Elfnote Deck #770448 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 8 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Elfnote board presence plus Synchro/Link Summons (Elfnote June Pride, Elfnote Seraphim Strelitzia, Junora, Mediclius) once the T1 board is protected; Power Patron and Ars Magna follow-ups (Vidolium at 5000 ATK, Medius/Theorealized Medius recursion) when the Extra Deck is reachable
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a 3-copy Elfnote starter (Lucina, Regina, Tinia) or Mulcharmy draw engine, protect the center monster with Elfnotes: Welcome Home / Rhapsodia, and bridge into a Synchro or Link Summon
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 17 hand traps (Ash, Nibiru, Skull Meister, Effect Veiler, Ghost Ogre, Droll) to stop the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Mulcharmy draw effects
• Recovery: Search or revive Elfnote and Power Patron monsters from Deck/GY through the Medius, Theorealize and Power Patron Link recursion chain (text-based, Inferred)
• After siding: None. The side deck is empty (side_count 0), so there is no best-of-3 adaptation plan

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal under the TCG ban list: it runs five Forbidden cards (Called by the Grave, Triple Tactics Talent, Elfnote Tinia, F.A. Dawn Dragster, Crystal Wing Synchro Dragon) and exceeds the copy limits of Elfnote Lucina (3 vs 1), Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring (3 vs 2) and Droll & Lock Bird (2 vs 1). The score therefore comes only from a structural read of the system and is capped low; it is not a normal Final Contextual score. The deck's interaction density is the strongest part of the system: 17 hand traps and 12 negation-text cards give it a good answer to a turn-one board, and the Elfnote/Mulcharmy draw engines keep the hand functional. Its weaknesses are the absence of recorded combos (no ceiling or median can be measured), a 22.5% exact-archetype purity with 55 off-archetype copies, and an empty side deck. Archetype popularity (the Elfnote core appears in 98% of the archetype's lists) confirms the cards are real and accessible, but it did not earn points; card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange profile only; no secondary profile blended. Structural ≈ 61.4, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-9); no side deck (-3). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 0.80*61.4 + 0.20*55 = 60.1; context modifiers -12 gives 48.1; Illegal cap applied, final 30 (structural-only, not a normal Final Contextual score)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · 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

• 17 hand traps and 12 negation-text cards give a layered answer to early boards
• Elfnote and Mulcharmy draw/summon engines keep hands functional and provide recursion
• Strong Extra Deck closers available: Vidolium, Junora, Elfnote June Pride, Mediclius

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: five Forbidden cards and three copy-limit violations
• No side deck, so there is no post-side adaptation
• Low exact-archetype purity (22.5%) with 55 off-archetype copies
• No recorded combos, so ceiling and median are text-only inferences

Critical choke points

• The Forbidden cards must be removed before the deck is playable; the score cannot rise until the list is legal
• Hand-trap-heavy hands may lack a board-building starter, so the first summon is a single point of failure (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Illegal; five Forbidden cards and three copy-limit violations; Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 within TCG size rules; Archetype purity 22.5%; 55 off-archetype copies; Hand-trap count 17; searcher-text count 19; negation-text count 12; Archetype stats: Elfnote core present at 68% of archetype lists
• Inferred: Opening-hand probabilities (hypergeometric, Main Deck only); Hand-trap and searcher functional roles from card text; Interaction density (D7) and recursion-based redundancy (D5); Going-first and going-second power estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power (null: no dated metagame sample); D13 matchup and format fit (no tournament data)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick or starter rates) Meta Power is provisional until a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck title is null in the export