Clown Crew Deck #765498 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 58/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 45 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Tribute Summon high-ATK monsters (Biancaviso 2500, Ra Phoenix 4000, Nerva 3300) after Clown Crew draw and summon chains, then close with piercing or direct damage; Link and Synchro pressure from Dristy, Diabolo and Meteor after chaining Clown Crew monsters
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Cappello, Rehearsal, Flair or Malabarisme to start a Clown Crew summon chain, use Matinee Operatics or Soiree Operations to add a Tribute Summon, and keep Ash or Ghost Belle up for the opponent's first engine
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash, Ghost Belle, Impermanence and Maxx C to disrupt the opponent's starter, then use Biancaviso's negation and the Tribute Summon chain to rebuild a board
• Recovery: Use Rehearsal and Finale to re-search, Flair and New Face to recycle Clown Crew cards from the GY and banish, and Dristy or Diabolo Tribute effects to regain board presence
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan in this list

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Clown Crew engine: 24 archetype-core copies give a hypergeometric P(at least one in a 5-card opening hand) of about 0.98, and the four starters (Cappello, Rehearsal, Flair, Malabarisme) each sit at three copies for a 0.30 per-card chance of appearing on the first hand. It converts that engine into Tribute Summon chains and a finishing set of high-ATK monsters, and the eight hand traps plus Maxx C, Impermanence and Dominus Purge give it real interaction on both turns. Survivability is moderate: recursion through Flair, New Face, Finale and Dristy keeps lines alive after disruption, but Rehearsal and Malabarisme are single-choke-point cards, and there is no combo data to confirm the median. The score is built from consistency, median output and interaction on the whole system; the archetype's popularity earned no points, and card scores were not averaged. Meta power stays provisional because no dated metagame sample was supplied.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 62, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: No side deck (-2); Unrecoverable choke point (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); 0.80*62.03 + 0.20*58 = 61.2, then modifiers -3 → 58

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.3 · 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

• Four redundant Clown Crew starters at 3 copies each, with core-group access near 98% in opening hands
• Eight hand traps plus several Trap and Spell interaction cards give layered answers on both turns
• High-ATK finishers (Ra Phoenix, Nerva, Starslayer, Biancaviso) and Diabolo piercing close games
• Recursion through Flair, New Face, Finale and Dristy/Diabolo resists single interruptions

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so there is no post-side adaptability
• Only 45% exact-name archetype purity; 33 off-archetype copies dilute the engine
• Rehearsal and Malabarisme are single-card choke points
• Multi-step Tribute and chain sequencing raises the pilot skill requirement

Critical choke points

• Rehearsal and Malabarisme as the only Clown Crew search and chain enablers when drawn without a second starter
• Dependence on Tribute Summoned monsters for both negation and Ra/Biancaviso access

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in master-duel: 45 main (40–60), 15 extra (0–15), 0 side (0–15); Maxx C and Herald of the Arc Light are Limited and run at 1 copy each, the legal maximum; Archetype usage: Clown Crew core present at 12 of 25 usage-listed core cards (48%); Hand-trap group and archetype-core probabilities as supplied in evidence
• Observed: Extra Deck composition of 11 distinct cards across Link, Fusion, XYZ and Synchro
• Inferred: P(≥1 Clown Crew starter in opening 5) ≈ 0.98 for the core group; each individual starter ≈ 0.30; Engine ceiling from card text: Tribute chains with Biancaviso draw and Malabarisme recursion; Interaction density from negation and removal text hints; Going-second hand-trap coverage ≈ 0.71 for a 6-card hand
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and D13 matchup fit: no dated metagame sample or tournament link; Side-deck adaptability (D12): no side deck and no post-side data
• 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/starter rates) exists in YGOVN Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck title is null, so the deck is identified only by its id and archetype