Clown Crew Deck #770313 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 56/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Combo
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 42 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Clown Crew Tribute and Ritual summons into 2500-ATK beaters (Biancaviso, Vanity's Ruler, Magnamhut) plus Extra Deck pressure (Inferred from card text); Extra Deck Fusion, Synchro, Xyz and Link monsters, including Diabolo double piercing (Inferred from card text)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a Clown Crew searcher (Rehearsal, Malabarisme, Preparation of Rites) and hold hand traps for the opponent's first activation (Inferred from card text; no recorded boards)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash, Ghost Belle, Droll, Effect Veiler, Nibiru) to stop the opponent's first board, then recover through draw and recursion (Inferred)
• Recovery: Clown Crew New Face, Finale and Soiree Operations recur from GY or banish; Maxx C and Biancaviso draw (Inferred)
• After siding: None: side deck is empty, so there is no post-side plan (Verified)

Why it scores here

The score reflects the deck as a system: starter access is strong (the Clown Crew core is in nearly every opening, and about 0.83 of openings contain a searcher-text card), and the 12 hand traps give about 0.89 going-second access, which together with the draw and recursion layer supports resilience. Conversion and median output are not measured, since no boards were recorded, so the ceiling and floor are text-based inferences. Popularity earned no points: the archetype usage stats confirm a standard list but do not raise the score. The empty side deck caps adaptability, and the Limited cards (Maxx C, Herald of the Arc Light, Bystial Magnamhut, Crossout Designator) plus a two-card choke point are applied as modifiers. Card scores were not averaged; the 14 dimensions are scored on the list as a whole.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 62, Going First ≈ 65, Going Second ≈ 63, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-2); unrecoverable_choke_point (-2); engine_conflicts (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; no dated metagame sample)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.83 · 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

• Starter access: Clown Crew core in nearly every opening and about 0.83 searcher-text access in opening 5
• Interaction density: 12 hand traps and 10 negation-text cards, with about 0.89 hand-trap access going second
• Draw and recursion layer (Maxx C, Biancaviso, New Face, Finale, Soiree Operations)

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so no post-side adaptability
• No recorded boards; ceiling and median are text-only inference
• Limited cards in the engine (Maxx C, Herald, Magnamhut, Crossout) create ban exposure
• Off-archetype Extra Deck picks (TY-PHON, Packbit, Herald, Gorgon) dilute the engine

Critical choke points

• Clown Crew Rehearsal and Malabarisme (guide-named choke point; searcher access is the weakest starter path at about 0.83)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal under BanMasterDuel: 42 main, 15 extra, 0 side; restricted cards at or below legal copies; Searcher-text group P(at least one in opening 5) ≈ 0.83; Hand-trap group P(at least one in going-second hand 6) ≈ 0.89; Extra Deck fully used: 15 cards across Fusion, Synchro, Xyz and Link
• Observed: Archetype usage stats: Clown Crew core cards inclusion 57% to 100%; this deck matches the standard core at 16 of 25 core cards
• Inferred: Starter reliability and brick risk from hypergeometric estimates and card text; Ceiling and going-first and going-second plans from card text only; Interaction quality from negation and removal text
• Provisional: Median and floor (no recorded boards); Format fit and matchup position (no dated meta or tournament link); Post-side plan (no side deck)
• 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 (going-first, going-second, matchup, brick and starter rates): those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied side deck is empty: post-side performance cannot be evaluated