Elfnote Deck #770357 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 64/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro boss summoned off the Elfnote / Power Patron engine (Elfnote June Pride 3100 ATK, Junora 3100 ATK, Psychic End Punisher 3500 ATK), with Vidolium 5000 ATK as a Pendulum-zone finisher; Synchro beats protected by hand-trap interaction and Elfnote Continuous Spell/Trap board control
• Turn 1 (going first): Turn 1 Elfnote starter (Lucina, Tinia or Regina) from hand, search or summon a second Elfnote/Power Patron piece, then Synchro into a boss using the Tuner count
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Ghost Ogre, Droll and Maxx C to disrupt the opponent's first summon or search, then Synchro through the resulting open board
• Recovery: Recur Elfnote and Power Patron monsters from the GY via Medius, Elfnotes: Welcome Home and Rhapsodia, and rebuild with the Extra-Deck Synchro bosses
• After siding: None. The list runs 0 Side Deck cards and Master Duel ranked play has no side-deck step, so there is no post-side plan to score.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional plan: nine copies of Lucina, Regina and Tinia give roughly a 74% chance of at least one Elfnote starter in a going-first five-card hand, and 15 searcher-text cards give about 92%. Its conversion is supported by a Synchro boss suite, but no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median (D3, D4) are text-only inferences and are weighted with low confidence. Its strongest share is interaction and resilience: 11 hand traps and several negate-capable Synchros keep the line alive through one disruption, and the six-card going-second hand has about an 88% chance of at least one hand trap. The score is built from consistency, median output and interaction on the system as a whole. Archetype popularity earned no points, and the card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 68, Going First ≈ 70, Going Second ≈ 70, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 62. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-1); engine_conflict (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (-3); Meta Power provisional, no dated metagame sample

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

• Layered interaction: 11 hand traps plus Droll, Maxx C and Synchro negate/removal text
• Five distinct starters give redundant engine access
• Strong Synchro closing suite: 3100-3500 ATK bosses plus Vidolium 5000 ATK
• Legal list with all restricted cards at legal copy limits

Weaknesses

• Tuner density: 13 Tuners in 40 cards, with three hand-trap Tuners competing for Synchro material
• Low exact archetype purity (30.9%) and many generic Synchros dilute the Elfnote engine
• No Side Deck cards, so there is no adaptability beyond the main deck
• Zero recorded boards, so the actual conversion rate is unknown

Critical choke points

• Elfnote starter in hand on turn 1 (going first), which is ~74% by hypergeometric estimate
• Synchro boss surviving the opponent's first interaction when the Tuner was spent on a hand trap

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 40 main, 15 extra, 0 side; within Master Duel size rules; Maxx C at Limited with 1 copy; Droll & Lock Bird at Semi-Limited with 2 copies, both at legal max; Copy histogram: 6 single, 5 double, 8 triple; 11 hand-trap-tagged and 15 searcher-tagged cards; Extra Deck is 15 singleton Synchro monsters
• Observed: Elfnote core cards (Lucina, Tinia, Regina, Ash Blossom, Fortuna) appear at high inclusion rates in the archetype usage stats
• Inferred: Starter access ~74% going first and hand-trap presence ~88% going second (hypergeometric); Interaction density and Synchro closing power from card text; Engine conflict from hand-trap Tuners; Structural and final scores from the Combo profile
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link); Side-deck adaptability (no Side Deck and no post-side data)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference (combos_evidence total_combos = 0) No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent usage_statistics in_this_deck flags conflict with the cards list: Elfnote June Pride, Seraphim Strelitzia, Baronne de Fleur, Crystal Wing, Golden Cloud Beast, F.A. Dawn Dragster, Accel Synchro Stardust, Black Rose Dragon, Chaos Angel, Junora and Wind Pegasus are listed in the deck but flagged false, so core_present_pct (54.2) is unreliable No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, brick and OTK rates) Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck title is null Card description excerpts are truncated, so some effects are only partly confirmed Single guide with no sections; strategic intent is partially inferred from one truncated snippet