Elfnote Deck #773429 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 65/100 (±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 pressure from Elfnote one-card starters (Lucina, Tinia, Regina, Fortuna) into high-ATK Synchros such as June Pride, Chaos Angel, and Vidolium as a 5000 ATK pendulum boss.; Hand-trap attrition (Ash, Ghost Ogre, Droll, Effect Veiler, Maxx C) that strips the opponent's interaction and keeps the Synchro line alive.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a 3-copy Elfnote starter, summon the center monster, and use Power Patron or Medius searches to reach a Synchro, while holding hand traps for the opponent's first response.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 6-card hand's hand traps (84.5% to hold at least one) to break the opponent's first board, then run the starter into a Synchro.
• Recovery: Rebuild from Medius and Power Patron searches, Mulcharmy and Maxx C draws, and Elfnote recursion through Welcome Home and Rhapsodia.
• After siding: Not applicable: Master Duel has no in-game side deck (Side Deck size 0, side rule [0,15]); no post-side data exists.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a starter: 12 copies of Lucina, Tinia, Regina, Power Patron and Fortuna give roughly an 85% chance of at least one in a 5-card opener (Inferred, hypergeometric). Its ceiling comes from Synchro chains into 3000+ ATK boards and a 5000 ATK pendulum boss, while the median output is scored lower because no recorded boards exist to confirm how often that line completes. Ten hand traps and several board-negating Synchros give layered interaction, and the going-second hand-trap hit rate of 84.5% supports that side. Popularity and archetype stats were not counted as power, and no card scores were averaged; the score comes from consistency, interaction, and resilience on the whole system. Side deck, matchup fit and Meta Power are provisional or unscored because Master Duel has no side and no dated meta sample exists.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo; D13 dropped and remaining weights renormalised over 97 (meta-neutral). Stun shown as a secondary label only, with no weight blend.. Structural ≈ 67, Going First ≈ 64, Going Second ≈ 71, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 62. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-1); unrecoverable choke point (-2); layered interaction density (2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); Structural = 6498/97 ≈ 67 with D13 dropped; modifiers net -1 → 66 - 1 = 65

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.85 · 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

• Starter density: 12 copies of one-card Synchro starters
• Ten hand traps plus Droll, Maxx C and Ghost Ogre on the going-second line
• Extra Deck of 15 Synchros with a high-ATK top end (Vidolium, Chaos Angel, June Pride)

Weaknesses

• No recorded boards, so the floor and median are unmeasured
• Low exact-name Elfnote purity (32.7%), so engine coherence depends on off-archetype hand traps
• No in-game side deck to adapt after game one

Critical choke points

• No starter in the opening hand (~15%)
• Starter-dependent hand traps: Ash, Ghost Ogre and Veiler are weak without a live Elfnote line
• Limited Maxx C and Semi-Limited Droll must stay at legal caps

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 40, Extra 15, Side 0, legal under master-duel size rules; Maxx C Limited (1 copy) and Droll & Lock Bird Semi-Limited (2 copies), both at legal caps; Card text and stats for all listed cards; Hand-trap hit rate 0.8453 going second (evidence-supplied)
• Inferred: P(at least one starter in 5) ≈ 0.85 (hypergeometric from 12 starter copies); Consistency, interaction and resilience scores from card text and Synchro structure; Going-first and going-second power splits
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and D13 matchup fit: no dated meta sample; Recommendation to add a second Fortuna
• 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 and matchup rates unknown Usage-stat in this deck flags are wrong for Extra Deck cards: June Pride, Seraphim, Baronne, Crystal Wing, Malong, Accel, Dawn Dragster, Black Rose, Chaos Angel, Junora and Wind Pegasus are all in the Extra list but flagged false, so the reported core-card presence of 54.2% is an artifact and is not used here Master Duel has no side deck, so D12 has no performance basis