Gizmek Deck #766930 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 59/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Toolbox
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 44 / Extra 14 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion-summon Ancient Gear Golem-based boss monsters (Ultimate Ancient Gear Golem 4400 ATK piercing, Chaos Ancient Gear Giant 4500 ATK, Megaton Golem) from Ancient Gear Fusion / Power Bond / Overload Fusion, with Ancient Gear Dark Golem supplying the Golem name for material; Ancient Gear Howitzer direct damage each Main Phase, Gear Gigant X and Ancient Gear Ballista as link/xyz followups
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon Dark Golem or Wyvern/Tanker to search Ancient Gear cards, set up Ancient Gear Fusion or Advance, and fuse into a 3000+ ATK boss before the opponent interacts
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Statue and Tanker recursion plus Fortress and Ancient Gear Duel protection to stabilise, then fuse into a boss; Forbidden Droplet is the only proactive negation
• Recovery: Geartown, Howitzer and Tanker recursion from the GY, plus Dark Golem and Box searches, rebuild a board from a few cards
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; the deck cannot adapt between games

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens into an Ancient Gear starter: roughly 0.97 hypergeometric chance of at least one of its 21 starter copies in a going-first five-card hand, with three Dark Golem copies providing Ancient Gear searches and Golem-name material. Its ceiling is high because the Extra Deck converts into 3000–4500 ATK boss monsters, with pierce and spell-lock text that pressure an opponent's board, and Howitzer adds repeated direct damage. Floor and median are weaker: the 27 spells include several conditional cards (two Triple Tactics Talent, two Triple Tactics Thrust, two Forbidden Droplet, Pot of Sloth, Foolish Burial) that need an opponent's monster effect or a specific board to do anything, and no recorded boards exist to confirm how often the deck actually completes its lines. The deck has no hand traps or floodgates and zero side deck slots, so going-second interaction and post-side adaptation are thin; the score comes from consistency, recursion and boss output on the system as a whole, not from averaging individual card scores or from the archetype's popularity.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo profile with D13 dropped and remaining weights renormalised to 97 (meta-neutral structural). Structural ≈ 64, Going First ≈ 63, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: No side deck (-2); Conditional spell density (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; Structural 63.7 meta-neutral, TR 55, modifiers -3)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.97 · key two-card combo ≈ 0.1 · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.09 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense Ancient Gear starter access with three Dark Golem searchers and 15 searcher-text cards
• Boss ceiling of 3000–4500 ATK monsters with piercing and spell-lock text
• Strong recursion routes through Tanker, Howitzer and Geartown for interruption recovery
• Ancient Gear sub-archetype coherence across most of the main deck

Weaknesses

• Zero side deck slots, so no post-side adaptation
• No hand traps or floodgates, weakening going-second interaction
• Several conditional spells that can become dead cards
• No recorded combo boards, so floor and median output cannot be verified

Critical choke points

• Fusion materials depend on monsters in hand or field, and the 16-monster main deck is thin for Fusion Summons plus Ancient Gear Advance/Fusion/Fortress costs
• Ancient Gear Golem has only one main-deck copy; Chaos Ancient Gear Giant needs four Ancient Gear monsters

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 44 and Extra 14 are within Master Duel size rules (40–60 main, 0–15 extra); Foolish Burial is Limited with 1 copy run (legal); Zero hand traps and zero floodgates in the list
• Inferred: Starter hypergeometric estimates (0.97 starter, 0.31 per 3-copy card, 0.09 no-monster hand); Boss ceiling and interaction density read from card text; Pilotability and recursion estimates from text
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and D13 matchup fit; Median output (D4) since no combo boards exist
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference usage_statistics.missing_core lists Ancient Gear Howitzer, Megaton Golem, Ultimate AG Golem, Chaos AG Giant and Ancient Gear Ballista as missing, but the cards list places all five in the Extra Deck (3/1/3/3/3 copies); they are treated as present and the stat comparison is likely a main-deck-only artifact No side deck was registered, so post-side performance cannot be evaluated No tournament link, meta-share or per-pilot record No win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchup or brick rates Deck title is null and the archetype label (Gizmek) differs from the dominant Ancient Gear core