Nouvelles Deck #774549 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: 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 and Nouvelles Tribute and Fusion/Synchro/Xyz/Link board presence, supported by 3-copy Clown Crew starters (Cappello, Rehearsal, Malabarisme, Flair); Going-second hand-trap disruption (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, Effect Veiler, Nibiru) into a Tribute Summon board
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Clown Crew starter, extend with Rehearsal/Malabarisme, and convert into a Tribute Summon of Biancaviso or Flair. Evidence is text-only; no recorded boards exist.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Effect Veiler, Nibiru, Droll & Lock Bird) to stop the opponent's first engine, then rebuild through the same Clown Crew line (Inferred).
• Recovery: Recursion through Clown Crew Finale, Soiree Operations and New Face, plus Pot of Sloth and Mulcharmy Fuwalos draws (Inferred from card text).
• After siding: Not applicable: the deck has no Side Deck (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as one system, not as an average of its cards, and it is capped low because the list is illegal: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Super Polymerization are each run 3 times against a Semi-Limited limit of 2. Its strongest feature is interaction density: 13 hand traps, 14 negation-text cards and 25 removal-text cards give end-board and going-second disruption a score of 72 (Inferred from text). Its engine is less coherent than the 'Nouvelles' label suggests. Exact-name Nouvelles purity is 1.4%, and the archetype spread is led by Clown Crew (25 copies), generic cards and PSY-Frame, so the Nouvelles core is not what drives the list. The starter probabilities are low for any single 3-copy card (about 0.25 in a 5-card opening), and no recorded boards exist to measure the floor, median or ceiling. Popularity and archetype usage were not counted as power, and there is no tournament or win-rate evidence. The structural read of about 51 is shown for reference only; the illegal copy count prevents a normal Final Contextual score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary; Stun shown for the hand-trap disruption package (not blended into the weights). Structural ≈ 51, Going First ≈ 48, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 43. Modifiers: Illegal copy limit (-8); Banlist exposure (0); Cap for illegal deck (-16). Final formula: Theoretical only (illegal list): Structural 51 and TR 43 give 0.80*51 + 0.20*43 ≈ 49 before modifiers; -8 modifiers give 41; the illegal-deck cap sets the final score to 25

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 interaction package: 13 hand traps, 14 negation-text and 25 removal-text cards (Inferred from text)
• Strong going-second disruption: about 81% chance of at least one hand trap in a 6-card hand (Inferred)
• Multiple Tribute-based starters (Cappello, Rehearsal, Malabarisme, Flair) give some redundancy (Inferred)

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Super Polymerization are over the Semi-Limited limit of 2 (verified)
• No Side Deck (side_count 0), so there is no best-of-3 adaptation (verified)
• Engine coherence is low: exact Nouvelles purity is 1.4%, and the list is led by Clown Crew and generic cards (verified)
• No recorded combos, so the floor, median and ceiling are not measured (verified gap)
• Many hand traps and tech cards compete for hand space, which raises brick risk (Inferred)

Critical choke points

• Clown Crew starter access: each 3-copy starter has only about 0.25 chance of appearing in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred)
• Going-second disruption depends on hand traps that are dead on an empty board (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Super Polymerization each run 3 copies against a limit of 2; Main 56 and Extra 15 are within the TCG size rules; side_count is 0; Limited cards Droll & Lock Bird, Harpie's Feather Duster, Linkuriboh, PSY-Framegear Gamma and Solemn Judgment are each run at 1 copy; No tournament link, no combos and no guide evidence are present in the export
• Inferred: Interaction density is high from card text (13 hand traps, 14 negation-text, 25 removal-text); Starter access is about 0.25 per 3-copy starter in a 5-card hand (hypergeometric); Going-second hand-trap coverage is about 0.81 in a 6-card hand; Engine coherence is low (exact Nouvelles purity 1.4%; Clown Crew is the largest related group)
• Provisional: Meta Power is null: no dated metagame sample is supplied; Matchup fit (D13) is provisional and set near neutral
• 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 are absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN for this deck no Side Deck: no post-side plan can be evaluated the deck is illegal as built, so the Final Contextual score is capped and theoretical only