Ancient Gears Deck #758623 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion and Link beatdown: Ancient Gear Golem and its fusions (Ultimate Ancient Gear Golem, Chaos Ancient Gear Giant, Megaton Golem) attacking through the field; Howitzer and Ballista pressure, plus Divine Arsenal and Gear Gigant X as XYZ closers
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Ancient Gear Advance, Statue or Wyvern for a search, then Geartown and Ancient Gear Fusion or Dark Golem to reach Golem-based Fusion Summons
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Maxx C or Forbidden Droplet to answer the opponent's first play, then Ancient Gear Statue or Dark Golem to restart the engine
• Recovery: Search engines (Wyvern, Dark Golem, Ballista, Gigant) and Geartown recursion rebuild the board from the Deck and Graveyard
• After siding: None: the deck runs 0 Side Deck cards, so there is no post-side plan to evaluate

Why it scores here

The deck's engine is a dense Ancient Gears core of 26 copies, so a starter is reachable on most openings (about 0.997 of 5-card hands contain at least one core card, Inferred). Its ceiling comes from Fusion and Link monsters that reach 4400 to 4500 ATK and can attack multiple times, and Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Forbidden Droplet and Ancient Gear Dragon give it real interaction on the system level. The score is held down by missing combo data (0 recorded boards), no Side Deck, no matchup or meta data, and an illegal list that contains the Forbidden card Triple Tactics Talent. Popularity and archetype usage were not counted as power, and no card scores were averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 59, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-10); no_side_deck (0). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(59) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(55) = 58, plus banlist modifier -10 = 48, then Illegal cap applied: final 25, theoretical and structural-only

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 1 · 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

• Dense Ancient Gears core with high starter access
• Multiple independent interaction layers (Ash, Maxx C, Droplet, Dragon negation)
• Strong Fusion and Link ceiling with multi-attack and attack-lock text
• Compact, legal copy counts for every card except Triple Tactics Talent

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: Forbidden Triple Tactics Talent is in the Main Deck
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptability
• No recorded combo boards, so the floor and median are unmeasured
• Engine relies on a few Fusion and Golem routes that can be stopped by one choke card

Critical choke points

• Ancient Gear Golem (1 copy) as the main Fusion material and summon enabler
• Ancient Gear Fusion (1 copy) as the only non-Golem route to Fusion Summons

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 40, Extra 15, Side 0 counts are within format size rules; Triple Tactics Talent is Forbidden and over the copy limit; Extra Deck split: Fusion 8, Link 4, XYZ 3; Copy limits for Heavy Storm, Maxx C, Terraforming and Ash Blossom are met
• Inferred: Core starter access about 0.997 from hypergeometric archetype group; Searcher access about 0.74 in 5 cards; Interaction layering read from card text; Ceiling read from Fusion and Link ATK and attack-lock text
• Provisional: Meta Power is null and matchup fit is unscored without a dated metagame sample; Median output is a neutral placeholder without combo boards
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchup or brick rate Meta Power provisional without a dated metagame sample Deck title is null in the export