Elfnote Deck #773427 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 60/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 45 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro pressure from Elfnote center-zone monsters (Tinia, Fortuna, Lucina, June Pride, Junora, Vidolium) backed by hand-trap interaction; Negation and removal from Synchro effects (Baronne, Caesar, Crystal Wing, Dragite, Chaos Angel) that convert a stalled board into attacks
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a hand-summonable center-zone starter (Elfnote Lucina, Tinia, Regina, Fortuna or Power Patron), search a second Elfnote, and Synchro into a board-controlling Synchro (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use one of the 9 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C) to break the opponent's line, then take over with a center-zone starter and Synchro (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recover through searchers (20 searcher-text copies), the Fiendsmith and Power Patron graveyard summons, and Elfnotes: Welcome Home (Inferred)
• After siding: No side deck is run (Side Deck size 0); a post-side plan cannot be evaluated

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a hand-summonable center-zone starter: P(at least one of its 13 hand-starter monsters in a 5-card opening hand) is about 0.84 (Inferred), and 20 searcher-text copies make a follow-up very likely. It converts that opening into Synchro boards with 1-copy negation and removal from several Synchro monsters (Baronne, Caesar, Crystal Wing, Dragite, Chaos Angel), which gives the end board real interaction. Going second is stronger than going first because 9 hand traps are in hand 76% of the time (hand of 6, Inferred). The score comes from consistency, interaction and closing power on the system, not from Elfnote being a popular archetype; archetype usage stats and the guide confirm the list is real but do not add points by themselves. No combo data exists, so the ceiling and median are text-based inferences and the score carries a wider band; the lack of a side deck and of any meta or matchup data holds the total down.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: 70% Midrange / 30% Stun. Structural ≈ 64, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 68, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: engine conflicts / sub-archetype spread (-2); unrecoverable choke point (-2); banlist exposure (-1); starter redundancy (2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); Structural 63.7 -> 64, TR 60, modifiers -3, final 60

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.84 · 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: about 0.84 chance of at least one center-zone starter in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred)
• Strong interaction on both going first and going second, with 9 hand traps and 8 negation-text copies
• Closing power from Synchro monsters at 3000+ ATK and Vidolium at 5000 ATK
• Full Extra Deck with 11 Synchro options and no dead Extra slots in the list

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so no post-side plan and a low D12
• No combo data, so the ceiling and median are unverified
• Synchro-heavy 1-of structure needs specific materials and is less reliable on the first turn
• Sub-archetype spread (Fiendsmith, Mulcharmy, Medius) lowers focus

Critical choke points

• Center Main Monster Zone: the starter, the Synchro engine and the once-per-turn effects all depend on it
• Hand traps: 9 of 45 main-deck cards are hand traps, and they need the right hand at the right time

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal: main 45 (40-60), extra 15 (0-15), side 0 (0-15); copy limits met for Maxx C, Crossout Designator and Droll & Lock Bird; Card stats and text from the resolved card list; Hypergeometric draw odds from the Main Deck
• Observed: Usage stats: Elfnote core inclusion; 22 of 24 core cards are present once Extra Deck cards are counted
• Inferred: Starter, hand-trap and searcher access (hypergeometric plus text reads); Going-first and going-second plans; Consistency and brick estimates; Combo ceiling from the guide's one-card-combo claim
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit (no tournament link, no dated meta sample); D13 matchup fit
• 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, going-second and matchup rates unknown Meta power is provisional without a dated sample Usage-statistics data inconsistency: in this deck is false for every Extra Deck core card (June Pride, Seraphim, Baronne, Crystal Wing, Junora, Ignister, Chaos Angel, Malong, Caesar, Dawn Dragster) even though the deck list contains them. The core-present figure of 54.2% (13/24) is an artifact; 22 of 24 core cards are present. Only Accel Synchro Stardust Dragon and Black Rose Dragon are missing. Side deck is empty, so D12 has no list to evaluate