Gimmick Puppet Deck #756253 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Toolbox
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 53 / Extra 18 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Gimmick Puppet Xyz boss beatdown (Number 88 / Number C88 / Number C40 / Odin, Loki, Thor) once an Xyz is established from the Extra Deck; Number 88 Destiny Counter win route, if its activation condition is met (text-only read, Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Gimmick Puppet starter (Scissor Arms, Little Soldiers, Rouge Doll, or Mansion of the Dreadful Dolls), search or summon the next Puppet, then Xyz into a boss. Consistency is high (98% to see one core card in a 5-card hand), but the line is unevaluated because no combos were supplied.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 9 hand traps (Ash Blossom x2, Infinite Impermanence x3, Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird, Red Reboot, Ghost Ogre, Dominus Impulse x2) to disrupt the opponent's engine, then rebuild the Xyz board. Hand-trap coverage is about 69% for at least one in a 6-card hand (Inferred).
• Recovery: Recursion through Little Soldiers, Dreary Doll, Terror Baby, Humpty Dumpty and Cattle Scream from the GY, plus Mansion searches. Not evidenced in combo data.
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no Side Deck.

Why it scores here

The deck's engine is consistent on paper: the archetype core has a 98% chance of at least one card in a 5-card opening hand, and the searchers (Mansion, Condolence Puppet, Rouge Doll) raise access further. Its interaction suite is broad, with nine hand traps and several negate and removal cards, so the Xyz engine has layered protection. Its closing power is strong, since Number 88, C88, C40, and the Aesir synchros reach 3000 to 4000+ ATK. However, the list is illegal in its format: three cards exceed copy limits, and the Extra Deck is 3 over the cap. Its Forbidden and Limited copies cap it at a theoretical score. The score was built from the system (consistency, interaction, and closing), not from averaging card scores, and popularity did not add points because there is no tournament data. There are no recorded combos, so the ceiling and median are text-only inferences.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 53, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: illegal_list_cap (-23); banlist_exposure (-3); no_side_deck (-2). Final formula: Illegal list: normal Final formula not applied. Score capped low at 30 (theoretical/structural-only). Structural 53 (Combo profile); Meta provisional; TournamentReliability 40.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.98 · 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 dense (98% at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand)
• Nine hand traps and broad negate/removal text
• Strong Xyz closing power (Number 88, C88, C40, Odin, Loki)
• Searchers (Mansion, Condolence Puppet, Rouge Doll) give consistent access

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Forbidden and over-limit copies and an oversized Extra Deck
• Low archetype purity (46.5%) with 38 off-archetype copies
• Three Aesir Synchros have no Nordic Tuner support in the list
• No Side Deck
• No combo data to verify any line

Critical choke points

• Extra Deck legality: must fix copy limits and reduce Extra Deck to 15 before it is playable
• Xyz bosses need a Puppet Xyz on the field for most lines

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: copy-limit violations and Extra Deck 18 > 15; Banlist status for each card; Archetype core inclusion from usage stats
• Inferred: 98% core-card access from the hypergeometric draw table; Going-first and going-second hand-trap coverage; Aesir Synchros are dead without Nordic Tuners; Interaction quality from card text
• Provisional: Format fit (no dated meta or tournament link)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no side deck — post-side and matchup plans cannot be evaluated no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied