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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。
... 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
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)
