Gimmick Puppet Deck #644950 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, FTK/Alternate-Win
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 44 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Gimmick Puppet Xyz/Link board (Number C40, Number 40, Fantasix/Fanatix Machinix) that converts Graveyard resources into end-board bosses with 2500-3300 ATK and removal effects; Single-card FTK lines recorded in the combo corpus (Field Spell + Little Soldiers / Droplet), which show a high ceiling but only 9 recorded boards with unknown gameplay
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Gimmick Puppet monster (Little Soldiers, Rouge Doll, Terror Baby) with searchers and Puppet Xyz material setup, then Xyz into a Gimmick Puppet boss while holding Ash Blossom and Droplet
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Infinite Impermanence and Red Reboot to strip the opponent's first board, then rebuild the Gimmick Puppet boss from the Graveyard
• Recovery: Rebuild from the Graveyard with Gimmick Puppet effects (Cattle Scream, Bisque Doll, Condolence Puppet) and Rank-Up-Magic Chaos/Force to re-Xyz
• After siding: No side deck is registered (Side Deck size 0), so no post-side plan exists in the evidence; the list cannot be evaluated for best-of-3 adaptation

Why it scores here

The score comes from the deck as a system, not from its cards. Structural scoring (Combo profile) gives about 63.5: the Graveyard economy (average 8.4 cards in GY), the 3-Level-9 Xyz boss package and the recorded FTK lines reach a high ceiling, and the 10 hand traps plus Ash Blossom, Droll and Red Reboot give real resilience against the first disruption. Consistency is the main weakness: the starter, Gimmick Puppet Little Soldiers, has only about a 31% chance of appearing in a 5-card opening hand at 3 copies, and 30 of 44 Main Deck copies are off-archetype or generic. Final Contextual Deck Power is theoretically about 52 before the legality cap. The deck runs one copy of Called by the Grave, which is Forbidden in Master Duel, and carries no Side Deck, so the score is capped at 35 and labelled theoretical and structural-only. Archetype popularity and the Field Spell combo's recorded 100 ceiling did not add points: the median of recorded boards is just as high, but only 9 boards are recorded and none has a known gameplay or going-first/second split.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 63.5, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-10). Final formula: Theoretical 0.80*63.5 + 0.20*55 = 61.8; context modifiers -10 gives 51.8; Illegal cap (over copy limit on a Forbidden card) sets final to 35. Meta provisional, not used.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.31 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.01 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex 100, median 100, board-per-starter 3
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Graveyard resource engine with recurring Puppet monsters (average 8.4 cards in GY)
• Dense interaction: 10 hand traps and 15 negation-text cards
• High-ATK Xyz bosses (Number C40 3300, Number 40 3000, Fantasix Machinix 3100) with removal and recursion

Weaknesses

• Starter access is thin: Little Soldiers at 3 copies gives only 31% opening-hand presence
• Illegal list: Called by the Grave is Forbidden and run at 1 copy
• No side deck, so the post-side and best-of-3 read is absent
• Core Extra Deck staples missing (Chimera Doll, Number 40 and C40 are listed as absent core in the usage table)

Critical choke points

• Little Soldiers / Gimmick Puppet starter in the opening hand
• Single Field Spell route (Mansion) for the recorded FTK line

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is Illegal: Called by the Grave (Forbidden) at 1 copy; Main Deck 44 cards and Extra Deck 15 cards are within Master Duel size rules; Side deck count is 0; Card text and copy limits for all 27 Main and 8 Extra distinct cards; Archetype usage: 14 of 23 core cards present
• Observed: 9 recorded combo boards; 4 of them shown in examples with power 100 and median 100; Average Graveyard 8.44 and banished 1.44 from recorded boards
• Inferred: Starter access 31% at 3 copies and the 0.9943 core proxy; Hand-trap presence 81% going second; Structural score 63.5 from the Combo profile; Resilience and pilotability estimates
• Provisional: Meta power (no dated metagame sample); Format fit and matchup coverage (no tournament link); Post-side plan (no side deck)
• Data gaps: no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied deck title is null side deck is empty (Side Deck size 0), so D12 and post-side planning cannot be evaluated 9 recorded combos all have unknown gameplay and no going-first or going-second split combo median of 100 comes from a tiny sample and may overstate typical output