Clown Crew Deck #773423 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 59/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Stun
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Tribute and Ritual summon chains through Clown Crew starters into large Extra Deck beaters (Junora, Jupiter, Nerva, Biancaviso, Fydraulis) and Vidolium's 5000 ATK; Power Patron and Medius recursion into Synchro, Xyz and Link pressure, with Diabolo's double piercing as a closer
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Clown Crew starter (Rehearsal, Flair, Cappello or Malabarisme), search a second engine piece, and use Operatics or Soiree to Special Summer a Tribute-summon board; Ash and Veiler stay up as hand-trap backup
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash, Effect Veiler, Droll, Maxx C, Nibiru, Ghost Ogre) to strip the opponent's first engine, then rebuild through Medius and Clown Crew recursion
• Recovery: Fuwalos and Purulia redraw off the empty board; Power Patron plane and Medius recover from the GY; Theorealize and Clown Crew Finale rebuild the field
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan in the evidence; the deck relies on its main-deck hand traps for all matchups

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a connected system: a 29-copy Clown Crew core with a 96.9% proxy chance of at least one archetype card in an opening 5-card hand, 25 searcher-text cards, and redundant starters makes the engine reliably live on turns 1 to 2. Interaction is the strongest part of the list, with 11 hand traps and 13 negation-text cards in the Main Deck, so the deck can hold a going-second board. Its ceiling comes from the Extra Deck beaters (Vidolium, Jupiter, Nerva, Junora, Biancaviso) and recursion from Medius and Power Patron supports, but no recorded boards exist, so the median and ceiling are text-based inference only. Weak points are the 34.7% exact-archetype purity (Power Patron and Artmage supports split the engine), the lack of any side deck, and two choke points (Rehearsal and Malabarisme) that the guide itself flags. Popularity was not credited: the score comes from consistency, interaction and closing power on the system, not from the archetype's usage or from averaging the individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 65, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 69, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: Engine conflict / low archetype purity (-3); No side deck (-2); Banlist exposure (-1); Unrecoverable choke point (-1); Hand-trap redundancy (2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers = 0.80*65 + 0.20*58 - 5 = 58.6, rounded to 59

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.97 · 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

• Reliable engine access: 96.9% proxy chance of an archetype card in the opening 5-card hand
• Dense interaction: 11 hand traps and 13 negation-text cards
• High closing power from Extra Deck beaters (Vidolium 5000 ATK, Jupiter 3500, Nerva 3300)
• Full Extra Deck with multiple summon routes (Fusion, Synchro, Xyz, Link)

Weaknesses

• Engine split across Clown Crew, Power Patron, Artmage and Medius (exact purity 34.7%)
• No side deck, so there is no post-side adaptation
• Several single-line starters (Rehearsal, Malabarisme) that the guide calls choke points
• High execution load across many engines

Critical choke points

• Clown Crew Rehearsal and Clown Crew Malabarisme as the only archetype starters that open a Tribute chain
• Tribute-summon enablers Cappello and Flair dropping the engine if the Pendulum zone is cleared

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in master-duel: 60 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side within 40-60 / 0-15 limits; Limited copies within legal limits: Herald 1/1, Maxx C 1/1, Bystial 1/1; Droll & Lock Bird 2/2 (Semi-Limited); Exact-name purity 34.7%; 13 triple, 3 double, 15 single Main Deck slots; Extra Deck breakdown: Fusion 4, Xyz 3, Synchro 5, Link 3; Card text confirms 11 hand traps and 33 removal-text cards; Guide mentions strengths (draw density, chain blocking) and choke points (Rehearsal, Malabarisme)
• Inferred: Consistency from hypergeometric odds (0.969 core proxy, 0.233 per 3-copy starter); Conversion and median from text only, since no combos exist; Going-second strength from hand-trap density and draw text; Recursion and resilience from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup fit (D13 = 50) with no dated meta sample or tournament link
• Data gaps: No recorded combos, so 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) Usage-statistics in this deck flags disagree with the deck list: Diabolo, Fiends, Meteor, Nerva, Malong and Herald are in the Extra Deck but flagged false, so core presence (56%) is understated Deck title is null Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample