Clown Crew Deck #770269 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Clown Crew Extra Deck summons (Fusion, Link and Synchro monsters) that convert hand traps and Clown Crew sub-engines into board pressure; Light and Darkness Ritual sub-engine: Black Chaos, Black Luster Soldier and Magician of Dark Chaos as beatsticks
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Clown Crew starter (Rehearsal, Flair or Malabarisme), reach Biancaviso or a Ritual monster, then summon from the Extra Deck; hold Ash Blossom or Droll & Lock Bird for the first interruption
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit and Droll & Lock Bird to answer the opponent's opening line, then rebuild through Clown Crew Finale or Malabarisme
• Recovery: Clown Crew New Face and Clown Crew Flair recur Clown Crew cards from the Deck and GY; Skull Archfiend of Chaos recurs Ritual spells from the GY
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so no post-side plan exists in this list

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system, not an average of its card scores. Its reliable opening is the Clown Crew core (archetype core group P(at least one in a 5-card hand) ≈ 0.92 across 23 copies), but single starters are thin (≈ 0.23 for each three-copy starter in a 5-card hand), so the engine is accessible yet inconsistent (Inferred). Interaction is dense: 8 hand traps, 13 negation-text cards and 22 removal-text cards give it a real answer package (Inferred). Pressure comes from Extra Deck summons and the Light and Darkness Ritual beatsticks, and it does not depend on archetype popularity. The list is Illegal: two cards run over their OCG Semi-Limited copy limit, so the score is capped low and the evaluation is structural only. Side deck is absent and no combo or tournament data exists, so the floor and median cannot be measured.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 51, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 48, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-12); illegal_list_cap (0). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(51) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) = 48.8; modifiers -12 → 36.8; Illegal list capped to 35 (structural-only). Meta Power provisional.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.92 · 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 hand-trap and negation package (8 hand traps, 13 negation-text cards)
• Accessible Clown Crew core (≈0.92 chance of at least one core card in a 5-card hand)
• Extra Deck fills all 15 slots with summon routes (Fusion, Link, Synchro, Xyz)

Weaknesses

• Two cards run over their OCG Semi-Limited copy limit, so the list is Illegal
• Only 25 of 60 main copies are exact Clown Crew, weakening engine coherence
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptability

Critical choke points

• Clown Crew Biancaviso Tribute and Ritual summon chain; a single disruption to the starter line stalls the engine
• Ash Blossom and Droll & Lock Bird as the only early answers to the opponent's first line

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status from copy-limit violations on Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization; Main 60, Extra 15, Side 0 within OCG size rules; Archetype purity 33.3% and Clown Crew copy counts; Extra-Deck breakdown and card stats
• Inferred: Starter access and hand-trap density from the hypergeometric table; Interaction layering from card text; Going-first and going-second plans from text
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit: no dated metagame sample; Tournament reliability: no tournament link
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No Side Deck; post-side plan and D12 are minimal No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry for this deck Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample