Elfnote Deck #765892 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 60/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro pressure from Elfnote and Power Patron starters that take over the center Main Monster Zone, closed by high-ATK Synchros such as Psychic End Punisher, Chaos Angel and Junora; Value and disruption from 9 hand-trap copies (Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Nibiru, Maxx C) to strip the opponent's interaction and then convert
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a Lucina, Regina or Tinia starter from hand, use the center-zone effects to search or Special Summon a second Elfnote, then Synchro into a boss while holding Ash or Veiler
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the hand traps in the six-card hand to answer the opponent's first board, then rebuild the center zone with Elfnote starters and Synchro the follow-up
• Recovery: Rebuild from the Graveyard using Power Patron and Elfnote recursion (Medius, Power Patron, Welcome Home, Rhapsodia) and Junoldo draw effects
• After siding: Not applicable: the deck runs 0 side cards and Master Duel ranked play is single-game, so no post-side plan is evidenced

Why it scores here

This Elfnote list scores 60 on its system: triple-copy Lucina, Regina and Tinia give roughly a 74% chance of at least one going-first hand starter (hypergeometric, Inferred), and the 26-card archetype core is present in almost every opening hand. Its strongest value is interaction: nine hand-trap copies plus Synchro and Extra-Deck negates give an 81% chance of at least one hand trap in a going-second six-card hand, which holds up the endboard and the going-second plan. The deck converts through center-zone control and a Synchro closing set, but no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median are text-based only and kept near the middle of the scale. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged; the score comes from consistency, interaction and closing on the whole system. Deductions come from the zero side deck, no matchup or tournament data, and off-archetype engine dilution from Mulcharmy, Bystial and Chaos.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 63, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 70, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: off-archetype engine dilution (-2); banlist exposure (0). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers(-2) = 0.80*63 + 0.20*58 - 2 ≈ 60

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

• Triple-copy starters with a 99.7% archetype-core hit rate
• Nine hand-trap copies give strong going-second and interruption coverage
• Broad interaction across hand traps, Designator and Extra-Deck negates
• Varied Synchro closers with high ATK and endboard power

Weaknesses

• Zero side deck, so no adaptation in best-of or post-side play
• No recorded combos, so the ceiling and median cannot be measured
• Off-archetype support (Mulcharmy, Bystial, Chaos) dilutes the engine
• Heavy reliance on center-zone state, which makes play decisions error-prone

Critical choke points

• The center Main Monster Zone: most Elfnote starters and effects need a live center monster, so removing it stalls the engine
• Single-copy Limited cards (Magnamhut, Designator, Maxx C): losing any one loses a specific answer

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in master-duel (BanMasterDuel); 40 main, 15 extra, 0 side; Limited cards at 1 copy each; Card text and stats for all 36 distinct cards; 17 exact-name Elfnote copies; 9 hand-trap copies
• Inferred: Starter and hand-trap hypergeometric odds; Interaction density and endboard quality from card text; Engine dilution and resilience reads
• Provisional: Meta and format fit (no dated metagame sample); Matchup performance (no data)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent usage_statistics extra-deck matching is inconsistent: Elfnote June Pride, Seraphim Strelitzia, Baronne de Fleur, Crystal Wing, Malong, Accel Synchro, F.A. Dawn, Chaos Angel, Black Rose, Junora and Wind Pegasus are present in cards[] as zone extra but marked in_this_deck:false in usage_statistics, so core_present_pct (54.2) and missing_core are unreliable no win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchup or brick rate Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample