Clown Crew Deck #768924 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Stun
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Clown Crew Extra Deck Tribute and Ritual summons (Biancaviso, Flair, Cappello) into Fusion/Link/Synchro boss monsters, with Fiendsmith Lacrima and Desirae as alternate pressure; Fiendsmith Engraver / Tract / Desirae line for Fiendsmith boss pressure (partly unsupported by the list: Lacrima and Desirae run 1 copy each)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Clown Crew Rehearsal, Flair, Malabarisme or Matinee Operatics to search and summon the Biancaviso/Flair engine, then convert into Extra Deck bosses; hold Ash Blossom or Infinite Impermanence for the first interruption
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Droll and Lock Bird, Nibiru, Evenly Matched, Infinite Impermanence) to break the opponent's first combo, then rebuild the Clown Crew board from the GY with Finale and New Face
• Recovery: Recursion from the GY through Clown Crew New Face (shuffle 3 Clown Crew to draw) and Soiree Operations, plus Fiendsmith Lacrima GY revival; the deck can rebuild a board after one interruption because multiple Clown Crew starters exist (Inferred)
• After siding: Not evaluable: no side deck is registered (0 cards in the Side zone), so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

This is an Illegal list (three cards over their OCG copy limits), so it does not receive a normal Final Contextual score; the 30 is a capped theoretical read of the structure only. The engine is the strongest part: 20 Clown Crew core copies give about 0.91 probability of at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred), and the Biancaviso/Flair/Cappello starters plus recursion through New Face and Soiree Operations give it a plausible route to Extra Deck bosses. Interaction is dense (12 hand traps, 12 negation-text cards, Solemn, Lightning Storm, Feather Duster, Different Dimension Ground), which supports resilience and going-second play. The score is not driven by Clown Crew being a popular archetype or by any average of card scores: it reflects the system, with the lack of a side deck, the 37% exact-archetype purity (44 off-archetype copies), missing recorded combos, and no tournament or matchup data pulling it down.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 54, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: illegal_copy_limit (-12); no Side Deck (-2). Final formula: Structural 54 (Combo profile). Unconstrained 0.80*54 + 0.20*40 = 51.2, minus 12 for Illegal status, gives 39.2; capped to 30 because the list is Illegal (theoretical/structural only). Meta Power provisional/null.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.91 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.09 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Large Clown Crew core (20 copies) gives high hand-level engine access
• Dense interaction: 12 hand traps and 12 negation-text cards cover both turns
• Multiple Extra Deck boss routes (Biancaviso, Flair, Desirae, Lacrima) with recursion

Weaknesses

• Illegal as submitted: three cards exceed their copy limits
• No side deck registered
• Low exact-archetype purity (37%) with 44 off-archetype copies, including Fiendsmith, Mulcharmy, Cyclone, Harpie and Solemn
• No recorded combos or tournament data to validate the line

Critical choke points

• Biancaviso / Flair Tribute and Ritual summon chain is the main engine; losing it to one interruption leaves few alternate starters
• Fiendsmith cards (Engraver, Tract, Lacrima, Requiem) are partly unsupported at 1 copy each, so their lines are fragile

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: three copy-limit violations (Ash Blossom, Super Polymerization, Fiendsmith Engraver); Main 55 and Extra 15 are within OCG size rules; Side is 0 (no side deck); Core group of 20 Clown Crew copies; exact-name purity 37.1%; Limited cards (Droll, Lacrima, Tract, Feather Duster, Linkuriboh, Solemn) each run at legal 1 copy
• Observed: Usage stats: Clown Crew Flair, Soiree Operations, Matinee Operatics, Finale and Rehearsal are high-inclusion core cards in this archetype; 11 of 19 core cards present
• Inferred: P(at least one core card in 5-card opening hand) = 0.907 (hypergeometric, proxy for starter access); Hand-trap access: P(at least one in 6-card going-second hand) = 0.790; Structural read of the Biancaviso/Flair engine and recursion routes from card text; Interaction quality ranking from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit (no dated metagame sample; archetype share unavailable)
• Data gaps: No recorded combos: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inferences No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot records absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first/second, matchup or brick rate Side deck empty: post-side plan cannot be evaluated Meta Power provisional without a dated metagame sample