Elfnote Deck #772759 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 54 / Extra 18 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck boards (Diabell, Diabellstar, Azamina and Snake-Eye Fusion/Synchro bodies) with 2500+ ATK, backed by hand traps that protect the first summon; Saint Azamina (4000 DEF) and Guardian Chimera (3300 ATK) as board anchors after a Fusion or Synchro route
• Turn 1 (going first): Opening hand with Elzette / Silvy / Mulcharmy starters, search a White Forest or Diabell card, then reach a Synchro or Fusion Extra Deck monster with Sinful Spoils support. Protect the first summon with Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre or Effect Veiler
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold 16 hand traps (about 89% to have at least one in a 6-card hand) to negate the opponent's first engine, then rebuild a board through the surviving starters and searchers
• Recovery: Searchers (16 copies) and Mulcharmy draw effects refill the hand. Diabellze the White Witch and Curse of Diabell can rebuild the board after a wipe
• After siding: Not available. The deck has 0 Side Deck cards, so no post-side plan can be evaluated

Why it scores here

The list is Illegal: three cards exceed their OCG copy limits and the Extra Deck holds 18 cards against a maximum of 15, so it receives a capped, structural-only score of 25 and no normal Final Contextual score. The name 'Elfnote' is misleading. Only 2 copies carry the exact archetype name (2.8% purity), and the core Elfnote cards that usage statistics show as near-universal (June Pride, Seraphim Strelitzia, Regina, Tinia) are absent. The 70 remaining copies come from White Forest, Sinful Spoils, Mulcharmy, Azamina and Diabell, so the deck is a multi-engine toolbox rather than a coherent Elfnote engine. Its structural strength is hand-trap density: 16 hand traps and 16 searchers give redundant interaction and a likely going-second interaction wall. Its weaknesses are the fragmented starter set, a 0-card Side Deck and an unconverted ceiling, since no boards were recorded. Popularity and archetype-label recognition earned no points, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary with Toolbox secondary, disclosed as a judgment from the hand-trap and toolbox density. Structural ≈ 44, Going First ≈ 40, Going Second ≈ 48, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: illegal_list_cap (-8); archetype_fragmentation (-4); no Side Deck (-3); banlist exposure (-2). Final formula: No-meta formula: 0.80*Structural(44) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(35) = 42.2; modifiers total -9 gives 33; the Illegal cap then sets the reported score to 25. The score is theoretical/structural only and is not a normal Final Contextual score.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.26 · 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

• 16 hand traps across Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Effect Veiler, Droll & Lock Bird, Nibiru and Evenly Matched give layered interaction on both turns
• 16 searchers and 2 Mulcharmy draw effects refill the hand
• Several 2500+ ATK bodies (Diabellstar the Black Witch, Diabellze the White Witch, Snake-Eye Doomed Dragon, Guardian Chimera) and Saint Azamina (4000 DEF) give end-board pressure

Weaknesses

• The deck is Illegal in OCG: three copy-limit violations and an Extra Deck of 18
• No core Elfnote cards are present, so the Elfnote label does not describe the engine
• Starter access is fragmented across White Forest, Sinful Spoils, Mulcharmy, Azamina and Diabell, and single-copy cards make hands uneven
• No Side Deck

Critical choke points

• Three 3-copy engines (Ash Blossom, WANTED, Diabell Queen) break the legality check, so the list cannot be played as built
• Extra Deck overflow of 3 cards must be cut before the deck is legal
• Without an Elfnote core the Elfnote Sinful Spoils and Azamina starters depend on single copies

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Ash Blossom 3/2, WANTED 3/1, Diabell Queen 4/3 copy violations; Extra Deck 18 over the 15 maximum; Exact-name archetype purity 2.8% (2 of 72 copies); 5 of 25 usage-core cards present; Side Deck count 0
• Observed: Hand traps, searchers and removal counts from card text and role flags (16, 16 and 19)
• Inferred: P(at least one 3-copy starter in 5 cards) 0.26; P(searcher in 5 cards) 0.84; P(hand trap in 6 cards going second) 0.89; Going-second interaction wall and multi-engine fragmentation as the main structural read; Structural dimension scores and weights
• Provisional: Meta power (null), matchup fit (D13), and tournament reliability
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample No Side Deck supplied, so post-side plans cannot be scored