Clown Crew Deck #773628 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 62/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Tribute, Synchro, Fusion and Xyz boss monsters (Nerva 3300 ATK, Clown Crew Biancaviso 2500 ATK, Ecclesia 2500 ATK, Malong 2200 ATK) enabled by a Clown Crew draw and recursion engine; Clown Crew Diabolo double piercing and Clown Crew Dristy second attack on Tribute Summoned monsters
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Clown Crew starter (Rehearsal, Cappello, Flair or Malabarisme), protect it with Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler or Ghost Belle, then Synchro or Fusion into a boss monster
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Ash, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C, Effect Veiler, Ghost Ogre, Ghost Belle) to answer the opponent's first board, then continue with the Clown Crew draw chain
• Recovery: Rebuild from the GY and banishment through Clown Crew Finale, Clown Crew New Face, Clown Crew Matinee Operatics and Clown Crew Fiends, plus Rehearsal's GY banish-to-Ritual effect
• After siding: Not applicable: Master Duel has no sideboard (side count 0)

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Clown Crew starter: four starters run three copies each (Rehearsal, Cappello, Flair, Malabarisme), giving roughly an 0.85 chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred). Its 11 hand-trap copies give about an 0.88 chance of at least one in a going-second 6-card hand, which supports interruption and going-second play. Its Extra Deck converts into strong bosses (Nerva, Biancaviso, Ecclesia), and the recursion and draw effects keep resources flowing after an interruption. The score is built on those system-level traits, not on averaging card scores, and the archetype's usage statistics only confirm the list is real and accessible; they did not earn points. Weak points are the guide-reported two-card choke (Rehearsal and Malabarisme), a 47% exact-name archetype purity with several off-archetype Extra splashes, and the absence of any recorded boards, so the combo floor and median remain unmeasured.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange (D13 dropped for the meta-neutral structural score and weights renormalized over 95). Structural ≈ 68, Going First ≈ 70, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 62. Modifiers: unrecoverable choke point (-2); engine conflicts and splash (-2); banlist exposure (-1). Final formula: No reliable metagame: Final = 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*67.7 + 0.20*62 - 5 ≈ 62 (Meta provisional; D13 excluded from Structural)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.85 · 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

• Starter redundancy: four starters at three copies each (Rehearsal, Cappello, Flair, Malabarisme)
• Interaction density: 11 hand traps plus Herald, Crossout Designator and Dominus Spark give layered answers
• Boss ceiling in the Extra Deck: Nerva 3300 ATK, Biancaviso and Ecclesia 2500 ATK

Weaknesses

• No recorded boards, so floor and median output are unmeasured
• Low exact-name purity (47.3%) with off-archetype Extra splashes reduces engine coherence
• Two-card choke at Rehearsal and Malabarisme as reported by the guide

Critical choke points

• Clown Crew Rehearsal and Clown Crew Malabarisme (guide-reported two-card choke)
• Tribute and Ritual requirements for Biancaviso, Flair and Rehearsal need monsters already on the field
• Going-second lines depend on the opponent committing to a board before hand traps can answer it

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal under BanMasterDuel: 40 main, 15 extra, 0 side; no violations; Limited (1 copy) status for Maxx C, Herald of the Arc Light and Crossout Designator; Semi-Limited (2 copies) for Droll & Lock Bird and The Fallen & The Virtuous; Card text and stats for all 40 main and 15 extra cards as supplied
• Observed: Archetype usage statistics from 34 decks (inclusion percentages); Guide-reported strengths (chain block, draw) and choke points (Rehearsal, Malabarisme)
• Inferred: Starter and hand-trap hit rates from the hypergeometric draw table; Going-first and going-second strength read from text and probability; Dimension scores D1 through D11 and D14; Context modifiers (choke point, splash and engine conflict, banlist exposure)
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and D13 format fit (excluded from Structural); D12 side deck adaptability (no sideboard in Master Duel); D4 combo floor and median (no boards supplied)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling rest on text inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry: going-first, going-second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Usage in_this_deck flags are false for Extra Deck cards that the card list shows as present (Nerva, Herald, Dristy, Linkuriboh, Pegasus, Malong, Fiends, Diabolo, Meteor), so usage core_present_pct understates the deck's core Hypergeometric core-group figure (28 copies) does not match the 18 Clown Crew Main Deck copies in the card list Deck title is null Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied