Elfnote Deck #770457 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 20/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• 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 Link and Synchro boards (Mediclius, Elfnote June Pride, Seraphim Strelitzia) pressuring through the Elfnote Power Patron and Regina/Lucina summon engine; Ars Magna and Theorealize recursion into Medius and Power Patron Link Monsters for a second wave
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on an Elfnote starter (Regina, Power Patron or Fortuna), search or summon into the Elfnote field, then convert to a Synchro or Link boss while holding Ash Blossom or Droll as protection
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Effect Veiler or Infinite Impermanence to disrupt the opponent's first engine, then rebuild through Elfnote recursion (Regina, Fortuna, Welcome Home)
• Recovery: Recover the Elfnote field from the GY through Regina and Theorealize Past Lull, then Synchro or Link Summon back to a boss
• After siding: Not applicable: the list has no Side Deck, so no post-side plan can be executed in best-of-3

Why it scores here

This list is illegal in TCG: four Forbidden cards (Called by the Grave, Crystal Wing Synchro Dragon, Elfnote Tinia, F.A. Dawn Dragster) and four over-limit Limited or Semi-Limited copy counts, so the normal Final Contextual formula is not applied and the 20 is a structural cap. As a system, the deck reliably opens an Elfnote starter (archetype core P(at least one in 5-card hand) ≈ 0.98, Inferred) and keeps interruption redundancy high through 14 hand traps and 18 searcher-text cards, which is where most of the structural score came from. Conversion and median output could not be measured because no recorded boards exist, so those scores are text-only Inferred reads. The deck has no Side Deck and its Forbidden and over-limit cards would have to be removed before any legal play, and archetype popularity (17 exact Elfnote copies, 23.9% purity) was not credited as strength.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 59.5, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); no Side Deck (-4). Final formula: Illegal: normal formula not applied. Structural 59.5; 0.80*59.5 + 0.20*55 = 58.6; modifiers -12 gives 46.6; capped to 20 for Illegal legality (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 reachable in the opening hand (Inferred)
• Layered hand-trap and negation suite gives redundant interruption (Inferred)
• Recursion through Regina, Fortuna and Theorealize Past Lull supports a second wave (Inferred)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Forbidden and over-limit copies must be removed before any legal play (Verified)
• No Side Deck, so post-side adaptation is impossible (Verified)
• Multi-step Synchro and Link lines are demanding to pilot (Inferred)

Critical choke points

• Elfnote Regina and Power Patron as the T1 starter lines (Inferred)
• Single Link or Synchro boss on the center zone that carries the board (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status and 8 violations under the TCG BanList (Forbidden, Limited, Semi-Limited); Main 56, Extra 15, Side 0 counts; Archetype purity 23.9% exact-name; Archetype core 30 copies with 98.28% P(≥1 in hand 5)
• Observed: No observed combo boards, so no measured power distribution exists
• Inferred: Starter and hand-trap consistency from hypergeometric odds and card text; Structural dimension scores D1–D14 derived from text and composition; Going-first and going-second power estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power is null (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13) is neutral placeholder
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN — going-first/second, matchup, brick and OTK rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied deck title is null in the export