Sky Striker Deck #774380 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link-chain into multiple Sky Striker Ace link monsters and attack, using Sky Striker Ace - Raye/Roze and Mobilize-based searches to keep the Ace engine live; Fusion finishers (Mudragon of the Swamp, Garura, Favorite HERO Flame Wingman) via Super Polymerization
• Turn 1 (going first): Mobilize - Linkage!/Engage! on an empty Main Monster Zone to search a Sky Striker card, then Link Summon an Ace (Shizuku, Hayate, Azalea) and extend into Zeke or Camellia; hold Ash Blossom and Maxx C for the opponent's first response
• Turn 2 (going second): Open with 6-card hand hand traps (Ash, Maxx C, Droll, Evenly Matched, PSY-Framegear Gamma) to break the opponent's first combo, then rebuild with Mobilize searches and Ace links
• Recovery: Ace - Raye and Ace - Roze recursion, Sky Striker Special Maneuver - Lemnisgate!, and Radiant Typhoon Eldam/Swen searches to re-establish the Link engine after a board wipe or disruption
• After siding: Not evaluable: the list has no Side Deck (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan in the export

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional plan: P(at least one searcher in a 5-card opening hand) is about 0.82 and each Mobilize copy has about a 0.34 chance of landing in hand, so the engine is usually live by turn 1 or 2 (Inferred). It converts that into Link pressure through ten Sky Striker Ace link monsters in the Extra Deck, with Ace Raye and Roze providing recursion after disruption. Interaction is the strongest dimension: seven hand traps (Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Droll and Lock Bird, Evenly Matched, PSY-Framegear Gamma) plus Mystical Space Typhoon, Dimensional Barrier and Crossout Designator give layered answers on both going-first and going-second. Weaknesses are the empty side deck, which leaves no post-side plan, and a Link engine that depends on a condition-heavy sequence that is hard to pilot. The score comes from consistency, recovery, and interaction on the system, not from Sky Striker being a popular archetype and not from averaging card scores; no meta-share or win-rate data was supplied, so Meta Power stays provisional.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 61, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-2); engine compactness (2); engine conflicts (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); Structural 60.6 -> 0.80*60.6 + 0.20*55 = 59.5, then modifiers -1 = 58.5 rounded to 58

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.82 · 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

• Searcher density gives a high chance of a live engine (about 0.82 in a 5-card hand)
• Layered interaction: seven hand traps, negation and removal texts across the main deck
• Ace recursion through Raye, Roze and Lemnisgate gives redundant lines after disruption
• Legal list with every restricted card at or below its Master Duel limit

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so there is no post-side adaptation
• Fusion and generic link slots dilute the Ace engine
• Several effects depend on the Main Monster Zone being empty or on 3+ Spells in the GY, which makes sequencing fragile
• No recorded combo data, so the ceiling and median are text-based only

Critical choke points

• Mobilize / Engage starter access: the engine stalls if the searchers are not drawn
• Empty Main Monster Zone requirement for Mobilize effects: a board with monsters blocks the first search
• Sky Striker Ace link monsters require Ace material on the field: losing the early Ace removes the Link chain

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status: all restricted cards at or below Master Duel copy limits; Deck composition: 40 main, 15 extra, 0 side; copy histogram 17x1, 4x2, 5x3; Card text: hand traps (7), negation text (11), removal text (5), searcher text (11)
• Inferred: Opening-hand searcher probability ~0.82 and hand-trap probability ~0.71; Interaction quality and endboard resilience read from card text; Pilotability and sequencing complexity
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup fit: no dated meta or tournament data; Post-side strength: no side deck exists
• 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 for going-first/second, matchup or brick rates Meta Power is provisional; no dated metagame sample supplied Usage statistics 'in this deck' flags look main-deck-only: Extra Deck Aces (Kagari, Zero, Hayate, Amatsu, Camellia, Zeke, Shizuku, Azalea) that the cards list shows as present are reported as missing, so core-card presence 52 is understated and was not used to penalize D13 Side deck is empty (0 cards): no post-side data