Elfnote Deck #765881 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 64/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Toolbox
• Format: master-duel

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro pressure from the 15-card Extra Deck (June Pride, B2B, Zalen, Strelitzia, Chaofeng) once a Elfnote center-zone monster is live; Kewl Tune Loudness War and Remix board pressure once Kewl Tune Mix and Reco are in the GY
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Elfnote starter (Lucina, Tinia or Regina) into a center-zone monster, add or summon a second Elfnote piece, then Synchro into a boss
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 8 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Ghost Ogre, Ghost Mourner, Maxx C, Fydraulis Harmonia) to answer the opponent's first board, then rebuild the center-zone engine
• Recovery: Recurse Elfnote monsters from the GY via Welcome Home and Rhapsodia, and reload Kewl Tune Mix and Reco from the GY
• After siding: Not applicable: Master Duel has no side deck, so the deck has no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a center-zone Elfnote starter: nine copies of Lucina, Tinia and Regina give roughly a 74% chance of at least one in a five-card opening hand (Inferred, hypergeometric), and the wider starter set pushes that much higher. Its eight hand traps and multiple recursion routes let it keep acting through a first interruption, which is the main reason its resilience and going-second scores are above the median. Conversion into pressure is strong at the ceiling because the full 15-card Extra Deck offers several 2800 to 3200 ATK Synchro boss options, but the median output is scored lower because no recorded boards exist and the guide snippet only describes intent. Popularity and archetype usage stats confirm the list is real and accessible, and they did not earn points. The score was built from consistency, interaction and closing power on the whole system, not from averaging the individual card scores; the split between Elfnote and Kewl Tune sub-archetypes and the Limited and Semi-Limited core cards hold it below the structural score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 69, Going First ≈ 68, Going Second ≈ 72, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 66. Modifiers: Banlist exposure on key Kewl Tune pieces (-2); Engine split across sub-archetypes (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional, no dated sample)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.74 · 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

• Consistent center-zone Elfnote engine with 9 main-deck starter copies
• Eight hand traps give strong going-second interaction
• Full 15-card Synchro Extra Deck with 2800 to 3200 ATK bosses
• Recursion routes from the GY support a grind game

Weaknesses

• No side deck in Master Duel, so no post-side adaptation
• Engine split across Elfnote and Kewl Tune sub-archetypes
• Heavy reliance on Limited and Semi-Limited core cards
• No recorded boards, so the median output and combo floor are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Getting a center-zone monster live on turn 1 or 2 gates most of the engine
• Kewl Tune Mix or Reco in hand for the Kewl Tune branch of the Extra Deck

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status at 40 main / 15 extra / 0 side under MasterDuel rules; Copy counts and banlist statuses for all listed cards; Extra Deck is 15 Synchro monsters with the ATK values shown
• Observed: Usage stats show the Elfnote core at high inclusion (for example Fortuna 98%, Lucina 97%)
• Inferred: P(>=1 starter in opening 5) of about 0.74 and P(>=1 hand trap in opening 6) of 0.76; Going-first and going-second estimates from text and probability; Interaction quality from negation and removal text
• Provisional: Median output and floor (no boards); Matchup and format fit (no dated meta); Side adaptability (no side deck)
• 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 (going-first/second, matchup, starter or brick rates) Meta Power provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Guide coverage is a single Vietnamese guide with no sections