Gimmick Puppet Deck #767710 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Xyz Summon a Gimmick Puppet boss (Number 40 / Number C40 / Fantasix or Fanatix Machinix line) and push damage through board control; Direct Xyz damage and Puppet monster-control or destruction effects that remove blockers
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon Little Soldiers or Rouge Doll/Bisque Doll, use Little Soldiers' level change to reach a Level 8 or 9 Puppet, then Xyz Summon and protect with Mansion/Prohibition/Sales Ban
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Dominus Impulse, Red Reboot or Droll & Lock Bird for the opponent's first Special Summon or trap, then rebuild through Rouge Doll/Dreary Doll recursion
• Recovery: Recursion from GY via Dreary Doll, Cattle Scream and Terror Baby, plus searchers Rouge Doll, Chimera Doll and Fiendish Knight to refill the hand
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs an empty Side Deck (0 cards)

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal: it runs 2 copies of CXyz Gimmick Puppet Fanatix Machinix (Forbidden in OCG) and 2 copies of Number C40 (Limited, 1 legal copy), so the Final Contextual score is capped and this is a structural-only read. Structurally, the 25-card Gimmick Puppet core is dense: P(at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand) is about 0.97 and P(at least one searcher) is about 0.83 (both Inferred), so the engine usually becomes live on turn 1 or 2. Interaction is broad, with Ash Blossom, Dominus Impulse, Red Reboot, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C, Crossout Designator and Lightning Storm covering the main interruption types. Floor and median output cannot be measured because there are no recorded boards, and the deck has no Side Deck, no tournament link and no meta data, so the score is built on consistency and interaction of the system rather than popularity or card averages. The Forbidden and over-limit cards would have to be removed before this list could be played in OCG, and no normal score should be inferred until that is fixed.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Control secondary (structural-only; illegal list). Structural ≈ 53, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-8); Copy-limit violation (Limited) (-2); Empty side deck (-2); Illegal-deck cap (-14). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 51.4 before modifiers; modifiers -12 applied (39.4); Illegal-deck cap applied -> 25 (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.97 · 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 Puppet core with 3-copy starters and high opening-hand access (Inferred)
• Broad negation and removal coverage: 9 negation-text cards and 21 removal-text cards (Verified text)
• Two recovery routes from the GY via Dreary Doll, Cattle Scream and Terror Baby (Inferred)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Forbidden and over-limit cards must be removed before OCG play
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan
• Wide list (29 distinct main cards) with 14 tech slots that thin out the engine
• Mixed sub-archetypes (Mulcharmy, Blue-Eyes, Chaos, Dominus, Forbidden) weaken engine cohesion

Critical choke points

• Puppet Xyz boss summon depends on Level 8/9 Puppet monsters reachable through Little Soldiers or Rouge Doll
• Forbidden Fanatix Machinix and over-limit C40 leave the deck unplayable in OCG until replaced

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main deck 55 and Extra 15 are within OCG size rules (0-15 side, 40-60 main); CXyz Gimmick Puppet Fanatix Machinix is Forbidden and run 2x (0 legal); Number C40 is Limited with 1 legal copy and is run 2x; Copy histogram 13x1 / 6x2 / 10x3; archetype core 25 copies; Side Deck is empty
• Inferred: P(>=1 core in hand5) ≈ 0.97 and P(>=1 searcher) ≈ 0.83 give high engine accessibility (D1 = 70); Interaction layering across 9 negation cards (D7 = 70); Structural score 53 from midrange-weighted dimensions
• Provisional: Meta Power is null: no dated metagame sample was supplied; Tournament Reliability 45: no tournament link
• 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/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Side Deck is empty, so post-side performance is unmeasurable