Gimmick Puppet Deck #758900 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Xyz/Synchro boards led by Number C40 and Number 40 that push ATK (3000-3300) and destroy opposing monsters, with Gimmick Puppet Xyz removal (Giant Grinder, Giant Hunter) as support; Tenpai Dragon and Sangen Synchro/Fire-Dragon lines as a second board source
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on Gimmick Puppet searchers (Mansion of the Dreadful Dolls, Rouge Doll, Fiendish Knight) and Xyz/Synchro summons, protected by Ash Blossom and Infinite Impermanence; the deck is not cleanly structured for this so the line is unverified
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Dominus Impulse and Red Reboot as hand traps against the opponent's first board, then convert through a Xyz or Synchro summon
• Recovery: Gimmick Puppet GY recursion (Little Soldiers, Terror Baby, Cattle Scream) and Tenpai Dragon Sangen searchers to rebuild a board after a clean removal
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no Side Deck (0 cards), so no post-side plan exists

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal in OCG: it runs Forbidden Triple Tactics Talent and CXyz Fanatix Machinix, and two copies of Number C40 where one is legal. Under the rubric it cannot receive a normal Final Contextual score, so 35 is a theoretical, structural-only figure capped low. The structural read leans on the searcher density (about 22 searcher-text cards, roughly 93% to hit one in an opening 5) and the hand-trap suite (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Red Reboot, Maxx C), which give it a plausible engine start and some interaction. Consistency is held back by archetype purity of only 21% exact-name (24 generic, 15 Gimmick Puppet, plus Tenpai Dragon, Mulcharmy, Sangen and Magician copies), which makes the engine conflict-prone, and by the absence of a Side Deck. No combos, guides or tournament data exist, so floor, median and ceiling are not measured, and popularity was not credited. Card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 46.5, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 42, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-10); no_side_deck (0). Final formula: Illegal: theoretical/structural-only. Base 0.80*Structural(46.5) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) = 45.2, then banlist-exposure modifier -10 => 35 (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.93 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.08 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• About 93% chance of at least one searcher-text card in an opening 5
• Layered hand-trap and negation suite (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Red Reboot, Maxx C)
• Strong Xyz/Synchro bosses (Number C40 at 3300 ATK, Fanatix Machinix at 3100 ATK in the Extra Deck)

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: Forbidden cards and an over-limit Number C40
• Exact-name archetype purity of only 21%, with sub-archetype spread across Tenpai Dragon, Mulcharmy, Sangen and Magician
• No Side Deck
• No combo evidence, so combo output is unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Number C40 (one legal copy) and Number 40 (Limited) are the main engine payoffs; losing them to a single removal collapses the board
• Searcher and Xyz material routes depend on a few Gimmick Puppet Xyz monsters

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Forbidden Triple Tactics Talent and CXyz Fanatix Machinix, Number C40 over the Limited copy limit; Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0 against OCG size rules; Exact-name archetype purity 21.4%; Searcher-text group P(>=1 in opening 5) 0.93; full-brick proxy 0.08
• Inferred: Consistency and brick estimates from hypergeometric draw model; Interaction layering from hand-trap and negation text; Engine coherence concern from archetype spread
• Provisional: Meta Power and d13 matchup fit (no dated metagame sample, no tournament link)
• 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 rates No Side Deck, so post-side performance cannot be assessed Meta Power provisional without a dated metagame sample