Gadgets Deck #774974 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Toolbox
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Midrange, Xyz, Link
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 14 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Xyz boards built from K9 and Crystron engines, closed by Xyz monsters such as K9-X Werewolf, Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS and Super Starslayer TY-PHON (Inferred from card text; no recorded boards); Crystron Eleskeletus and Clockwork Knight link and synchro routes (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Level 5 starter (K9-66b Lantern, K9-17 Ripper route or Crystron Smiger) and build an Xyz or Synchro board, protected by Solemn and Unbreakable Xyz Barrier (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre and Snow Rabbit, Infinite Impermanence, Nibiru, Droll and Lock Bird) answer the opponent's first board, then Xyz or Synchro follow-up (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recursion through K9 Forced Release, Crystron Tristaros and Crystron Cluster returns the engine after a clear (Inferred)
• After siding: Not available: the deck runs no side deck, so no post-side plan can be evaluated

Why it scores here

The list is Illegal as submitted: Ash Blossom and K9-17 Izuna are each run three times against an OCG limit of two, so the normal contextual score is capped and this evaluation is theoretical and structural only. Structurally the deck has several overlapping lines (Crystron, K9 Xyz and Mulcharmy draw) and a dense hand-trap and negate suite of about twelve hand traps plus Solemn and Unbreakable Xyz Barrier, which supports interruption resilience and end-board interaction. Its weak points are the lack of a shared engine (0 of 70 archetype copies use the Gadgets name, and Mulcharmy wants an empty field while K9 and Crystron want a board), the absence of recorded boards, and no side deck. The score comes from consistency, median output and interaction read on the whole system, not from Gadgets or K9 being popular archetypes, and not from averaging the individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 52.3, Going First ≈ 54, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-4); engine_conflict (-3); no_side_deck (-2). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*52.3 + 0.20*45 - 9 = 41.8, then capped at 30 because the list is Illegal (theoretical and structural only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ — · 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

• Layered negation package: Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre and Snow Rabbit, Infinite Impermanence, Droll and Lock Bird, Solemn Judgment and Unbreakable Xyz Barrier
• Several engines (Crystron, K9 Xyz, Mulcharmy draw) give more than one route to a board
• Strong end-board ATK in the Extra Deck (K9-X Werewolf, Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS, Super Starslayer TY-PHON)

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy counts: Ash Blossom and K9-17 Izuna run three copies each against a limit of two
• Engine conflict between Mulcharmy (empty field) and the Crystron and K9 board engines
• No side deck and no recorded combos, so consistency and post-side claims are unsupported
• Gadgets archetype label does not match the card pool, which is mostly K9, Crystron and Mulcharmy

Critical choke points

• Ash Blossom and K9-17 Izuna must drop to two copies each before the list can be scored normally
• Mulcharmy's empty-field condition conflicts with holding monsters for K9 and Crystron starts
• Limited status on Droll and Lock Bird, Foolish Burial, Pot of Prosperity and Solemn Judgment limits copies

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Ash Blossom and K9-17 Izuna over copy limit (3 run, 2 legal); Banlist statuses for the Limited and Semi-Limited cards; Main 56, Extra 14, Side 0 within OCG size rules; Archetype spread: 0 exact Gadgets copies; 70 off-archetype copies; Card text excerpts for the listed cards
• Inferred: Starter draw probabilities (hypergeometric, Main Deck only); Going-first and going-second plans derived from card text; Dimension scores D1 to D11 and D14 from composition and card text; Ceiling and median reads without recorded boards
• Provisional: Meta Power and D13 matchup fit, pending a dated metagame sample
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; ceiling and median are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta share and pilot match record are absent One passcode (10443957) could not be resolved to a card and is counted as main No side deck supplied, so post-side adaptability cannot be measured No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN; all performance signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample Usage core cards Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS, Cyber Dragon Nova and Infinitrack River Stormer are missing from the list (Divine Arsenal is present in the Extra Deck; check the others)