Clown Crew Deck #773481 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Combo, Toolbox
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck summons (Runick Fusions, Clown Crew Synchro/Xyz/Link, Clown Crew Biancaviso and fusion bosses) that build an end board, with Runick Fountain-style recursion as the grind; Runick and Clown Crew Ritual/Tribute recursion from the GY to re-summon
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Clown Crew Rehearsal or Runick Tip/Slumber to reach an Extra Deck summon, backed by the Ash Blossom and Ghost Ogre hand traps for the first interruption
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 12 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre, Droll & Lock Bird, Infinite Impermanence) to break the opponent's first combo, then rebuild through Runick Destruction and Runick Golden Droplet
• Recovery: Recover through Runick Fountain and Clown Crew Finale to re-add spells from the GY; this is the only meaningful recursion and it is copy-limited in this list
• After siding: No side deck is registered (0 cards), so no post-side plan can be evaluated

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system: it can reliably open an Extra Deck summon, since 24 copies of the Runick/Clown Crew core give about 95% chance of at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred), but its ceiling and median output are both unmeasured because there are no recorded boards. Its interaction is dense (12 hand traps and 33 removal-text cards, with 13 negation-text cards), which earns the strongest dimension (D7), yet the 55-card main is split across two sub-archetypes (Clown Crew 26, Runick 26, generic 12, so exact-name purity is only 37.1%), which lowers consistency and engine cohesion. The legality failure caps the score: 3 Ash Blossom (2 allowed) and 3 Runick Fountain (1 allowed) mean the list cannot be played as built. Popularity does not earn points; the archetype core is present in usage stats, but that only confirms the deck is real and accessible. The score was not produced by averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Combo secondary (about 2:1). Structural ≈ 44, Going First ≈ 42, Going Second ≈ 48, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); illegal-deck cap (-9). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 42.2; banlist exposure modifier -8 = 34; illegal-deck cap applied = 25 (theoretical/structural only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · 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 coverage (12 hand traps, 13 negation-text cards)
• Core archetype cards at 3 copies give high access (P>=1 core in 5 cards = 0.95)
• Extra Deck coverage across fusion, synchro, xyz and link

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy counts: 3 Ash Blossom (limit 2) and 3 Runick Fountain (limit 1)
• Two sub-archetypes (Clown Crew 26, Runick 26) with only 37.1% exact-name purity, which lowers engine cohesion
• No side deck (0 cards) so no post-side adaptability
• No recorded boards or win data to confirm the ceiling or median

Critical choke points

• Runick Fountain (3 copies, legal limit 1) is the only recursion piece and cannot be played as built
• Clown Crew Finale and the GY-recursion pieces depend on one Tribute Summoned monster

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Illegal (Ash Blossom 3/2 Semi-Limited; Runick Fountain 3/1 Limited); Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0, all within size rules; Archetype purity 37.1% and spread Clown Crew 26 / Runick 26 / generic 12; Hypergeometric starter draw probabilities from the evidence pack
• Observed: Core archetype cards present at 3-copy counts in the list
• Inferred: Consistency estimate (P>=1 core in opening 5 = 0.95); Brick and interaction reads from card text and role tags; Going-first and going-second plan descriptions from text
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit (D13), no dated metagame sample
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No side deck supplied; post-side score is not measurable Usage statistics report in this deck=false for Clown Crew Dristy, Diabolo, Fiends and Meteor, but the card list shows them in the Extra Deck (2, 3, 2 and 2 copies); the usage join looks inconsistent and was not used for scoring No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN for this deck