Elfnote Deck #773414 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 64/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro/Link summons of Junora, Chaos Angel, Psychic End Punisher, Elfnote Seraphim or Vidolium after the center Main Monster Zone starter line resolves, protected by hand traps.; Elfnote Tinia / Lucina / Regina / Fortuna direct-attack and ATK pressure from the center zone.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a starter (Lucina, Tinia, Regina, Power Patron, Fortuna) or a searcher, Special Summon to the center zone, search the next Elfnote piece, then Synchro into a boss while holding Ash Blossom or Effect Veiler.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Droll & Lock Bird or Maxx C in the six-card hand to stop the opponent's starter or search, then convert the center-zone board into a Synchro boss.
• Recovery: Recursion through Medius the Pure, Jet Synchron and Elfnotes: Welcome Home, plus searcher text (17 copies) to rebuild the center-zone starter.
• After siding: No sideboard in Master Duel (side = 0); there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a center-zone starter: 13 main-deck starter-capable copies give about 0.88 chance of at least one in a going-first five-card hand and about 0.92 in a going-second six-card hand (hypergeometric, Inferred), and 17 searcher-text copies lift that further. Its strongest read is interaction on the system: 9 hand traps (Ash Blossom x3, Effect Veiler x3, Droll & Lock Bird x2, Maxx C) plus negate and removal text in Junora, Crystal Wing, Baronne de Fleur and Psychic End Punisher give high going-second coverage, though these are semantic reads from card text rather than recorded boards. Conversion and floor are not measured because the evidence contains no combos, so D3 and D4 rest on card text alone and are held near the middle. Popularity did not earn points: the archetype usage data confirms the list is real, not that it is strong, and the usage flags are internally inconsistent (see data gaps). Structural power was computed from the 14 dimensions with the Combo weight profile; card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 67, Going First ≈ 68, Going Second ≈ 70, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 62. Modifiers: unrecoverable choke point (center Main Monster Zone) (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers = 0.80*67.15 + 0.20*62 - 2 = 64.1

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.88 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.05 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Nine hand traps and two negate-text Synchro bosses give the deck interaction on both turn orders.
• 13 starter-capable main-deck copies and 17 searcher-text copies give high starter access.
• The full 15-card Extra Deck gives Synchro and Link coverage with a wide boss range (ATK 2200-5000).

Weaknesses

• Only 33% exact-name Elfnote purity; 16 generic and 6 Power Patron copies dilute the engine.
• No sideboard in Master Duel, so there is no post-side adaptation.
• No recorded combo boards, so the ceiling and floor are unverified.
• Maxx C and Crossout Designator are one-copy Limited cards that are situational outside their matchups.

Critical choke points

• The center Main Monster Zone must be free and held for most starters and Synchro lines.
• Each 3-copy starter (Lucina, Tinia, Regina, Power Patron) has only ~0.34 chance to appear in a going-first opening hand.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in Master Duel: 40 main, 15 extra, 0 side; Limited and Semi-Limited copy counts are within limits.; Composition: 9 hand traps, 17 searcher-text cards, 14 Synchro and 1 Link in the Extra Deck, 33% exact Elfnote purity.; Usage statistics: 28 archetype rows exist and the deck runs the Elfnote archetype core.
• Inferred: Starter access ~0.88 going first and ~0.92 going second (hypergeometric).; Full-brick rate ~0.05.; Interaction density from negate and removal text in hand traps and bosses (semantic read).; Center-zone choke point and its -2 modifier.
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and D13 matchup fit, because no dated meta sample exists.; Floor and median (D4) and conversion ceiling (D3), because no combo boards exist.; Side-deck score (D12), because Master Duel has no sideboard.
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference. usage statistics.in this deck is false for Extra Deck cards the deck does run (June Pride, Seraphim Strelitzia, Baronne de Fleur, Crystal Wing, Malong, Junora, Chaos Angel, Black Rose, F.A. Dawn Dragster, Wind Pegasus). The usage check appears to ignore the Extra Deck, so core-card presence (54.2%) and missing core cards understate the deck's real overlap with the archetype core. archetype core uses 28 copies, which does not reconcile with the 18 exact Elfnote copies; it was not used. No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent. No win-rate telemetry (going first or second, matchup, brick or starter rates); those signals are Inferred or unknown. Only one guide, with no sections; guide snippet is truncated and gives strategic intent only. Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample.