Instructions for playing Gimmick Puppet

By ReijIV Published Nov 24, 2021 Updated May 21, 2022

This is an article about the gameplay of the Gimmick Puppet deck, a deck with magical artwork that interests some players who are passionate about character IV in the Zaxal section.

Sections covered in this guide:

overview

Gimmick Puppet is an archetype first released in the Darkness Gimmick box. The deck has a fighting style that revolves around summoning a lot of Gimmick Puppet monsters and then summoning xyz Gimmick Puppet monsters from the extra deck to overwhelm the opponent with Giant Grinder or Gimmick Puppet of Strings .

The identifying feature of the deck is that the Gimmick Puppet cards are mostly dark-type, with level/rank of 4 or 8, a few are earth-type, with level lower than 4.

Style play

Level 8 Gimmick Puppets in the main deck usually have very low attack and defense but are easy to special summon.

Gimmick Puppets with level 4 or lower often have effects that help players call other Gimmick Puppets and can adjust each other's levels to serve xyz summons.

The Gimmick Puppets in the extra deck are mostly common xyz monsters, with bombardment effects that help Gimmick Puppets dominate.

In addition, Gimmick Puppet's trap magic supports have clearly defined the playing style of this deck, which revolves around the graveyard area and focuses on summoning xyz continuously.

Some Gimmick Puppet cards will have a limit on summoning monsters in the archetype, however if you use the effects properly, you will be able to xyz summon strong Number xyz monsters first.

Core

Gimmick Puppet Terror Baby (2-3)

Terror Baby is an important combo piece of the deck as this monster has both effects that can create advantages for the deck.

The first effect can be used when Terror Baby is normally summoned. Terror Baby can special summon a Gimmick Puppet monster from the Graveyard to increase resources on the field.

The second effect is to protect Gimmick Puppets from allowing opponents to activate effects while your Gimmick Puppets are using their effects.

Gimmick Puppet Bisque Doll (2-3)

Bisque Doll is a level 8 Gimmick Puppet that can be summoned by dropping a Gimmick Puppet from hand to the grave. Because the deck focuses on summoning rank 8 monsters, high-level monsters that can self-summon are absolutely necessary for this deck.

By removing Bisque Doll from the Graveyard, until the end of this turn your opponent cannot target your Gimmick Puppet with their effects. Combined with Terror Baby , your Gimmick Puppet is almost completely protected and ready for the next combos.

Gimmick Puppet Dreary Doll (1)

This monster can be summoned from your grave by removing an unnecessary Gimmick Puppet from your grave. The ability is useful, but because Dreary Doll can only summon itself from the grave, it can slow down your combo if you draw many of these monsters.

Dreary Doll can only be summoned from the grave once per turn and this monster can only be used as xyz material for Gimmick Puppet, you should consider before using Dreary Doll .

Gimmick Puppet Magnet Doll (1->3)

Magnet Doll can be self-summoned similar to Bisque Doll and does not require discarding a card from the hand like Bisque Doll , however all monsters you control must be Gimmick Puppet and your opponent must have monsters on them. yard.

Gimmick Puppet Gear Changer (1->3)

Gear Changer is a level 1 Gimmick Puppet and has a completely different ground type from the rest of the Gimmick Puppet. Gear Changer 's special ability allows this monster to become level 4 or 8 to call the xyz monster more easily.

Number 15: Gimmick Puppet Giant Grinder (2)

Gimmick Puppet's main monster. Each Giant Grinder allows you to destroy up to 2 monsters that your opponent has special summoned. If you have 2 Giant Grinders on the field, it means you can wipe out your opponent's monsters.

In exchange for Giant Grinder 's destructive ability, its attack power is too low compared to a normal rank 8 monster.

Number 40: Gimmick Puppet of Strings (2)

Unlike Giant Grinder , the player's purpose of using Strings is only to offset Giant Grinder 's attack power.

Strings ' monster-destroying effect can destroy more than 1 monster at a time, but the time it takes for Strings to destroy them is too long (at least 2 turns), so most players only use Strings to force opponents. How to manually deal with monsters that have been marked by Strings .

Gimmick Puppet Gigantes Doll (1-2)

As a rank 4 monster exclusively for Gimmick Puppet, the material requirements will be more difficult and there will be a summoning limit. Gigantes has 2 effects and each effect can only be used once per turn.

Gigantes Doll can discard 2 of her xyz materials to gain control of 1 or 2 of your opponent's monsters, which are returned at the end of the turn.

After taking control of up to 2 opponent's monsters, until the end of this turn, you can only special summon Gimmick Puppet and only xyz monsters are allowed to attack.

What you can do with your opponent's monsters is use their special abilities and can be used for other effects.

You can use your opponent's monsters as materials for Giant Grinder or Strings , so at the end of the opponent's turn they will lose their monsters. If they are not level 8 then Gigantes Doll 's second effect can help you, Gigantes Doll can sacrifice itself to turn all the levels of monsters on your field to 8.

Junk Puppet (0->3)

Junk Puppet helps you revive a Gimmick Puppet from the grave. Junk Puppet 's ability is not limited to summoning Gimmick Puppet in the main deck, so you can completely call back Strings to get huge attack power from this monster.

Condolence Puppet (0->2)

Condolence Puppet helps you fill your grave with Gimmick Puppet. In addition, this card also helps protect 1 of your xyz mechanical monsters from your opponent's destruction.

Junk Puppet can be combined with Condolence Puppet to revive Gimmick Puppet that this card sends down.

In case you fail to defeat your opponent, Condolence Puppet can cover your Giant Grinder or Strings during your opponent's turn.

Gimmick Puppet Des Troy (0-1)

When sent from the field to the grave, Des Troy allows you to summon up to 2 Gimmick Puppet from your hand. Des Troy is a monster that helps you deal with your bad draws.

Most level 8 Gimmick Puppets can be summoned from hand like Bisque Doll or Magnet Doll , but they all have a trade-off ( Bisque Doll forces you to drop a Gimmick Puppet from your hand to the grave to summon, Magnet Doll loves requires the opponent to have a monster on the field) or if you draw Dreary Doll , a Gimmick Puppet monster that can only be summoned from the grave, Des Troy will help you summon them more easily.

If you feel that taking Des Troy from the field to the grave with other cards is too difficult, Des Troy also has an additional ability to destroy 1 Gimmick Puppet on the field. By using Des Troy to destroy Des Troy , this monster can activate its remaining effects.

Des Troy is an extremely good support monster for Gimmick Puppet, but most Gimmick Puppet decks do not use Des Troy because, in addition to normal summoning, Des Troy can also be recalled from the grave with Terror. Baby . These summons drain resources and waste Gimmick Puppet's effects as well as your valuable normal summons. Terror Baby can summon another, better Gimmick Puppet, Des Troy .

The most optimal way to use Des Troy is to use the Relinquished Puppet skill. The skill allows you to summon 1 Des Troy without requiring you to have Des Troy in your deck. In addition, the skill also allows you to send a level 8 Gimmick Puppet in your deck or hand to the grave, you can send Dreary Doll from the deck to the grave to summon again or Bisque Doll then discard and use the protection effect. Bisque Doll 's millet.

Gimmick Puppet Scissor Arms (0->3)

Scissors Arms when summoned normally can help you send 1 Gimmick Puppet you want to the grave.

Perform Puppet (0-1)

With Performs Puppet, you will be more ready to summon xyz rank 4 or 8 when you can remove a Gimmick Puppet from the grave, your current monsters will have the level of the other discarded Gimmick Puppet.

The remaining effect helps you maintain life points when Performs Puppet can summon 1 of your discarded Gimmick Puppet if your Gimmick Puppet is destroyed in battle or by your opponent's effects.

Gimmick Puppet Humpty Dumpty and Gimmick Puppet Egg Head (0-1)

With the special effect of summoning 1 Gimmick Puppet from the hand when summoned, Humpty Dumpty is not much used because we already have Des Troy that can be summoned by skill.

As for Egg Head , the second effect can help combos, but under the condition of discarding a Gimmick Puppet from hand, this monster has an effect that is too much for cards in hand.

Gimmick Puppet Twilight Joker and Gimmick Puppet Nightmare (0)

Twilight Joker 's effect is so slow, you have to wait until your Gimmick Puppet is destroyed in battle while Gimmick Puppet focuses on destroying enemy monsters with effects and finishing attacks on them.

Nightmare has quite an interesting effect. You can sacrifice a Giant Grinder that no longer has xyz materials after using the effect to call Nightmare out, then call out another Nightmare from your hand or grave to continue the xyz combo. However, to effectively use Nightmare , you must have at least 2 Nightmares (1 in hand, 1 in hand or in the grave), because Nightmare 's summoning conditions require sacrificing an xyz monster, so Nightmare will greatly slows your combo if you draw Nightmare when there are no xyz monsters.

Puppet Ritual (0)

Puppet Ritual can summon twice the number of Gimmick Puppet that Junk Puppet can summon but it is too difficult to play because of the activation conditions as well as skipping the battle step is too high a price for this deck.

Number 88: Gimmick Puppet of Leo (0)

Although it has an effect that helps you win the game without reducing your opponent's life points, Leo is too weak. You have to wait nearly 6 turns for the win condition to apply. The more difficult thing here is that you have to find a way to protect Leo in those 6 turns. In addition, you have to spend a turn fighting in an otk deck, which increases the difficulty of using this card.

Tech

Advance Draw (2-3)

Gimmick Puppet level 8 is heavily supported to be able to summon as quickly and as much as possible. Therefore, Advance Draw helps you pull more tech cards in the deck.

Pulse Mines (2)

Pulse Mines work extremely well with Gimmick Puppet when you have to take the first turn and avoid attack damage because Gimmick Puppet are all mechanical monsters.

Number 68: Sanaphond the Sky Prison, Number 22: Zombiestein and Number 70: Malevolent Sin (1)

Gimmick Puppet revolves around summoning level 4 and 8 monsters, so running more xyz rank 4 and 8 in addition to Gimmick Puppet is understandable.

Book of Moon, Forbidden Chalice and Fiendish Chain (2-3)

Techs can prevent enemy combos extremely well.

Galaxy Cyclone, Cosmic Cyclone and Mystical Space Typhoon (2-3)

Techs can destroy magic and traps.

Axe of Fools and Concentrating Current (1-3)

You can also add techs to your deck that help you finish off your opponent quickly.

Skills

Appropriate skills can be played with Gimmick Puppet.

Relinquished Puppet (1)

This is a skill that can take full advantage of Des Troy 's power and help Gimmick Puppet fill the grave's resources, so this is the most optimal skill for this deck.

Gimmick Puppet – 4 or 8, Gimmick Puppet – Gear Changer (1)

These skills allow you to flexibly change the level of Gimmick Puppet, helping the deck to combo Gimmick Puppet xyz more smoothly.

Gimmick Puppet – Replacement (1)

Skill helps players filter cards in their hand, discarding Gimmick Puppet that cannot be summoned like Dreary Doll to get another level 8 Gimmick Puppet from the deck.

Gimmick Puppet sent down will be summoned again with Terror Baby .

Additionally, you can take Bisque Doll into your hand, then summon Bisque Doll with its own effect and recall Dreary Doll by removing Gimmick Puppet and sending it to the grave with Bisque Doll .

Gimmick Puppet – Returning (1)

This skill is mainly used for long-term battles. Returning can return discarded Terror Babies and Bisque Dolls to use protection effects and reuse them again, and add Gimmick Puppet to let Dreary Dolls reappear on the field.

If you want to experience Leo , this will be a suitable skill for a deck built around Leo .

Puppet – String of Fates (1)

Skill allows you to add 1 Giant Grinder to your extra deck. Usually players only use 2 Giant Grinders in the deck, so with this skill, you can reduce 1 Giant Grinder and add another monster to the extra deck.

In addition, the skill allows you to take full advantage of Giant Grinder 's power, helping you to destroy the opponent's health faster when Giant Grinder can cause damage to the opponent if it destroys an xyz monster.

Combo

With Gimmick Puppet, there are not too many combos around a certain card, the combination of different cards creates many different combos for this deck.

Gimmick Puppet Twilight Joker (Combo Relinquished Puppet + 1 Gimmick Puppet level 8 bất kỳ.)

Use the Relinquished Puppet skill and send Dreary Doll from the deck.
Self-destructs Des Troy , then because Des Troy is sent from the field to the grave, he can call 1 Gimmick Puppet from his hand.
Recall Dreary Doll by removing Des Troy from the grave.
Use the remaining Dreary Doll and Gimmick Puppet to summon xyz to produce Giant Grinder or Strings .

Number 40: Gimmick Puppet of Strings and Number 15: Gimmick Puppet Giant Grinder (End combo)

In the above combo, you cannot create xyz monsters other than Gimmick Puppet because Dreary Doll 's limit only allows you to use it as a material for xyz Gimmick Puppet.

