure a median or ceiling, so those scores stay in the Inferred range. Interaction is the deck's strongest area: Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird, Forbidden Droplet, Forbidden Crown and Widow Anchor give layered answers, and the draw spells (Pot of Sloth, Upstart Goblin, Maxx C) help it recover. Popularity and archetype share did not earn points, the score did not average the card scores, and the 28 off-archetype copies (Radiant Typhoon, Forbidden, Greed, Mulcharmy, generic) are scored as a deliberate toolbox trade-off rather than a bonus. Meta Power stays provisional because no dated metagame sample was supplied.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 64, Going First ≈ 64, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 62. Modifiers: off-archetype dependence (-3); banlist exposure (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers (-4) = 63.9 - 4 -> 60

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.32 · 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

• Interaction layering from hand traps, Forbidden negations and Widow Anchor
• Redundant Ace link routes and two draw engines for recovery
• Compact 3-copy starters for a high chance of opening a live engine

Weaknesses

• Half of the Main Deck is off-archetype or situational (MST-dependent Radiant Typhoon, Forbidden, Greed)
• Single Xyz finisher and no Side Deck limit adjustment for matchups
• No recorded boards, so combo floor and median remain uncertain

Critical choke points

• Empty Main Monster Zone requirement for Mobilize, Anchor and Hornet Drones starts
• Link ladder needs a Sky Striker Ace on board; losing the first Ace stalls the line

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 42 and Extra 15 within size rules; all Limited and Semi-Limited copy counts legal; Exact-name archetype purity 50.9%; Composition counts, copy histogram and Extra Deck breakdown
• Observed: Usage statistics: Sky Striker core cards (Mobilize, Raye, Widow Anchor) at 65-92.5% inclusion
• Inferred: Starter access and brick estimates from hypergeometric numbers; Interaction and recovery quality from card text; Going-second strength from hand traps and Forbidden negations
• Provisional: Meta Power and format fit (no dated metagame sample); Side Deck adaptability (Master Duel has no side)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent no win-rate telemetry; going-first/second and matchup signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied