Gimmick Puppet Deck #650506 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

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Created by: YGO Mod (20517634)

Created On: 02/14/2026

 
 

Official AI Deck Power Analysis
FTK/Alternate-WinConfidence: Low
30± 10/ 100
Power Score
Structural 60
Reliability 55
Going First 58
Going Second 55

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

Overall score Value
Structural Deck Power 60
Going First 58
Going Second 55
Meta Power provisional
Tournament Reliability 55
  • Primary strategy: FTK/Alternate-Win
  • Secondary strategies: Combo, Toolbox
  • Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 42 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

  • Win condition: Gimmick Puppet first-turn-kill style burn from the Extra Deck Xyz/Link board, per the archetype guide (FTK with a single combo card); Xyz beatdown and removal-driven board control through Number 40 / C40 and Giant Grinder style effects, if the Extra Deck is accessible
  • Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon Gimmick Puppet Scissor Arms or Little Soldiers to send a Puppet to the GY, Rouge Doll and Terror Baby for GY-based Special Summons, then Overlay into a Puppet Xyz
  • Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Maxx C and Dominus Impulse to protect the first Puppet summon, then rebuild from the GY via Cattle Scream and Bisque Doll
  • Recovery: GY recursion (Rouge Doll, Terror Baby, Bisque Doll, Cattle Scream) and searchers (Mansion of the Dreadful Dolls, Chimera Doll, Fiendish Knight) rebuild the Puppet engine after a disruption
  • After siding: No side deck is registered (side_count 0), so no post-side plan can be scored

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal: it runs one copy of Called by the Grave, a Forbidden card in master-duel with 0 legal copies, so the evaluation is theoretical and structural only and the final score is capped low. Structurally the deck is coherent: 52.6% exact-name archetype purity, 28 archetype-core copies with a 99.8% hypergeometric chance of at least one in the opening five, and a dense GY-recursion engine (Rouge Doll, Terror Baby, Bisque Doll, Cattle Scream) that lets it rebuild after a disruption. Its interaction suite (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Maxx C, Dominus Impulse, Crossout Designator) covers several interruption types, and the Extra Deck of 15 Xyz and Link monsters offers redundancy. The weak points are the lack of recorded boards (combo ceiling and floor are text-only inference), a side deck of zero cards, and a 32% chance that the Rouge Doll starter is live in the opening five. The score was not produced by averaging card scores, and the archetype's popularity earned no points.

Dimension scores

# Dimension Score Evidence
D1 Engine Accessibility & Consistency 70 P(>=1 Rouge Doll in opening 5) = 0.323 at 3 copies; archetype core 28 copies with P(>=1 in 5) = 0.998; searcher group P(>=1) = 0.721 (Inferred)
D2 Opening-Hand Quality & Brick Management 60 Multiple single-copy and Puppet-only hand cards plus 6 hand-traps; estimated brick and dead-hand rate is moderate because Little Soldiers and Scissor Arms are non-interactive starters (Inferred)
D3 Combo Conversion & Ceiling 55 Archetype guide describes an FTK with one combo card, but no recorded boards exist to confirm the ceiling; the score is a text-based read (Inferred)
D4 Combo Floor & Median Output 45 No combos_evidence available (total_combos 0); the median output is unverified and set below the ceiling by design (Provisional)
D5 Interruption Resilience & Route Redundancy 62 Six hand-traps (P(>=1 in going-second 6) = 0.629) plus GY recursion give at least two independent recovery lines (Inferred)
D6 Resource Economy, Recovery & Grind 60 GY recursion via Rouge Doll, Terror Baby, Bisque Doll and Cattle Scream regenerates resources; Mansion and Chimera Doll add searches (Inferred)
D7 End-Board & Interaction Quality 62 Dominus Impulse and Crossout Designator, plus Cattle Scream removal and Puppet Xyz destruction effects, give layered end-board interaction; Called by the Grave cannot be counted because it is illegal (Inferred)
D8 Going-Second & Board-Breaking Power 58 Hand-traps and Dominus Impulse can reach a going-second board, and Puppet Xyz destruction covers boards; there is no recorded going-second split (Inferred)
D9 Offensive Pressure & Closing Power 55 Puppet Xyz boards reach 3000-3300 ATK via Number 40, C40 and Fanatix Machinix with direct-damage text; no end-board data (Inferred)
D10 Main Deck Efficiency & Flexibility 66 42 main-deck slots (within the 40-60 range) with 23 distinct cards and 52.6% exact-name purity; off-archetype staples are functional, but Triple Tactics Talent and Rivalry of Warlords are tech slots (Verified)
D11 Extra Deck Efficiency & Coverage 65 15 Extra Deck slots carry 8 distinct Xyz and Link monsters with overlapping Level 8/9 requirements, which gives coverage and flexibility (Verified)
D12 Side Deck Adaptability 20 No side deck is registered (side_count 0), so post-side adaptability cannot be credited (Verified)
D13 Matchup Coverage & Format Fit 50 No dated meta sample or tournament link exists, so format fit is provisional and held at a neutral value (Provisional)
D14 Pilotability & Error Tolerance 60 Multi-step Xyz and GY-recursion sequencing with several optional once-per-turn effects is moderately demanding to pilot (Inferred)

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: FTK / Alternate-Win. Structural ≈ 60, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: Illegal list cap (-25); No combo evidence (-4). Final formula: Illegal list: 0.80*Structural(60) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(55) = 59, then ContextModifiers(-29) with the Illegal cap applied = 30; Meta provisional (null)

Probability & combo summary

  • Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.32 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ — (all Inferred)
  • Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
  • Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

  • Archetype core is almost always present in the opening hand (P = 0.998)
  • GY recursion lets the deck rebuild after an interruption
  • Six hand-traps and two Xyz-based interaction effects cover multiple disruption types
  • Extra Deck of 15 with overlapping Level 8/9 requirements gives flexibility

Weaknesses

  • Illegal list: Called by the Grave (Forbidden) is run once
  • No side deck; post-side adaptability is zero
  • No recorded boards, so combo ceiling and median are unverified
  • Rouge Doll starter is live in only about one in three opening fives

Critical choke points

  • Rouge Doll / Terror Baby Special Summon for the first Puppet board (3-copy P(>=1 in 5) = 0.323)
  • Puppet Xyz Overlay requirements (Level 8/9 matching) for every board
Priority Remove Add Reason
1 Called by the Grave (1 copy) A legal Puppet-compatible negation or Xyz-protection card (e.g. a second Ash Blossom or a legal Maxx-style effect) Restores legality; the deck is not evaluable as a normal list until this is fixed
2 Off-archetype tech slot with lowest use (e.g. Triple Tactics Talent) Gimmick Puppet search or a 1-copy Puppet starter Raises starter density toward the Rouge Doll bottleneck
3 none A side deck of 0-15 cards Side deck is empty; a side plan is needed for best-of-3 events

Evidence & confidence

  • Verified: Called by the Grave is Forbidden with 0 legal copies and is run once (Illegal); Main 42 and Extra 15 are within size_rules; Archetype purity 52.6% exact-name; 23 distinct main cards and 8 distinct extra cards; Side deck is empty
  • Observed: Usage statistics show Gimmick Puppet core cards at 100% inclusion across the sampled decks
  • Inferred: Starter and searcher hypergeometric odds; Interaction layering and recursion read from card text; Structural dimension scores and FTK-profile weighting; Going-first and going-second estimates
  • Provisional: Meta power (no dated meta sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link)
  • Data gaps: Illegal list: Called by the Grave (Forbidden) prevents a normal Final Contextual score No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference usage_statistics marks Number C40 (69170557), Number 40 (75433814) and Chimera Doll (97520532) as not in this deck, but the cards array runs 2 copies of each; the usage-stat match is inconsistent and was not used No side deck (side_count 0) No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry: going-first/second, matchup and starter rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck title is null
Generated by deck-evaluation-skill/lean-v1· run 202610211417
 
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