Ancient Gears Deck #775071 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Toolbox
• 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: Ultimate Ancient Gear Golem, Ancient Gear Megaton Golem or Chaos Ancient Gear Giant via Fusion Summon from Ancient Gear Golem and Ancient Gear monsters, closing with 3000+ ATK piercing and no Spell/Trap response during attacks.; Ancient Gear Howitzer direct damage each Main Phase and Ancient Gear Golem beatdown.
• Turn 1 (going first): Opening Ancient Gear Advance, Ancient Gear Wyvern, Ancient Gear Statue or Ancient Gear Fortress to search and open Ancient Gear Golem or Commander, then Fusion Summon an Ultimate or Megaton Golem.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird, Nibiru) and Forbidden Droplet to disrupt the opposing board, then a Fusion or Link follow-up from the Extra Deck.
• Recovery: Ancient Gear Catapult and Ancient Gear Tanker revive Ancient Gear monsters from the Graveyard, Geartown returns a summon from the Graveyard, and Ancient Gear Box and Ancient Gear Frame search again.
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no Side Deck (0 cards), so no post-side plan exists.

Why it scores here

The deck's engine is reliable on paper: 21 archetype-core copies give about a 98% chance (Inferred, hypergeometric proxy) of at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand, and several searchers and summon enablers (Wyvern, Statue, Advance, Fortress, Box, Frame) let it find its Golem and Fusion starters. Its ceiling is high, with Ultimate, Megaton and Chaos Giant boards reaching 3300 to 4500 ATK, and its interaction suite (Forbidden Droplet, Heavy Storm, Lightning Storm, Maxx C, Droll and Lock Bird, Gordian Slicer) gives reasonable end-board coverage. Scores are deducted for the lack of a Side Deck, the reliance on a single Ancient Gear Golem, the absence of any recorded boards or meta data, and the Forbidden Number 41 that makes the list illegal. The Structural figure (about 58.5) was computed from the 14 dimensions using the Combo profile, and popularity and archetype usage did not add points. The Final score is capped at 30 under the illegal-list rule, so this is a theoretical read only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo 80 / Midrange 20 (secondary used for the 20% context read only, not re-weighting). Structural ≈ 58.5, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 45, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12). Final formula: Illegal cap: Unrestricted formula would give 0.80*58.5 + 0.20*50 - 12 = 44.8; the illegal-list rule caps this at 30 (theoretical/structural-only). Meta Power is null (Provisional).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.98 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.02 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• 21 archetype-core copies give near-certain access to at least one core card in an opening hand
• Layered interaction suite (Forbidden Droplet, Heavy Storm, Lightning Storm, Maxx C, Droll and Lock Bird) with hand traps
• High-ceiling Fusion finishers with 3000+ ATK and no Spell/Trap response during attacks
• Graveyard recovery through Catapult, Tanker and Geartown

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Number 41 is Forbidden in OCG
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptability
• No recorded combo boards and no meta data to check floor or median output
• Only one Ancient Gear Golem, the central Fusion and summon enabler

Critical choke points

• Single Ancient Gear Golem (1 copy) gates the Ultimate, Megaton and Chaos Giant Fusion lines
• Forbidden Number 41 cannot be legally run, so the Xyz slot is effectively a hole in the Extra Deck

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status from Number 41 (Forbidden, 1 copy); Main 40 and Extra 15 within size rules; 0 Side Deck cards; Archetype core of 21 copies and composition counts
• Inferred: P(≥1 core card in 5-card hand) ≈ 0.98 proxy; Interaction density from card text; Going-first and going-second estimates; Pilotability assessment
• Provisional: Meta Power (null); Matchup and format fit; Tournament reliability
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; combo 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 rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck has no title (Deck.Title null)