Clown Crew Deck #756607 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 61/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 45 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Chain Clown Crew summons (Ritual Flair, Pendulum Cappello, Malabarisme, Rehearsal) into Tribute-Summon payoffs such as Clown Crew Biancaviso and Nerva, with Clown Crew Meteor and Diabolo as extra-deck pressure.; Hand-trap-backed disruption (Ash, Droll, Effect Veiler, Maxx C, Nibiru) that stalls the opponent while the Clown Crew engine rebuilds.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a Clown Crew starter (Rehearsal, Malabarisme, Cappello or Flair), search the next engine piece, Ritual or Pendulum Summon into a Tribute Summon, and convert into an extra-deck Synchro, Link or Fusion.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash, Droll or Effect Veiler for the opponent's first summon or activation, then rebuild from the hand with a Clown Crew starter; Crossout Designator, Gravity Collapse and Herald of the Arc Light cover board breaking.
• Recovery: Use searchers (Flair, Preparation of Rites, Finale, Soiree Operations) and the GY-recursion text on Clown Crew cards to restore starters after a hand-trap or board interruption.
• After siding: Not applicable: Master Duel has no sideboard, and the deck runs 0 side cards, so no post-side plan is scored.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Clown Crew starter: P(at least one archetype-core card in a 5-card opening hand) is about 0.999 (Inferred from the hypergeometric proxy), and it runs 13 searcher-text cards, so a dead opening is rare. Its conversion is strong on paper because Tribute, Ritual, Pendulum and Synchro lines chain into Biancaviso and an extra-deck pool of Meteor, Diabolo and Fiends, but no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median are text-only inference. Interaction is broad (10 hand-trap-tagged cards, 11 negation-text cards, 19 removal-text cards), which is why it scores well on end-board quality and going-second disruption, and the one-card hand-trap line has an 0.80 chance of at least one hand trap in a six-card going-second hand. The score is held down by choke points on Rehearsal and Malabarisme, 45 percent exact-name purity, and no sideboard or tournament data; popularity and meta-share earned no points, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 65, Going First ≈ 67, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 62. Modifiers: unrecoverable choke point (-2); banlist exposure (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); 0.80*64.8 + 0.20*62 = 64.2, then modifiers -3 = 61

Probability & combo summary

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

Strengths

• Archetype-core starters are near-certain in the opening hand (Inferred)
• Layered interaction: hand traps, negations and board breakers across both turns (Inferred)
• Redundant engine starters and recursion give multiple independent lines (Inferred)
• Full, legal Extra Deck with Synchro, Link, Fusion and Xyz coverage (Verified composition)

Weaknesses

• Only 45 percent exact-name purity; many generic and off-archetype slots dilute the engine (Verified composition)
• Nerva and Malong depend on extra-deck summon conditions that the evidence does not fully verify (Provisional)
• No sideboard, so no post-side adaptation (Verified)
• Dependence on single-copy Limited cards for key interaction (Verified legality)

Critical choke points

• Clown Crew Rehearsal and Clown Crew Malabarisme: the only search and Ritual gates for the engine (Inferred from guide and card text)
• Going-second hand traps: 0.80 chance of at least one in a six-card hand, so one missing hand trap leaves the opponent free (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status: 45 main, 15 extra, 0 side, all Limited and Semi-Limited counts within legal copies; Composition counts, archetype purity 45 percent, and extra-deck breakdown; Card text excerpts for hand traps, searchers and board breakers
• Inferred: Opening-hand consistency from hypergeometric proxies (0.9989 core, 0.8007 hand trap); Engine chains and secondary Stun role from card text; Choke-point read from card text and guide snippet; Interaction density from role-tag counts
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup fit (D13); Going-second post-side plan (no sideboard in Master Duel)
• 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, going-second, matchup, brick and starter rates) Usage statistics in_this_deck flags appear to count Main Deck copies only: Extra Deck cards Meteor, Diabolo, Fiends, Nerva, Malong, Linkuriboh, Packbit and Herald show in_this_deck false although the card list runs them. The missing_core list is therefore not a true deck gap and was not scored as one. Meta Power is Provisional: no dated metagame sample supplied No guide sections (section_count 0); the only guide is a single snippet