Clown Crew Deck #754560 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 53/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Stun
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 42 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Tribute-summon Clown Crew Biancaviso (2500 ATK) and Tribute-synergy boards (Fydraulis, Ty-Phon, Bystial Magnamhut / Baldrake) to convert advantage into attack pressure; Clown Crew Dristy second attacks on Tribute Summoned monsters and Clown Crew Diabolo piercing damage
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a starter (Clown Crew Rehearsal or Clown Crew Malabarisme) to search or Special Summon Clown Crew monsters, build a Tribute-summon board, and keep Ash Blossom / Droll / Maxx C for the opponent's first activation
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C, Nibiru, PSY-Framegear Gamma) to interrupt the opponent's board, then rebuild through Rehearsal / Malabarisme recursion from the GY
• Recovery: Banish Rehearsal from the GY for a Ritual Summon, recurse Flair from the GY, and use Clown Crew New Face to reuse Clown Crew cards from the GY and banishment
• After siding: Not applicable: Master Duel has no side deck in this format (side_count 0)

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Clown Crew engine: the archetype core (29 copies) has roughly a 99.9% chance of at least one card in a 5-card opening hand, and its searcher text group (12 copies) reaches about 83% in going-first hands, so the engine is accessible on paper. Its conversion ceiling depends on Tribute Summon enablers and Extra Deck Synchro, Link, Fusion and Xyz pieces, which are structurally plausible but not backed by recorded boards, so the conversion and median scores are held down. Interaction is the deck's strongest system feature: eight hand-trap and negation texts (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C, Nibiru, PSY-Framegear Gamma, Dominus Spark) give layered interruption. Popularity and the 49% exact-name archetype purity did not earn points by themselves, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score. The score is capped by missing combo data, no tournament link, no side deck in Master Duel, and high pilot complexity.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: Engine conflicts and off-archetype pieces (-2); Hard-garnet / dead-card burden (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; no dated metagame sample)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.83 · 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 highly accessible in opening hands (~99.9% for at least one core card)
• Layered interaction: eight hand-trap or negation texts across going-first and going-second
• Broad recursion from GY and banishment keeps resources flowing
• Strong 2500-2900 ATK bodies for closing

Weaknesses

• No recorded boards, so combo conversion and median output are unverified
• Two starter choke points (Rehearsal, Malabarisme) per the guide
• Mixed engine: only about half the cards are exact-archetype
• High pilot complexity from Tribute and chain sequencing

Critical choke points

• Clown Crew Rehearsal and Clown Crew Malabarisme: the guide names both as the main choke points
• Tribute enablers for Biancaviso and Clown Crew Cappello: lines break without a Ritual, Synchro, Pendulum, Link or Xyz monster to tribute

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is legal: 42 Main, 15 Extra, Limited cards each run at legal copy count; Archetype usage: Rehearsal, Cappello, Flair and Maxx C are 100% inclusion in the usage sample; Card stats and text for all listed cards
• Observed: Guide snippet describes strengths (draw, chain block) and choke points (Rehearsal, Malabarisme)
• Inferred: Starter and brick probabilities from hypergeometric draws; Going-first and going-second power estimates; Combo ceiling and floor estimates from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and format fit (D13) pending a dated metagame sample
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry: going-first/second, matchup, and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Master Duel has no side deck; post-side dimensions are not applicable