Sky Striker Deck #775309 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Toolbox
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 54 / Extra 16 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Sky Striker Ace link-monster board pressure, converted through Sky Striker Mobilize and Raye/Roze/Kagari/Zero extra-deck summons; Super Starslayer TY-PHON and Dragon that Devours the Dogma as late-game boss monsters
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Sky Striker starter (Mobilize spells, Raye, Widow Anchor) and extend into Link Summons; the list lacks the core Ace link monsters (Camellia, Amatsu, Hayate, Zeke) that usage data marks as standard
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 17 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Nibiru, Droll, Evenly Matched) to disrupt the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Radiant Typhoon searchers
• Recovery: Radiant Typhoon and Sky Striker searchers (Mobilize - Engage!, Zeke-style recursion) rebuild the hand; Mystical Space Typhoon and Harpie's Feather Duster clear backrow
• After siding: Not evaluable: the side deck is empty, so no post-side plan exists

Why it scores here

The deck's score is capped because the list is illegal: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring runs 3 copies against a Semi-Limited limit of 2, and the Extra Deck holds 16 cards against a maximum of 15. Its structural read, before the legality cap, is about 54 on the Combo profile. The main strengths are a dense interaction suite (17 hand traps and negation-text cards, with a 0.91 chance of at least one hand trap in a going-second 6-card hand, Inferred) and an archetype core that is well represented in the Main Deck (about 98% chance of at least one Sky Striker-named card in a 5-card opening hand, Inferred). The weaknesses are a low exact-archetype purity of 41% (26 generic, plus Radiant Typhoon, Forbidden, Branded, Lswarm and Cyclone cards that do not form one engine), 14 hard-to-use Limited or Semi-Limited restrictions, and no side deck. Combo ceiling and median are not measurable here because no boards were recorded, so the score comes from consistency and interaction on the system, not from the average of card scores and not from Sky Striker's popularity in usage statistics.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo primary with Stun secondary; Combo weights used for the Structural score. Structural ≈ 54, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-4); dependence on missing Extra-Deck cards (-3); engine conflicts (-2); legality cap (0). Final formula: Uncapped: 0.80*54 + 0.20*40 = 51.2 with modifiers -9 gives 42; capped at 35 for an Illegal list (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.98 · 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 interaction: 17 hand traps and 14 negation-text cards
• Archetype core is well represented in the Main Deck
• Searchers (9) and Radiant Typhoon recursion give some route redundancy

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Ash Blossom at 3 copies and Extra Deck at 16
• Only 41% exact archetype purity; the engine is split across related sub-archetypes
• No side deck
• Core Ace link monsters missing from the Extra Deck

Critical choke points

• Sky Striker Mobilize - Engage! and the Ace link Summons, which depend on a few Extra Deck cards
• Ash Blossom and Droll as the main interaction, both restricted in format

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Illegal, copy limit exceeded for Ash Blossom and Extra Deck at 16 (max 15); Main Deck size 54 is within the 40-60 range; Side deck empty (0 cards); Card text for the 54 Main Deck, 16 Extra Deck and 0 Side Deck cards
• Observed: Usage statistics: 27 archetype rows, 14 of 25 core cards present (56%)
• Inferred: Hypergeometric consistency estimates (~0.98 starter, 0.91 hand trap going second); Interaction breadth from card text; Engine conflict read from archetype spread
• Provisional: Meta power (no dated sample); Format fit (archetype meta-share absent)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) exists in YGOVN Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No side deck, so no post-side evaluation is possible