Elfnote Deck #769836 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Toolbox, Synchro/Link/Pendulum engine
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro/Link boards led by Power Patron and Elfnote monsters (Mediclius, Vidolium, Elfnote Lucina/Tinia/Regina) that out-attack or lock the opponent once a starter lands; Ars Magna and Theorealize recursion that re-summons Medius and Elfnote monsters from the GY and banishment for repeated pressure
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with an Elfnote or Power Patron starter, search a second Elfnote via Elfnote Regina/Lucina/Tinia, then Synchro or Link Summon into a board-building follow-up
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C and Solemn Judgment to interrupt the opponent's first summon or search, then rebuild through Elfnote recursion
• Recovery: Recover from a single removal or negation through GY Elfnote and Medius recursion (Theorealize Overdrive, Elfnotes: Welcome Home, Medius shuffle-and-summon) and the Ars Magna Division/Union banish-and-summon
• After siding: Not assessable: the deck has no side deck, so there is no post-side plan to evaluate

Why it scores here

The deck's core engine is reliable on paper: the Elfnote and Power Patron archetype core (20 copies) has about a 98% chance of at least one copy in a 5-card opening hand, and the searcher-text group is equally accessible. Its interaction package (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C, Solemn Judgment, Gravity Collapse, Terminus and Power Patron negations) carries most of the score, which is why the endboard and going-second dimensions land above the mid-range. Consistency is held back by low exact-name archetype purity (25.5%, with 41 off-archetype copies) and by 16 singleton slots that thin the engine. No recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median are text-based inferences and the scores are not averages of card scores. Structural power computes to about 58 under the Combo profile, but the deck is Illegal: three Forbidden Extra Deck cards are run, so it is capped at 30 and evaluated as theoretical/structural only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 58, Going First ≈ 56, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*58 + 0.20*55 - 12 = 46 before the legality cap; the deck is Illegal, so the final score is capped at 30 and labelled theoretical/structural-only

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.98 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.02 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Archetype core is almost always accessible in the opening hand (about 98%)
• Layered interaction: 6 hand traps/negations plus Solemn Judgment, Gravity Collapse and Power Patron negation text
• Multiple recursion routes (Medius, Theorealize Overdrive, Elfnotes: Welcome Home, Ars Magna banish effects) support repeated pressure

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: three Forbidden Extra Deck cards are run, so no normal score can be given
• Low exact-name archetype purity (25.5%) with 41 off-archetype copies dilutes engine coherence
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptability
• Heavy reliance on Limited single copies (Droll, Lucina, Tinia, Maxx C, Terminus, Little Knight, Solemn Judgment) makes the deck fragile to a single banlist change

Critical choke points

• Elfnote starter in hand: the Elfnote Regina/Lucina/Tinia chain is the main gate to the engine
• Forbidden Extra Deck cards must be removed before the list is playable at all

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 3 Forbidden copies over the OCG limit; main 40 and extra 15 are within size rules; Card text and stats for all 40 main and 15 extra cards; Archetype purity 25.5% and copy histogram from the composition block; Usage stats: Elfnote and Power Patron core cards are widely played (about 70-90% inclusion)
• Inferred: Opening-hand consistency about 98% for the archetype core (hypergeometric); Engine coherence and brick risk from purity and singleton count; Interaction density from role tags and negation text; Going-second hand-trap coverage about 0.65
• Provisional: Matchup fit and meta position (no dated metagame sample or tournament link); Post-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 record absent no win-rate telemetry: going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied deck is Illegal, so the score is theoretical/structural only no side deck supplied