Monarch Deck #765258 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Stun
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Clown Crew and Monarch board presence closed by Zaborg the Mega Monarch, Clown Crew Biancaviso and Extra Deck boss monsters after hand-trap-protected turns; Recursive Clown Crew Ritual/Pendulum/Tribute value from Clown Crew Flair, Cappello and New Face
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Clown Crew Rehearsal or Upstart Goblin to find a Clown Crew Tribute Summon line, then Fydraulis Harmonia or Nibiru as a board-breaking follow-up (text-only inference)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre and Droll & Lock Bird through the opponent's first summon, then convert with Clown Crew Biancaviso or Zaborg (text-only inference)
• Recovery: Mulcharmy Fuwalos and Purulia draw cards when the hand is larger than the opponent's; Clown Crew Flair and Cappello are searched and recycled through the GY (text-only inference)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has an empty Side Deck, so no post-side plan exists in the evidence

Why it scores here

This deck is scored as a connected Midrange system built around Clown Crew, Mulcharmy and generic hand traps, not as an average of its cards. Its opening reliability is reasonable: the archetype core group is almost always present in an opening hand, but the single-copy starters only reach about 25% per copy in a going-first 5-card hand, so the engine depends on several redundant starters. Its strongest feature is interaction: 13 hand traps, 11 negation-text cards and 26 removal-text cards give it a credible going-second plan. Ceiling and median output cannot be measured because no combo boards were supplied, so the combo dimensions rest on text reads only. The score is capped at 30 because the deck is Illegal: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring runs 3 copies against a Semi-Limited limit of 2, and the Side Deck is empty. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 51, Going First ≈ 46, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: Illegal copy-limit cap (-12); Empty Side Deck (-3). Final formula: Theoretical only. 0.80*Structural(51) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) = 48.8, plus modifiers -15 = 33.8, then capped at 30 because the deck is Illegal (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

• Interaction density: 13 hand traps, 11 negation-text cards, 26 removal-text cards
• Redundant Clown Crew starters (Rehearsal, Flair, Cappello, New Face, Finale) give multiple entry points
• Extra Deck covers Synchro, Link, Fusion and Xyz without a single-card dependency

Weaknesses

• Illegal: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is over the Semi-Limited copy limit
• Empty Side Deck: no post-side adaptation
• Low archetype purity (2.9% exact Monarch naming); 68 off-archetype copies
• No combo data, so the ceiling and median cannot be measured

Critical choke points

• Ash Blossom copy count must drop from 3 to 2 before the deck can be legal
• Clown Crew Tribute and Ritual lines depend on a small number of Tribute Summon enablers

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main deck 55 cards and Extra Deck 15 cards are within the TCG size rules (40-60 main, 0-15 extra); Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring: 3 copies run, legal limit 2 (Semi-Limited); Side Deck is empty
• Inferred: Opening-hand probabilities for starters and hand traps; Interaction and going-second quality from card text; Clown Crew Tribute and Ritual lines
• Provisional: Meta Power is null; no dated metagame sample supplied
• 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 and matchup results are unknown Evidence inconsistency: usage_statistics marks Clown Crew Meteor, Dristy, Diabolo, Fiends, Garura, Ferrijit, Packbit, TY-PHON, Malong and Ignister as in_this_deck=false, but the cards array lists them in the Extra Deck with copies, so core_present_pct (60) is likely understated and should be re-checked in preprocess.py Deck title is null and the archetype field says Monarch while most copies are Clown Crew or generic