Psy-Frame Deck #774548 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 36/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Clown Crew and PSY-Frame boss monsters (Clown Crew Biancaviso, PSY-Frame Driver, Nerva) reached through Clown Crew Flair/Rehearsal/Malabarisme and Extra Deck Fusion/Synchro/Xyz/Link summons; Extra Deck pressure from Clown Crew Diabolo/Meteor/Fiends/Dristy (Fusion/Synchro/Xyz/Link) once a Tribute Summon is made
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Clown Crew starter (Rehearsal, Malabarisme, Cappello, Flair) with a hand trap held back for the opponent's first response; the deck has no full combo recorded, so this is a structural read only
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand to hold a hand trap (Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Ghost Ogre, Droll & Lock Bird, Nibiru) against the opponent's first summon, then rebuild through Pot of Sloth and Mulcharmy Fuwalos draws
• Recovery: Pot of Sloth, Mulcharmy Fuwalos and Clown Crew New Face/Finale provide card draw and graveyard recursion to refill after an interruption
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan to score

Why it scores here

Scored as a system, not an average of card scores. The Clown Crew core is well represented (24 archetype copies, P(at least one opened in a 5-card hand) ≈ 0.95), so the engine reliably comes online, but it is split between two archetypes (Clown Crew plus only 4 exact PSY-Frame copies), which lowers cohesion. Interaction is dense: 13 hand traps, 14 negation-text cards and 25 removal-text cards give strong going-second coverage (≈0.81 chance of at least one hand trap in a 6-card hand). Conversion and median output cannot be measured because the deck has no recorded boards, so those scores are text-only inference. Popularity was not credited, and the score is capped at 36 because two cards exceed their copy limits and the deck has no side. Meta Power is null because no dated metagame sample was supplied.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 50.6, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: Illegal copy-limit violations (-12). Final formula: Illegal list: normal Final not applied. Structural 50.6 and TR 40 give 0.80·50.6 + 0.20·40 = 48.5, then the illegal-list cap (−12) is applied to reach 36 (theoretical/structural only).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.95 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.05 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Archetype core is dense enough to reliably open an engine
• Hand-trap and negation coverage gives strong going-second interaction
• Layered card draw and recursion (Pot of Sloth, Mulcharmy Fuwalos) support recovery

Weaknesses

• Two copy-limit violations make the list illegal
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptability
• Clown Crew and PSY-Frame are only partly unified, which weakens engine cohesion
• Tech-heavy main deck (18 tech) lowers starter density

Critical choke points

• Tribute Summon enablers that gate the Clown Crew Extra Deck routes
• Single-copy PSY-Framegear Gamma and Solemn Judgment, which are Limited and must be the only copies

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 56, Extra 15, Side 0 against the TCG size rules (40–60, 0–15, 0–15); Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Super Polymerization each run 3 copies against a Semi-Limited limit of 2; Droll & Lock Bird, Harpie's Feather Duster, Linkuriboh, PSY-Framegear Gamma and Solemn Judgment are Limited (1 copy each, all legal); Archetype core group of 24 copies and PSY-Frame exact-name count of 4
• Inferred: P(≥1 core card in opening 5) ≈ 0.95 from the hypergeometric table; Hand-trap probability ≈ 0.81 in a 6-card going-second hand; Engine cohesion judged mixed from the Clown Crew versus PSY-Frame split; All dimension scores are structural judgments from text, not measured outcomes
• 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 deck title is null; the deck is identified only by its id and archetype