Gimmick Puppet Deck #770309 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 63/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Interaction-heavy Xyz engine
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 50 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Xyz Summon high-ATK Puppet Xyz monsters (Number C40, Number 40, Fantasix, Giant Grinder, Giant Hunter, Fanatix) and close with ATK and direct damage from their effects; Burn-style damage from Number C40 and Number C15 effects when they destroy monsters, per the card text
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Gimmick Puppet starter (Rouge Doll reveal, Little Soldiers, Terror Baby, Scissor Arms) that recurs or searches into an Xyz line, protected by Infinite Impermanence and the hand traps held in hand
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Effect Veiler, Droll, Maxx C, D.D. Crow) and Dominus Impulse to stop the opponent's board, then rebuild an Xyz from GY-recurring Puppets
• Recovery: Recurse Puppets from the GY (Little Soldiers, Dreary Doll, Cattle Scream, Rouge Doll) and re-Xyz through the extra deck monsters that remain
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan in the list; any sideboarding would have to be added

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Gimmick Puppet starter: 26 archetype-core copies give a 0.98 chance of at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand, though the starter that matters (3-copy Rouge Doll or Little Soldiers) is only about 0.28 per hand, so the engine is accessible but not guaranteed to be the specific key card. Conversion rests on the Xyz extra deck (13 Xyz and 2 Link), whose strongest members (Number C40, Number 40, Fantasix Machinix, Giant Grinder) carry high ATK and direct-damage or destroy effects. Survival comes from 15 hand traps and about 22 removal-text cards, which give the deck interaction on both turns, with a 0.90 chance of at least one hand trap in a 6-card going-second hand. The score comes from consistency, median output, and interaction measured on the whole system; it is not from Gimmick Puppet being a popular archetype and not from averaging card scores. With no combo records, no tournament link, no side deck, and only 48% exact-name archetype purity (Horus, D.D., Dominus, Chaos and generic cards fill the rest), the score stays in the mid-60s and the confidence stays Medium.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 67, Going First ≈ 68, Going Second ≈ 70, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: archetype purity below core (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); Structural = 67.26, TR = 58, pre-modifier 65.4, modifiers -2 gives 63

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.28 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.02 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Archetype-core density is high (26 copies, 0.98 chance of one in hand)
• Interaction is layered: 15 hand traps plus Infinite Impermanence, Dominus Impulse, Crossout Designator
• Extra Deck has high-ATK Xyz finishers and damage-on-destroy effects
• Protects the Puppet engine from a range of effect interaction

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so no post-side plan
• Exact-name archetype purity is 47.7 percent
• Multi-step Xyz chains with many material decisions
• No recorded combo boards to confirm the ceiling or median

Critical choke points

• The 3-copy starter (Rouge Doll or Little Soldiers) is only about 0.28 per 5-card hand, so a hand without any Puppet starter relies on Terror Baby or Scissor Arms
• Dependence on Number C40 or Number 40 for the main board presence in the extra deck

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status with 50 main, 15 extra, 0 side for master-duel; Banlist states: Limited x4 at 1 copy each, Semi-Limited Droll and Lock Bird at 2 copies; Extra Deck breakdown 13 Xyz and 2 Link; ATK values of the high-ATK Xyz finishers; Exact-name archetype purity 47.7 percent
• Inferred: Starter access 0.276 per 3-copy card and 0.98 archetype-core presence; Hand-trap availability 0.90 going second; Combo-style conversion from card text; Going-first and going-second power estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power null; Matchup and format fit neutral at 50
• Data gaps: no combos supplied; ceiling and median are text-only inference no tournament link; meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry; going-first, going-second and brick rates are inferred no side deck, so post-side adaptation cannot be evaluated Meta Power is provisional until a dated metagame sample is supplied