Elfnote Deck #773905 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 61/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro a 3000+ ATK boss (Junora, June Pride, Seraphim Strelitzia, Chaos Angel, Psychic End Punisher) off an Elfnote or Power Patron starter, then protect it with hand traps and in-engine negates.; Vidolium the Unstable (5000 ATK pendulum) and Medius-searched Power Patron pressure when the Synchro line is interrupted.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Elfnote Lucina, Regina, Tinia or Fortuna (a level-6 starter) or Power Patron, search or recycle through Medius, Junoldo or the Elfnote searchers, and Synchro a boss from the Extra Deck while holding Ash Blossom or Ghost Ogre for the opponent's first response.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Droll and Lock Bird, Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre and Maxx C to stop the opponent's first search or Special Summon, then use the surviving Elfnote starter to Synchro a boss through the remaining disruption.
• Recovery: Rebuild from the Graveyard through Medius (GY shuffle-and-banish), Junoldo searches, Elfnote Power Patron recursion and Welcome Home, then re-Synchro from the Extra Deck.
• After siding: No sideboard exists in Master Duel (Side Deck size 0), so there is no post-side plan; adaptation happens only through the Main Deck tech slots (Crossout Designator, Triple Tactics Talent, Maxx C).

Why it scores here

The deck opens a functional line reasonably often: three Elfnote level-6 starters and Power Patron at 2-3 copies each give a 34% chance per copy of at least one in a going-first five-card hand, and 16 searcher-text cards lift the chance of at least one searcher to about 94%. Conversion is the strongest part of the system, with an Extra Deck of 15 single-copy Synchros, several of them 3000+ ATK bosses with negate or banish effects, which score the closing and endboard dimensions. Resilience comes from eight hand-trap or tech cards (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Droll and Lock Bird, Maxx C, Crossout Designator) plus recursion through Medius and Junoldo, but the 39 off-archetype copies (Mulcharmy, Power Patron, Medius, Stardust) mean the deck runs two engines and some going-first hands will hold hand traps with no starter. Popularity (the Elfnote usage stats) confirmed that the list is a real, standard build, but it did not add points on its own, and no card scores were averaged into the deck score. No combo boards or tournament data were supplied, so the floor and median scores and the matchup dimension are text-based inferences and the confidence is Medium.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: 0.8 Combo / 0.2 Midrange (approximate; structural score computed on the Combo profile). Structural ≈ 63, Going First ≈ 63, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: Off-archetype spread (-2); Hand-trap dead-card risk (-1); Extra-Deck breadth (2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); 0.80*62.6 + 0.20*58 = 61.7, minus 1 in modifiers = 61

Probability & combo summary

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

Strengths

• Consistent starter density: 9 level-6 Elfnote starters plus Power Patron and Medius
• Strong Extra-Deck coverage with 3000+ ATK bosses and endboard negates
• Layered interaction: 8 hand traps plus Synchro negates and banish effects

Weaknesses

• Two engines in one Main Deck (39 off-archetype copies)
• Hand-trap-heavy hands can brick going first
• No sideboard, so no post-side adaptation
• Complex Synchro sequencing

Critical choke points

• Starting a level-6 Elfnote or Power Patron with no second starter in hand or GY
• Hand-trap-only opening hands going first

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status and 40/15 counts; Maxx C Limited (1 copy), Droll Semi-Limited (2 copies); Card stats and text for the listed cards
• Inferred: Starter and searcher hypergeometric estimates; Hand-trap and interaction reads from card text; Floor, median and ceiling scores
• Provisional: Meta power (no dated meta sample); Matchup fit (no tournament data)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry; going-first and going-second splits are Inferred usage statistics marks Accel Synchro Stardust Dragon, Crystal Wing, June Pride, Seraphim and others as in this deck:false even though they appear in the cards list as extra-zone copies; the missing core cards list is unreliable for Extra Deck cards Master Duel has no sideboard, so D12 cannot be evaluated