Deck Gimmick Puppet #704142 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 68/100 (±5 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Control
• Format: duel-links

Legality

Main 30 / Extra 9 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Summon 1 high‑rank Gimmick Puppet Xyz monster (e.g., Number 40) via Rank‑Up‑Magic and special‑summon chain; Control the board với negation and removal spells while protecting your Xyz monsters
• Turn 1 (going first): Open với Forbidden Droplet or Book of Eclipse to disrupt opponent, then special summon Little Soldiers or Rouge Doll to start the Xyz engine
• Turn 2 (going second): Use 1 six‑card hand to set up Rank‑Up‑Magic and summon 1 powerful Xyz monster, then break opponent board với Book of Eclipse or Xyz Block
• Recovery: Use Fiendish Knight and Terror Baby banish effects to retrieve key monsters, and Condolence Puppet to protect Xyz monsters from destruction
• After siding: No side deck; rely on hand‑trap like Book of Moon or on in‑deck interaction cards to adapt after side

Why it scores here

The deck reliably launches its engine because the core Gimmick Puppet cards appear in almost every opening hand, giving 1 near‑certain starter. It can convert that starter into 1 strong Xyz board using Rank‑Up‑Magic and multiple special‑summon effects, while 1 suite of negation and removal cards protects the board. Although the extra‑deck is missing 1 few key Xyz monsters and there is no side deck, the interaction density and redundancy keep the deck resilient. Overall the system scores well on consistency and interaction but is limited by resource economy and side‑deck flexibility.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 69.15, Going First ≈ 70, Going Second ≈ 68, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 65. Modifiers: Missing core Xyz (Number 40) (-4); No side deck (-3). Final formula: 0.80Structural + 0.20Tournament (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening 1 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

• Extremely high engine accessibility
• Strong interaction suite (negation and removal)
• Multiple independent special‑summon lines

Weaknesses

• Missing key extra‑deck Xyz monster (Number 40)
• No side deck for adaptation
• Complex combo steps increase error tolerance

Critical choke points

• Need 1 starter like Little Soldiers or Rouge Doll to launch the engine
• Reliance on Rank‑Up‑Magic spells for Xyz upgrades

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: legality status; card text excerpts; probabilities numbers
• Inferred: engine consistency from hypergeometric core probability; brick rate from core group probability; combo ceiling from card text; combo floor from lack of combo data; interruption resilience from multiple starter cards; resource economy from special‑summon effects; interaction quality from số lá theo vai trò; going‑second power from hand size and board‑breaker cards; offensive closing power from ATK values; main‑deck efficiency from archetype purity; extra‑deck efficiency from missing core Xyz; side‑deck adaptability from side count 0; pilotability from combo complexity
• Provisional: matchup coverage due to absent tournament data
• 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 (going-first/second, matchup, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless 1 dated metagame sample is supplied