Elfnote Deck #770421 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Toolbox
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 8 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Elfnote Special Summon chains into Elfnote Lucina, Tinia, Fortuna and Regina, converting into 2000-3000 ATK boards and Link/Synchro pressure (Inferred from text); Power Patron Link/Ars Magna recursion and Medius/Theorealize reanimation for a second board (Inferred from text)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on an Elfnote starter (Power Patron, Regina or Lucina from hand), add an Elfnote via Lucina or Regina, then Synchro or Link into a board (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use 17 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Ghost Ogre, Droll, Infinite Impermanence) to break the opponent's first combo, then rebuild through Elfnote recursion and Mulcharmy draws (Inferred)
• Recovery: Mulcharmy Fuwalos and Purulia convert a cleared board into draws; Elfnotes Welcome Home and Elfnote Regina re-Special Summon from the GY (Inferred)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no Side Deck (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional Elfnote starter: the 30-copy archetype core gives a 98.5% chance of at least one core card in the opening five, and 89% for a searcher. Its ceiling comes from Elfnote summon chains into large Link and Synchro boards, but no recorded boards exist, so the conversion and median scores are text-only inference. The 17 hand traps and 11 negation effects give strong going-second interaction, with a 90% chance of at least one hand trap in a six-card hand. The score is capped because the list is illegal: 5 Forbidden copies and 3 over-limit cards (Lucina, Ash Blossom, Droll) cannot be played in the format as built, and the deck has no Side Deck. Archetype popularity (93% and 100% usage on the core cards) confirms the list is real but does not raise the score, and the score was not an average of the individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 63, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8). Final formula: Illegal list: no normal contextual formula. Structural 63 (Combo profile) is capped to a theoretical 35 because the deck breaks the format's copy limits and banned-card rules; Meta Power is null (Provisional).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.99 · 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

• Core archetype density: 30 copies with a 98.5% opening-five hit rate
• Dense interaction: 17 hand traps and 11 negation-text cards
• Redundant Elfnote and Power Patron recursion routes
• Multiple Synchro/Link summon routes in the Extra Deck

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: 5 Forbidden copies and 3 copy-limit breaches
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan
• Low exact-archetype purity (24.3%); many generic or sub-archetype cards
• Heavy hand-trap load can produce dead cards when going first

Critical choke points

• Elfnote summon chains depend on Elfnote Lucina/Regina/Tinia, and Lucina and Tinia are restricted
• Mulcharmy draw engine depends on an empty field, which the list rarely reaches

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 counts within size rules; Five Forbidden cards and four restricted cards with their copy limits; Core usage: 30 archetype copies, Elfnote Lucina 3 copies over limit
• Inferred: Consistency estimates from hypergeometric draw odds; Elfnote summon-chain conversion from card text; Hand-trap interaction density and going-second strength
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit (no tournament data)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first/second, matchups, brick or starter rates Meta Power provisional without a dated metagame sample No Side Deck, so post-side performance cannot be assessed