Elfnote Deck #765900 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 55/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro boards (Chaos Angel, Seraphim Strelitzia, Crystal Wing, Black Rose Dragon, Vidolium) built from Elfnote center-zone starters and Power Patron/Mulcharmy engine pieces; Ecclesia / Branded Fusion and Synchro lines through Fallen & The Virtuous, Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon and Albion, when Fallen of Albaz is available
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with an Elfnote starter (Lucina, Tinia, Regina or Fortuna) in hand, Special Summon to the center MZ, extend with Elfnote searches and Power Patron, then Synchro into a boss while Ash Blossom and Maxx C cover the opponent's first activation
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom x3, Droll & Lock Bird, Ghost Ogre, Maxx C) to answer the opponent's first board, then starter-to-Synchro through the center zone
• Recovery: Medius the Pure, Junoldo and Mulcharmy draw effects, plus Elfnotes: Welcome Home, rebuild a center-zone monster and recover card flow from the Graveyard
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; the list cannot adapt between games

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a live Elfnote starter: 12 copies of hand-summonable Elfnote starters give roughly P(at least one in a 5-card opening hand) = 0.85 and P(at least one in a 6-card hand going second) = 0.90, both Inferred hypergeometric estimates. Those starters feed a 14-Synchro plus 1-Fusion Extra Deck, and the 6 hand traps and 5 negation-text cards give it real interaction on the opponent's first turn. The score comes from consistency, median output and interaction read on the system as a whole. The deck is an off-archetype build (exact-name purity 30.9%, only 13 of 24 core cards present), so archetype popularity earned no points and card scores were not averaged. It has no recorded boards, no side deck and no tournament or win-rate data, so the score stays bounded at Medium confidence and a provisional Meta Power.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 64.8, Going First ≈ 68, Going Second ≈ 68, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-1); unrecoverable_choke_point (-2); weak_post_side_plan (-3); engine_conflicts (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional) = 0.80*64.8 + 0.20*55 - 8 = 54.8 -> 55

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

• Twelve hand-summonable starters give high access to a live center-zone engine
• Six hand traps plus Maxx C and Droll cover both going first and going second
• Synchro ceiling with several 3000+ ATK bosses and Vidolium at 5000 ATK
• Searcher density (16) supports recovery after one disruption

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so no post-game adaptation
• Off-archetype build: only 54.2% of core cards and 30.9% exact-name purity, with engine conflicts across sub-archetypes
• Heavy reliance on the center Main Monster Zone for starters and bosses
• Limited hand-trap redundancy: 6 hand traps can be dead against non-responsive boards

Critical choke points

• Center Main Monster Zone: a single board breaker or negation can stop most starters
• Fallen of Albaz requirement for Albion and Ecclesia/Branded lines
• Limited single-copy interaction (Maxx C, Crossout Designator)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status: 40 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side, all restricted cards within legal copies; Archetype usage: 13 of 24 core cards present (54.2%); Role tags: 6 hand traps, 16 searcher-text cards, 17 removal-text cards
• Inferred: P(at least one hand-summonable starter) ~0.85 going first and ~0.90 going second; Ceiling and interaction reads from card text; Engine-conflict and choke-point analysis
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup fit (D13 at neutral 50)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot records are absent No win-rate telemetry (going first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) No side deck, so D12 is structural only