Elfnote Deck #773951 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 60/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro Summon a high-ATK boss (Elfnote June Pride 3100 ATK, Kewl Tune B2B 3200 ATK, Chaofeng 2800 ATK) off a Tuner plus non-Tuner base, protected by hand traps and by Elfnote control of the center Main Monster Zone.; Kewl Tune Loudness War and Kewl Tune Remix as Synchro payoffs that gain ATK from opposing Tuners in the GY or field; secondary board presence through Elfnote Level 6 monsters.
• Turn 1 (going first): Turn 1: Normal or Special Summon an Elfnote Level 6 starter (Lucina, Regina, Tinia or Fortuna) into the center zone, search with Kewl Tune Synchro or Kewl Tune Mix/Reco, then Synchro Summon into a boss while keeping Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler or Maxx C for the opponent's turn.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold a six-card hand with hand traps (Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Ghost Ogre and Snow Rabbit, Droll and Lock Bird, Maxx C) to answer the opponent's first combo, then rebuild a center-zone Elfnote from hand with the Quick Effects of Regina or Lucina.
• Recovery: Searchers (Elfnote Power Patron, Earthbound Prisoner Stone Sweeper, Kewl Tune Mix/Reco, JJ Kewl Tune) refill the hand; Elfnotes: Rhapsodia of Madness and Welcome Home protect the center zone and revive Elfnote monsters from the GY; the two Kewl Tune Track Maker copies re-summon from the Extra Deck.
• After siding: None: the export contains 0 Side Deck cards, so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a connected Elfnote plus Kewl Tune Synchro system, not as an average of its cards. Its consistency is good: the archetype core (23 copies) has a 0.99 chance of at least one copy in a going-first five-card hand, and the nine copies of the Lucina/Regina/Tinia center-zone starters give about a 0.74 chance of at least one starter in that hand. Its interaction is dense: 11 hand traps, 7 negation-text cards and 14 removal-text cards let the deck answer a first combo and keep a center-zone monster alive. Its offensive closers (June Pride, Kewl Tune B2B, Chaofeng) are strong on board, but no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median are text-based inferences only. The score is lowered by the empty Side Deck, the split between the Elfnote and Kewl Tune engines, and the Limited/Semi-Limited status of several engine cards. Popularity (Elfnote usage stats) confirms the list is real and accessible, and it did not earn points in its own right.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 64.9, Going First ≈ 68, Going Second ≈ 65, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-1); engine split (-2); no side deck (-2); interaction density (2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.74 · 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

• Dense hand-trap and negation package (11 hand traps, 7 negation-text cards) that answers a first combo on either turn order
• Center-zone Elfnote starters give a 0.74 chance of at least one starter in a going-first five-card hand
• Strong Synchro closers with ATK 2800-3200 and boss-level text (June Pride, Kewl Tune B2B, Chaofeng)
• Archetype core is almost always present (0.99 in a going-first five-card hand)

Weaknesses

• No Side Deck: no post-side adaptation
• Two engines (Elfnote and Kewl Tune) share the Main Deck, which dilutes both starter density and combo consistency
• Eleven hand traps are dead when they are not drawn, which raises brick risk on the going-first turn
• Several engine cards are Limited or Semi-Limited, so the list is exposed to banlist changes
• No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median cannot be checked against real play

Critical choke points

• Center Main Monster Zone: most starters and the boss protections need a Level 6 Elfnote in the center zone, so removing or negating that one monster collapses the line
• Hand-trap dependence: the 11 hand traps need the right trigger in hand; a turn with no trigger leaves them dead
• Kewl Tune Synchro and Kewl Tune Mix/Reco are single-copy-equivalent engine enablers (2 copies each), so losing both to a single disruption removes the Kewl Tune Synchro route

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 40 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side, all within the Master Duel size rules; All 7 restricted cards are within their legal copy counts; Copy counts and card text excerpts match the export; Archetype core inclusion (23 copies) from usage statistics; Hypergeometric probabilities re-checked arithmetically
• Inferred: D1 to D14 scores (no recorded boards); Strategy classification (Combo primary, Stun secondary); Brick-rate and hand-trap dead-card estimates; Interaction-density read from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); D13 matchup and format fit (50, no tournament or meta data)
• 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 absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates) Meta Power is provisional: no dated metagame sample Usage-statistics in this deck flags disagree with the card list for six Extra Deck cards (June Pride, Baronne de Fleur, Crystal Wing Synchro Dragon, Elfnote Seraphim Strelitzia, Accel Synchro Stardust Dragon, Golden Cloud Beast - Malong). The card list was used for scoring; the 'missing core cards' figures are likely undercounted. No Side Deck cards in the export