Gimmick Puppet Gear Changer (Combo Relinquished Puppet + Gear Changer)

Use the Relinquished Puppet skill.
Normal summon Gear Changer .
Use Gear Changer 's effect to turn it to level 4 by selecting Des Troy .
Summon a Number rank 4 dark-type monster.

Number 70: Malevolent Sin (End combo.)

Number 40: Gimmick Puppet of Strings, Number 15: Gimmick Puppet Giant Grinder and Gimmick Puppet Gigantes Doll (Expand combos)

In this combo, the goal is for you to get to Number rank 4 the fastest with a good harassing effect or turret.

Gear Changer can be replaced with any other level 4 Gimmick Puppet such as Terror Baby , Scissors Arms , Humpty Dumpty which can help you add resources when summoning normally.

With the above combo, you are completely capable of wiping out the opponent's field by summoning xyz Gigantes Doll in the last step.

Use Gigantes Doll 's effect to capture 2 monsters of your opponent's level. Use those 2 monsters to summon xyz to create 1 Gimmick Puppet of rank 8. In case the monsters do not have level 8, you can sacrifice Gigantes Doll to turn them into level 8. Even worse if you only capture 1 monster. If you have a level, call the Dreary Doll from the grave that was sent down when using the skill.

Note that you can only summon Gimmick Puppet monsters after using Gigantes. By casting Giant Grinder , you can use the effect to destroy your opponent's remaining special summoned monsters. If your opponent's field is empty, you can summon Strings and use your attacks to apply pressure.

Epilogue

Gimmick Puppet is a deck that has the potential to finish off your opponent in one turn. It is called potential because the Gimmick Puppet monsters and the magic and traps that support the card clan have very clear strengths and weaknesses.

The monsters in the main deck have the ability to self-summon or increase resources, helping your field always have xyz materials with protection effects. However, the attack and defense of these Gimmick Puppet are very low and almost impossible to use in combat.

Giant Grinder has a multiple bombardment effect, the combo of Gigantes Doll and Giant Grinder can wipe out the entire opponent's field. In return, Giant Grinder has an attack power of 1500 and a defense power of 2500. This will make players worried about whether to let Giant Grinder defend or attack, in case you leave Giant Grinder in attack position but fail to finish it off. opponent, you will definitely lose this item in the next turn.

Strings is a Gimmick Puppet with great attack power, easy to summon and the ability to create high pressure. Most players only use Strings just because of its attack power, Strings ' effects are too slow and almost impossible to activate successfully.

The spells and traps of the Gimmick Puppet clan are mostly extremely powerful supports specifically for Gimmick Puppet, but there is no way to get them into the hand through other effects and must be through card drawing.

Relinquished Puppet is a skill used in most Gimmick Puppet decks. Note that you can only use the skill if your deck only includes Gimmick Puppet and dark-type Numbers.

Gimmick Puppet Magnet Doll, Gimmick Puppet Bisque Doll and Gimmick Puppet Dreary Doll (key)

Gimmick Puppets have the ability to summon themselves onto the field.

Gimmick Puppet Des Troy and Gimmick Puppet Humpty Dumpty (key)

Support cards summon additional Gimmick Puppet from the hand.

Gimmick Puppet Terror Baby and Junk Puppet (key)

The cards help you recall Gimmick Puppet from the grave.

Gimmick Puppet Scissor Arms and Condolence Puppet (key)

Supports increasing resources for graves.

Gimmick Puppet Gear Changer, Perform Puppet and Gimmick Puppet Gigantes Doll (key)

Cards can change the level of monsters.

Gimmick Puppet Terror Baby, Gimmick Puppet Bisque Doll and Condolence Puppet (key)

Protection for the Gimmick Puppet.

Gimmick Puppet Gear Changer, Gimmick Puppet Scissor Arms and Gimmick Puppet Terror Baby (key)

Use your precious normal summons for these monsters!

Gimmick Puppet Gigantes Doll and Gimmick Puppet Dreary Doll (key)

And don't forget that these monsters have a summon limit.

Number 40: Gimmick Puppet of Strings, Number 15: Gimmick Puppet Giant Grinder and Gimmick Puppet Gigantes Doll (key)

Win conditions for Gimmick Puppet.