Gizmek Deck #769577 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 12 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Gizmek Orochi and Special Summon-driven board pressure from the Gizmek/Maju/Raise Moon engine, closed by the Extra Deck boss monsters (Starslayer TY-PHON, Starving Venom Fusion Dragons, Predaplant Triphyoverutum); Interaction-led attrition: Dominus Spark/Impulse, Solemn Accusation, Thunder King Rai-Oh and Orochi destruction effects strip the opponent's board while Pot of Desires/Extravagance draw through the deck
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Pot of Desires or Pot of Extravagance, use Raise Moon Starter Squeeze and Gren Maju Da Eiza's banished-card count to build an Orochi threat, and hold Ash Blossom / Droll & Lock Bird / Maxx C for the opponent's first Main Phase 1 interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Keep hand traps (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C, Dominus Impulse) to answer the opponent's first summon or search, then Special Summon Gizmek Orochi from hand or GY by banishing 8 cards from the Deck
• Recovery: Gizmek Orochi's hand/GY quick effect and the Gren Maju banish-count engine rebuild a board from the GY; Pot draws refill the hand after the first interruption
• After siding: Not evaluable: Side Deck size is 0 and no side deck is supplied, so no post-side plan can be assessed

Why it scores here

The deck's Structural score of about 54 comes from its system, not from averaging its cards. It reliably opens a Gizmek core: the archetype-core group has about 97% chance of at least one card in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred), and Gizmek Orochi's hand/GY quick effect gives it a second route to the board. Interaction is the strongest area, with 7 hand traps, two Dominus traps, Thunder King Rai-Oh, Solemn Accusation and Orochi's destroy effect covering both the going-first and going-second game. Conversion is judged from card text only because no recorded boards exist, so combo ceiling and median are weakly supported. The deck is capped low because it is Illegal: Number 60: Dugares the Timeless is Forbidden in the OCG list and is run at one copy in the Extra Deck, so the normal Final Contextual score does not apply. Popularity and the archetype's usage stats confirm the list is real and accessible but did not raise the score, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 54, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12); engine conflicts (0); illegal_cap (-6). Final formula: Illegal cap: normal formula 0.80*Structural(54) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(50) + modifiers = 53 - 12 = 41, then capped at 35 because the deck is Illegal (theoretical/structural-only; Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.97 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.03 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Archetype core is almost always accessible in the opening hand (≈97% Inferred)
• Dense hand-trap and removal layer (7 hand traps, Dominus Spark/Impulse, Thunder King Rai-Oh, Solemn Accusation) gives both-turn interaction
• Extra Deck has real closers (Starslayer TY-PHON, Starving Venom ×2, Predaplant Triphyoverutum)
• Strong going-second potential from hand traps plus a hand-launched Gizmek Orochi

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: Number 60: Dugares the Timeless is Forbidden and cannot be run
• Low archetype coherence: 0% exact-name Gizmek purity, with 52 off-archetype copies
• Floodgate self-conflict: Inspector Boarder and There Can Be Only One restrict the deck's own monsters
• No side deck, so no best-of-3 adaptation
• Resource-heavy engine: Pot of Desires banish-10 and Gren Maju banish-count scaling

Critical choke points

• Gizmek Orochi's summon depends on banishing 8 cards from the Deck, which can fail if the Deck is depleted by Pot of Desires
• Dugares occupies an Extra slot that must be replaced before the deck is legal
• Gren Maju's ATK/DEF scaling depends on banished count, so it is weak early

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Number 60: Dugares the Timeless is Forbidden and run at 1 copy (illegal); Main 40 and Extra 12 are within size rules; side is 0; Card text and stats for all 37 distinct cards in the export; Archetype usage: Orochi and Gren Maju present at 100% (15 usage rows)
• Inferred: Starter access ≈97% (archetype core group, hypergeometric); Interaction density and negation layers from card text; Engine route through Orochi hand/GY activation and Pot draws; Floodgate self-conflict from Inspector Boarder and There Can Be Only One
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No side deck supplied (Side Deck size 0) Deck title is null