Number 40: Gimmick Puppet of Strings

XYZ Monster · DARK · Machine · Rank 8 · Gimmick Puppet

Market price

$0.80

An estimate from YGOPRODeck for a typical printing, refreshed 3 days ago.

2 Level 8 monsters Once per turn: You can detach 1 material from this card; place 1 String Counter on each face-up monster on the field, except this card. Once per turn, during the next End Phase of the opponent of the player who placed a String Counter(s) by this effect: Destroy the monsters with String Counters, and if you do, inflict 500 damage to your opponent for each monster destroyed.

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Deck usage & meta stats

Across 47,183 decks in the corpus

171

Decks play it

0.4% of the corpus

#2,382

Most played

Of 14,248 cards played at all

1.48

Copies per deck

55.6% run 1

0.4%

Of competitive decks

Against 0.3% of everything else

In the extra deck of 171 decks. Sided in another 5, which is not counted above — completion is scored over the main and extra deck only, plus a Domain deck’s Deck Master.

Archetypes that play it

Share of that archetype’s own decks

Gimmick Puppet93.2%
Gagaga2.1%
Demise1.5%
Chaos1.3%
Dark World0.7%
Danger!0.6%
Dinomorphia0.6%
No archetype0.1%

Played by year

Share of the decks the corpus holds for that year

20180.7%
20190.5%
20200.6%
20210.6%
20220.4%
20230.2%
20240.6%
20250.4%
20260.2%

Printings

We hold no printings for this card. That is not the same as it having only one — it means YGOPRODeck lists none for it, or this corpus has not been synced since printings were added.

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