Elfnote Deck #773940 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 62/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 41 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro pressure from the centre Main Monster Zone: Elfnote starters (Lucina, Tinia, Fortuna, Regina) reach Elfnote June Pride / Kewl Tune B2B / Synchro boss monsters from the Extra Deck.; Interaction-led attrition: hand traps and negations protect the centre-zone engine and strip the opponent's responses until a Synchro board sticks.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a centre-zone starter (Lucina, Tinia, Fortuna or Regina), use Kewl Tune / Power Patron tuner chains to Synchro into a centre boss, and keep Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler or Maxx C up for the opponent's first activation.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold 1-2 hand traps (Ash, Veiler, Ghost Ogre, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C) to answer the opponent's first board, then rebuild the centre-zone Elfnote line from the hand or Deck with Welcome Home / Rhapsodia protection.
• Recovery: Recover through Kewl Tune and Elfnote searches (Lucina, Regina, Power Patron) and Synchro re-summons from the GY; Ghost Mourner and Kewl Tune Clip re-enable tuners after a board wipe.
• After siding: Not applicable: Master Duel has no side deck (side_count 0), so the post-side plan is absent and D12 is scored provisional.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a centre-zone Elfnote starter: P(at least one 3-copy starter in a 5-card opening hand) is about 0.33 for each of Lucina and Tinia, and the 22-copy archetype core has a proxy P(at least one) of about 0.98 (Inferred). Its real strength is the system: eight hand traps and two negation-text tuners give high interaction density, so the engine can survive a first response and keep the centre zone live. Pressure converts through an Extra Deck of 15 Synchro monsters that all need tuners, so the score reflects consistency and interaction on the whole system, not the popularity of Elfnote, and not an average of card scores. No recorded boards, win rates or tournament results exist, so median output and matchup fit are inferred from card text and stay provisional, which caps the score and widens the band.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo (D13 dropped and re-normalised over 93 points, since Meta is provisional). Structural ≈ 65, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: engine conflicts / tuner density (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); Structural = 6082/93 = 65.4 (D13 excluded), Final = 0.80*65.4 + 0.20*60 = 64.3, then modifiers -2 = 62

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.33 · 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

• Two 3-copy centre-zone starters (Lucina, Tinia) with ~0.33 odds each in a 5-card opening hand
• Eight hand traps and high interaction density for going-second survival
• Compact Synchro Extra Deck with strong closers (Kewl Tune B2B, June Pride) and full 15-card extra

Weaknesses

• No recorded combo boards: ceiling and median are text-only inference
• Tuner-heavy Main Deck (19 Tuners) makes Synchro summons fragile on bad hands
• No side deck in Master Duel, so no post-side adaptation

Critical choke points

• Centre Main Monster Zone must hold a live Elfnote starter; a single removal or a negation on it stalls the line
• Synchro summons need a Tuner on board; losing the tuner costs the Extra Deck route

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal under BanMasterDuel with Limited and Semi-Limited copy limits respected; 41 main and 15 extra; card text and stats from the evidence pack; Usage stats: Ash Blossom 100% inclusion, Elfnote Lucina 95%, Tinia 93%
• Inferred: P(at least one centre-zone starter in opening hand of 5) ~0.33 each; archetype core proxy ~0.98; Interaction density high from card text (eight hand traps plus negation tuners); Going-second hand-trap probability ~0.75
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup fit (D13) because no dated metagame sample exists; Side adaptation (D12) because Master Duel has no side deck
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent no win-rate telemetry (going-first, going-second, matchup, brick and starter rates) usage_statistics in_this_deck flags are false for Extra Deck cards that are present in cards[] (Baronne de Fleur, Elfnote June Pride, Elfnote Seraphim Strelitzia, Crystal Wing, Golden Cloud Beast - Malong, Accel Synchro Stardust Dragon); the missing_core list may be overstated, so usage-based core coverage is unreliable deck title is null; deck name not usable in the writeup Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied