Clown Crew Deck #769110 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 52/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Control, Stun
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 57 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Clown Crew tribute and ritual board (Biancaviso, Cappello, Flair, Matinee Operatics, Malabarisme) into 2500-ATK monsters, with Clown Crew Fiends' +1000 ATK and Diabolo's double piercing as closers; Floodgate and lock pressure: Vanity's Ruler and Mistaken Arrest restrict the opponent, while Wicked Avatar gives a large body that opponents cannot answer with Spells/Traps for two turns
• Turn 1 (going first): Use Flair/Rehearsal/Malabarisme/Matinee Operatics to put Clown Crew monsters on board, use Biancaviso's Tribute Summon draw to rebuild, and hold the 9 hand traps for the turn-2 response
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Ghost Belle, Infinite Impermanence, Droll and the Solemn trio to answer the opponent's first summon or activation, then rebuild the Clown Crew board from the hand-trap Tuners and searchers
• Recovery: New Face shuffles 3 Clown Crew cards from GY/banish back to draw 1; Finale and Rehearsal recur from the banish zone; Flair and Preparation of Rites refill the hand
• After siding: None. The deck runs zero Side Deck cards, so there is no post-side plan and no adaptation between games of a best-of-3

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system: a 27-copy Clown Crew core is present in about 97% of 5-card openers (hypergeometric, Inferred), and the searchers (14 cards, about 77% to hit at least one in 5, Inferred) give it a reasonable route to a live starter. Interaction is the strongest part of the list: 9 hand traps, 3 Solemn-family cards, Dominus Purge, Harpie's Feather Duster and two floodgates make the deck very hard to play through on the opponent's turn, which drives the endboard and going-second scores. Resource and recursion are also good, through draw effects, New Face's GY shuffle-back and banish-zone recursion. The score is held down by the absence of any Side Deck, which removes any post-side plan, by the mismatched Vanity's Fiend, which bans the deck's own Special Summons, and by two dead-ish slots (Cyber Angel Benten, which needs Machine Angel Ritual, and Super Starslayer TY-PHON, which needs two Level 12 materials that the deck does not run). The score does not come from Clown Crew being a popular archetype, and it does not come from averaging individual card scores. No combo boards, tournament link or meta sample exist, so the combo and matchup dimensions are text-based and capped in confidence.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 63, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: No side deck (-3); Engine conflict: Vanity's Fiend (-2); Conditional or dead slots (-2); Engine compactness (-2); Banlist exposure (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional); 0.80*63.2 + 0.20*55 = 61.6, then -10 modifiers = 51.6, rounded to 52

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.59 · 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, layered interaction: 9 hand traps, Solemn trio, Dominus Purge, Feather Duster and 2 floodgates
• Strong card flow and recursion (Flair, Preparation, Fuwalos/Purulia, New Face, Finale)
• High core-engine presence in openers (~97% for at least one Clown Crew core card)
• Multiple Tuners in hand (Ash, Ghost Ogre, Ghost Belle) enable Clown Crew Meteor and N'tss synchro lines

Weaknesses

• Zero Side Deck: no post-side adaptation
• Vanity's Fiend conflicts with the deck's own Special Summons and Ritual Summons
• Benten and TY-PHON are conditional or dead in this build
• Wide Main deck (28 distinct cards, 48.6% exact-archetype purity)

Critical choke points

• Turn-1 starter depends on Flair, Rehearsal or Malabarisme (about 59% in opener, Inferred)
• Clown Crew Extra-Deck summons rely on tributes that the Solemn/hand-trap plan can also consume
• No Side Deck, so a single matchup problem cannot be patched between games

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Legal under BanList ocg; 57 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side, all restricted copies at legal maximum; Card text for all 47 distinct cards in the excerpts (regarding Benten's ritual requirement and TY-PHON's materials); Composition counts (copy histogram, type spread, Extra-Deck breakdown, role tags); Archetype usage stats (21 rows, 19 core cards, 11 present)
• Observed: Usage inclusion rates for Clown Crew cards (from usage stats)
• Inferred: Hypergeometric consistency estimates (checked against the evidence); Starter-union probability ~0.59 (computed); Going-first and going-second plan quality; Engine conflict severity from Vanity's Fiend text; Dead-slot assessment for Benten and TY-PHON; Interaction density and quality reads from text
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and D13 matchup fit (neutral 50)
• 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 are absent No win-rate telemetry: going-first/second, matchup, brick and OTK rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample Zero Side Deck: no post-side evidence is possible Description excerpts are truncated; full text was not available for every card