Elfnote Deck #774086 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Stun
• 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 Lucina / Regina / Fortuna beatdown backed by Elfnote Power Patron and Ars Magna recursion into Medius, Theorealize and Power Patron Link/Synchro boss monsters (Inferred from card text); Synchro and Link boss monsters from the Extra Deck (Elfnote June Pride, Galaxy-Eyes Photon Lord, Zalen, Psychic End Punisher, Mediclius) once a board exists (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Elfnote Power Patron or Regina to a center Main Monster Zone, search an Elfnote, and build toward a Synchro or Link boss; hand-trap protection is thin on turn 1 (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Infinite Impermanence, Ghost Ogre and Skull Meister to negate the opponent's first engine, then rebuild through Mulcharmy draw effects and Ars Magna recursion (Inferred)
• Recovery: Ars Magna Corruption/Finite/Division and Medius recursion from GY and banishment, plus Mulcharmy draws when the hand empties (Inferred from card text)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan (Verified)

Why it scores here

This list is scored as a system, not as an average of its cards, and it is capped because it is illegal. The archetype core is heavily present (27 core copies, about 97% chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand, Inferred), so the engine is usually reachable. Interaction is the strongest part of the list: 18 hand traps and 14 negation-text cards give resilience and going-second answers (Inferred from text). Conversion and floor cannot be measured because the deck has no recorded boards, so both rest on text-only reasoning. The list runs Elfnote Lucina three times (legal limit 1) and Ash Blossom three times (legal limit 2), and it has no Side Deck, so as submitted it cannot be played in a sanctioned format. Popularity of the archetype was not used to earn points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 52, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-4); engine conflicts (-4). Final formula: Uncapped: 0.80*Structural(52) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(42) = 50; context modifiers -8 = 42; Illegal-deck cap applied -> 30 (theoretical/structural-only). Meta Power provisional/null.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · 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

• Archetype core is dense (27 copies), so the engine is usually reachable (Inferred)
• 18 hand traps and 14 negation-text cards give strong going-second interaction (Inferred)
• Extra Deck covers Synchro, Link, Xyz and Fusion routes (Verified)

Weaknesses

• Illegal as submitted: Elfnote Lucina over the copy limit (3 vs 1) and Ash Blossom over the Semi-Limited limit (3 vs 2) (Verified)
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan (Verified)
• Low exact-name purity (20%) and many sub-archetype labels weaken engine coherence (Verified)
• Multiple Limited cards in-format make the list fragile to a list update (Verified)

Critical choke points

• Elfnote Lucina and Power Patron as the turn-1 starters; each 3-copy starter has only about 25% chance of appearing in a 5-card hand (Inferred)
• Ars Magna recursion chain for recovery, which depends on several 1-copy cards (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Lucina 3 vs legal 1, Ash Blossom 3 vs legal 2; Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 sizes within format rules; Side Deck is empty; Extra Deck breakdown: 9 Synchro, 4 Link, 1 Xyz, 1 Fusion; Archetype usage: 27 Elfnote-core copies, 20% exact-name purity
• Inferred: P(at least one starter in 5-card hand) = 0.25 for 3-copy cards; Going-second hand-trap coverage 0.92; Interaction density from 18 hand traps and 14 negation-text cards; Recovery via Ars Magna and Medius recursion
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup coverage and format fit (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: No recorded combos: 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 and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample No Side Deck present, so post-side scoring is Inferred or Provisional No deck title supplied (deck_name null)