Clown Crew Deck #766389 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 55/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Control
• Format: master-duel

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Clown Crew tribute and ritual board development into high-ATK closers (Biancaviso, Winged Dragon of Ra - Immortal Phoenix, Fydraulis, Clown Crew synchro/link pressure); Clown Crew Dristy and Clown Crew Diabolo extra-deck pressure with piercing and double-attack text
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Clown Crew monster (Cappello or Flair) or Clown Crew Rehearsal, tribute into Biancaviso or a Clown Crew extra-deck monster, and extend with the Clown Crew continuous and trap cards
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the eight hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Maxx C, Infinite Impermanence, Nibiru) and Dominus Purge to slow the opponent, then convert with the same tribute and ritual engine
• Recovery: Banish Clown Crew Rehearsal from the GY for its ritual effect, reuse Clown Crew Finale and Clown Crew New Face from the GY/banishment, and rebuild from the 27 exact-name Clown Crew main-deck copies
• After siding: None; the deck runs no Side Deck (Side Deck size 0), so it has no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Clown Crew starter: the archetype-core probability in a 5-card hand is about 0.99 (Inferred), and 27 of 45 main-deck cards are exact-name Clown Crew (35 counting the Clown Crew Extra Deck monsters). Conversion is text-based only, because no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling (D3 60) and median (D4 52) are both Inferred and kept apart. Interaction is the strongest area (D7 72): 12 negation-text and 22 removal-text cards, eight hand traps, and Dominus Purge give it layered disruption. Its weaknesses are a 45% exact-name purity, with about 33 off-archetype copies, and singleton or conditional cards such as Concours de Cuisine, which pull down consistency (D2 52) and pilotability (D14 40). The score comes from engine density and interaction on the system, not from Clown Crew's popularity or from averaging card scores; with no side deck, no meta sample and no combos, the score stays in the mid-range.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 60, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-1); Off-archetype dilution and engine conflicts (-2); Unrecoverable choke point (-2); Engine compactness (2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers = 0.80*60 + 0.20*52 - 3 ≈ 55

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.99 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.01 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense Clown Crew engine: 35 of 60 total cards, with multiple starters (Cappello, Rehearsal, Flair, Malabarisme)
• Strong layered interaction: 8 hand traps, Dominus Purge and Biancaviso negation, with 22 removal-text cards
• High-ATK closers: Phoenix 4000/4000, Biancaviso 2500/2500, TY-PHON 2900/2900, Packbit 2900/2500

Weaknesses

• Only 45% of main-deck cards carry the exact archetype name, which weakens engine coherence
• Several conditional or singleton cards (Concours, Dominus Spark/Purge, Herald) are often dead or hard to use
• No Side Deck, so there is no post-side adjustment to matchups

Critical choke points

• Clown Crew Rehearsal and Clown Crew Malabarisme are 3-copy engine pieces; the guide snippet calls out a choke point on these two cards
• Going second with no hand trap in hand leaves the engine exposed to an unanswered board

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Legal, 45 main / 15 extra / 0 side within Master Duel size rules; Herald of the Arc Light and Maxx C are Limited with 1 legal copy each, run at 1 copy each; Card stats and text excerpts as supplied
• Inferred: Starter access ≈ 0.99 from the archetype-core hypergeometric proxy; Interaction density from negation and removal text; Combo ceiling and median from text only, with no recorded boards
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament data)
• 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, matchup, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck has no title and no side deck Only one guide (Vietnamese forum snippet) is attached for the archetype