Elfnote Deck #773931 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro monsters (Junora, Stardust, Golden Cloud Beast, June Pride, Seraphim Strelitzia) and Elfnote hand-summoned monsters take over the center Main Monster Zone and attack or negate through it.; Elfnote recursion from the GY via Elfnote Power Patron, Junoldo and Elfnotes: Welcome Home, with Power Patron's Synchro-material conversions.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a hand-summonable Elfnote starter (Lucina, Tinia, Regina, Power Patron, Fortuna, or Medius), summon it into the center zone, then build a Synchro with Tuners (Power Patron, Ash, Fydraulis, Ghost Ogre, Ghost Belle) and hold Ash/Ghost hand traps for the opponent's first response.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash, Ghost Ogre, Ghost Belle, Droll, Maxx C, Fydraulis) to break the opponent's first line, then rebuild the center-zone monster and Synchro Summon from the GY and hand.
• Recovery: Elfnote recursion from GY (Power Patron, Junoldo, Welcome Home, Regina's self-summon), plus Mulcharmy draw effects when the hand is empty.
• After siding: No side deck is run (0 of up to 15 slots), so there is no defined post-side plan; any matchup adjustment is limited to swapping within the main deck.

Why it scores here

The deck opens a live engine reliably: the probability of at least one hand-summonable Elfnote starter in a 5-card opening hand is about 0.94 (Inferred), and 30 copies of the Elfnote/Power Patron core keep the center-zone plan coherent. Its resilience comes from roughly 10 hand traps and several tuner redundancies, so one interruption rarely ends the turn. Conversion is strong on paper because Synchro monsters negate and banish through the center zone, but no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median are both inferred from card text rather than observed play. Popularity of the Elfnote archetype and the usage-stat core did not earn points on their own, and the score was not built by averaging individual card scores. The deck loses points for having no side deck, for running semi-limited and limited hand traps, and for a high execution burden.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo primary; Stun used for interaction context only (no separate weighting applied). Structural ≈ 65, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 56. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-2); no side deck (-2); engine conflicts (-1); engine compactness (2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); 0.80*65.3 + 0.20*56 = 63.4, then modifiers -3 = 60

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-summonable Elfnote starters at 3 copies each give high starter density
• About 10 hand traps and several tuner redundancies give interruption resilience
• Extra Deck is fully used with 14 Synchro and 1 Link options
• Center-zone interaction from Elfnote Rhapsodia and Synchro negates adds board control

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so no post-side adaptability
• Limited and semi-limited hand traps reduce future flexibility
• Requires careful sequencing around the center Main Monster Zone and hand-trap timing
• Mulcharmy and Medius are conditional, so some hands are weak

Critical choke points

• The center Main Monster Zone: an opponent who removes or banishes the center monster breaks the engine
• A single Elfnote starter in hand is needed on turn 1 for most lines

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in master-duel: 40 main, 15 extra, 0 side, no violations; Maxx C is Limited (1 copy) and Droll & Lock Bird is Semi-Limited (2 copies), both within limit; Extra Deck is 14 Synchro and 1 Link
• Inferred: Starter access about 0.94 on a 5-card hand; Hand-trap interaction density and brick risk; Combo ceiling and median from card text only
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit: no dated metagame sample
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN: going-first/second and matchup rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied usage statistics in this deck flags contradict the cards list: Elfnote June Pride, Seraphim Strelitzia, Baronne de Fleur, Crystal Wing, Accel Stardust, F.A. Dawn Dragster, Black Rose, Chaos Angel, Junora, Golden Cloud Beast, and Wind Pegasus are listed as zone extra but flagged in this deck false; the card list was treated as authoritative no side deck registered (Side Deck size 0); post-side evaluation is not possible