Clown Crew Deck #773407 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 58/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 44 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Clown Crew summon-and-draw chain (Malabarisme, Matinee Operatics, Soiree Operations, Cappello) into Tribute-summoned boss monsters (Biancaviso 2500 ATK, Nerva 3300 ATK, Winged Dragon of Ra Immortal Phoenix 4000 ATK).; Tribute Summon pressure: Clown Crew Diabolo double piercing and Dristy second attack on Tribute-summoned monsters.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on a Clown Crew starter (Rehearsal or Malabarisme, or Cappello self-summon), draw or search into Biancaviso and Flair, then keep an Ash, Ghost Ogre or Ghost Belle hand trap up for the opponent's first answer.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand's hand-trap density (8 cards, about 72% to hold one) to negate the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Clown Crew summons.
• Recovery: Recover through Clown Crew New Face and Finale recursion from GY/banish, Rehearsal's GY-banish Ritual summon, and Biancaviso draws on Tribute.
• After siding: No side deck: the list cannot change its plan after game one (side size 0 is legal in Master Duel).

Why it scores here

The deck's score comes from how the Clown Crew system opens, converts, and survives on the board, not from averaging card power. Access to a Clown Crew starter in a 5-card opener is high (about 0.996 for any Clown Crew card) but the two spells that actually start the engine, Rehearsal and Malabarisme, are only about 0.54 likely in the opener, and the guide names them as the choke point. Conversion is the strongest part: the summon-and-draw loop can reach boss monsters and draw several cards per chain, although no recorded boards exist to confirm the ceiling. Interaction is dense (Ash, two Ghost Ogre, Ghost Belle, Effect Veiler, Maxx C, Crossout, Dominus Spark, Soiree, Finale) and carries the deck through disruption, but several negations are Limited or hand-only. The deck earns nothing for popularity or usage (archetype core is present, but no meta-share exists) and gets no credit for a side plan, since side size is 0. Its own self-restriction clause, which blocks effects of monsters Special Summoned from the Deck or Extra Deck, conflicts with much of the Extra Deck, and it is penalized as an engine conflict.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo (D13 dropped and renormalized to 97 for a meta-neutral structural score). Structural ≈ 65, Going First ≈ 63, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: Unrecoverable choke point (-2); Engine self-restriction and off-archetype dilution (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional); 0.80*65 + 0.20*52 = 62.4, minus 4 modifiers = 58.4, rounded to 58

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.54 · 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

• Dense hand-trap and negation package (8 hand traps, negation text on Biancaviso, Herald and Crossout)
• Clown Crew draw and recursion (New Face, Finale, Operatics, Biancaviso) supports card economy
• Strong boss monsters: Biancaviso 2500, Nerva 3300, Winged Dragon of Ra Phoenix 4000

Weaknesses

• Two-card starter choke point (Rehearsal and Malabarisme)
• No side deck, so no post-side plan
• Self-restriction and off-archetype slots (Ra, Elemental HERO, Mulcharmy) dilute the engine

Critical choke points

• Opening hand without Rehearsal or Malabarisme (about 46% in the opener) relies on Cappello self-summon and Flair, which need a Clown Crew enabler

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 44, Extra 15, Side 0 within Master Duel size rules; Limited: Crossout Designator, Herald of the Arc Light, Maxx C; Semi-Limited: Super Polymerization (2 copies, legal); Hypergeometric opener probabilities from the evidence pack
• Observed: Guide reports the Rehearsal and Malabarisme choke point and strong draw; guide is a human claim, not a recorded board
• Inferred: Starter access and brick estimates; Interaction density and resilience scores; Combo ceiling and median from card text only (no boards)
• Provisional: Meta Power and D13 matchup fit (no dated metagame sample or tournament link)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN — brick/starter/OTK rates are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck title is null; archetype and cards taken from the evidence pack as-is