Clown Crew Deck #773329 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±12 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Clown Crew Tribute-summon chain (Malabarisme, Soiree Operations, Matinee Operatics) fielding Clown Crew Biancaviso (2500/2500) and Extra Deck boss monsters; boss access is Inferred from card text only; Extra Deck Link and Synchro bosses (Underworld Goddess 3000, Clown Crew Meteor/Dristy) once the board is stable
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Clown Crew Flair or Rehearsal to find a Clown Crew Ritual or Spell, then Ritual or Tribute-summon into Malabarisme or Matinee Operatics to reach a Biancaviso-level board, holding Solemn or Dominus Purge up
• Turn 2 (going second): Open with a hand trap (Ghost Ogre and Snow Rabbit, Ghost Belle and Haunted Mansion, Droll and Lock Bird, or Nibiru) on the opponent's first summon, then build through Mulcharmy draw effects
• Recovery: Mulcharmy monsters refill the hand when the field is empty; Clown Crew Finale and Soiree Operations recover Clown Crew monsters from the Deck (Inferred from text)
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so no post-side plan can be evaluated; a legal list needs up to 15 side cards

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal because it runs 3 copies of Super Polymerization against an OCG limit of 2, so it receives no normal Final Contextual score and this 30 is a capped, structural-only read. Structurally the deck can usually reach a Clown Crew summon board, with a 22-copy archetype core that gives an Inferred P(at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand) of about 0.93. Its interaction is the strongest part: about 15 negation-text cards, including Solemn, Dominus Purge, Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre, Dragon's Mind and Droll and Lock Bird, which is why D7 is the highest dimension. Combo output is unmeasured because the export has no parseable boards, so the ceiling and median (D3, D4) are text-only Inferred estimates. The deck has no Side Deck, which caps post-side adaptability at 15, and only about 39% of its copies carry the exact Clown Crew name, with off-archetype Solemn, Dominus, Greed, Forbidden and HERO cards. The score was built from consistency, interaction and resilience on the system, not from averaging card scores, and Clown Crew's popularity (usage 50-95% for core cards) earned no points on its own.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Stun-leaning interaction read (no separate weighting applied). Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-5). Final formula: Structural 57 -> 0.80*57 + 0.20*50 = 55.6, plus modifiers (-5) = 50.6, then capped at 30 because legality is Illegal (theoretical/structural read only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.93 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.07 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense negation and hand-trap package (about 15 negation-text and 6 hand-trap cards)
• High archetype core density (22 Clown Crew copies, about 93% chance of one in a 5-card opening hand)
• Multiple summon routes (Ritual, Tribute, Pendulum, Synchro, Link, Xyz) give redundancy after one interruption

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Super Polymerization at 3 copies against an OCG limit of 2
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan and no answer to a metagame shift
• Only 38.6% exact-name archetype purity; Solemn, Dominus, Greed, Forbidden and HERO pieces dilute the engine
• No recorded boards, so combo conversion and floor are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Super Polymerization copy count (illegal as built)
• Single-copy Extra Deck bosses (Underworld Goddess, Nerva, Garura) that must be reached through the Clown Crew engine

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 counts and OCG size rules; Super Polymerization 3 copies vs legal 2 (Illegal); Limited and Semi-Limited card statuses for Droll and Lock Bird, Linkuriboh and Foolish Burial Goods; Copy histogram and archetype spread from the export
• Observed: Usage statistics: Clown Crew Flair 95%, Soiree Operations 90%, Matinee Operatics 87.5% inclusion across the archetype
• Inferred: Hypergeometric P(core card in 5-card opening hand) about 0.93; Interaction density of about 15 negation-text cards and 6 hand traps; Going-first and going-second plans and the Biancaviso/Extra Deck boss read, from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link or win-rate telemetry)
• Data gaps: No parseable combo boards: ceiling and median are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry in YGOVN for going-first, going-second, matchup or brick rates No Side Deck registered, so post-side adaptability cannot be measured Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied deck title is null in the export