Clown Crew Deck #774547 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Tempo
• 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 Tribute Summon and Ritual/Fusion/Synchro/Xyz/Link chain into Nerva, Packbit, or Clown Crew Biancaviso pressure (Inferred from card text; no recorded boards); Mulcharmy and Clown Crew draw/recursion grind through interaction (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): T1 Clown Crew Rehearsal or Malabarisme to search or summon a Clown Crew Ritual/Pendulum starter, then Tribute Summon into an Extra Deck boss (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Effect Veiler, Droll and Solemn Judgment to answer the opponent's first summon or activation, then rebuild through Clown Crew Flair and Matinee Operatics (Inferred)
• Recovery: Clown Crew Flair and Mulcharmy Fuwalos draw and search; Clown Crew Finale and Soiree Operations recycle the GY (Inferred)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs zero side-deck cards and no side-deck data was supplied

Why it scores here

The list is Illegal: it runs three copies each of Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Super Polymerization against a limit of two, and it carries Limited cards (Droll & Lock Bird, Harpie's Feather Duster, Linkuriboh, PSY-Framegear Gamma, Solemn Judgment) at one copy each. Under the rubric it is capped to a theoretical, structural-only score and does not receive a normal contextual score. The structural read is that the Clown Crew core (28 copies, about 97% chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand) makes the engine reliably accessible, and the 25 removal-text and 14 negation-text cards give the list a real interaction layer. Consistency is held back by the off-archetype spread (46 of 71 main-deck copies are outside the exact Clown Crew name), 13 hand traps and 18 tech cards that compete for hand space, and 10 singleton slots. No recorded boards, tournament link, or side deck exist, so the floor, median, and post-side plan are unknown. The score reflects the system (engine access, interaction, and going-second answers), not an average of card scores and not the popularity of the Clown Crew archetype.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 58, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: banlist_exposure_over_limit (-12). Final formula: Structural 58 -> 0.80*58 + 0.20*50 = 56.4, less banlist/over-limit modifier -12 = 44.4; Illegal-deck cap applied, theoretical structural-only, final 35

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.97 · 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

• Clown Crew core of 28 copies gives near-certain starter access in the opening hand
• Dense interaction layer: 13 hand traps, 14 negation-text cards, and 25 removal-text cards
• Extra Deck covers fusion, synchro, xyz, and link with several boss options (Nerva, Packbit)
• Going-second hand trap coverage is high (about 0.81 at least one)

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: copy limits exceeded on two cards and Limited cards present
• Off-archetype spread (about 65% of main-deck copies are not exact Clown Crew names) weakens engine coherence
• No side deck, so there is no post-side plan and no adaptability
• Ten singletons and 18 tech cards raise brick and dead-draw risk

Critical choke points

• Over-limit Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization must be cut to two copies before the list can be played in this format
• Clown Crew starter density depends on Rehearsal, Malabarisme, and Flair being drawn together
• Zero side deck removes any post-board answer to a changed matchup

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is Illegal: Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization exceed copy limit (legal 2, run 3); Limited cards present: Droll & Lock Bird, Harpie's Feather Duster, Linkuriboh, PSY-Framegear Gamma, Solemn Judgment; Main 56, Extra 15, Side 0 counts; Clown Crew core 28 copies; 13 hand traps, 14 negation-text, 25 removal-text
• Observed: Clown Crew usage stats: Flair 100% inclusion, Finale 100%, Cappello 92%
• Inferred: Starter access is near-certain given P(at least one core card in 5-card hand) of 0.97; Going-second interaction density from 13 hand traps (P at least one in 6-card hand about 0.81); Combo output and resilience estimated from card text only
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit: no dated metagame sample or tournament link; Side-deck adaptability: no side cards in the list
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median, and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchup, or brick rates Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample Deck has no side deck, so post-side plan cannot be assessed