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I have some difficulty understanding the construction とか言う気だろう

Context: the protagonist is trying to learn a new skill and he is surprised by
the move made by his teacher.

> ひょっとして、これが潜伏スキルだ **とか言う気だろう** か。
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> ... Was that supposed to be the ambush (skill) ?

The part とか言う seems to refer to "something like" (By the way, I do not
understand the だ just before)

I have found some hints here

[Meaning of this どうだとか言う
construction](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/60664/meaning-of-
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grammar of とか言う気だろう
With credit to

@zareami10

To understand it better, read it as

> とか言う+気+だろう

Now とか言う indicates some degree of uncertainty about what's stated before it,
that is, これが潜伏スキルだ, and connects the whole phrase as a description of 気. You
can read 気 as "intention" here.

And again we have だろう which adds yet another degree of
supposition/uncertainty.

Put it all together with the か and you can see how it is translated as "Was
that supposed to be" + the sentence quoted by とか. (note that these are not
linguistically-valid terminology, and just used to clear things up)
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