Elfnote Deck #773393 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 65/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange
• Format: master-duel

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro pressure from Elfnote hand-starters that self-summon into the center Main Monster Zone and feed a 15-slot Synchro Extra Deck (June Pride, Junora, Chaos Angel, Packbit, Wolfrayet class boards); Disruption-led stall: hand traps and Elfnotes: Rhapsodia of Madness shut off attacks and negate the opponent's engine while the center-zone monster carries the game
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a hand-starter (Power Patron, Lucina, Regina, Tinia or Fortuna), self-summon to the center zone, then Synchro into a boss while holding Ash Blossom / Effect Veiler / Ghost Ogre / Ghost Belle as protection
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand's hand traps (Droll, Maxx C, Ash, Veiler, Ghost Ogre, Ghost Belle) to answer the opponent's first board, then rebuild through a starter and Synchro over the disrupted field
• Recovery: Recursion through Elfnotes: Welcome Home, Elfnotes: Rhapsodia, Medius the Pure and Jet Synchron from the GY to reload starters and tuners after a broken turn
• After siding: Not applicable: Master Duel has no Side Deck in this export (Side Deck size 0), so there is no post-side plan to score

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system: its Elfnote hand-starters (Power Patron, Lucina, Regina, Tinia, Fortuna) give it a high chance of a live engine by turn 1 or 2, and the 0.95 searcher group and 0.85 going-second hand-trap group keep it functional on either turn order. Interaction is the strongest structural feature: ten hand traps plus Rhapsodia and a 15-card Synchro suite let it answer or dodge the opponent's first board and recover through recursion. Closing power is credible because several 2500 to 3500 ATK Synchros are present, but no combo data was supplied, so the ceiling and median are text-only inferences and are scored conservatively. Popularity and the archetype's 100% usage of its core cards confirm the list is real and accessible, but they earned no points by themselves, and card scores were not averaged. Meta power is left null and the 0.2 tournament-reliability weight rests on inferred consistency.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: 100% Combo profile; Midrange noted as secondary but not blended. Structural ≈ 67, Going First ≈ 71, Going Second ≈ 74, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 66. Modifiers: unverified combo ceiling (-3); extra-deck flexibility (1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional, null)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 1 · 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

• Hand-starter redundancy: multiple self-summoning Elfnote monsters give a high chance of a live turn 1 or 2
• Layered hand-trap interaction (10 hand traps) that works on both turn orders
• Synchro closing power at 2900 to 3500 ATK with a single-copy, flexible Extra Deck
• Recursion from the GY (Welcome Home, Rhapsodia, Medius, Jet Synchron) that regenerates resources

Weaknesses

• No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median are unmeasured
• Roughly six hand traps are non-starters that can brick an opener
• Heavy dependence on the center Main Monster Zone, which opponent's disruption can break
• No Side Deck in Master Duel, so post-side adaptability cannot be scored

Critical choke points

• The center Main Monster Zone: several effects require a monster there, and losing it breaks the engine
• A single Synchro material chain that is interrupted before the Elfnote summon resolves

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is legal: 40 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side, Maxx C and Droll & Lock Bird within their banlist limits; Card text and stats for the 21 Main and 15 Extra distinct cards; Archetype purity 32.7% exact name; Usage inclusion 100% for Rhapsodia and Ash Blossom
• Observed: Usage statistics show the core Elfnote cards are standard across the archetype
• Inferred: Starter reliability from hypergeometric draw odds; Hand-trap and recursion resilience from card text; Going-second interaction density from hand-trap count
• Provisional: Meta power (null) and matchup fit (D13 = 50); Post-side plan (not applicable in Master Duel)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference usage statistics marks in this deck false for Elfnote June Pride, Seraphim Strelitzia, Baronne de Fleur, Crystal Wing, Malong, Stardust, F.A. Dawn Dragster, Black Rose Dragon, Chaos Angel and Junora, but the card list places all of them in the Extra Deck; core_cards_present (13) is therefore unreliable and this evaluation trusts the card list No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and match record are absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick or OTK rates) Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample No Side Deck in the export, so D12 cannot be measured from data