Gimmick Puppet Deck #771379 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Gimmick Puppet Xyz and Synchro pressure from the Extra Deck, with Number 40 and Number C40 as the main boards; Heart and Horus support threats (Mannadium Prime-Heart, Imsety) and Gimmick Puppet Chimera Doll Link beats
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon a Gimmick Puppet starter (Scissor Arms, Little Soldiers, Rouge Doll or Terror Baby) to search or send a Puppet, then build an Xyz via Puppet recursion
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Maxx C and Red Reboot to disrupt the opponent's first board, then rebuild a Puppet Xyz from the GY
• Recovery: Dreary Doll and Terror Baby recur from the GY; Puppet Play and Cattle Scream provide later interaction
• After siding: No side deck is listed, so no post-side plan can be scored

Why it scores here

The deck is illegal as submitted: Number C40 is run twice against a one-copy limit and CXyz Gimmick Puppet Fanatix Machinix is Forbidden, so the score is capped and reflects structure only. Within that cap, the Gimmick Puppet core is dense (25 copies, about 99.5% chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand per the hypergeometric proxy), and recursion (Dreary Doll, Terror Baby) supports a plan that survives one interruption. Interaction is real but not overwhelming: two Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Red Reboot and Crossout Designator cover the common responses, with about 49% chance of a hand trap in a 6-card going-second hand. Closing power comes from 3000-ATK Extra Deck boards, but no combo evidence, tournament record, or side deck exists, so the score does not rely on archetype popularity or on averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 59, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); no side deck (-3). Final formula: Illegal list: normal formula not applied. Uncapped 0.80*59 + 0.20*45 - 11 ≈ 45 is not reported; score capped at 30 as theoretical/structural only until the copy and banlist violations are fixed.

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

• Dense Gimmick Puppet core with high opening access
• Recursion from GY keeps the engine alive after one disruption
• Layered interaction: two Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Red Reboot, Crossout Designator

Weaknesses

• Illegal as submitted: C40 over copy limit and Forbidden CXyz run
• No side deck
• Off-archetype tech and Extra Deck spread (Heart, Horus, Chaos, Phantom Knights)

Critical choke points

• Extra Deck Xyz/Synchro access for the Number boards
• Single Forbidden/over-limit Extra cards make the list unplayable until fixed

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main Deck 40 and Extra Deck 15 are within OCG size rules; Number C40 is over its copy limit (2 vs 1); CXyz Gimmick Puppet Fanatix Machinix is Forbidden and run once; Core Puppet card count is 25 and 25 of 40 main cards are off-archetype
• Inferred: Opening access probabilities for Puppet starters and hand traps; Interaction layering and recursion resilience
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit (no tournament data); Side deck adaptability (no side deck)
• 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 side deck supplied — post-side scoring unavailable Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied