Junk Deck #751236 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 33/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 52 / Extra 18 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 12 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro beatdown: Elfnote and Power Patron starters reach high-ATK Synchro monsters (Junora 3100, Vidolium 5000 ATK as a Pendulum), but seven Forbidden or over-limit cards and 18 Extra Deck cards mean the list cannot be played as built.; Hand-trap disruption (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Ghost Belle, Nibiru) to slow the opponent before the Synchro follow-up.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a starter from the Elfnote or Power Patron lines, Synchro Summon, and hold Ash Blossom or Droll as the interaction layer. Not reliable as built: the Forbidden cards are not legal to play.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash, Droll, Ghost Belle, Nibiru) to answer the opponent's first set of summons, then pivot into the Extra Deck follow-up. Also not legal as built.
• Recovery: Recover through Elfnote and Power Patron searchers and Junk Synchron GY recursion (Jet Synchron, Starjunk Synchron), which is structurally plausible but depends on a legal list.
• After siding: No Side Deck is present (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

This list does not earn a normal score, because it is illegal in TCG: seven Forbidden cards and several Limited or Semi-Limited copy overruns, plus 18 Extra Deck cards against a 15-card cap. The structural read is theoretical only. The Elfnote and Power Patron engine gives a plausible opening: 17 Elfnote-or-related cards and an archetype core with about 0.875 probability of at least one in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred), and the hand-trap layer (9 cards, about 0.70 chance of one in a 6-card going-second hand, Inferred) adds disruption. Those strengths are offset by a low archetype purity (2.9 percent exact-name), many off-archetype copies, and no Side Deck. No combo boards exist, so floor, median and ceiling are not measurable. The score comes from the system's consistency and interaction on paper, not from Junk or Elfnote popularity, and not from averaging card scores. The -12 modifier reflects the banlist exposure.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: 0.8 Midrange / 0.2 Stun (illustrative; 52-card Main, hand-trap heavy). Structural ≈ 48, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 46, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-12). Final formula: Illegal list: normal formula not applied. 0.80*Structural(48) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(35) = 45.4, then -12 banlist-exposure modifier = 33 (theoretical only; Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.88 · 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

• Large Elfnote and Power Patron engine with about 0.875 access to a core card in an opening hand (Inferred)
• Nine hand traps and negation-text Synchros give layered interaction (Inferred)
• High-ATK Synchro finishers (Vidolium 5000 ATK, Junora 3100, Chaos Angel 3500) (Verified stats)

Weaknesses

• Illegal in TCG: seven Forbidden cards and copy overruns (Verified)
• Extra Deck of 18 exceeds the 15-card maximum (Verified)
• Low archetype purity (2.9 percent exact-name, 68 off-archetype copies) (Verified)
• No Side Deck (Verified)
• No combo boards, so consistency and conversion cannot be checked (Verified)

Critical choke points

• The Forbidden and Limited copies (Elfnote Tinia, Called by the Grave, Triple Tactics Talent, Anti-Spell Fragrance, F.A. Dawn Dragster, Crystal Wing, PSY-Framelord Omega) must be removed before any legal evaluation is possible (Verified)
• The 18-card Extra Deck must lose at least three cards to reach the 15-card limit (Verified)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: seven Forbidden copies, Limited and Semi-Limited overruns, Extra Deck 18 > 15; Card text and stats for all listed cards; Exact-name purity 2.9 percent and 68 off-archetype copies; side_count 0
• Inferred: Opening access to the Elfnote core (0.875 at least one in 5 cards); Hand-trap coverage (0.70 at least one in a 6-card going-second hand); Interaction quality, brick risk, and resilience scores
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated sample); D13 matchup and format fit
• Data gaps: No combo boards supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates) Meta Power provisional without a dated metagame sample Deck title is null in the export