Ancient Gears Deck #768722 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 52/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 51 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Large Fusion and Xyz beaters from the Extra Deck: Chaos Ancient Gear Giant (4500 ATK), Ultimate Ancient Gear Golem (4400), Ancient Gear Megaton Golem (3300), Ancient Gear Dark Golem / Ancient Gear Golem (3000) on the main deck.; Link and Xyz pressure through Ancient Gear Ballista, Gigantic Sargas and Number F0 lines, plus Lava Golem as a finisher when the opponent has two monsters to tribute.
• Turn 1 (going first): Search with Ancient Gear Advance or Ancient Gear Wyvern, use Ancient Gear Dark Golem to add Ancient Gear cards, then build a Fusion or Link board; Ancient Gear Fusion or Ancient Gear Hunting Hound provides the Fusion access.
• Turn 2 (going second): Stop the opponent's board with Forbidden Droplet, Cosmic Cyclone or Lightning Storm, then Special Summon Ancient Gear Statue or Urgent Schedule to rebuild a board and reach Fusion or Link monsters.
• Recovery: Recur through Geartown, Ancient Gear Catapult from the Graveyard and Dark Golem's Graveyard effect, and protect the board with Ancient Gear Fortress.
• After siding: None. The deck runs 0 Side Deck cards, so there is no verified post-side plan for best-of-3.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens an Ancient Gear line: 18 core-named copies give about a 0.90 chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand, and 15 searchers give about 0.84 for at least one searcher (Inferred). Its Fusion, Link and Xyz Extra Deck gives it a high ceiling, with 4500, 4400 and 3300 ATK boss monsters (Verified card stats). Interaction is layered across spell and trap removal, negation and Ancient Gear Fortress protection, though there are no hand traps. It scores low on brick management and pilotability because several reactive cards (Lava Golem, Forbidden Droplet, Triple Tactics Thrust, Urgent Schedule) need specific board states, and it has no Side Deck. The score comes from consistency, median output and interaction on the whole system; it does not come from Ancient Gears being a popular archetype or from averaging card scores. No recorded boards, guides or tournament data exist, so the combo and meta readings carry low weight.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 58, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: engine conflicts (-3); no side deck (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); 0.80*58 + 0.20*52 = 56.8, then context modifiers of -5 give 51.8, rounded to 52

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.9 · 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 18 copies with about a 0.90 chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand
• Searchers and recursion (Advance, Wyvern, Dark Golem, Geartown, Catapult) keep the engine going
• High-ATK Fusion and Xyz bosses give strong closing power
• Layered interaction across spells, traps and negations

Weaknesses

• No hand traps and no floodgates, so going second is weak against an established board
• Several reactive cards need specific board states (Lava Golem, Forbidden Droplet, Urgent Schedule, Statue)
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan
• Extra Deck contains Springans, Gadget, Therion and Utopia cards with thin Main Deck support
• Archetype-standard support is absent from this list: Superdreadnought, Clockwork Knight and Night Train appear in the sampled archetype decks but not here (sample is small, 9 decks)

Critical choke points

• Ancient Gear Fusion and Ancient Gear Hunting Hound are the only Fusion access outside the Golem monsters
• Ancient Gear Golem is a single copy, and Ultimate Ancient Gear Golem depends on it
• Lava Golem needs two opponent monsters to tribute

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal under OCG BanList; Harpie's Feather Duster Limited at 1 copy; Main 51 and Extra 15 within OCG size rules; 0 Side Deck; Card text, stats and legal copies for all listed cards; Usage statistics: 12 of 24 core cards present in the Main Deck
• Inferred: P(at least one Ancient Gear core card in a 5-card hand) ~0.90; Interaction density and board-breaking quality from card text; Engine conflicts and Extra Deck dependence from composition; Going-first and going-second power from text and probabilities
• Provisional: Matchup fit and Meta Power (no dated metagame or tournament data); Ancient Gears archetype share
• 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 for going-first, going-second, matchup, brick or starter rates usage_statistics in_this_deck checks only the Main Deck, so Extra Deck core cards (Ballista, Chaos Ancient Gear Giant, Ultimate Ancient Gear Golem, Qliphort Genius) show as absent though they are present Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied