Elfnote Deck #774023 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Midrange
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Elfnote and Power Patron Link/Synchro boards built from Medius, Theorealized Medius and Ars Magna follow-ups, with Elfnote June Pride and Vidolium-type big bodies as the closers; Synchro and Link extenders (Elfnote Fortuna, Regina, Lucina) that repeatedly rebuild the board after interaction
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with an Elfnote searcher (Regina, Power Patron, Medius) to reach a Level 6 or Level 4 engine monster, then extend into a Synchro or Link using the Extra Deck; the 15 hand traps and 17 negation-text cards cover the opponent's first response
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Skull Meister or Infinite Impermanence in hand (about 0.87 chance of at least one hand trap in a 6-card hand) to break the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Elfnote searches
• Recovery: Recover from a broken first turn by using the Elfnote and Power Patron GY effects, Theorealize Past Lull and Medius' GY revival, which reuse cards that have already been sent to the GY
• After siding: Not applicable: the deck has no Side Deck (Side Deck size 0), so there is no post-side plan; the Extra and Main lists would need to be legalized first

Why it scores here

The deck's main claim to power is consistency: the searcher text across 25 cards (Elfnote Regina, Power Patron, Medius, Ars Magna) gives a 0.959 chance of at least one core card in an opening hand, so the engine usually starts. Interruption resilience and going-second strength come from 15 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Skull Meister, Infinite Impermanence, Kuriboh) with about 0.87 odds of one in a 6-card hand, and from 17 negation-text cards that cover the opponent's first response. The ceiling and median are not measured: no boards were recorded, so combo conversion is an Inferred structural read, not an observed average. The score does not come from Elfnote being a popular archetype, and it does not come from averaging the individual card scores; the deck is scored as a system. The deck is Illegal: three cards exceed their copy limits (Elfnote Lucina 3 of 1, Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse 3 of 2), so the Final Contextual score is capped low and the evaluation is structural-only. The deck also has no Side Deck, so post-side adaptability is very weak, and only 13 of 57 main-deck copies are exact Elfnote cards (18.6% purity), which means engine coherence depends on sub-archetype overlap.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo primary; Stun cues noted for hand-trap interaction, not blended into weights. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); engine conflicts (-4); illegal_list_cap (-18). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 53 raw; Illegal-list cap applied after modifiers, final 35

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.96 · 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

• Searcher density across 25 copies gives a reliable opening engine
• 15 hand traps with high going-second odds
• Layered negation and removal text across Main, Battle and Quick timing
• Large Synchro and Link Extra Deck coverage

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy-limit violations on three cards
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptability
• Low archetype purity (18.6%) with several competing sub-archetypes
• No recorded boards, so combo ceiling and median are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Elfnote Regina or Power Patron as the single searcher that starts the engine
• Hand-trap dependence on Ash Blossom and Veiler for the going-second plan

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status from three over-limit copies (Elfnote Lucina, Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring, Dominus Impulse); Main Deck 55 and Extra Deck 15 both within size rules; No Side Deck (Side Deck size 0); Banlist statuses for Limited and Semi-Limited cards; Exact archetype purity of 18.6%
• Inferred: 0.959 chance of at least one searcher in an opening hand; 0.868 chance of at least one hand trap in a 6-card going-second hand; Interaction density from negation and removal text; Going-first and going-second power read from text and probabilities
• Provisional: Meta Power is null; no dated metagame sample supplied; Matchup and format fit (D13) from archetype usage only
• 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/second, matchup, brick, starter, OTK rates) Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No Side Deck supplied for a best-of-3 format