Elfnote Deck #770483 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 9 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Elfnote and Power Patron Synchro/Link boards (Elfnote Tinia, Elfnote Fortuna, Elfnote June Pride, Chaos Angel, Psychic End Punisher, Vidolium) closing through the center zone; Ars Magna and Medius recursion into Power Patron Link Monsters (Mediclius, Purification Power Patron) for repeated attacks and negations
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Elfnote Lucina or Elfnote Regina (Special Summon from hand, add an Elfnote monster), chain Elfnote Power Patron and Medius searches, then Synchro or Link Summon into a board protected by Elfnotes: Welcome Home or Rhapsodia
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, Skull Meister, Effect Veiler, Nibiru, Droll & Lock Bird) to disrupt the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Elfnote searchers
• Recovery: Recur Medius from the GY via Theorealize Past Lull or Ars Magna monsters, and re-search Elfnote monsters with the Power Patron and Elfnote searchers
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered (Side Deck size 0), so no post-side plan can be evaluated

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens an Elfnote engine: 28 archetype-core copies give a 97.4% chance of at least one in the opening 5 cards (Inferred), and 18 searcher-text cards give 86.9%. Its hand-trap and negation package (16 hand traps, 15 negation-text cards) gives it interaction in both turn orders, and redundant starters (Lucina, Regina, Fortuna, Tinia, Power Patron) keep the engine alive through one disruption. No combo boards were recorded, so the ceiling and median scores are text-only inferences rather than observed output, and popularity (archetype usage) was not credited as power. The structural read is about 60 on the system, not an average of card scores, but the list is over the copy limit and holds six Forbidden cards, so it is capped at 35 as a theoretical, structural-only read.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 60, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); over_copy_limit_construction (-4). Final formula: Illegal cap: min(0.80*Structural(60) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(48) + ContextModifiers(-12), 35) = 35; theoretical/structural-only, Meta provisional

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.97 · 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

• Dense archetype core (28 copies) makes an Elfnote starter very likely in the opening hand
• Redundant starters and searchers (Lucina, Regina, Fortuna, Tinia, Power Patron, Medius) keep the engine alive
• 16 hand traps plus negation-text cards give interaction on both turns

Weaknesses

• Over the copy limit on Lucina (3/1), Ash Blossom (3/2) and Droll (2/1), and six Forbidden cards in the build
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Off-archetype splash (Solemn, Cyclone, Mulcharmy) dilutes engine coherence (exact-name purity 21.1%)

Critical choke points

• Legality: the list cannot be played as built until copy limits and Forbidden cards are fixed
• Going-first hand that lacks a starter or hand trap leaves the engine with no board

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 9 copy-limit violations, 6 Forbidden cards, status Illegal; Main 56 and Extra 15 are inside the tcg size rules; Side 0 is legal; Archetype purity 21.1% and composition counts from evidence
• Inferred: Starter consistency from hypergeometric probabilities (0.974 core, 0.869 searcher); Interaction density from hand-trap and negation text roles; Engine ceiling and floor from card text only; no boards recorded
• Provisional: Meta power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry exists (going-first/second, matchup, brick, starter rates); those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Usage statistics disagree with the card list: Crystal Wing Synchro Dragon, Elfnote Seraphim Strelitzia, Elfnote June Pride, F.A. Dawn Dragster, Mediclius the Extraordinary Power Patron and Purification Power Patron are listed as in this deck:false, yet appear in the Extra Deck list Side Deck is empty (Side Deck size 0), so D12 and any post-side plan are unevaluated No guides attached (total guides 0)