Spell
NormalJunk Puppet
Archetype:
Gimmick Puppet
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Target 1 "Gimmick Puppet" monster in your GY; Special Summon it. You can only activate 1 "Junk Puppet" per turn.
Junk Puppet — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 46 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 44 · Deck: 47 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Recovery/Recursion · Secondary: Extender
Why it scores here
Junk Puppet is a single-target Special Summon from the GY of a Gimmick Puppet monster, so it converts one spent card into one body on the board, once per turn. It has no interaction, no material value and no card advantage of its own, and its reach depends on a Gimmick Puppet monster already being in the GY. The deck evidence (225 decks, nearly all Gimmick Puppet, 95% partner overlap) confirms it is a consistently played piece, but that frequency does not raise the score; no combo boards were supplied, so conversion is text-only and the score stays in the mid-40s.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 60 | Present in all 225 sampled decks with 1.46 average copies, but it needs a Gimmick Puppet monster already in the GY, and no starter or searched combo data was supplied (observed deck frequency, inferred GY reach). |
| Combo & Conversion | 45 | Text gives one Special Summon from GY and nothing further; no combo examples or power_index are available, so conversion is text-only inference (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 45 | Spends the card to return one monster to the field, which is a 1-for-1 board gain with no hand or deck advantage and no refuel (verified from text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | No negation, removal or hand-trap effect in the text (verified). |
| Material Utility | 15 | A Spell card with no material value of its own (verified from frame type). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | Once-per-turn, GY-targeting spell that a single spell negate can end, with no redundancy on the card itself (verified from text, inferred for negate exposure). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 55 | Usually runs 1-2 copies at no garnet cost, but it is tied to the Gimmick Puppet archetype and a GY monster (verified deck copies, inferred restriction). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Primary role Recovery/Recursion; no secondary blend applied. Intrinsic ≈ 44, Deck ≈ 47, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Reliable once-per-turn GY-to-field Special Summon for Gimmick Puppet monsters
- Present in nearly every Gimmick Puppet deck sampled (225 decks, 1.46 average copies)
- Cheap to run at 1 copy with no garnet cost
Weaknesses
- Needs a Gimmick Puppet monster in the GY before it does anything
- One body for one card, with no advantage, interaction or material value
- Archetype-locked target text limits its use outside the archetype
Counters / choke points
- Spell negation or removal of the GY monster, or setting up the board so the GY is empty
- Opponent interaction that ends the summoned monster before the turn ends
Best use
Recovery/Recursion. Decks: Gimmick Puppet (archetype 819), Gimmick Puppet (archetype 30). Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Text: Target 1 Gimmick Puppet monster in your GY; Special Summon it; once per turn; Spell Card, archetype Gimmick Puppet, present in 225 of 225 sampled decks; Average 1.46 copies per deck
- Observed: Top partners run in 89-96% of decks containing this card; Gameplay type 7 in 47.6% of decks and type 3 in 37.8%
- Inferred: Recursion role: a GY-to-field summon that adds a body without card advantage; Negate exposure is typical of any spell in the GY-recursion slot
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no banlist token, assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no usage statistics (StatisticsCard), so archetype inclusion % is inferred from the deck sample only