Elfnote Deck #770510 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 36/100 (±12 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 57 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 8 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Elfnote and Power Patron Synchro/Link boards (Elfnote Regina, Elfnote June Pride, Vidolium, Mediclius) overwhelming the opponent with ATK and no-attack locks, once the board is established; Ars Magna and Mulcharmy draw-and-recursion grind, converting card advantage into repeat summons
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Elfnote Regina or Elfnote Power Patron, use Elfnote and Mulcharmy follow-ups to reach a center-zone monster, then Synchro or Link into a board protected by Solemn and Ash
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Ghost Ogre and Solemn Warning to strip the opponent's first Summon or search, then rebuild through Elfnote recursion
• Recovery: Elfnote Fortuna, Elfnote Welcome Home and Mulcharmy draws refill hand and field after a single removal or hand-trap exchange
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no Side Deck (side_count 0)

Why it scores here

The deck's core Elfnote package is real and widely run: the archetype-core group has about 98.7% odds of at least one copy in a 5-card opening hand, so the engine usually starts (Inferred). Interaction is dense for a Midrange list (about 14 negation-text cards and 10 hand traps, with a roughly 70% chance of at least one hand trap in a 6-card going-second hand, Inferred), which lifts the endboard and resilience scores. The score does not come from the averaged strength of the cards or from Elfnote's popularity: there are no recorded boards, so combo floor and ceiling are text-only inference and held near the middle. The deck is also structurally weak. It runs 57 Main cards across about 35 distinct names drawn from five or more sub-archetypes, only 16 of which are exact Elfnote, and it has no Side Deck. Five Forbidden cards, four Limited and two Semi-Limited copy-limit violations make the list illegal in TCG as submitted, so the final score is a theoretical, structural-only ceiling and not a legal competitive rating.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary with Combo secondary; Midrange weights used directly. Structural ≈ 50.2, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 47, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-10); engine_compactness (-2). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*50.2 + 0.20*40 - 12 = 36.2, theoretical structural-only because the list is Illegal

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.99 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.01 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Core Elfnote engine is almost always accessible in the opening hand (Inferred from probabilities)
• Dense negation and hand-trap package for going-second interaction
• High-ATK closers (Vidolium, June Pride, Junora) and a deep Extra Deck for coverage

Weaknesses

• Illegal as submitted: five Forbidden cards and several copy-limit violations
• Only 22.2% exact-name Elfnote purity; 56 off-archetype copies dilute the engine
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan
• No recorded boards, so combo conversion and median output are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Single Elfnote center-zone monster as the base for most lines
• Removal of the center-zone monster leaves the Synchro and Link follow-up unsupported
• Solemn and Ash copies are Limited or Semi-Limited, so the legal interaction count is lower than the list shows

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 57 / Extra 15 / Side 0, within TCG size limits; Five Forbidden cards and eight copy-limit violations in the legality block; Elfnote archetype-core inclusion at 100% in usage statistics; Archetype-core P(at least one in 5-card hand) = 0.9873
• Inferred: Consistency and starter access from hypergeometric odds; Interaction density from negation and removal text; Going-second hand-trap odds of 0.704; Combo ceiling and floor from text only
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit and post-side plan (no side deck, no match data)
• Data gaps: No recorded combos; 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 for this deck (going-first, going-second, matchup, brick and starter rates) No Side Deck; post-side performance cannot be assessed Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample Deck title is null in the export