Secret Six Samurai Deck #758458 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Combo
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Clown Crew Biancaviso (2500 ATK) and Starving Venom Fusion Dragon (2800 ATK) as large end-board threats, supported by Clown Crew Tribute Summon and Ritual lines; Clown Crew Diabolo and Garura double piercing or doubled damage from Tribute Summoned attackers (text-only, unverified)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Clown Crew searcher or Ritual starter (Clown Crew Rehearsal, Clown Crew Flair, Clown Crew Matinee Operatics), then extend into a Tribute Summon of Biancaviso or a Link/Xyz via Tribute (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Effect Veiler, or Nibiru as hand traps to answer the opponent's first Main Phase, then rebuild the Clown Crew line from the GY and Deck (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recover through the GY-recursion text on Clown Crew Finale, Clown Crew New Face, and Clown Crew Fiends, plus the searchers Clown Crew Flair and Clown Crew Soiree Operations (Inferred)
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so no post-side plan exists; the deck cannot adapt between games

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system, not as an average of its card scores. It is illegal in OCG: three Ash Blossom and three Super Polymerization exceed the Semi-Limited limit of two, and one Called by the Grave is a Forbidden card, so the score is capped and treated as structural-only. Its Clown Crew core (3-copy Biancaviso, Dristy, Diabolo, Fiends, Meteor) and its searchers give a plausible Midrange shape, with a 0.34 chance that a given 3-copy core card is in a 5-card opener. Interaction is the strongest part of the list, from 10 hand traps and 13 negation-text cards, which supports the going-second plan. The Secret Six Samurai archetype label has zero exact-name cards in the list; the actual engine is Clown Crew with Egyptian God and Rites support, so the archetype tag does not earn points. Popularity and archetype usage stats were not credited, and there is no combo or matchup evidence, so the score rests on text and hypergeometric inference.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 48, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: Illegal list (copy limits and Forbidden card) (-15). Final formula: 0.80*Structural(48) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(35) + ContextModifiers(-15) = 30; Meta provisional

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

• Searcher density of 12 cards gives high odds of a searcher in hand
• 10 hand traps and 13 negation-text cards give strong early interaction
• Large end-board threats (Starving Venom 2800, Biancaviso 2500) with Tribute Summon recursion

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG on three counts: copy limits on Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization, plus Forbidden Called by the Grave
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan
• Archetype label Secret Six Samurai has zero exact-name cards; the engine is Clown Crew
• Mixed Ritual, Fusion, Synchro, Xyz and Link lines with no recorded combos to confirm they connect

Critical choke points

• Clown Crew 3-copy core: 0.34 chance per opener to have any one core card
• Ritual and Pendulum pieces are single copies, so a dead-card hand is possible

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 40, Extra 15, Side 0; within OCG size rules; Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization each run 3 with a legal limit of 2; Called by the Grave is Forbidden with a legal limit of 0; Composition: 19 distinct Main cards, 7 distinct Extra cards, 10 hand traps, 12 searcher-text cards
• Inferred: Going-second hand trap odds ≈ 0.85 from the hypergeometric table; Clown Crew is the functional engine despite the Secret Six Samurai archetype label; Interaction is the deck's strongest dimension (D7 ≈ 65)
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit: no dated metagame sample and no tournament link
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry: going-first, going-second and matchup results unknown No Side Deck: post-side plan cannot be evaluated Title is null; archetype label does not match the Clown Crew engine