Clown Crew Deck #765034 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 53/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Tribute Summon and Ritual-based board development into Clown Crew Biancaviso (2500 ATK) and Extra Deck closers such as Nerva, TY-PHON and Stardust Dragon (Inferred from card text); Hand-trap disruption that lets the Clown Crew board stick, then Extra Deck beats
• Turn 1 (going first): Clown Crew Rehearsal or Malabarisme to put Tribute and Ritual bodies on board, with Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre or Maxx C held for the opponent's first activation (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold a hand trap (Maxx C, Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Droll & Lock Bird, Effect Veiler) through the opponent's Main Phase 1, then rebuild through Biancaviso or Malabarisme (Inferred)
• Recovery: GY recursion: Flair, Rehearsal and Ancient Chant banish from the GY, and Clown Crew New Face shuffles 3 Clown Crew cards from the GY back into the Deck to draw (Inferred from card text)
• After siding: Not applicable: Master Duel has no side deck and the export lists side_count 0. Adaptation is limited to in-deck choices

Why it scores here

The deck opens a functional Clown Crew plan in most hands: the archetype core group gives about a 98% chance of at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand, and the Tribute and Ritual starters are each run three times (Inferred). Its interaction carries the score: 14 hand traps and around 13 negation-text cards cover the early turns, and the going-second hand-trap estimate is about 81% (Inferred). Conversion depends on the Clown Crew engine and Extra Deck closers, but no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median are text-only inference. Only 26 of 75 monster and spell copies are exact-name Clown Crew, with 24 more copies spread across eight off-archetype engines, which lowers consistency and pilotability. Popularity and archetype usage confirm that the list is real and accessible but did not add points, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 59.1, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 63, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 49. Modifiers: engine conflicts (-3); banlist exposure (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional, no dated meta sample): 0.80*59.1 + 0.20*49 - 4 = 53.1

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.98 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.02 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• 14 hand traps with 3-copy Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre and Nibiru give strong interaction before the board is set (Inferred)
• Biancaviso and Malabarisme provide draw and mass-summon power from a Tribute and Ritual engine (Inferred)
• Clean 3-of coverage on core Tribute and Ritual starters keeps the engine reachable on most openings (Inferred)

Weaknesses

• Only 26 of 75 monsters and spells are exact-name Clown Crew, so the engine is split across many archetypes (Verified)
• No recorded boards, so combo output cannot be measured (Verified gap)
• Lock effects that bite when cards are read incorrectly raise the error rate (Observed in guide, Inferred for the deck)

Critical choke points

• Clown Crew Rehearsal and Clown Crew Malabarisme are the two cards the guide names as the choke point when they are dead (Observed in guide)
• Single-copy Extra Deck closers such as Nerva and TY-PHON are not redundant, so losing them removes the board-breaking route (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 60 and Extra 15 are legal for Master Duel with no size warnings; Five Limited cards run at one copy each and Droll & Lock Bird runs one copy of two legal (Semi-Limited); Exact-name purity 34.7% (26 of 75) and archetype spread from the export; Starter probabilities from the hypergeometric table
• Observed: Guide snippet describes strong draw, chain blocking, and the Rehearsal and Malabarisme choke point
• Inferred: Tier of consistency and interaction scores from text and probabilities; Ceiling and pressure reads from card text; Going-first and going-second estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and D13 matchup fit, since no dated metagame sample or tournament link exists
• 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 exists in YGOVN for going-first, going-second, matchup or brick rates Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied usage_statistics marks Clown Crew Diabolo, Fiends, Meteor, Nerva, Herald, Malong and Linkuriboh as in_this_deck=false although the card list runs them, so the missing_core list is unreliable for Extra Deck cards and was not used Master Duel has no side deck, so D12 has no post-side data Deck title is null