Nouvelles Deck #774537 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Clown Crew / Nouvelles Extra Deck summons (Clown Crew Diabolo, Meteor, Fiends, Dristy) and Nerva the Power Patron of Creation (3300 ATK) as a closing body, with Biancaviso (2500 ATK) as a Tribute-Summon finisher; PSY-Frame Driver (2500 ATK) via PSY-Framegear summon chain; Super Polymerization fusion lines
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Concours de Cuisine / Clown Crew Rehearsal / Malabarisme to reach Clown Crew monsters from Deck, then Tribute-summon Biancaviso or Cappello into Extra Deck fusion/synchro lines (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, Effect Veiler, Droll & Lock Bird and Solemn cards to stop the opponent's first combo, then rebuild through Mulcharmy Fuwalos and Clown Crew recursion (Inferred)
• Recovery: Clown Crew New Face, Matinee Operatics and Soiree Operations return Clown Crew cards from GY/banish; Mulcharmy Fuwalos draws off summons (Inferred)
• After siding: No side deck is present; no post-side plan can be evaluated (Provisional)

Why it scores here

The deck has a real engine core: Clown Crew and Nouvelles searchers and Tribute-Summon lines give it a repeatable route into Extra Deck monsters, and 34 copies of archetype-core cards give P(at least one core card in a 5-card opener) of about 0.99 (Inferred). Its interaction suite (Ash Blossom, two Solemn cards, Droll & Lock Bird, Effect Veiler, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, PSY-Framegear Gamma) is dense, and about 81% of going-second hands hold at least one of its 13 hand traps (Inferred), so the score reflects how the deck performs on the system rather than from averaging card scores. Median output, board conversion and matchup fit are not supported by any recorded boards, combos or tournament data, so those dimensions stay near neutral. The list is 28 distinct main-deck cards with only 1.4% exact-name Nouvelles purity, spread across Clown Crew, PSY-Frame, Mulcharmy, Solemn and Greed, and it has no Side Deck, which caps the score. The deck is Illegal (Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization each run 3 copies against a Semi-Limited limit of 2), so only a structural read is given and no normal Final Contextual score applies. Popularity did not earn points; Archetype Nouvelles usage data shows core cards but was not used as a power signal.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 55.2, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Illegal copy-limit violations (cap) (-18); No side deck (-2). Final formula: Illegal cap applied: theoretical/structural-only. Uncapped formula would be 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability = 53.2; capped to 35 for copy-limit violations (Meta provisional)

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 negate suite (13 hand traps, 14 negation-text cards)
• Archetype core is almost always present in opening hands (archetype core group P about 0.99)
• Layered endboard: Nerva 3300 ATK and multiple 2500-ATK bodies

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: two cards exceed Semi-Limited copy limits
• Low archetype purity (1.4% exact name) makes engine coherence uncertain
• No side deck
• No combo or tournament data to confirm conversion

Critical choke points

• Clown Crew searchers and Tribute-Summon monsters (a single missed Tribute or search stalls the line)
• Going-first turn 1 without an opposing-interaction read

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 56 and Extra 15 are within size rules (40-60, 0-15); Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization copy-limit violations; Limited/Semi-Limited statuses for Droll & Lock Bird, Harpie's Feather Duster, Linkuriboh, PSY-Framegear Gamma, Solemn Judgment; Archetype purity 1.4% exact-name; archetype spread counts
• Inferred: Starter consistency from hypergeometric odds; Interaction layering from card text; Going-second hand-trap coverage 0.81
• Provisional: Meta Power (null); D13 matchup and format fit; Tournament Reliability
• 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: going-first/second, matchup, brick and OTK rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No Side Deck supplied (Side Deck size 0)