Clown Crew Deck #769431 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Boss monsters from the Clown Crew and Light and Darkness Ritual sub-theme (Clown Crew Biancaviso, Black Luster Soldier, Magician of Dark Chaos, Nerva) attacking on a board cleared by hand traps and Spell/Trap interaction (Inferred); Synchro and Link beats (Clown Crew Meteor, Golden Cloud Beast - Malong, Wind Pegasus @Ignister) and Tribute Summon chains that add Clown Crew monsters (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Clown Crew Matinee Operatics or Clown Crew Malabarisme to Special Summon Clown Crew monsters from the Deck, then convert into a Ritual, Synchro or Tribute Summon boss (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom and Joyous Spring, Ghost Ogre and Snow Rabbit, Maxx C, Droll and Lock Bird, Red Reboot) to stop the opponent's first Normal Summon or search, then rebuild a board from the hand and Clown Crew effects (Inferred)
• Recovery: Use Clown Crew graveyard effects (Malabarisme, Soiree Operations, Finale) and Mulcharmy draw effects to refill the hand and re-launch the engine after a board wipe (Inferred)
• After siding: None. The deck runs no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens an engine: 18 copies of the Clown Crew core are in the Main Deck, giving roughly an 87% chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred), and the core cards are heavily used in the archetype (Clown Crew Matinee Operatics 96%, Clown Crew Flair 91%, Clown Crew Malabarisme 74% usage, Verified). Its strongest system-level feature is interaction density: seven hand traps, two Ash Blossom and Joyous Spring, and several removal or negation Spells and Traps give it layered answers on both turns (Inferred). Conversion is plausible through Synchro, Link and Tribute Summon routes into 2500 to 3300 ATK bosses, but there are no recorded boards, so the ceiling and median stay text-based and Inferred. The score is held down by the absence of any Side Deck, the split between Clown Crew and Light and Darkness Ritual pieces, and the single copy of Light and Darkness Ritual that the Ritual bosses depend on. Popularity and archetype usage confirm the list is real and accessible but did not earn points on their own, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Toolbox secondary (disclosed; weights applied are Midrange). Structural ≈ 61, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: No side deck (-3); Engine conflicts (-2); Single-copy Ritual spell choke point (-2); Limited single-copy restrictions (-1). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*61 + 0.20*52 - 8 = 51 (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.87 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.13 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• 18 Clown Crew core copies give high starter access on the going-first turn (Inferred)
• Dense interaction: seven hand traps, Ash Blossom, Enemy Controller, Mind Mirror Force, Gordian Slicer (Verified text)
• Broad Extra Deck coverage across Synchro, Fusion, Xyz and Link routes (Verified)
• High-ATK boss options at 2500-3300 ATK (Verified)

Weaknesses

• No Side Deck, so post-side adaptability is absent (Verified)
• Only 31.4% exact-name archetype purity; 48 of 55 Main copies are off-archetype (Verified)
• Ritual bosses depend on a single Light and Darkness Ritual (Verified composition, Inferred impact)
• No recorded boards or tournament record, so the ceiling and median are unverified (Verified data gap)

Critical choke points

• Single copy of Light and Darkness Ritual gates Magician of Dark Chaos and Black Luster Soldier (Inferred)
• Clown Crew Matinee Operatics and Malabarisme as opening starters; a hand without either leans on Flair (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 55 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side within format size rules; all Limited and Semi-Limited copies within legal copies; Composition counts: copy histogram, Extra Deck breakdown, archetype purity 31.4%, role tag counts; Usage stats: Clown Crew Matinee Operatics 96% and Clown Crew Flair 91% core inclusion; Card text read for hand traps, removal, negation and boss effects
• Inferred: Hypergeometric starter access: 0.8747 for 18 core copies in a 5-card hand; Going-first and going-second strength reads and the ceiling and median estimate from text; Engine conflict and choke point assessments
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup fit (D13 = 50) without a dated metagame sample; Tournament Reliability and going-second power, which depend on unobserved outcomes
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry; going-first, going-second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck title is null and no guides are attached