Gimmick Puppet: deck recipe [Nov 11]

Gimmick Puppets are an XYZ focused deck that's all about using your opponent's monsters. Taking control of them, and changing their levels to summon your own level 8 XYZ. This can often turn a losing duel to a win in an instant.

Only summonable by using the skill. This can be a decent turn 1 card to pass the turn since your opponent has no monsters for you to take control of. You can use this to destroy any Gimmick Puppet monster, making it really good against mirror matches.

Since summoning this doesn't use your normal summon, you just need to have another level 4 monster to XYZ into Gigantes Doll to take control of up to 2 monsters your opponent controls.

If you only have a level 8 monster in your hand:

• Activate your skill to send Dreary Doll from your deck to grave.
• Activate Des Troy's effect to special summon your lvl 8 from hand.
• Activate Dreary Doll from your graveyard by banishing the Des Troy.
• XYZ into Giant Grinder or Gimmick Puppet of Strings.

A simple 1 card for XYZ summoning. Activating the skill will already put a level 4 monster on your field, so having this in hand without its effect can already become an XYZ monster, but it's also a great follow up card for the later turns.

If you have a Dreary Doll in your graveyard that you can activate, you can XYZ into a level 4 and 8 on the same turn:

• Use the skill to send Gear Changer from the deck to grave.
• Normal summon Terror Baby and special summon the Gear Changer.
• XYZ into a level 4 using Des Troy and Terror Baby.
• Special summon Dreary Doll and activate Gear Changer's effect, targeting Dreary Doll to become a level 8.
• XYZ into a rank 8 using Gear Changer and Dreary Doll.

Best used (in the graveyard) at the start of the turn before you summon any Gimmick Puppet monsters. If you have Condolence Puppet in hand, you can send this card to the grave and use its effect first before using the skill. This prevents your opponent from being able to destroy your monsters as you're trying to make a play.

The cost of a Gimmick Puppet discard can be used for Dreary Doll, which is almost always in the grave since you can easily send it there using the skill or Condolence Puppet.

Essentially used as a continuous level 8 monster that you can keep special summoning once per turn. You only need 1 copy of this since you can consistently send it to the grave with the skill or Condolence Puppet.

A simple level 8 monster with a special summon effect to XYZ with any of the other level 8.

Used to pair up with any of the other monsters so you can XYZ into a rank 4 or 8. Be sure to activate Bisque Doll first before you summon this card since it has very low stats.

Can special summon any Gimmick Puppet monster regardless of their level. Since you can even use the skill at the start of the duel, you can essentially use this to summon a specific monster from your deck. Though you'll most often want to send either Dreary Doll or Bisque Doll, so this can be treated as a good way to have a level 8 to your field.

Even if your opponent doesn't control any monster, you can already send a specific Gimmick Puppet monster from deck to the graveyard, which is already good enough since you can put another one through the skill.

If you have this in your starting hand, use it to send Bisque Doll and activate it first before making a play or use your skill to protect them from dangerous targeted effects.

May help potential bricking, and can be used often since you can keep special summoning Dreary Doll. Special summoning Bisque Doll and using Advance Draw helps put her in the graveyard for the protection effect as well.

Great Discruptive Trap by negating 1 face-up monster's effect with block attack while it is Summoned, also prevent it from being using as Extra Deck Summon material.

Since Puppet of Strings' effect isn't really that strong, you can use those materials to negate a monster instead.

Its effect isn't really that reliable since it's kind of slow. Puppet of Strings is mostly used as the card you XYZ into after you take control of your opponent's monster. This is because the other option is Giant Grinder, and that monster has lower ATK, which will make it harder to survive the next turn.

The rank 4 Gimmick Puppet XYZ is to take control of up to 2 monsters, while this rank 8 is to simply destroy them. However, keep in mind that this destruction effect has a restriction where it can only destroy special summoned monsters, while the rank 4 has no such restriction.

A pretty good optional card to use as a rank 8 XYZ. 4500 ATK is high enough to one shot your opponent, making it a great comeback card from your opponent controlling 2 monsters to a win for you in a turn.

The negate effect is pretty strong since it's a quick effect and can negate any face-up card, but switching it to DEF with only 1000 can make it difficult to survive.

Essentially the main signature card of the deck. Can be used even if your opponent only controls 1 monster, but best used when they have 2 of course.

If you take control of non XYZ monsters, then you will need to use Gigantes Doll's effect to change their levels into 8 so you can summon an XYZ of your own.

A handy card to bring since it has a good effect and it's a generic rank 4 monster. Just keep in mind that it's not a "Gimmick Puppet" monster, which means it's not protected from Bisque Doll's effect, or any of your Gimmick Puppet graveyard effects.

Sanaphond's below average ATK stat can easily be mitigated by its inherent
stat boost putting it near 3000 ATK, especially if there's already some graveyard setup on both sides. Additionally, Sanaphond is able to protect itself from effect destruction while also locking out revival effect. This might be a problem for you since you can't revive Dreary Doll.

A Board Extender that can allows you to special summon 1 "Gimmick Puppet" monster from your hand when it is normal or special summoned. You can use those monsters including Humpty Dumpty to Xyz Summon Rank 4 or 8 Monsters with activating Skill.

Scissor Arms will allows you to sent 1 "Gimmick Puppet" monster from your Deck to the Graveyard while it is Normal Summoned. This effect is good Synergy with Gearspring Spirit since Gearspring need at least 1 and only Machine-Type monster in your Graveyard for special summoning itself.

Gearspring Spirit can be special summoned while you have only Machine Type monsters in your Graveyard which is good for Xyz Summon monsters quickly. It's second effect is potential for get rid of some Big Beater and potential OTK for sometimes.

Prevents OTKs similar to Sphere Kuriboh. Keep it in your hand to avoid damage from a direct attack, then later banish it from the graveyard to avoid damage from another direct attack.

This can make it more consistent to go for either rank 4 or 8. The banish cost can be an issue since you'll probably want to use Dreary Doll's effect, but this spell's effect of using banished monsters makes it kind of worth it.

Barrage Blast is a decent continuous trap with multiple card removal effect if you control Machine Xyz Monsters with at least 2 Xyz Materials.

The second effect will inflict additional damage while your machines Xyz Monster is destroyed by battle or card effect. In this case of this Deck, the amount of damage will be like:

• Number 15, 22 & 40 (Rank 8): 800 Dmg
• Number 70 & Gigantes Doll (Rank 4): 400 Dmg

3000 ATK beater with an effect that lets you temporarily control your opponent's monster. Increasing the ATK to 3000 just means that you can choose a low ATK monster your opponent controls to help as a beater.

Its effect works best if your opponent has at least 2 monsters on the field. If your opponent has another 3000 ATK monster on the field, you can crash it with the one you took control of. If your opponent has another low ATK monster then you can potentially still OTK since the monster you took control of isn't attacking directly.

A Rank 9 Xyz monster with Card Removal that can be special summoned by using Galaxy-Eyes Cipher Dragon. You can even special summon Galaxy-Eyes Cipher Dragon from your Graveyard while this card is destroyed by your opponent's battle or card effect which can let you have an extra beater.

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