Elfnote Deck #765895 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 69/100 (±5 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Elfnote Lucina / Regina / Tinia one-card-starter chains into Synchro boss monsters (Elfnote June Pride, Elfnote Seraphim Strelitzia, Psychic End Punisher, Kewl Tune B2B) that lock the center zone; Vidolium the Unstable Power Patron of Unity (Pendulum, 5000 ATK) as a late-game closer
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a starter (Lucina, Regina, Tinia, Fortuna, Power Patron or Junoldo), search a second Elfnote, and Synchro into a center-zone boss while holding hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre, Droll) for the opponent's first answer
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 10 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre, Droll, Maxx C) to break the opponent's first combo, then rebuild through Elfnote searches and a center-zone Synchro
• Recovery: Search or Special Summon a fresh Elfnote from Deck and GY (Welcome Home, Rhapsodia, Power Patron, Mulcharmy draw engine) to rebuild the center-zone board after an interruption
• After siding: No side deck is run (0 side cards, legal under master-duel size rules); post-side adaptation is not available in this format

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens: Elfnote starters (Lucina, Regina, Tinia at 3 copies each, plus Fortuna and Power Patron) give a 3-copy-backed starter line, and the searcher text on 16 cards gives P(>=1 searcher in a 5-card opening) of about 0.94 (Inferred). It converts that plan into a center-zone Synchro boss with 15 Synchro monsters in the Extra Deck. Its survival comes from 10 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre, Droll and Maxx C) plus removal and negation text, giving P(>=1 hand trap in a 6-card going-second hand) of about 0.85 (Inferred). Popularity and archetype usage stats confirm the list is real and accessible but did not add points by themselves. No combo boards were supplied, so the combo floor and median are text-only inference, and the score was built from consistency, interaction and resilience on the system rather than by averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 70, Going First ≈ 70, Going Second ≈ 74, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 66. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-1); engine compactness (1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.9 · 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 starter and searcher coverage (3-copy Elfnote starters, 16 searcher-text cards)
• Ten hand traps plus Maxx C and Droll give strong going-second answers
• Center-zone Synchro bosses with strong ATK at 2500 to 3500

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Off-theme Synchro and Junk slots dilute engine coherence (exact-name purity 30.9%)
• Heavy reliance on hand traps that may be dead without opponent action

Critical choke points

• Center-zone monster is needed for most Synchro and lock lines; losing it removes the main boss plan
• Maxx C and Droll are one-of and two-of restricted cards; losing them to a ban changes interaction density

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status and 40/15/0 sizing for master-duel; Maxx C Limited at 1 copy; Droll & Lock Bird Semi-Limited at 2 copies; Card text excerpts for all listed cards; Usage stats: Elfnote cards highly included across archetype samples
• Inferred: Hypergeometric starter and hand-trap probabilities; Consistency, interaction and resilience dimension scores; Combo ceiling read from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (null); Matchup and format fit (D13)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied