Clown Crew Deck #772927 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Clown Crew extra-summon engine (Flair, Rehearsal, Malabarisme, Cappello, Biancaviso) into large Extra Deck boss monsters such as Nerva, Secreterion Dragon and Starving Venom Fusion Dragon; Hand-trap and removal-heavy board control that trades cards 1-for-1 and then converts with Tribute Summons and Ritual or Fusion bosses
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Clown Crew starter (Rehearsal, Malabarisme or Flair) or a searcher, Ritual or Tribute into a Clown Crew boss, and keep Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre or Droll up for the opponent's first response (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 78.6% chance of a hand trap in the opening six to answer the opponent's first summon or search, then rebuild through Clown Crew searchers (Inferred)
• Recovery: Clown Crew Flair and Rehearsal can recover the Clown Crew engine from the GY; Matinee Operatics and Soiree Operations add extra summon routes after an interaction exchange (Inferred, no board data)
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan. Best-of-3 play would be unadjusted (verified)

Why it scores here

The deck's engine is reasonably accessible: 26 Clown Crew copies give a 94.9% chance of at least one archetype card in an opening five (Inferred from hypergeometric estimates), and the five 3-copy Clown Crew staples carry the first-turn plan. Interaction is dense for OCG, with 13 hand traps, 12 negation texts and 28 removal texts, which earns the going-second and endboard scores. Closing power comes from several 2800 to 3300 ATK Extra Deck bosses, but the deck is only partly on-archetype: 48 of 60 main copies are off-name cards, so brick and conflict risk pull down the consistency and efficiency scores. There is no combo data, no median or floor output, and no side deck, so the floor and side-deck scores are lowered by absence of evidence and not by observed failure. The score is capped low because the list is illegal: Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization are run three times against a limit of two. The result is a theoretical, structural-only read, and it was not reached by averaging card scores or by treating archetype usage as power.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary; Stun and Toolbox traits noted but not blended. Structural ≈ 56.5, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: Illegal copy-limit cap (-14.6); Limited and Semi-Limited exposure (-4). Final formula: Theoretical only: 0.80*Structural(56.5) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(42) + modifiers(-4) = 49.6, then capped to 35 because the list is Illegal (copy-limit violations). Meta power is null (Provisional).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.95 · 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

• Clown Crew core is repeated at 3 copies (Flair, Rehearsal, Malabarisme, Cappello, Biancaviso), so the engine is usually reachable
• Dense interaction suite with 13 hand traps and about 28 removal texts
• Several 2800 to 3300 ATK Extra Deck bosses give real closing power

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization exceed their OCG limit of 2
• 48 of 60 main copies are off-archetype, which raises brick and conflict risk
• No side deck, so there is no post-side adaptation
• Four Extra Deck summon types compete for limited slots

Critical choke points

• Clown Crew Rehearsal and Flair as the main searchers into the engine
• Ash Blossom and Droll as the core interaction, which the banlist limits to 2 and 1 copies

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 60, Extra 15, Side 0 are within OCG size rules; Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization run 3 copies against a legal limit of 2 (Semi-Limited); Droll, Linkuriboh and Solemn Judgment are Limited and run at 1 copy, which is legal; Archetype purity: 27 exact-name copies, 48 off-name copies
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter reliability of about 0.95 from the hypergeometric table; Hand-trap and interaction quality from card text; Going-second hand-trap coverage of 0.79
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit (no dated metagame sample); Median and floor output (no combos)
• Data gaps: Illegal copy-limit violations (Ash Blossom, Super Polymerization) cap the score; a legal rebuild needs re-evaluation usage_statistics.in_this_deck is false for Clown Crew Diabolo, Fiends, Meteor, Dristy, Garura, Nerva and Linkuriboh, yet the cards list includes them in the Extra Deck. The core-present percentage (60%) is therefore likely understated; treat the lookup as a data bug to verify No combos supplied: floor, median, ceiling and board-per-starter are unknown No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent No side deck registered title is null on the deck row No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN