Elfnote Deck #773406 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 58/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck Synchro bosses (Elfnote and Power Patron monsters, plus Black Rose, Packbit and Librarian) reached through Level-6 hand-summon starters (Inferred from card text); Vidolium the Unstable (5000 ATK Pendulum) and the Arcanite Magician ATK growth line (Verified stats, Inferred use)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Level-6 Elfnote starter (Lucina, Tinia, Regina or Fortuna), chain Synchro Summons through the Tuners in Main Deck, and keep Ash Blossom or Droll up for the first opposing response
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Ash, Droll, Infinite Impermanence, Ghost Ogre, Ghost Belle, Effect Veiler, Maxx C) to answer the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Elfnote summons (Inferred)
• Recovery: Medius and Power Patron searchers and Junoldo draw/discard recover cards after a broken hand (Inferred from card text)
• After siding: None: Master Duel has no side deck, and this list runs 0 side cards

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Level-6 Elfnote starter (Lucina, Tinia, Regina or Fortuna: 10 copies in total), which gives roughly a 78% chance of at least one in the opening five cards and about 85% on the going-second six (Inferred hypergeometric estimates computed from the resolved list). Its conversion route runs through a 15-card Synchro Extra Deck, with Level-6 hand starters feeding Synchro Summons into bosses of 2400 to 3100 ATK, but no recorded boards exist to measure its median output. Interaction is the strongest part of the system: ten hand traps, seven negation-text cards and fifteen removal-text cards give it layered answers on both turns, which earns D7 and supports the going-second score. Popularity and usage statistics confirm that Elfnote is a real, accessible archetype, but they did not earn points by themselves, and the deck score was built on the system (consistency, interaction, redundancy) rather than by averaging card scores. The 36% exact-name archetype purity and the absence of a side deck or meta sample keep the score in the mid-band, with a wide uncertainty.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 61, Going First ≈ 63, Going Second ≈ 61, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: Engine dilution across sub-archetypes (-2); Banlist exposure (0); Dependence on one Extra Deck card (0). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional); 0.80*60.6 + 0.20*60 - 2 = 58.5, reported as 58

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.78 · 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

• Level-6 hand-summon starters with 3 copies each give a reliable first summon
• Ten hand traps and seven negation-text cards give layered interaction on both turns
• Compact 40-card Main Deck with 4 double-copy cards and no dead Main Deck slot visible in the list
• Extra Deck of 15 distinct Synchro bosses gives flexible boss choice

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Exact-name archetype purity is 36.4%, so engine coherence depends on mixing sub-archetypes
• No recorded boards, so combo floor and median are unmeasured
• Usage-statistics in this deck flags conflict with the Extra Deck data, which weakens any usage-based tuning

Critical choke points

• Level-6 hand starters (10 copies across four names) are the only hand-summon route into the Synchro plan
• Synchro Summon needs Tuners in Main Deck, and six Main Deck Tuners are the only Tuner base

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal 40/15/0 Master Duel list; Maxx C Limited 1 of 1; Droll and Lock Bird Semi-Limited 2 of 2; Copy histogram 8 singles, 4 doubles, 8 triples; 15 distinct Extra Deck Synchro cards; Exact-name archetype purity 36.4% (20 of 55 archetype-named copies)
• Inferred: At least one hand-summonable starter in opening 5 is about 0.78 and in 6 about 0.85; Ten hand traps and seven negation-text cards provide layered interaction; Several independent Synchro routes exist from six Main Deck Tuners
• Provisional: Meta Power is null; format fit is neutral at 50; Tournament reliability is an estimate with no game-level data
• 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; going-first, going-second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown usage statistics in this deck flags for Extra Deck cards conflict with cards[] zone data (for example Junora, Chaos Angel and Black Rose are flagged false but present in the Extra Deck) Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied