Clown Crew Deck #773813 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Tribute Summon chains of Clown Crew monsters into Clown Crew Biancaviso, Fydraulis Harmonia and Extra Deck bosses, with Clown Crew Diabolo double piercing damage on Tribute Summoned attackers; Synchro, Link and Xyz pressure from Clown Crew Meteor, Clown Crew Dristy, Clown Crew Fiends and Enigmaster Packbit once the board is established
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Clown Crew Rehearsal or Malabarisme to reach Tribute and Ritual summons, then keep Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre and Maxx C as interaction for the opponent's first plays
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Droll and Lock Bird, Effect Veiler, Maxx C) against the opponent's first summon, then Tribute Summon Clown Crew Biancaviso to draw and negate
• Recovery: Clown Crew New Face shuffles 3 Clown Crew cards from the GY back into the Deck to draw, Clown Crew Flair is revived from the GY, and Clown Crew Finale can be banished from the GY to add a Clown Crew monster
• After siding: None. The list runs no Side Deck (Side Deck size 0) and no post-side data exists, so there is no adaptation plan in this build

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a live engine: 31 copies of the Clown Crew core make at least one core card in a 5-card hand about 99.98% likely, and the 11 searcher-text cards give about 82% odds of a searcher in the opening hand (Inferred). It converts that access into Tribute Summon and Extra Deck pressure through Biancaviso, Fydraulis Harmonia and the Clown Crew Extra Deck bosses, but with no recorded boards the ceiling and median are text-based inferences only. Its 13 hand traps and the Maxx C, Crossout Designator and Herald Limited pieces give it strong interaction density and recovery through New Face, Flair and Finale, though the Rehearsal and Malabarisme choke point and the absence of any Side Deck cap how well it survives a bad opening. Popularity and archetype usage stats confirm the list is real and accessible, but they earned no points on their own, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 62.6, Going First ≈ 64, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 54. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-1); Engine compactness (2); Unrecoverable choke point (-2); Weak post-side plan (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); 0.80*62.6 + 0.20*54 = 60.9, then context modifiers -3 = 58

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.82 · 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

• Core Clown Crew group is near-certain to appear in the opening hand
• Thirteen hand traps and multiple negation effects give layered interaction
• Clown Crew recursion (New Face, Flair, Finale) recovers from disruption
• Compact 40-card main with clean copy histogram

Weaknesses

• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Rehearsal and Malabarisme are single-turn choke pieces
• Hand-trap-heavy hands can be dead without an engine starter
• Only 52.7 percent exact-name archetype purity

Critical choke points

• Clown Crew Rehearsal and Clown Crew Malabarisme are the core starters; losing both to hand disruption or a bad draw stalls the engine
• Ash Blossom and Ghost Ogre are the main interaction, so an opponent's early floodgate or board-breaker removes the deck's answers

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 40, Extra 15, Side 0 within master-duel size rules; All restricted cards within BanMasterDuel legal copies; Usage stats show core Clown Crew inclusion at 100 percent for Rehearsal, Cappello, Flair and New Face
• Observed: Guide reports the choke point at Rehearsal and Malabarisme and strong chain-block play
• Inferred: Opening-hand consistency from hypergeometric draw tables and text reads; Median and ceiling estimates from card text, since no boards were recorded
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no 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 (going-first/second, matchup, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no Side Deck in the list, so post-side performance is unmeasurable