Ancient Gears Deck #771279 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 20/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 49 / Extra 21 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 6 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Level 10 Train/Machine Xyz and Synchro boards: Superdreadnought Rail Cannon Gustav Rocket and Flying Launcher, fed by Night Train Blue Traveler and Heavy Freight Train Derricrane (Inferred from card text); Link and Synchro pressure: Clockwork Knight, Qliphort Genius, Amphibious Swarmship Amblowhale, Power Tool Braver Dragon (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon Gadget Gamer or a Level 1 Morphtronic (Smartfon/Telefon/Celfon), use the Level 1 Machine to reach Level 10 Train monsters, and hold Ash Blossom and Infinite Impermanence as hand traps (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence and Called by the Grave (illegal here) to answer the opponent's first starter, then rebuild through Morphtronic and Train searches (Inferred)
• Recovery: Morphtronic and Train searchers (Night Train, Exceptional Schedule, Urgent Schedule) recover the hand, but there is no card-level recursion beyond the Level 10 GY revival (Inferred)
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; best-of-3 cannot be evaluated (verified by Side Deck size 0)

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system, not as an average of its cards. Its starter access is reasonable: about 89% of opening hands (5 cards, going first) include at least one of the 17 searcher-text cards, and the Morphtronic and Gadget Level 1 starters give a real T1 route into Level 10 Train monsters. Its ceiling is limited by the lack of any recorded combo boards, so offensive power rests on text reads of Gustav Rocket and Flying Launcher, which are not verified in play. Interaction is broad (6 hand-trap-tagged cards, 10 negation-text cards, 11 removal-text cards), but four cards are Forbidden in OCG and one more copy of Ash Blossom exceeds its limit, so the list cannot be played as built. Popularity does not earn points: the archetype is listed as Ancient Gears, but only 5 of 24 core Ancient Gears cards are present and exact-name purity is 0%, so the list is a Morphtronic/Train/Gadget engine deck. The score is capped low because the deck is illegal.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Balanced (default; strategy unclear, no combo evidence). Structural ≈ 44.6, Going First ≈ 47, Going Second ≈ 42, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 30. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); engine conflicts (-4). Final formula: Illegal deck: pre-cap 0.80*44.6 + 0.20*30 - 12 = 23.7; capped to 20 as theoretical/structural-only (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.89 · 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

• Broad searcher density (17 cards) gives frequent access to the engine
• Negation and removal text coverage is wide across main and Extra Deck
• Level 10 Train and Morphtronic routes give a real closing plan from text

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: four Forbidden cards and one over-limit Ash Blossom
• Extra Deck is 21 cards against a limit of 15
• Only 5 of 24 Ancient Gears core cards are present; the list is not an Ancient Gears build
• No side deck, so there is no post-side plan

Critical choke points

• Level 1 Machine starters (Morphtronic and Gadget) are the only T1 link into the Level 10 plan
• Forbidden Called by the Grave and Cannon Soldier are removed by the copy limit, so the removal plan is weaker than the text suggests

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 49 main, 21 extra, 0 side; 4 Forbidden cards; Ash Blossom at 3 copies vs limit 2; Composition: 28 distinct main names, 70 off-archetype copies, 0% exact-name purity; Usage: 5 of 24 core cards present (20.8%)
• Inferred: Starter probability and hand-trap odds from hypergeometric estimates; Win-condition and going-first/second plans from card text
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit: no dated metagame sample or tournament link
• Data gaps: no combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link; archetype meta-share and pilot record absent no side deck; best-of-3 adaptability cannot be evaluated no win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second or matchups Meta Power provisional without a dated sample