Elfnote Deck #773389 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 62/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Tempo
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro pressure from Elfnote Lucina, Regina, Tinia and Fortuna, backed by high-ATK Extra Deck Synchros (Stellar Wind Wolfrayet, Chaos Angel, Juraishin, June Pride); Board control through hand-trap-protected Synchro boards and Synchro effects that negate or destroy (Crystal Wing, Baronne de Fleur, Clear Wing)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open an Elfnote starter (Lucina, Regina, Tinia or Power Patron), search or Special Summon another Elfnote, and Synchro Summon onto the center zone while holding a hand trap for the opponent's turn
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 10 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Ghost Belle, Effect Veiler x2, Droll & Lock Bird x2, Maxx C, Fydraulis Harmonia) to break the opponent's first Main Phase, then rebuild through Elfnote summons
• Recovery: Recycle through Elfnote Regina and Tinia from the GY and Elfnotes: Welcome Home, and rebuild with Mulcharmy and Medius searches
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan in this export; the deck relies on in-main flexibility only

Why it scores here

The deck reliably reaches a live Elfnote starter: the 28-copy archetype core gives a near-certain hand-5 opening (about 0.999 proxy, Inferred), and 17 searcher-text copies make a search available in almost every opening. Its 10 hand traps and 7 negation-text cards lift interruption resilience and going-second interaction, so the list can keep a Synchro line alive through one or two disruptions. The Extra Deck is a mix of Elfnote and generic Synchros (Stellar Wind, Juraishin, Crystal Wing, Baronne, Black Rose), which gives board-breaking and end-board power but lowers engine coherence. The score comes from consistency, interaction and going-second strength on the system as a whole, not from Elfnote being a popular archetype and not from averaging card scores; the 0.20 weight on tournament reliability and the modifiers are the only other inputs.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 66, Going First ≈ 67, Going Second ≈ 72, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-1); engine breadth conflict (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural(66.3) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(58) + ContextModifiers(-3) = 61.7, rounded to 62; Meta provisional (no dated metagame sample)

Probability & combo summary

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

Strengths

• Near-certain access to an Elfnote starter in the opening hand
• Ten hand traps and seven negation-text cards give strong going-second interaction
• High-ATK Synchro end boards with several negate or destroy effects in the Extra Deck

Weaknesses

• Extra Deck mixes archetype and generic Synchros, so engine lines conflict
• No Side Deck, so the list cannot adapt between games
• Low exact archetype purity (32.7%) with 37 off-archetype copies

Critical choke points

• Elfnote Lucina, Regina and Tinia are the main starters; losing them to a single disruption leaves thin follow-ups
• Droll & Lock Bird and Maxx C are banlist-exposed at legal maximum copies

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal under master-duel BanMasterDuel; Maxx C 1/1 Limited, Droll & Lock Bird 2/2 Semi-Limited; 40 main / 15 extra / 0 side; 15 Synchro Extra Deck cards; Archetype purity 32.7% (18 exact of 55 main copies)
• Observed: Elfnote guide (guide 1373) describes a Synchro deck with hand traps and a one-card-combo potential
• Inferred: Opening-hand access to an Elfnote starter about 0.999 (archetype-core proxy); Going-second hand-trap availability about 0.845; Interaction density and end-board strength read from card text
• Provisional: Meta position and matchup fit (no dated metagame sample or 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 record absent no win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter/OTK rates) in YGOVN Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample usage_statistics in_this_deck flags contradict cards[] for several Extra Deck cards that appear with zone extra (Elfnote June Pride, Elfnote Seraphim Strelitzia, Baronne de Fleur, Crystal Wing Synchro Dragon, Junora, Chaos Angel, F.A. Dawn Dragster, Black Rose Dragon, Golden Cloud Beast - Malong); cards[] was treated as the source of truth, so core_present_pct in the usage block is unreliable no Side Deck registered, so post-side evaluation is unavailable