Elfnote Deck #773932 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 54/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Elfnote center-zone Synchro/Fusion board (Elfnote June Pride, The Dragon that Devours the Dogma) built from a one-card Elfnote starter chain; Fallen of Albaz Fusion lines (Albion the Branded Dragon, Titaniklad the Ash Dragon) recovered from the Extra Deck
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Elfnote starter (Lucina, Regina, Tinia, Power Patron, Incredible Ecclesia), search or summon into a center-zone monster, then extend into a Synchro or Fusion while holding hand traps for the opponent's first response
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, or Maxx "C" from hand to disrupt the opponent's starter or search, then rebuild the center-zone engine from the remaining hand
• Recovery: Recover through Elfnote GY-revival effects, Fallen of Albaz GY effects, and Elfnotes: Welcome Home / Rhapsodia continuous backrow, which are not blocked by a single removal
• After siding: Not applicable: the deck registers zero side-deck cards, so there is no post-side adjustment

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens an Elfnote starter in most hands because the three-copy Elfnote core plus Power Patron gives a high archetype-core hit rate, but a single starter does not guarantee a live center-zone engine, so consistency is held at mid-60s. Its strongest scoring area is end-board interaction: Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx "C", Harpie's Feather Duster, Heavy Storm, and Crossout Designator give it several ways to answer a board, which is why D7 is the highest dimension. Combo conversion and median output are scored from text only because no recorded boards were supplied, so the ceiling and floor sit in the 45–55 band and carry Inferred confidence. Popularity was not rewarded: the archetype-core usage statistics confirm the list is real and accessible, but they do not add points to the score. The score comes from the deck as a system, not from averaging the individual card scores, and the lack of a side deck and of any post-side plan holds D12 low.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 57.9, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-1); unrecoverable choke point (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers(-3) = 57.3 - 3 ≈ 54

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.99 · 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

• Strong interaction density from hand traps and one-copy spell answers
• High archetype-core hit rate in the opening hand
• Extra Deck fully used with both Fusion and Synchro routes

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so no post-side adjustment
• Low exact-archetype purity (29%) with several off-archetype cards
• Combo ceiling and median output unverified because no boards were supplied

Critical choke points

• Center Main Monster Zone dependency for the Elfnote engine
• Single Fallen of Albaz GY lines for Extra Deck access

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status: 40 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side under master-duel size rules; Banlist status for Maxx "C", Heavy Storm, Harpie's Feather Duster, Crossout Designator (Limited) and Droll & Lock Bird (Semi-Limited); Archetype purity 29.1% and spread across sub-archetypes; Extra Deck breakdown: 8 Fusion and 7 Synchro
• Observed: Archetype-core inclusion of 22 copies, with core usage at 95–100% for the Elfnote starters
• Inferred: Hypergeometric opening-hand consistency for the Elfnote core (0.987) and for three-copy starters (0.3376); Interaction layering from negation and removal text; Combo ceiling and median from card text, not recorded boards; Going-second hand-trap value
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit and format share (no tournament link)
• 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 are absent No win-rate telemetry: going-first/second, matchup, and brick/starter rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample Side deck is empty, so post-side behaviour cannot be scored