Spell
NormalCondolence Puppet
Archetype:
Gimmick Puppet
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Send "Gimmick Puppet" monsters with different names from your Deck to the GY, up to the number of monsters your opponent controls that were Special Summoned from the Extra Deck +1. You can banish this card from your GY, then target 1 Machine Xyz Monster you control; it cannot be destroyed by your opponent's card effects while face-up on the field. You can only use each effect of "Condolence Puppet" once per turn.
Condolence Puppet — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 59 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 56.7 · Deck: 60.2 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Recovery / Recursion · Secondary: Combo enabler
Why it scores here
Condolence Puppet is a Gimmick Puppet support spell whose main value is converting the deck's own Gimmick Puppet monsters into graveyard resources, sized by the opponent's Extra Deck Special Summons. Its GY-banish effect keeps it live after use and makes a Machine Xyz indestructible to card effects, which is real but narrow protection rather than negation. The card's ATK, rarity, and view count earn nothing; the 100% deck inclusion and 100% combo appearance confirm that it is structurally central to this archetype, not that it is intrinsically strong (guardrail 3). Its body has no material value, and it only does anything when Gimmick Puppet monsters are present, which caps its portability.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 60 | In 400 of 400 sampled decks at a 2.8 average copy count, and it is live from hand or GY, but it has no search and needs Gimmick Puppet monsters in the deck (observed; text verified). |
| Combo & Conversion | 70 | Appears in 15 of 15 recorded combos with an average power index of 93.5 and FTK-style example boards, but no role tags are recorded, so the conversion is correlational (observed). |
| Resource Economy | 78 | Sends multiple Gimmick Puppet monsters from Deck to GY and can be banished from the GY for a second effect; example boards show netCardAdvantage of 3 to 6 (verified text; observed board stats). |
| Effect & Interaction | 40 | Its only interaction is making a face-up Machine Xyz monster indestructible by opponent card effects, which is soft protection and not negation or removal (verified). |
| Material Utility | 12 | It is a Spell and provides no material, level, or attribute value (verified). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 62 | Two separate once-per-turn effects usable from hand or GY, and the GY effect survives after the card resolves (verified text; inference on multi-turn use). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 45 | Three-copy archetype-locked spell with no garnet or lock, but it is dead without Gimmick Puppet monsters, which restricts it to one deck family (observed; inference). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Recovery/Recursion + 0.3 Starter/Combo enabler. Intrinsic ≈ 56.7, Deck ≈ 60.2, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Archetype-locked self-restriction (-3). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Converts Gimmick Puppet monsters into graveyard resources, scaled by the opponent's Extra Deck Special Summons
- Live from both hand and graveyard, so it keeps value after use
- Included in every sampled Gimmick Puppet deck at a stable 2.8 copies
- Appears in every recorded combo for the archetype
Weaknesses
- No search or material value, so access depends on Gimmick Puppet monsters already being present
- Its protection effect covers only a face-up Machine Xyz monster
- Archetype-locked, so it has low portability to other decks
- Role counts in combos are all zero, so the actual conversion role is unconfirmed
Counters / choke points
- Opponent effect negation of its send effect or its GY-banish activation
- Opponent Special Summon or Extra Deck control that reduces the send count
- Removing the Gimmick Puppet monsters it depends on before activation
Best use
Resource and recursion support for Gimmick Puppet Xyz lines. Decks: Gimmick Puppet (archetype 819), Gimmick Puppet (archetype 30), Gimmick Puppet (archetype 1305). Suggested copies: 3.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Spell text: send Gimmick Puppet monsters with different names from Deck to GY, up to opponent Extra Deck Special Summons +1; Spell text: banish from GY to target a Machine Xyz monster, which cannot be destroyed by opponent card effects while face-up; Each effect is once per turn; 400 of 400 decks run it
- Observed: Appears in 15 of 15 recorded combos with average power index 93.5; Example boards show netCardAdvantage 3 to 6 and two boss monsters; Average starter count when present is 0.47
- Inferred: Recovery/Recursion is the primary role because the main effect is GY resource conversion; Protection effect is soft interaction, not negation; Card is dead without Gimmick Puppet monsters, so its portability is low
- Data gaps: No banlist token; assumed 3 copies (unlimited) Combo role tags (starter role, searched-for role, material role, payoff role) are all zero, so role inference relies on card text No rulings or Top-Card ranking available Usage statistics cover only 3 archetype IDs