Clown Crew Deck #773547 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 58/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 41 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Clown Crew Rehearsal, Malabarisme and Matinee chain Clown Crew monsters from Deck and Extra Deck into Biancaviso, Nerva, Packbit and Malong bodies with 2500 to 3300 ATK, plus Pendulum, Ritual and Tribute summons.; Dristy and Diabolo give double piercing or second attacks off Tribute Summons, and Nibiru and Biancaviso can take over a board when the opponent summons heavily.
• Turn 1 (going first): Opening starter from Rehearsal, Cappello, Malabarisme, Matinee or Flair, then Special Summon Clown Crew monsters from Deck or Extra Deck and keep Ash, Ghost Ogre, Veiler or Maxx C up as interaction.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash, Ghost Ogre, Veiler, Droll and Maxx C to answer the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Preparation of Rites and the Ritual or Clown Crew searchers.
• Recovery: Clown Crew Finale, Soiree Operations and Clown Crew New Face recur Clown Crew cards from GY and banishment, and Fuwalos and Maxx C provide draws; this recovery is inferred from card text, not observed.
• After siding: No side deck is registered (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan; in Master Duel's usual single-game format this is a limited weakness.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens because nine different 3-copy starters and searchers (Rehearsal, Cappello, Malabarisme, Flair, Matinee, Preparation of Rites and others) give an estimated 0.84 chance of at least one searcher-type card in a 5-card opening hand, with 29 Clown Crew copies providing a strong archetype core (Inferred). Conversion is scored from the card text and the Extra Deck spread (7 Synchro, 3 Link, 3 Fusion, 2 Xyz), not from recorded boards, because no combo boards were supplied; that caps D3 and D4 at moderate values. Interaction is the deck's strongest structural feature: 10 hand traps, 8 negation texts and 16 removal texts, including Ash, Ghost Ogre, Veiler, Maxx C, Droll, Herald and Biancaviso, which keeps the engine alive through one disruption. Weaknesses are a 0-card side deck (D12 ~20), a choke point at Rehearsal and Malabarisme (per the guide), and high pilot demand (D14 ~40). Popularity and the archetype share did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged; the score comes from the system-level read of access, conversion, interaction and closing power.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 63, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: unrecoverable choke point (-2); weak post-side plan (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional, no dated sample)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.84 · 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

• Many 3-copy starters and searchers give high engine access in the opening hand
• Dense hand-trap and negation coverage (10 hand traps, 8 negation texts) keeps the engine alive through one disruption
• Extra Deck spread is flexible (Synchro, Link, Fusion, Xyz) and mostly on-archetype
• Strong closing bodies (Nerva, Packbit, Biancaviso, Malong)

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• High pilot load from Tribute, Pendulum, Ritual and Synchro sequencing
• Choke points at Rehearsal and Malabarisme
• Usage-stat matcher marks several Extra Deck cards as absent although they are in the list, so the core-presence figures are unreliable

Critical choke points

• Clown Crew Rehearsal (Tribute cost and single searcher path)
• Clown Crew Malabarisme (main Special Summon starter)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in master-duel: 41 main, 15 extra, 0 side; all Limited and Semi-Limited cards run within legal copies; Composition counts and copy histogram match the card list; Usage stats show Clown Crew Rehearsal, Cappello, Flair and New Face at 100% inclusion
• Inferred: Engine access is high (about 0.84 for the searcher group in a 5-card opening hand); Interaction density is high based on card text; Going-second hand-trap coverage is about 0.84 for one or more hand traps in a 6-card hand; Recovery through Finale, Soiree and New Face is read from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament data)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent No win-rate telemetry; going-first and going-second splits are Inferred Usage-stat in_this_deck flags are false for Extra Deck cards that are in the list (Nerva, Fiends, Diabolo, Malong, Meteor, Herald, Linkuriboh), so the missing_core list is unreliable and core presence is understated Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample