Clown Crew Deck #757217 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 56/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Fusion/Synchro/Xyz/Link/Ritual
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Tribute Summon Clown Crew monsters from the Extra Deck to build a board of Synchro, Xyz, Fusion and Link beaters (Fiends +1000 ATK, Dristy double attack, Diabolo double piercing).; Hand-trap control of the opponent's first summons, then a Tribute-engine rebuild.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a starter (Clown Crew Rehearsal, Flair, Malabarisme or Cappello), convert it through a Tribute Summon into a Clown Crew Extra Deck monster, and keep 1-2 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C) for the opponent's first activation.
• Turn 2 (going second): Lead with hand traps (about 92% to hold at least one in six cards) to answer the opponent's board, then rebuild through the Tribute engine.
• Recovery: Recover through GY-triggered effects (Clown Crew Finale, Clown Crew New Face, Clown Crew Malabarisme) that re-add or re-summon Clown Crew cards, and through Ghost Belle's GY effects.
• After siding: No side deck is run (side count 0), so the deck has no post-side plan and cannot adjust composition between games.

Why it scores here

The deck's score comes from how the whole system behaves: it reliably finds one of its four Tribute starters in most opening hands, and 13 hand traps give it strong interaction, especially going second. Its ceiling is high because Tribute Summons route into Extra Deck beaters with ATK boosts, double attacks and piercing, but no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median are read from card text and labelled Inferred. Two starters (Rehearsal and Malabarisme) form a choke point, and 29 off-archetype copies lower consistency and pilotability. Popularity did not earn points: the archetype usage statistics only confirm that the list is a real, standard build. Card scores were not averaged; the structural score uses the Combo weight profile over the 14 system dimensions.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 63, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 57. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-1); unrecoverable choke point (-2); engine conflicts (-2); weak post-side plan (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional) = 0.80*63 + 0.20*57 - 6 = 55.8, rounded to 56

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.85 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.15 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Tribute-summon engine with multiple independent starters
• Dense hand-trap and negation coverage (13 hand traps), strongest going second
• Strong closing stats in the Extra Deck, with double attack and piercing
• Archetype core is present and standard (usage evidence)

Weaknesses

• Heavy off-archetype content (47.3% exact-name purity)
• Two-card starter bottleneck (Rehearsal and Malabarisme)
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Several Extra Deck slots need specific setups (TY-PHON, Herald)

Critical choke points

• Clown Crew Rehearsal and Clown Crew Malabarisme are the only two cards that reliably convert the hand into the Tribute engine
• Hand-trap-only openings with no starter

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 40 main, 15 extra, 0 side, all copy limits met; Banlist: Maxx C, Herald and Magnamhut Limited at 1 copy; Droll Semi-Limited at 2 copies; Card text and stats for all 37 distinct cards; Archetype usage statistics (28 rows, 15 of 25 core cards present); Extra Deck breakdown (Synchro 6, Link 3, Xyz 3, Fusion 3)
• Inferred: Hypergeometric consistency: about 0.85 at least one starter in an opening 5, 0.92 hand trap in a going-second 6-card hand, 0.15 no-starter brick rate; Going-first and going-second strength from card text and interaction density; Ceiling and floor read from card text, since no boards were recorded
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament or meta-share data); Post-side adaptability (no side deck, no performance data)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN for going-first, going-second, matchup or brick/starter rates Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied The archetype core group proxy counts 31 copies while exact-name purity counts 26; the core probability is a proxy