Clown Crew Deck #770712 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Clown Crew Synchro/Fusion/Xyz boards backed by Black Chaos and Black Luster Soldier style Light and Darkness Ritual beaters (Inferred from text and composition); Kaiju and Magician of Dark Chaos board-breakers (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Clown Crew starter (Rehearsal, Malabarisme, Matinee Operatics) and extend into Ritual or Extra Deck pressure; hand traps held for the opponent's first activation (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand-trap the opponent's first board (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C, Nibiru) and convert through Biancaviso or Black Chaos (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recover through GY recursion (Clown Crew Flair, Rehearsal, Light and Darkness Ritual GY effects) (Inferred from text hints)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has 0 side cards, so no post-side plan exists (Verified)

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal in OCG: it runs 2 copies of Called by the Grave and 1 Albion the Branded Dragon, both Forbidden, so under the legality guardrail it does not receive a normal Final Contextual score and is capped at 25. Its structure is still readable: the 12-copy Clown Crew core gives roughly a 72% chance of at least one core card in a going-first opening hand (Inferred), and the 15 searcher-text cards give about 81% for at least one searcher (Inferred). Interaction density is real, with 6 hand traps and 10 negation-text cards, but there are no recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median are text-only inferences. The deck has no side cards, so it has no post-side plan. Archetype popularity (Clown Crew sits at 94.9% inclusion for its top card) confirms the list is real, but it did not earn points, and no card scores were averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Combo secondary (about 80/20 by judgment). Structural ≈ 49, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 45, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8). Final formula: Uncapped 0.80*Structural(49) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) + modifiers(-8) ≈ 39; Illegal cap applied → 25. Meta Provisional (null).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.72 · 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

• Consistent archetype core: 12 Clown Crew copies with about 72% chance of an opening-hand starter (Inferred)
• Layered hand-trap and negation suite of 6 hand traps and 10 negation-text cards (Inferred)
• Strong board-breaking attackers (Black Chaos, Black Luster Soldier, Kumongous) (Verified stats)

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: 2 Called by the Grave and 1 Albion are Forbidden (Verified)
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptability (Verified)
• No recorded boards: combo ceiling and median are text-only (Verified data gap)

Critical choke points

• Forbidden Called by the Grave and Albion are in the list, so the deck cannot be played legally as built (Verified)
• Light and Darkness Ritual chains depend on specific Ritual and GY resources (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Called by the Grave (2) and Albion (1) are Forbidden in OCG; Main 55 within 40–60, Extra 15 within 0–15, Side 0; Extra Deck breakdown: 7 Synchro, 4 Fusion, 2 XYZ, 2 Link
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter probability ≈ 0.72 for the 12-copy core; Midrange primary strategy from composition and text; Going-first and going-second estimates from text and probability
• Provisional: Meta Power null; no dated metagame sample supplied; D13 matchup fit scored at a neutral 50
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry; going-first and going-second splits unmeasured Meta Power Provisional without a dated metagame sample No side deck list