Ancient Gears Deck #767724 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 54/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 53 / Extra 14 / Side 0 — status: Legal with warning.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ancient Gear Golem and Ultimate / Chaos Ancient Gear Giant fusion boards, plus Superdreadnought Rail Cannon Gustav Rocket and Number C107 as Extra Deck threats; Gigantic Champion Sargas and Gaming Gamer GG Xyz boards built from Ancient Gear and Train monsters
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on Ancient Gear Statue, Wyvern, Dark Golem or Fusion, search Ancient Gear cards with Box / Fortress / Geartown, then build a fusion or Xyz board while holding Droplet or Ash Blossom for a single interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll and Lock Bird, Maxx C, Dominus Purge and Forbidden Droplet against the opponent's first engine; then go to the board through Ancient Gear Golem and Gustav Rocket
• Recovery: Geartown, Ancient Gear Box, Ancient Gear Golem and Ancient Gear Commander recycle from GY and deck, and Exceptional Schedule or Urgent Schedule restock the hand
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan in this list

Why it scores here

The deck's consistency comes from its system rather than from any single card: 22 Ancient Gear core copies give about a 94% chance of at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand, and 18 searchers push searcher access to about 89% (Inferred, hypergeometric). Interaction is layered across Ash Blossom x2, Droll and Lock Bird, Maxx C, Forbidden Droplet x3, Dominus Purge and Ultimate Sky, so the deck can answer a first engine and keep a follow-up route through Geartown recursion. Closing power is high because the Extra Deck carries 3000-5000 ATK boards, and the Extra Deck is fully used for fusion, Xyz and Link access. Popularity did not earn points: the archetype usage stats only confirm that this core is real and accessible, and the score is not an average of individual card scores. The main limits are the lack of any Side Deck, which makes best-of-3 post-side play unevaluable, and the absence of combo and tournament records, so the floor and matchup reads stay provisional.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 63, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: No side deck (-3); Unresolved passcode (-2); Splash and off-archetype density (-2); Limited single-copy key cards (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; Structural is meta-neutral with D13 dropped and weights renormalized)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.94 · 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

• Ancient Gear core is dense (22 copies) with about 94% opening-hand access and about 89% searcher access
• Layered negation and removal across hand traps, spells and Extra Deck negators
• Extra Deck is fully used with 3000-5000 ATK finishers and Xyz, Fusion and Link coverage
• Recursion from Geartown, Box, Golem and Commander keeps the deck going after disruption

Weaknesses

• No Side Deck in a best-of-3 format
• No combo, tournament or matchup data, so floor and matchup scores are provisional
• Off-archetype splash (Dominus Purge x3, Forbidden Droplet x3) adds dead draws
• One unresolved passcode in the main deck

Critical choke points

• Ancient Gear Golem and the Fusion/Xyz engine rely on several single-copy cards, and losing Golem removes a main finisher
• Maxx C, Droll and Lock Bird and Gustav Max are each single-copy Limited cards, so losing one to a removal or Ash-type answer is hard to replace

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 53, Extra 14, Side 0, legal with warning on size and card-resolution checks; Restricted-card counts are within banlist limits (Maxx C, Droll and Lock Bird, Crossout Designator, Gustav Max at 1; Ash Blossom at 2); Core Ancient Gear usage stats are available and the deck runs 14 of 24 core cards
• Inferred: P(at least one core card in hand 5) ~0.94 and searcher access ~0.89; Interaction density and resilience read from card text; Ceiling estimates from Extra Deck stat lines and text
• Provisional: Meta Power is null, and matchup and format fit are neutral without a dated meta sample; Post-side play cannot be scored without a Side Deck
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inferences No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent 1 passcode (10443957) in CardIDList could not be resolved and is counted as a main-deck card No Side Deck, so post-side and best-of-3 adaptability cannot be measured No win-rate telemetry exists; going-first and going-second splits are Inferred only