Gimmick Puppet Deck #770344 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 61/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: FTK/Alternate-Win
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 42 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Xyz Monsters (Number C40 / Number 40 / Giant Grinder / Giant Hunter) converting through direct burn and destruction effects, per the archetype guide's FTK description (guide claim, not verified against combos); Gimmick Puppet recursion from the GY (Terror Baby, Bisque Doll, Cattle Scream, Rouge Doll) feeding repeated Xyz summons
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on Gimmick Puppet starters (Little Soldiers, Rouge Doll, Mansion of the Dreadful Dolls, Condolence Puppet) to reach an Extra Deck Xyz; protect with Mansion and hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Infinite Impermanence)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 6-card hand's hand traps (P of at least one hand trap about 0.91) to stop the opponent's first engine, then go to the Xyz board
• Recovery: Recur monsters from the GY with Terror Baby, Bisque Doll and Cattle Scream, and reuse Xyz materials through Number 40 and Number 15
• After siding: Not applicable: Master Duel has no sideboard in this deck export (Side Deck size 0)

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens its engine: the archetype core is present in about 99.8% of 5-card openings (Inferred, hypergeometric) and the nine searcher-text cards give about 72% at least one search by going-first. Its strength is system-level interaction and recursion rather than raw combo output: 13 hand traps and 18 removal-text cards give a high end-board and going-second interaction score, and GY recursion (Terror Baby, Bisque Doll, Cattle Scream) keeps the Xyz engine running after disruption. Combo output is not measured because no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median scores are text-based inference and were set conservatively to 58 and 50. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged; the deck was scored as a system under the FTK/Alternate-Win profile, which leaves the score sensitive to unverified combo routes.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: FTK / Alternate-Win. Structural ≈ 64, Going First ≈ 70, Going Second ≈ 67, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: engine conflicts (splash) (-2); banlist exposure (0). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional, null); Structural 63.8 gives 51.0 + 12.0 = 63.0, then modifier -2 gives 61

Probability & combo summary

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

Strengths

• Archetype core present in about 99.8% of 5-card openings
• Layered interaction: 13 hand traps and 18 removal-text cards
• GY recursion keeps the Xyz engine running after disruption
• Legal list with all restricted cards at their legal copy limits

Weaknesses

• No recorded boards, so combo ceiling and median are inference only
• Hand-trap-heavy list can be dead against a non-interactive opponent
• Splashes across Dominus, Mulcharmy, Chaos and Puppet dilute engine coherence
• No sideboard, so no post-side adaptation

Critical choke points

• Reaching a live Extra Deck Xyz depends on a Level 4 or 8 monster from the opening hand (about 0.72 for a searcher in 5 cards)
• Usage-stat in this deck flags conflict with the card list for several Extra Deck cards, so the core Extra Deck coverage is unverified

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status with all restricted cards at legal copy counts (Foolish Burial, Maxx C, Droll and Lock Bird); Main 42 and Extra 15 counts within Master Duel size rules; Card text for the main interaction and Xyz cards; Hypergeometric draw figures (3 copies to 0.3232 at 5 cards; to 0.378 at 6 cards)
• Observed: Archetype guide describes the deck as an FTK with one combo card and strong self-protection (guide claim, Vietnamese source)
• Inferred: FTK/Alternate-Win primary strategy and Toolbox secondary, from text, composition and guide; Consistency, brick and interruption-resilience dimension scores; Going-first and going-second power estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power (null), D13 format fit at 50, and the tournament reliability figure without a meta sample
• 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 usage statistics in this deck flags disagree with the card list: Number C40, Number 40, Chimera Doll, CXyz Fanatix, Fantasix, Giant Hunter, Gigantes and Giant Grinder show 0 copies in usage but 1 to 2 in the cards list; core coverage is unverified no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN; all matchup and brick figures are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied deck title is null; the name is taken from the archetype