Clown Crew Deck #765806 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 51/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Tribute-summon chain of Clown Crew monsters (Biancaviso, Cappello, Flair) into Extra Deck boss monsters (Nerva, Stardust, TY-PHON, Malong) for board and attack pressure; Draw-engine card advantage from Biancaviso, Mulcharmy Fuwalos, Maxx C and Clown Crew New Face, converted into a longer game
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on Clown Crew Rehearsal or Malabarisme (3 copies each) or Flair to reach a Tribute Summon, then use Biancaviso or Cappello to convert the Tribute into draw and a second body; hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre and Ghost Belle for the opponent's first activation
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand's hand traps (14 in the Main Deck, ~81% to hold at least one) to negate or destroy the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Biancaviso draw and Extra Deck summons
• Recovery: Recycle from the GY: Malabarisme and Rehearsal's GY and banish effects, Flair's searcher, Preparation of Rites for Ritual Spells, and Linkuriboh and Stardust GY summons
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered (0 of 15 slots used), so there is no post-side plan. The deck cannot adjust to matchups in a best-of-3 unless a side is built

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens into a Tribute-summon engine: 12 Clown Crew and Ritual starter copies at 3 each give a ~0.23 chance that any single starter is in the opening 5 and a ~0.98 proxy for at least one archetype-core card, so engine access is good (Inferred). Interaction is the strongest part of the system: 14 hand traps, ~81% chance of at least one going second, and several negate and destroy effects keep an opposing first board from taking over. Conversion is credible but not measured, because no combos were supplied; the ceiling and median are text-only estimates and are scored separately. The score is lowered by a 0-card Side Deck, a choke point on Rehearsal and Malabarisme noted in the guide, and 49 off-archetype copies that dilute the engine. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points, and no card scores were averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 58, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: No side deck (-2); Choke point on two GY-dependent starters (-2); Engine conflict across sub-archetypes (-1); Banlist exposure (0). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers; 0.80*58.4 + 0.20*48 = 56.3, then -5 modifiers = 51

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.23 · 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 hand-trap and negation layer (14 hand traps, ~81% going-second hit rate)
• Multiple independent Tribute-summon starters and a draw engine
• Full, legal 15-card Extra Deck with boss options at 2200–3300 ATK

Weaknesses

• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan
• Only 34.7% exact-archetype purity; 49 off-archetype copies dilute the engine
• Choke point on Rehearsal and Malabarisme as two GY-dependent starters

Critical choke points

• Clown Crew Rehearsal and Clown Crew Malabarisme (3 copies each) are the main starters; losing both to hand-traps or dead draws leaves few lines
• Herald of the Arc Light (1 copy, Limited) is the only Herald route for graveyard banish and negation

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal list: 60 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side within size rules; All 6 Limited / Semi-Limited cards run within legal copy limits; Card counts and archetype purity from composition
• Observed: Guide reports Rehearsal and Malabarisme as choke points and notes strong draw and chain-block play
• Inferred: Starter access probability and archetype-core proxy from hypergeometric draws; Interaction layer rated from card text roles; Combo ceiling and median from text only (no boards)
• Provisional: Meta and format fit (D13) and Meta Power: no dated metagame sample
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN — going-first/second and matchup signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied usage_statistics in_this_deck flags mark Extra Deck cards (Nerva, Malong, Herald, Linkuriboh, Fiends, Meteor, Diabolo) as absent though they appear in the extra zone; core_present_pct 64 is understated and was not used deck title is null