Gimmick Puppet Deck #758832 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Stun, 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 (Number 88: Gimmick Puppet of Leo, Number C88: Disaster Leo, Odin/Thor/Loki Aesir) overwhelming the board, backed by Gimmick Puppet recursion from the Graveyard; Number 88 Destiny Counter win condition and Number C40 string-counter board wipe, both limited by copy and Extra-Deck constraints
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon a Gimmick Puppet Level 4 starter, chain its search or summon effect into a Level 8 Xyz route, and hold Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird and Maxx C as the interaction layer
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Red Reboot, Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird, Ghost Ogre) to stop the opponent's first Extra Deck summon, then rebuild through Graveyard Puppet effects
• Recovery: Gimmick Puppet monsters in the Graveyard (Dreary Doll, Terror Baby, Little Soldiers) re-enter via their own effects and Mansion of the Dreadful Dolls or Condolence Puppet fetch another Puppet
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no side cards, so no post-side plan exists in the evidence

Why it scores here

The score is driven by the deck as a system, not by averaging its cards or by Gimmick Puppet's popularity. Its 27 archetype-core copies give a 97.7% chance of at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred hypergeometric estimate), and its many Graveyard-recursion effects keep the engine alive after a single interruption. Interaction is dense, with about 9 hand traps and 13 negation texts plus removal, which lifts the end-board and resilience scores. Offense is strong on paper through Number 88 and the Aesir Synchros, but there are no recorded boards, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference. The list is Illegal: three Forbidden or over-limit copies and an Extra Deck of 18 cards cap the Final score at 30, and the deck has no side cards, so post-side adaptability is effectively zero.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-8); Copy and size violation (-4). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + Modifiers = 0.80*57 + 0.20*45 - 12 = 42.6, then Illegal cap applied, final 30 (theoretical/structural-only, no normal Final score)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.98 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.02 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Archetype-core density gives a 97.7% opening-hand starter proxy (Inferred)
• Layered interaction: 9 hand traps, 13 negation texts, Ash Blossom, Droll, Maxx C, Red Reboot
• Graveyard recursion gives resilience after disruption
• Extra Deck end-boards reach 3200 to 4000 ATK

Weaknesses

• Illegal as submitted: 3 Forbidden or over-limit copies and an 18-card Extra Deck
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptability
• No combo or tournament data; floor and median cannot be measured
• Only 46.5% of main-deck cards share the exact archetype name, so the engine is diluted

Critical choke points

• Dependence on Extra-Deck Xyz summons (13 Xyz) for the win condition
• Number 88 Destiny Counter line needs no cards in the Spell and Trap zone and cannot battle that turn
• Forbidden cards would be the main engine accelerators if left in

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: 3 Forbidden or over-limit violations plus Extra 18 > 15; Archetype core copies (27) and exact-name purity 46.5%; Card text and copy counts from the resolved list
• Inferred: 97.7% at-least-one archetype-core in a 5-card hand (hypergeometric); Hand-trap coverage of about 69% going second; Interaction density and recursion resilience from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit and tournament reliability (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, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or unknown Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample no side deck: post-side plan not evaluable