Gimmick Puppet Deck #774891 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 36/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Fusion, Ritual, Synchro
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck boards from Fusion/Synchro bodies such as Chaos Angel (3500 ATK), Dark Paladin - Wave-Motion (2900 ATK) and Black Chaos (3000 ATK via Ritual); text-derived, Inferred; Recursive Fallen of Albaz / Fallen of the White Dragon boards feeding Fusion and Ritual summons (Inferred from card text)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Fallen of Albaz or Fallen of the White Dragon starter plus a searcher (Ragged Records, Mind Shuffle, Ecclesia monsters) to reach a Fusion or Ritual board; the 1-copy starters make this line fragile (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Six-card hand with Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird and Maxx C as interaction, then an engine-through-board Fusion (Inferred)
• Recovery: Graveyard recursion through Ecclesia, Dogmatika and Light and Darkness Ritual effects, with Black Luster Soldier and Magician of Dark Chaos as the rebuild bodies (Inferred)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs zero side-deck cards, so no post-side plan exists

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal in OCG: it runs four Forbidden cards and three copies of a Limited card, so its normal Final Contextual score is capped low and the result is theoretical and structural only. Its engine rests on single-copy Fallen of Albaz and Light and Darkness Ritual, backed by 15 searcher-text cards (P(at least one searcher in a 5-card hand) ≈ 0.92) and 4 hand traps, which keeps opening access reasonable but leaves the core line fragile. Its ceiling comes from Extra Deck bodies (Chaos Angel, Dark Paladin, Black Chaos) whose boards are text-derived only, since no recorded combos exist, so no floor or median output can be measured. Archetype popularity did not earn points: exact-name purity is 1.8%, the list is spread across about eight sub-archetypes, and no tournament or win-rate data exists. The score comes from the system's interaction and resilience read on the deck as a whole, not from averaging individual card scores, and it is reduced by the banlist exposure and the empty side deck.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo (D13 dropped and renormalized over 97). Structural ≈ 49, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 48, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-9); no side deck (-3). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 48, then Illegal cap and banlist modifiers to 36

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

• Dense searcher and recursion text (15 searcher-text cards) keeps opening hands functional
• Four hand traps plus Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird and Maxx C give layered early interaction
• High-ceiling Extra Deck bodies (Chaos Angel, Dark Paladin - Wave-Motion, Black Chaos)

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: four Forbidden cards and one Limited card over its copy limit
• Exact-name archetype purity of 1.8%; the list spreads across roughly eight sub-archetypes with no shared engine
• Zero side-deck cards
• Core starters are single-copy (Fallen of Albaz, Light and Darkness Ritual)

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz (1 copy) as the Fusion starter for most Extra Deck lines
• Light and Darkness Ritual (1 copy) as the Ritual route to Black Luster Soldier and Black Chaos
• Any Forbidden Extra Deck card removed by the banlist reduces the board-breaking options

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is Illegal: 4 Forbidden cards and Branded in High Spirits over its Limited cap of 1; Main 40, Extra 15, Side 0 are within OCG size rules; Exact-name archetype purity is 1.8%
• Observed: Usage statistics: Gimmick Puppet core present at 13% (3 of 23 core cards)
• Inferred: Opening access probabilities (hypergeometric, 40-card main); Going-first and going-second plans and interaction read from card text; Structural and Extra Deck ceiling read from card text
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit (no dated metagame sample or tournament link)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry: going-first, going-second and matchup results unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck has no title and no side deck, so post-side performance cannot be assessed