Number 40: Gimmick Puppet of Strings

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

Market price

$0.72

An estimate from YGOPRODeck for a typical printing, refreshed 5 hours 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 57,061 decks in the corpus

178

Decks play it

0.3% of the corpus

#2,719

Most played

Of 14,423 cards played at all

1.47

Copies per deck

56.7% run 1

0.4%

Of competitive decks

Against 0.3% of everything else

In the extra deck of 178 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 and Deck Masters that play it

Share of that archetype or Deck Master’s own decks

Played by year

Share of the decks the corpus holds for that year

20180.6%
20190.5%
20200.5%
20210.5%
20220.3%
20230.2%
20240.5%
20250.4%
20260.2%

Printings

Every version of this card we hold, cheapest first. 3 printings, all priced.

Set	Rarity	Edition	Price	Foil
Legendary Duelists: Immortal DestinyLED5-EN043	Common	1st Edition	$0.70	—	Buy
2013 Collectors Tins Wave 1CT10-EN011	Super Rare	Limited	$0.92	—	Buy
Shonen Jump Magazine PromosJUMP-EN063	Ultra Rare	Limited	$4.10	—	Buy

Prices from YGOPRODeck / TCGplayer, refreshed 4 weeks ago. Each is that printing’s own market price, which is why they differ from the single market price beside the card above — that one is what every deck cost on this site is worked out from. Buy links go to TCGplayer through YGOPRODeck, who provide this data.