Ancient Gears Deck #773240 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 53/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 53 / Extra 14 / Side 0 — status: Legal with warning.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ancient Gear Golem and Ancient Gear monsters (Ultimate Ancient Gear Golem, Chaos Ancient Gear Giant) attack through a no-S/T lock, backed by Superdreadnought Rail Cannon Gustav Max and Gustav Rocket for large boards; Xyz beatsticks (Gustav Max, Cyber Dragon Nova, Gimmick Puppet) and piercing or direct damage from Ancient Gear monsters
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a starter (Ancient Gear Statue, Wyvern, Tanker, Commander, Box or Dark Golem), chain Summons into Golem or Fusion, and protect the line with Ancient Gear Fortress and Ancient Gear Duel; hand traps on the opponent's first search
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Droll and Dominus Purge to break the opponent's first combo, then rebuild through Ancient Gear Box, Dark Golem and Geartown recursion
• Recovery: Ancient Gear Catapult and Ancient Gear Tanker recur from the GY, Geartown revives an Ancient Gear monster, and Night Train Blue Traveler or Exceptional Schedule rebuilds from the Deck
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; the deck plays unchanged across best-of-3

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional Ancient Gear starter: 22 archetype-core copies give P(at least one in a 5-card opening hand) of about 0.94, and 18 searcher-text cards give about 0.89 (Inferred from hypergeometric estimates). Its starters are redundant across several Levels and roles, so one dead hand is rarer than one missing key card. Conversion and closing are the strengths: the Extra Deck carries 4400 to 5000 ATK monsters, and Ancient Gear Golem's attack restriction plus Ancient Gear Fortress protection give a plausible board. Interaction is layered across negations and hand traps (Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Droll and Lock Bird, Dominus Purge, Ultimate Sky, Crossout Designator), so the deck can survive one disruption, though roughly 67 of its copies sit outside the Ancient Gears archetype and dilute the engine. Score comes from consistency, recovery and interaction on the system as a whole, not from averaging card scores; Ancient Gears' popularity earned no points, and the lack of a side deck, the absence of combo records and the missing tournament context hold it back.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Toolbox secondary; weights used as stated in the Midrange profile. Structural ≈ 59, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 57, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-2); engine_conflicts_off_archetype (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); Structural 59.35, TR 48, pre-modifier 57.1, modifiers -4 => 53

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.94 · 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

• 22 archetype-core copies give high opening-hand starter access (Inferred from hypergeometric estimate)
• Layered interaction: 4 hand traps plus negation and removal text (Inferred from card text)
• Strong Extra Deck closers at 3000 to 5000 ATK (Verified stats)

Weaknesses

• No side deck: no post-side plan at all (Verified)
• 67 off-archetype copies dilute the engine (Verified count)
• No recorded combo boards, so ceiling and floor are text-only (Verified gap)

Critical choke points

• Ancient Gear Golem is a single copy and is the main attack-lock and fusion material; losing it to a single removal leaves the attack restriction gone (Inferred)
• Non-archetype hand traps (Ash, Maxx C, Droll) are one-of or two-of and spend the same hand that needs starters (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 53, Extra 14, Side 0: legal size for OCG (40-60 main, 0-15 extra); Limited and Semi-Limited copy counts all within legal copies; One passcode (10443957) unresolved and counted as main; Usage stats and card list disagree on several extra-deck cards (Gustav Rocket, Ballista, Qliphort Genius, Ultimate Golem, Chaos Giant) because the usage ref matching is inconsistent
• Inferred: Starter access approx 0.94 for core and approx 0.89 for searchers (hypergeometric); Dimension scores and text-based ceiling and closing reads; Interaction density from text flags
• Provisional: Meta Power (null); Matchup and format fit (D13)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent One passcode (10443957) in the list could not be resolved and is counted as a main deck card No win-rate telemetry exists (going-first/second, matchup, brick and OTK rates) Usage statistics disagree with the card list on several Extra Deck cards (Gustav Rocket, Ballista, Qliphort Genius, Ultimate Golem, Chaos Giant), so core coverage 58.3% is unreliable No side deck registered Meta Power provisional without a dated sample