Gimmick Puppet Deck #774817 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Xyz/Link engine that loops Gimmick Puppet monsters from the Deck and GY into Number 88: Gimmick Puppet of Leo or Number C88 Disaster Leo; Number 40 and Number C40 string/removal pressure with Mansion and Dreary Doll recursion
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Gimmick Puppet starter, Normal Summon Gimmick Puppet Little Soldiers or Scissor Arms, search or recycle a Puppet, and reach a Machine Xyz or Link by T2
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Infinite Impermanence, Droll and Lock Bird) to protect the first engine turn, then rebuild from the GY with Dreary Doll and Terror Baby
• Recovery: Recover through GY-to-hand and GY-to-field effects of Puppet monsters (Dreary Doll, Terror Baby, Bisque Doll) and Mansion of the Dreadful Dolls
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so no post-side plan can be evaluated

Why it scores here

The list reliably opens an archetype starter: P(at least one archetype-core card in an opening hand of 5) is about 0.999 (Inferred), and the Puppet searchers and recursion keep the engine going after one hit. Its real conversion comes from Number 88 and the Number C40/C88 boss cards, but no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median are text-only inference. Hand traps (10 hand-trap and 13 negation-text cards) give it interruption resilience and going-second value, and the Xyz boss line gives endboard pressure. The score is structural, computed on the deck as a system rather than by averaging cards, and popularity did not earn points: usage stats only confirm the list is a real, accessible build. The deck is over the Ash Blossom copy limit, so the score is capped low and labelled theoretical.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 56, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: illegal_over_copy_limit (-12). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(55.7) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) = 53.6; modifiers -12 (illegal copy limit) bring it to 41.6; Illegal cap applied, final = 35

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 is almost always accessible in the opening hand
• Hand-trap and negation density gives resilience on both turn orders
• Multiple Xyz and Link boss options with a real win condition in Number 88

Weaknesses

• Over the Ash Blossom copy limit, so the list is illegal as built
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptability
• Several tech slots (Chicken Game, Set Rotation, Terraforming, Foolish Burial) dilute the engine

Critical choke points

• Reliance on Puppet monsters in the GY for recursion and on Machine Xyz/Link summons for the boss line
• Ash Blossom copy count is illegal and must be fixed before the list can be played

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring 3 copies vs OCG limit 2 (Illegal); Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 sizes within OCG rules; Card stats for Number 88, Number C40 and Number C88
• Inferred: Starter access 0.9988 from hypergeometric draw; Hand-trap coverage 0.8453 on the going-second turn; Interaction and resilience scores from card text; Brick rate from GY-dependent Puppets
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format 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 win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No Side Deck registered