Elfnote Deck #771992 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 40/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Stun
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Elfnote and Power Patron boards that Synchro, Link and Xyz into 3000+ ATK end-boards (Junora, June Pride, Strelitzia, Accel Stardust, Galaxy-Eyes Photon Lord, Mediclius); Artmage/Ars Magna Fusion and Medius recursion to stack Power Patron Link attacks
• Turn 1 (going first): Opening Elfnote Regina/Lucina/Fortuna searchers and Mulcharmy Fuwalos draws into a 6-level Elfnote Synchro, using Mistaken Arrest and Effect Veiler-style negations to protect the turn
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, Effect Veiler, Artifact Lancea, Nibiru) answer the opponent's first combo starter, then the Power Patron/Elfnote board is rebuilt from the GY via Theorealized Medius
• Recovery: Searchers and Medius recursion from the GY refill hand after a hand-trap interruption; Junoldo and Mulcharmy supply card draw
• After siding: Not applicable: the list runs no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan to evaluate

Why it scores here

The deck is scored on its system: a 16-copy Elfnote core with 20 searcher-text cards opens a live engine on most hands (about 83% of 5-card hands contain at least one core card, Inferred), and the Synchro and Link extra-deck lines convert that engine into 3000+ ATK boards. Interaction is dense, with 16 hand-trap and 16 tech-flagged cards, 12 negation-text and 27 removal-text cards, and about 89% of 6-card going-second hands contain a hand trap (Inferred), which earns the going-second and end-board scores. Popularity did not earn points: the Elfnote archetype's high inclusion stats only confirm the list is real and accessible, and no meta share was supplied. The score is also held down by the lack of a Side Deck, the lack of combo data (floor and ceiling are text-only), and the illegal copy counts (3 Elfnote Lucina against a limit of 1, and 3 Ash Blossom against a limit of 2), which cap the final score. The card scores were not averaged into this result.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: 0.8 Midrange + 0.2 Toolbox (disclosed; both weight tables sum to 100). Structural ≈ 60, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-5); No side deck (-3). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(60) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(52) = 58.4; context modifiers total -8 gives 50.4; Illegal-list cap applied, so final = 40 (theoretical/structural-only, not a normal Final score)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.83 · 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 hand-trap and negation suite (16 hand traps, 12 negation-text cards) that stops the opponent's first combo
• Large searcher and draw density (20 searcher-text cards, Mulcharmy and Junoldo draws)
• High-ATK Synchro and Link end-boards (3000+ ATK) with Medius recursion to rebuild after disruption

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy counts: Elfnote Lucina at 3 (limit 1) and Ash Blossom at 3 (limit 2)
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptability
• Low exact-name archetype purity (18.6%) spreads resources across several sub-archetypes
• Hand-trap-heavy main deck can brick on hands without an engine starter

Critical choke points

• Elfnote Lucina and Regina together are the main searcher pair; losing both to a hand trap or the Lucina copy-limit fix leaves the engine thin
• Synchro and Link end-boards depend on a single 6-level Elfnote starter line

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0; within OCG size rules; Elfnote Lucina 3 copies vs legal 1 (Limited); Ash Blossom 3 vs legal 2 (Semi-Limited); Archetype purity 18.6% and extra-deck breakdown (9 Synchro, 4 Link, 1 Xyz, 1 Fusion); Usage stats: 11 of 25 core cards present (44%)
• Inferred: P(>=1 core card in a 5-card opener) 0.83 from hypergeometric estimate; Going-second hand-trap coverage 0.89; Strategy classification as Midrange with Toolbox secondary; Interruption resilience from starter diversity and GY recursion
• Provisional: Meta power (no dated sample; null); Matchup and format fit (D13 at 50)
• 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 for going-first/second, matchup, brick or starter rates Meta power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No Side Deck, so post-side behaviour cannot be scored