Gimmick Puppet Deck #770368 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 64/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Midrange
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra-Deck Xyz/Link boss (Number C40, Number 40, Giant Hunter, Fantasix/Fanatix Machinix) converting through String Counter and destruction pressure; Gimmick Puppet monsters protected by Mansion of the Dreadful Dolls, grinding through recursion from the Graveyard
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Gimmick Puppet starter (Little Soldiers or Rouge Doll), reveal a Puppet Xyz from the Extra Deck, and chain into a Xyz boss; the guide's FTK claim is unverified here because no boards are recorded
• Turn 2 (going second): Use a hand trap (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre, Infinite Impermanence, Dominus Impulse) to break the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Puppet Special Summons from hand and Graveyard
• Recovery: Banish Terror Baby or Cattle Scream from the Graveyard, add Rouge Doll from the Graveyard, and use Chimera Doll and Bisque Doll to refill the hand and field
• After siding: Not applicable: Master Duel is single-game and the list carries no side deck

Why it scores here

The deck's score comes from how the system behaves, not from averaging card scores. Its Puppet monsters are present in 3-copy and 2-copy counts, and the Puppet Xyz/Link extra-deck set with Mansion gives a high chance of a live starter from hand (archetype-core group at least one in a 5-card hand is 0.999 and searcher group is 0.74, both Inferred). Eleven hand traps and 13 negation-text cards give strong interaction density, so the deck can answer a first board and rebuild through Graveyard recursion. The weakest parts are the missing boards: there are no recorded combos, so the ceiling and median are text-based only, and the guide's FTK claim is unverified. Meta-share and win rates are absent, so the score carries no meta component and uses no averaging of card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 66.9, Going First ≈ 70, Going Second ≈ 68, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: Limited-status key card exposure (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; D13 dropped and weights renormalised over 97)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.34 · 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

• Layered interaction: 11 hand traps and 13 negation-text cards
• Redundant Puppet starters and Graveyard recursion for rebuilding
• Strong Extra-Deck closing bosses with ATK 3000-3300
• Compact Extra Deck with a consistent Puppet Xyz core

Weaknesses

• No recorded boards, so ceiling and median are unverified
• Nine singleton main slots and eleven hand traps raise brick risk
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Guide FTK claim is unverified against evidence

Critical choke points

• Reliance on a Puppet Xyz in the Extra Deck to fire Rouge Doll and the Xyz ladder
• Limited Foolish Burial and Maxx C cannot be replaced beyond one copy

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status: 40 main, 15 extra, Limited Foolish Burial and Maxx C at 1 copy each; Card text and ATK/DEF for all listed cards; Usage stats: Puppet core present in 14 of 23 core cards
• Inferred: Hypergeometric starter and hand-trap odds; Interaction density from text flags; Going-first and going-second plan descriptions
• Provisional: Median output and matchup/meta fit (no boards, no meta sample); Side deck score is neutral because the format is single-game
• 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: going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied usage_statistics flags every Extra Deck card (C40, 40 Strings, Chimera Doll, Fantasix, C15, Giant Grinder, Fanatix, Gigantes) as copies_in_deck 0 even though the cards list runs them at 1-2 copies, so the usage match likely ignores the Extra zone; core-present percentage may be understated