Nouvelles Deck #760675 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: No reliable one; the Clown Crew Tribute Summon line (Clown Crew Biancaviso at 2500 ATK, Clown Crew Dristy and Diabolo piercing/double-attack effects) is the only plausible closer, and it is unverified without recorded boards.; Ritual and Fusion extra-deck threats (Clown Crew Flair, Cyber Angel Benten, Starving Venom, Garura), with Nerva and Starving Venom needing setup the list does not reliably supply.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Clown Crew starter (Clown Crew Rehearsal, Clown Crew Malabarisme or Clown Crew Flair, each 3 copies, roughly 25% to be in a 5-card hand) and go for a Tribute Summon, while holding hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll, Evenly Matched) for the opponent's first interaction.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 6-card hand to hold Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Solemn Judgment, Solemn Warning or Evenly Matched and stop the opponent's first combo-enabling search or summon, then rebuild from the Clown Crew engine.
• Recovery: Recover through Linkuriboh and Clown Crew New Face recursion, Clown Crew Flair revival, and Clown Crew Rehearsal banish-from-GY Ritual Summon; the list has few clean recovery routes beyond these.
• After siding: Not available: the deck has no Side Deck (side_count 0), so there is no post-side adjustment in best-of-three play.

Why it scores here

The deck is scored on its system, not by averaging card scores. Its strongest feature is interaction: eight hand traps plus Solemn, Dominus and removal text give a dense negation layer, which earns the Control-profile interaction and going-second scores. The Clown Crew engine (Rehearsal, Malabarisme, Flair, Matinee Operatics) is reasonably accessible, with about 80% odds of at least one archetype card in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred). Against that, the deck carries almost no Nouvelles core: only one card with the exact archetype name, about 24% of the archetype's recorded core present, and 70 off-archetype copies, so the Nouvelles label does not reflect what the deck plays. Several Extra Deck and main-deck cards are dead without setup the list lacks (Nerva needs Artmage monsters, Concours needs Nouvelles or Patissciel Pendulums). Popularity and archetype share earned no points, and the list is Illegal on copy limits (including a Forbidden card), so it is capped at 25 as a structural-only read.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Control. Structural ≈ 50, Going First ≈ 46, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 43. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-6); archetype_coherence (-4); no_side_deck (-2). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability = 0.80*50.4 + 0.20*42.7 = 48.6; modifiers -12 give 36.6; Illegal-deck cap applied, final 25 (structural-only read, Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · 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

• Dense interaction layer: 8 hand traps plus Solemn, Dominus and removal text, giving multiple answers to the opponent's first summon or search
• Accessible Clown Crew engine with about 80% odds of at least one archetype card in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred)
• Recursion and regrowth through Linkuriboh, Clown Crew New Face and Rehearsal's GY Ritual Summon

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: copy-limit violations on five cards, including Called by the Grave, which is Forbidden in OCG
• Nouvelles identity not present: the archetype core is almost absent, and the deck's engine is Clown Crew plus generic toolbox cards
• High brick and dead-card risk: Concours, Nerva, Dimensional Fissure and Preparation of Rites need setup the list does not reliably supply
• No side deck, so there is no best-of-three adaptation
• Extra Deck coverage is thin: several Extra Deck monsters cannot be reliably summoned from this list

Critical choke points

• Clown Crew starters (Rehearsal, Malabarisme, Flair) are 3 copies each, so the engine often misses on the opening hand
• Hand-trap usage depends on holding interaction while the Clown Crew engine waits, which conflicts with developing the board
• Fixing the copy limits removes 1 Ash, 1 Super Polymerization, 1 Solemn Warning, 1 Droll and the Called by the Grave slot, which weakens the interaction layer the score relies on

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main deck 56 cards, Extra 15, Side 0; both within OCG size rules; Copy-limit violations on Ash Blossom, Super Polymerization, Solemn Warning, Droll & Lock Bird and Called by the Grave; Called by the Grave is Forbidden; Archetype spread: exact-name Nouvelles purity 1.4%; core present 6 of 25 (24%); Card text for the Clown Crew engine, hand traps and Nerva's Artmage requirement
• Observed: Archetype usage stats are available, with 28 stat rows; the deck runs 6 of 25 core cards
• Inferred: Starter odds (0.249 per 3-copy starter in a 5-card hand; 0.804 for archetype-core cards); Interaction density and going-second hand-trap coverage (0.622 in 6 cards); Brick and dead-card estimates from card text and summoning conditions; Control-profile structural score of about 50
• Provisional: Matchup and format fit (D13): no tournament link or dated meta sample; Meta Power: null, no 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, brick and starter rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample No guides attached to this deck Title is null, so the deck name is taken from the archetype only