Elfnote Deck #765879 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 62/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Stun
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro boss from the Extra Deck (Junora, Chaos Angel, Psychic End Punisher, Pride-class Synchros) enabled by the Elfnote center-zone engine (Inferred from card text); Center-zone lock and beatdown from Elfnote Tinia/Lucina/Regina bodies with Synchro follow-up (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a center-zone Elfnote (Lucina, Regina or Tinia) from hand, search or summon a second Elfnote, then tune into a Synchro while keeping Ash Blossom and Ghost Belle up as interaction (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold up hand traps (Ash, Ghost Ogre, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx "C", Ghost Belle) against the opponent's first line, then rebuild the Elfnote center engine and go to Synchro (Inferred)
• Recovery: Re-summon center Elfnote monsters from the Deck via Power Patron and Medius searches; Mulcharmy draws refill the hand once the field is empty (Inferred)
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so no post-side plan exists in the evidence; the deck is on its main-deck plan only (Provisional)

Why it scores here

The deck reliably gets a live center-zone Elfnote engine going: nine copies of the level-6 Elfnote bodies, two Power Patrons and Fortuna give roughly an 85% chance (Inferred, hypergeometric) of at least one starter in a five-card opening hand. Nine hand traps and the Elfnote center-zone interaction give it good interruption resilience and going-second strength, since the hand traps are the main way it survives the opponent's first line. The score comes from consistency, engine cohesion and interaction measured on the whole system; popularity in the archetype usage data and card-by-card strength were not averaged in. Ceiling and median are both Inferred from card text because no recorded boards exist, and the score is held back by the lack of any side deck and the Mulcharmy bricks.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 67.6, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 68, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: engine compactness (2); engine conflicts (-3); weak post-side plan (-3). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional, null; 0.80*67.6 + 0.20*60 = 66.1, then -4 modifiers = 62.1, rounded to 62)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.85 · 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 center-zone Elfnote starters with high access (Inferred)
• Nine hand traps give strong going-second interaction (Inferred)
• Compact 40-card main with one dominant archetype core

Weaknesses

• Zero Side Deck slots, so no post-side plan (Verified from legality)
• Six Mulcharmy bricks when the deck controls cards (Inferred)
• Off-archetype Synchro bosses (Stardust, Chaos, F.A., Rose Dragon) dilute engine coherence (Verified purity data)

Critical choke points

• Center-zone Elfnote is the common requirement for most lines; disrupting or failing to live it stops the combo (Inferred)
• Hand-trap dependence for going second; losing Ash or Ghost Belle early leaves few answers (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 40, Extra 15, Side 0 are within master-duel size rules; Maxx "C" Limited (1 copy) and Droll & Lock Bird Semi-Limited (2 copies) are both at legal copy counts; Copy histogram and 15 Synchro Extra Deck breakdown from the card export
• Observed: Usage statistics show the Elfnote core cards (Ash, Lucina, Tinia, Regina, Fortuna) at high inclusion
• Inferred: P(>=1 starter in 5-card hand) ~0.85; Hand-trap reach and interaction density; Combo ceiling and floor from card text only
• Provisional: Matchup and format fit (no dated meta sample); Meta Power (null); Post-side plan (no side deck)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied; combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN; going-first/second and matchup signals are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample Usage in_this_deck flags conflict with the cards list: Seraphim, Baronne, Crystal Wing, June Pride, Stardust Dragon, Junora, Chaos Angel, Black Rose, Accel Stardust, Dawn Dragster, Malong and Pegasus are all present in cards[] (zone extra) but marked in_this_deck=false, so core_present_pct 54.2 is unreliable No side deck registered (side_count 0), so D12 cannot be measured