Gimmick Puppet Deck #758663 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 20/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: No single reliable win condition; the list mixes Mitsurugi Ritual Monsters, Light and Darkness Ritual beatsticks, Xyz and Link extra-deck threats, and Galaxy-Eyes/Chaos finishers.; Extra-deck Xyz/Link pressure from Raidraptor, Gimmick Puppet, and Chaos Angel style boards.
• Turn 1 (going first): Search a Ritual Spell or Mitsurugi/Light and Darkness Ritual monster with Pre-Preparation, Mitsurugi Prayers, Mind Shuffle, or Mitsuruguri-style searchers, then ritual summon a large beatstick. Theoretical only, because the list is illegal.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Droll and Lock Bird, Nibiru) and Mind Mirror Force / Dominus Impulse to slow the opponent, then go to the ritual or Xyz board. Theoretical only.
• Recovery: Recover through Mitsurugi searchers, Ragged Records of Rites, and Skull Archfiend recursion, if the list were legal.
• After siding: No side deck is registered (side count 0), so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The list is illegal in OCG: three Forbidden cards (Ame no Habakiri no Mitsurugi x3, CXyz Gimmick Puppet Fanatix Machinix, Number 60) are over the limit, so this is a theoretical, structural-only read capped low. The Mitsurugi, Light and Darkness Ritual, Gimmick Puppet, Mulcharmy, Chaos and Galaxy-Eyes threads share only 2.9% exact-archetype purity (2 exact Gimmick Puppet copies, 68 off-archetype copies), so engine coherence is weak. The searcher density (22 text cards; P of at least one searcher in 5 cards ≈ 0.93) and six hand traps give the deck real opening redundancy, which is why the structural score is not lower. No recorded boards, no side deck, and no tournament or win data exist, so combo output, going-second conversion, and matchup fit stay Inferred or Provisional. The score does not come from Gimmick Puppet being a popular archetype, and it is not an average of the individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Balanced (default; no single strategy profile fits a mixed Toolbox/Midrange list). Structural ≈ 42, Going First ≈ 40, Going Second ≈ 42, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-12); illegal_list_cap (-9). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability = 0.80*42 + 0.20*35 = 41 before modifiers; banlist-exposure modifier -12 gives 29; Illegal-list cap applied, final 20 (theoretical only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.93 · 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

• Searcher density (22 cards; P at least one searcher in opening 5 ≈ 0.93) gives opening redundancy
• Six hand traps and several negation/removal cards give layered interaction
• Heavy singleton/limited-card construction keeps the list from relying on any one copy

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: Ame no Habakiri no Mitsurugi x3, CXyz Fanatix Machinix x1 and Number 60 x1 are Forbidden
• Exact archetype purity is 2.9%; engines do not reinforce each other
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation

Critical choke points

• Forbidden copies must be removed before any real evaluation
• Ritual monster summons depend on Ritual Spells and specific tribute materials; a single missed ritual setup stalls the board

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 3 Forbidden cards over the copy limit; status Illegal; Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0; Main within 40-60 and Extra within 0-15 for OCG; Limited and Semi-Limited copy counts are within limits; Exact archetype purity 2.9% (2 of 70 cards)
• Inferred: Opening-hand searcher redundancy (P ≈ 0.93) and archetype core P ≈ 0.51 are hypergeometric estimates; Engine conflict across Mitsurugi, Light and Darkness Ritual, Chaos and Galaxy-Eyes sub-archetypes; Interaction density from hand traps and negation text
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit (no tournament data)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry; going-first, going-second and matchup signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample No side deck registered Deck title is null