Clown Crew Deck #770379 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 60/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Tribute/Ritual/Fusion/Synchro pressure from the Extra Deck (Nerva 3300 ATK, Dark Magician of Destruction 2800, Clown Crew Biancaviso 2500) enabled by Clown Crew chains (Inferred from card text); King's Sarcophagus Horus GY-recursion board presence (Inferred from card text; Horus is off-archetype and only 4 Horus monsters are present)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on a Clown Crew starter (Rehearsal, Flair, Cappello, or Matinee Operatics), search a second Clown Crew piece, and convert via Tribute into Biancaviso or an Extra Deck boss (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C, Forbidden Droplet, Forbidden Crown, and Herald/Crossout to stop the opponent's first summon chain, then rebuild through Rehearsal and Flair from hand or GY (Inferred)
• Recovery: Clown Crew Rehearsal can be banished from the GY for a Ritual Summon, Malabarisme and Finale recur Clown Crew cards, and Biancaviso draws on Tribute Summon (Inferred from card text)
• After siding: No side deck is present and Master Duel has no best-of-3 side step, so there is no post-side plan; any adjustment means rebuilding the list between matches

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Clown Crew starter: the archetype core (27 copies) gives a hypergeometric P(at least one in a 5-card opening hand) of about 0.96, and 22 searcher-text cards lift the search floor to about 0.91. Conversion is text-inferred because no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling (Extra Deck Tribute pressure into Nerva, DMD and Biancaviso) and the median are both rated on card text alone. Interaction is layered across hand traps (Droll x2, Maxx C), backrow and negation spells (Droplet, Crown, Crossout, Herald, Finale, Soiree) and Biancaviso's negate, which earns the going-second and endboard scores. Points are deducted for the 53 off-archetype copies (exact-name purity 29.3%), the Horus/King's Sarcophagus package that runs a second engine, and the empty side deck, and the score is not lifted by Clown Crew's usage share or by averaging individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 64.2, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 64. Modifiers: No side deck (-2); Horus second engine dilution (-2); Limited-card dependence (-1); Off-archetype copy count (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; D13 dropped and weights renormalized to 95)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.96 · 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

• Archetype core is near-certain to be present in an opening hand (P about 0.96)
• Layered interaction across hand traps, negation spells and destruction effects
• Extra Deck covers Synchro, Link, Fusion and Xyz with high-ATK bosses

Weaknesses

• Exact-name purity is 29.3%, with 53 off-archetype copies diluting the engine
• The Horus/King's Sarcophagus package adds a second engine with no side deck to adjust it
• Four Limited single copies are load-bearing for interaction

Critical choke points

• Clown Crew Rehearsal and Clown Crew Malabarisme are the searcher choke points noted in the guide
• Going second, the hand-trap group (3 copies) hits a 6-card hand only about 0.28 of the time

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal under Master Duel rules: 60 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side, all 6 restricted cards within legal copies; Copy histogram 22x1, 4x2, 10x3 sums to 60 Main; Extra deck 5 Synchro, 4 Link, 5 Fusion, 1 Xyz; Exact-name purity 29.3% (22 of 75 non-side copies)
• Observed: Usage statistics show Clown Crew core cards at 100% inclusion
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter probability 0.96 (hypergeometric); Going-second hand-trap coverage 0.28; Structural and final scores from card-text and composition read
• Provisional: Meta Power null; Matchup coverage (D13) and side-deck adaptation (D12) without a dated meta sample
• 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 (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates); those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Evidence inconsistency: usage_statistics marks Herald of the Arc Light, Nerva and Golden Cloud Beast - Malong as in_this_deck=false and lists them under missing_core, but the cards array includes all three in the Extra Deck, so core_present_pct=56 is likely understated No side deck exists in Master Duel, so D12 is structural only