Clown Crew Deck #774098 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Tribute and Ritual/Fusion pressure from Clown Crew monsters (Biancaviso 2500 ATK, Flair/Cappello beats) backed by Runick Extra Deck summons; Runick Extra Deck follow-ups (Hugin, Munin, Geri, Sleipnir) that add board or banish opposing cards
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Cappello, Rehearsal or Flair to reach a Clown Crew Ritual/Tribute line, keeping Ash or Ghost Ogre up for the opponent's first activation; route depends on the hand because most conversion is Inferred
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash, Ghost Ogre, Ghost Belle, Droll, Infinite Impermanence) to break the opponent's first board, then Runick Quick-Play spells for removal and a Tribute Summon of Biancaviso
• Recovery: Runick Fountain and Clown Crew New Face recycle GY Quick-Play Spells and Clown Crew cards; Rehearsal banish-from-GY Ritual recovers a second summon, but the exact recovery route is Inferred from text only
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; this is a structural gap, not a tested weakness

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Clown Crew or Runick starter: the 29 archetype-core copies give about 0.98 chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred, hypergeometric). Its strongest system trait is interaction density, with 12 hand traps, several Quick-Play Runick removal spells and Harpie's Feather Duster, which keeps the going-second plan alive (Inferred). Conversion and median output are not measurable here because the export has no parseable boards, so the ceiling and floor are text-only reads and carry low confidence. The legality failure (3 Ash Blossom and 3 Runick Fountain against limits of 2 and 1) caps the score, and the deck is scored structurally only. Popularity and archetype usage stats did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Control secondary (disclosed; no separate Control weights applied). Structural ≈ 59, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Banlist and copy-limit exposure (-6); No side deck (-4); No recorded combos (-2); Illegal list cap (-9). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 56.4 - 12 = 44.4, then capped to 35 because the deck is Illegal (copy-limit violations); scored as theoretical/structural-only

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.98 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.02 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense interaction package: 12 hand traps and several Quick-Play removal spells
• Archetype core is heavily copied (29 copies), so the starter is usually present
• Recursion routes (Runick Fountain, New Face, Rehearsal) support grind

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy counts for Ash Blossom and Runick Fountain
• Zero side deck, so no post-side adaptability
• Low purity: 44 of 70 cards are off the exact archetype name
• Pendulum, Ritual, Tribute and multi-Extra-Deck lines are complex to pilot

Critical choke points

• Single Clown Crew Tribute route if the Ritual or Fusion monster is dead in hand
• Runick Quick-Play spells all skip the next Battle Phase, which slows follow-up pressure if the first line fails

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0 counts are within the TCG size rules; Ash Blossom 3 copies vs Semi-Limited limit 2; Runick Fountain 3 copies vs Limited limit 1; Droll & Lock Bird and Harpie's Feather Duster are at Limited copy 1; Extra Deck breakdown 9 Fusion / 2 Link / 2 Xyz / 2 Synchro
• Inferred: Starter access of about 0.98 for the core archetype in the opening hand; Hand-trap access of about 0.79 going second; Interaction density scored high from text and role flags; Structural and final scores built from D1 through D14
• Provisional: Meta Power is null (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit (D13) is a neutral placeholder
• 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 exists in YGOVN for this deck Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No side deck supplied, so post-side scoring is unavailable