Clown Crew Deck #769923 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 53 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Tribute Summon and Ritual/Fusion/Synchro payoffs (Clown Crew Biancaviso 2500 ATK, Nerva 3300 ATK) that close from a built board, with Clown Crew Diabolo piercing as a secondary closer; Recurring Clown Crew engine pieces from GY via Rehearsal, Malabarisme and Soiree Operations to rebuild pressure after interaction
• Turn 1 (going first): Clown Crew Rehearsal (Tribute a monster) to add Biancaviso and a Clown Crew Spell/Trap, then Malabarisme or Matinee Operatics to Special Summon Clown Crew monsters and reach Tribute Summon lines
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Ghost Ogre and Ghost Belle to negate the opponent's first engine, then rebuild through Matinee Operatics and Cappello
• Recovery: Clown Crew Flair and Clown Crew New Face recover from the GY and Deck; Preparation of Rites and Matinee Operatics re-search the Ritual engine
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so no post-side plan can be executed in a best-of-3; a side plan is absent

Why it scores here

The deck opens its Clown Crew engine reliably: the archetype core has about a 97% chance of at least one piece in a 5-card opening hand, and searcher text reaches a starter about 70% of the time (Inferred). Its real strength is interaction on the system level: 13 hand traps, 21 negation-text cards and 20 removal-text cards give it a high going-second hand-trap chance (about 83% in a 6-card hand, Inferred). Conversion and median output could not be measured because no boards were supplied, so those scores rest on text reads only. Score is capped at 35 because the list is Illegal: Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization each run 3 copies against an OCG limit of 2. Popularity and archetype usage were not credited, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 54.8, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-12); illegal_cap (0). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability = 53.4 before modifiers; then -12 banlist-exposure modifier and theoretical cap at 35 for Illegal list (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.97 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.03 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Archetype core is almost always accessible in the opening hand
• Layered hand-trap and negation coverage, strong going-second
• Real closers in Biancaviso and Nerva

Weaknesses

• Two cards run over copy limit, so the list is Illegal
• No Side Deck at all
• Very high tech count with low archetype purity (39.7%)

Critical choke points

• Clown Crew Rehearsal and Matinee Operatics as the only reliable engine enablers
• Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization copy limits

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization each run 3 copies vs OCG limit 2; Main 53 / Extra 15 / Side 0 counts within size rules; Harpie's Feather Duster and Linkuriboh each run 1 copy within Limited
• Inferred: Opening-hand probabilities for core and searcher groups; Hand-trap coverage going second; Interaction quality from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power and format fit (no dated metagame); Floor and median output (no boards)
• 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 absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no Side Deck present, so post-side adaptability is unmeasured