Clown Crew Deck #772069 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 48/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 58 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Chain Clown Crew Extra Deck summons (Biancaviso, Nerva, Diabolo, Meteor) and God-class bosses into board pressure; Hand-trap and removal interaction (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre, Solemn Strike) carries the game while the engine comes online
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Clown Crew starter (Rehearsal, Malabarisme, Cappello, Flair) to search or summon, then convert into Extra Deck summons
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand-trap the opponent's setup with Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Nibiru, Effect Veiler or Droll & Lock Bird, then rebuild the Clown Crew board
• Recovery: Recur Clown Crew cards with Clown Crew New Face (shuffle 3 from GY/banishment, draw 1) and Ghost Belle or Ghost Ogre recursion effects
• After siding: None. The deck runs 0 side cards, so no post-side plan is recorded

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Clown Crew engine: 24 core copies give about a 0.94 chance of at least one in a 5-card opener, and the three-copy starters each sit near 0.24 per opener. Its strongest score comes from interaction on the system level: 11 hand traps give about a 0.73 chance of at least one in a 6-card going-second hand, backed by 16 negation-text and 24 removal-text cards. Conversion into pressure is plausible through Extra Deck summons and God-class bosses, but no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median are text-only inference and are scored conservatively. The score is held back by a 0-card side deck (no post-side plan), seven three-Tribute cards, and 47 off-archetype copies that include Mulcharmy monsters which want an empty field. Popularity did not earn points (archetype usage stats were used only to confirm the core), and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 56.6, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: No side deck (-2); Tribute-heavy burden (-2); Engine conflicts (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional, no dated metagame sample)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.94 · 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

• Core Clown Crew density gives a high chance of an engine starter in the opening hand
• 11 hand traps plus 16 negation-text cards give strong opponent-turn interaction
• Mixed Extra Deck (Link, Fusion, Synchro, Xyz) gives several different summon routes
• Legal under OCG rules with every limited and semi-limited card within its legal copy count

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so no best-of-3 adaptation
• Seven three-Tribute cards compete for limited board resources
• Off-archetype content (47 copies, 35.6% exact-name purity) splits the engine
• No recorded combo boards, so the floor and median are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Three-copy starters (Rehearsal, Malabarisme, Flair) each only about 0.24 to appear in an opener, so the T1 plan leans on the 24-copy core
• Board presence needed for the Tribute-based God-class and Wicked Avatar lines
• Hand-trap dependence: going second relies on about 0.73 odds of at least one hand trap

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal under OCG list: 58 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side; all Limited and Semi-Limited copies within legal limits; Archetype purity: 26 exact-name Clown Crew copies of 73 (35.6%); Side deck is empty; Extra Deck breakdown: Link 3, Fusion 8, Synchro 2, Xyz 2
• Inferred: Core starter access about 0.94 for at least one Clown Crew card in the opener; Hand-trap odds about 0.73 for going second; Engine consistency and brick rate estimated from text and hypergeometric estimates; Interaction density scored from negation and removal text
• Provisional: Meta Power and D13 matchup fit: no dated metagame sample or tournament context; Ceiling and median combo output: no recorded 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 (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) Side deck is empty, so post-side scoring is structural only Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied