Clown Crew Deck #772231 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 62/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Clown Crew engine (Flair ritual, Rehearsal and Malabarisme searches/summons) feeding Tribute Summons of Clown Crew Biancaviso (2500, draws per monster tributed and negates) plus Great Gallant Bandit and Super Starslayer TY-PHON as end-board threats; Blue-Eyes White Dragon (1 copy) as a one-card board wipe, backed by Nerva and Diabolo piercing damage
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Rehearsal or Malabarisme to convert hand cards into Clown Crew engine pieces, tribute an Extra Deck Clown Crew monster to summon Biancaviso, then extend with Matinee or Finale. Hand traps are not live on the first turn, so the plan relies on the engine alone.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Nibiru, Ghost Ogre or Droll on the opponent's first summon or search to slow them down, then take the engine turn through the resulting board with Biancaviso or Bandit negation.
• Recovery: Clown Crew New Face shuffles three Clown Crew cards from GY or banishment back into the Deck to draw one, Malabarisme recurs from the GY during Main Phase, and Flair's tribute effects add Clown Crew cards back to hand.
• After siding: None. The list runs zero side deck cards, so there is no post-side plan and D12 is scored low.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens an engine. Five Clown Crew starters (Rehearsal, Malabarisme, Cappello, Flair, Biancaviso) run three copies each, and the archetype-core group is about 99% likely to show at least one card in a 5-card opening hand. The Extra Deck is 12 of 15 slots of 3-of Clown Crew tribute fodder, so Biancaviso can be summoned repeatedly. The 9 hand traps (about 81% chance of at least one going second) and several negation effects give end-board interaction and going-second board-breaking strength, and Blue-Eyes adds a one-card wipe. Recovery is strong through New Face, Malabarisme and the draw effects. Points come from the system's consistency, interaction and recovery, not from averaging card scores or from Clown Crew's popularity. Lack of a side deck and the 56% exact-archetype purity keep the score moderate. No combo data exists, so the ceiling and median are text-based only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 67, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 72, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-2); no post-side plan (-3). Final formula: Structural with D13 dropped and renormalized = 68.1; Final = 0.80*68.1 + 0.20*60 - 5 modifiers = 61.5 → 62 (Meta provisional, no dated metagame sample)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.99 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.01 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Five 3-of Clown Crew starters with multiple independent routes
• 12 of 15 Extra Deck slots are 3-of tribute fodder that power Biancaviso repeatedly
• Nine hand traps give strong going-second interaction
• Layered recursion and draw effects (New Face, Matinee, Biancaviso, Malabarisme)

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so no post-side plan
• Exact archetype purity is 56%, with 13+ generic or interaction staples diluting the engine
• Hand-trap-heavy hands are dead on the first turn going first
• Four Limited singletons and one Semi-Limited card raise the cost of a restriction change

Critical choke points

• Clown Crew Flair (ritual) is the only Ritual Monster, so Preparation and Rehearsal lines depend on it
• Biancaviso's tribute summon needs an Extra Deck monster on the field, which can be a choke point after an early board wipe
• Nerva's summon requirements are cut off in the excerpt, so its route is unverified

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in OCG: 40 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side, no violations; Restricted-card copy counts (Limited/Semi-Limited) match the list; Hand trap count is 9 by role tags; Extra Deck breakdown 4 Link, 4 Fusion, 4 Xyz, 3 Synchro
• Observed: Usage-stat inclusion for Clown Crew core cards (Flair 95%, Soiree 90%, Matinee 87.5%)
• Inferred: Starter access ≈ 0.99 on five-card hands (hypergeometric); Hand-trap presence ≈ 0.81 going second; Interaction and recovery quality from card text; Going-first and going-second power splits
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); D13 matchup and format fit (no tournament data); D4 median output (no combos)
• Data gaps: No combo boards supplied — combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates) Usage statistics disagree with the deck list: Clown Crew Diabolo, Fiends, Meteor and Dristy are marked not in deck (in this deck:false) but appear in the cards array at 3 copies each; the cards array is treated as authoritative Nerva the Power Patron's summon requirements are truncated in the excerpt Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample