Clown Crew Deck #754192 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 38/100 (±12 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Stun
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Tribute-summon Clown Crew boss monsters (Clown Crew Biancaviso 2500 ATK, Nerva 3300 ATK from the Extra Deck) and grind through Clown Crew recursion (Rehearsal, Malabarisme, Flair, Finale).; Link and Synchro beaters from the Extra Deck (Clown Crew Dristy, Enigmaster Packbit, Golden Cloud Beast - Malong) once the board is established.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Clown Crew searcher or Ritual/Pendulum starter (Rehearsal, Malabarisme, Cappello, Flair) and convert it into a Tribute Summon of a boss, protected by hand traps held in hand.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold 2 or more hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Effect Veiler, Droll & Lock Bird, Ghost Belle) to answer the opponent's first board, then rebuild through GY recursion.
• Recovery: Banish Rehearsal from the GY for a Ritual Summon, and use Clown Crew New Face and Matinee Operatics to shuffle GY and banished Clown Crew cards back and redraw.
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has an empty Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

This is a theoretical, structural-only read: the list is Illegal because it runs Dimension Shifter (Forbidden in Master Duel), so the score is capped low and is not a normal legal-deck rating. Structurally the deck can reliably reach a Clown Crew starter (the archetype core group is about 99.7% likely to show at least one card in a 5-card opening hand, and a searcher is about 82% likely), and its 12 hand traps give strong disruption on the going-second turn (about 90% to have at least one in a 6-card hand). Its ceiling is real but unmeasured, since there are no recorded boards, so the combo score rests on text reads only. Points are awarded for the system's engine access, interaction density and Extra Deck coverage, not for the archetype's popularity or its 100% core inclusion, and no card scores were averaged. The empty Side Deck, the choke points on the two-card Rehearsal and Malabarisme starters, and the Forbidden card drag the score down further.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: pure Midrange weights; Stun noted as secondary but not blended. Structural ≈ 51, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-10); no side deck (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional), then modifiers (-12); illegal-list cap applied

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.34 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ — (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Archetype core is almost always present in the opening hand (about 99.7%)
• Dense hand-trap suite (12) gives strong going-second disruption
• Extra Deck has 15 slots with broad summon coverage across link, fusion, synchro and xyz

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Dimension Shifter is Forbidden
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptability
• Only 47.3% of the main deck is the exact archetype name, with 29 off-archetype copies

Critical choke points

• Clown Crew Rehearsal and Clown Crew Malabarisme are 2-of starters with a combined opening-hand probability of about 0.34
• Dependence on the Ritual Summon line through Rehearsal's GY banish effect

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 40 main, 15 extra, 0 side; Dimension Shifter Forbidden and over the copy limit; Card text and stats for all 40 main and 15 extra cards; Archetype core inclusion (Clown Crew cards at 100% inclusion in usage stats)
• Observed: Usage statistics show the archetype core is run as standard
• Inferred: Opening-hand probabilities (hypergeometric, Main Deck only); Hand-trap density and going-second disruption estimate; Structural and going-first/second scores from text and composition
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit (no dated metagame sample or tournament link)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates) Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Side Deck is empty, so post-side performance cannot be assessed