Elfnote Deck #773506 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 63/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Tempo, Synchro
• Format: master-duel

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Hand-summoned Elfnote monsters (Lucina, Tinia, Regina, Fortuna) chain into 3000+ ATK Synchro boards (June Pride, Seraphim Strelitzia, Junora, Chaos Angel, Vidolium) that control the center Main Monster Zone.; Synchro beats from Stardust, Baronne and Crystal Wing with negation or banish protection, plus Vidolium 5000 ATK as a Pendulum closer.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on an Elfnote hand-summon or Power Patron starter, use Welcome Home or Medius to add or summon a second Elfnote, then Synchro into a center-zone boss with Rhapsodia as a backrow lock.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll and Maxx C to stop the opponent's first starter or search, then rebuild the board through the Elfnote center-zone monster and Synchro out.
• Recovery: Recover through Medius (GY shuffle-summon), Elfnote Regina and Tinia search effects and Fydraulis Harmonia reveals, rebuilding the center zone from hand and GY.
• After siding: Not applicable: Master Duel has no side deck in this format (Side Deck size 0), so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional plan: 16 searcher-text cards give a 93.5% chance of at least one searcher in an opening 5, and several Elfnote monsters can be summoned from hand into the center zone, so the engine is live on turn 1 or 2 without needing a specific card. Its interaction is the strongest part of the system: six hand traps (Ash Blossom x3, Droll x2, Maxx C) plus Synchro-side negates and banishes give a 65% chance of at least one hand trap in a going-second 6-card hand. Its closing power is high, with 3000+ ATK Synchro bosses (June Pride, Junora, Chaos Angel, Vidolium at 5000) that dominate a center-zone board. Popularity and archetype usage stats confirm the list is real and accessible but earned no points on their own, and card scores were not averaged: the score reflects consistency, interaction and closing on the whole system. The main penalties are the lack of recorded boards for any combo floor or median, the 34.5% exact-name archetype purity, and the complexity of center-zone rules and once-per-turn tracking.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 64.7, Going First ≈ 64, Going Second ≈ 68, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: Archetype coherence (-2); Hand-start and hand-trap redundancy (2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); 0.80*64.7 + 0.20*58 = 63.3 -> 63

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.94 · 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-start monsters and six hand traps give multiple independent openings and disruption routes
• Dense negate and removal text across the Synchro pool
• Strong closing bosses at 3000+ ATK with 5000 ATK Vidolium as a Pendulum option
• Compact Main Deck: 18 distinct cards

Weaknesses

• No combo boards recorded, so floor and median are unmeasured
• Low exact-name archetype purity (34.5%)
• High pilot complexity with center-zone and once-per-turn rules
• No side deck in this format, so no post-side plan

Critical choke points

• The center Main Monster Zone: most Elfnote lines need a center-zone monster, so removing or negating it stalls the engine
• Synchro material: 14 Synchro bosses need a Tuner and non-Tuners from a thin Main with several off-theme cards

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status: 40 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side, no violations; Copy limits: Maxx C 1 of 1 (Limited), Droll 2 of 2 (Semi-Limited), Fallen 2 of 2 (Semi-Limited); Card stats and text excerpts for all listed cards; Usage stats: Elfnote core cards at 84-100% inclusion
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter probabilities; Hand-trap redundancy; Interaction density from card text; Closing power from stats; Engine coherence from purity
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated meta sample); Matchup and format fit; Side deck adaptability (no side deck in format)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference usage statistics flags 11 core cards (June Pride, Seraphim Strelitzia, Baronne, Crystal Wing, Malong, Accel Stardust, Dawn Dragster, Black Rose, Chaos Angel, Junora, Wind Pegasus) as in this deck=false, but the cards list includes most of them in the Extra Deck; the missing core cards list is inconsistent with the deck and was not used to reduce scores No tournament link: archetype meta-share and match record absent No win-rate telemetry Meta Power provisional (no dated sample) Master Duel has no side deck in this export (Side Deck size 0)