Elfnote Deck #770350 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 66/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Elfnote Lucina, Tinia, Regina or Power Patron starts a Synchro line into Elfnote and generic Synchro bosses (Junora, Chaos Angel, June Pride, Stardust Dragon) that negate or banish the opponent's board; Vidolium 5000 ATK and Synchro beatsticks once the Main Monster Zone is established
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a 3-copy Elfnote starter (about 0.85 for at least one of Lucina/Tinia/Regina/Power Patron in 5 cards, Inferred), normal summon to the center zone, then Synchro into a negate-text boss while keeping Ash or Veiler up as a response
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 6-card hand: at least one hand trap is present about 0.88 of the time (Verified combinatorics); hold Ash/Veiler/Ghost Ogre/Droll/Maxx to break the opponent's first summon, then rebuild the center-zone starter
• Recovery: Tuner-heavy Synchro recursion: Elfnote Synchro effects and Synchro Summon of the 14 Tuners rebuild a board from the GY; Power Patron and Medius add searchers to the starter
• After siding: Not applicable: no Side Deck; Master Duel is single-game, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck's score comes from the system: a 12-copy starter group (Lucina, Tinia, Regina, Power Patron) gives about 0.85 chance of a live starter in an opening 5 (Inferred), and 11 hand traps plus Tuner-based alternate starts keep the line alive through one interruption. Strong negate and banish text in the Extra Deck (Junora, Stardust Dragon, Crystal Wing, Baronne) lifts end-board interaction and going-second power. The deck is held back by a loose engine (archetype purity 32.7%, 14 Tuners, many generic staples), no recorded boards to measure a median, and no tournament or meta sample, so it stays Provisional on meta. Popularity was not credited: the 98%-plus archetype core usage figures confirm the list is real, not that it is strong. Card scores were not averaged; the Structural score uses the Combo weight profile on the deck as a whole.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 68.7, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 72, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 63. Modifiers: engine coherence (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; no dated meta sample)

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

• Three-copy Elfnote starters give a high chance of a live opening
• 11 hand traps and 14 Tuners give strong going-second interaction
• Extra Deck is fully used with negate and banish Synchros

Weaknesses

• Archetype purity 32.7%; generic staples dilute the engine
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Tuner-heavy sequencing raises pilot error risk

Critical choke points

• The center Main Monster Zone starter: if the starter is removed or negated before the Synchro, the line depends on Tuner recursion
• Elfnote Synchro summons depend on Tuners being in the GY or hand

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in master-duel: 40 Main (40-60), 15 Extra (0-15), 0 Side (0-15); Maxx C 1 of 1 Limited; Droll and Lock Bird 2 of 2 Semi-Limited; Copy histogram 27 + 8 + 5 = 40 Main cards; Hand-trap combinatorics: P(>=1 of 11 in 6) = 0.876
• Observed: Usage data: 24 core cards, 13 listed as present, 24 present after correcting the Extra Deck match (see data_gaps)
• Inferred: Starter probability 0.85; Consistency, interaction density and going-second read from text flags; Combo strategy classification from guide and card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated meta sample); Matchup and format fit (D13)
• 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 No win-rate telemetry for going-first/second, matchup, brick or OTK rates Usage-statistics bug: in_this_deck matches only the Main Deck, so all 11 missing_core entries are Extra-Deck cards that are present in cards[] (zone extra); corrected core presence is 24 of 24, not 13 of 24 (core_present_pct 54.2 is understated) Usage-stat match for Elfnote Power Patron is 3 copies vs typical 2 Guide is one short snippet with no sections, so strategy intent is partly inferred