Elfnote Deck #774205 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 16 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Elfnote and Power Patron Synchro/Link boards, led by Elfnote June Pride and Power Patron Link monsters, that stay live through hand traps and negations; Ars Magna and Theorealize recursion lines that rebuild the board after a disruption
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Elfnote starters (Regina, Lucina, Fortuna, Power Patron) plus a search, then build toward a Synchro or Link boss while holding Ash Blossom, Impermanence or Dominus up for the opponent's first response
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand's hand traps (Ash, Ghost Ogre, Kuriboh, Droll and Lock Bird, Nibiru) to answer the opponent's opening, then rebuild through Elfnote and Ars Magna recursion
• Recovery: Rebuild from the GY through Theorealize Past Lull, Elfnotes: Rhapsodia, and Mulcharmy Fuwalos draw effects, using the banished Artmage and Ars Magna monsters as sources
• After siding: No side deck is listed, so there is no documented post-side plan; the list cannot be scored as a best-of-3 deck until one is built

Why it scores here

This list would be a real Elfnote list, but as built it is illegal: three cards exceed their copy limits and the Extra Deck has 16 cards against a maximum of 15, so the score is capped at 35 and labelled structural-only. Its structure is reasonable: the archetype core (about 97% chance of at least one Elfnote or Power Patron piece in a 5-card opening hand, Inferred) gives it a stable start, and about 12 hand traps and negations give it interaction through the opponent's first turn. The weak points are the 18% exact-name purity, which spreads the deck across Artmage, Ars Magna, Power Patron and Medius, and the absence of a side deck, which leaves no post-side plan. Its conversion (combo ceiling and median) and matchup fit are inferred from text alone, because no recorded boards, tournament data or metagame sample exist. This score comes from consistency, interaction and the Extra Deck structure of the system, not from Elfnote being a popular archetype, and not from averaging the card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 52, Going First ≈ 56, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Banlist and copy-limit exposure (-8); Engine conflict and purity (-4). Final formula: Illegal list: theoretical/structural-only. Structural 51.8 (Midrange weights); TR 45; uncapped 0.80*52 + 0.20*45 = 50.6, modifiers -12 gives 38.6; capped at 35 because the list is Illegal. Meta provisional.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.97 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.03 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Core engine is redundant: about 97% chance of at least one archetype piece in the opening 5 (Inferred)
• Interaction density: 12 negation-text cards and 12 hand traps (Inferred)
• Recursion through Theorealize and Fuwalos supports a second line (Inferred)

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: three copy-limit violations and an over-size Extra Deck
• No side deck, so no post-side plan
• Low archetype purity (18.3%) with several engines competing for slots

Critical choke points

• Elfnote June Pride and the Power Patron Link monsters require specific Synchro/Link material paths, so one broken path removes the main boss
• Limited/Semi-Limited copies in the hand are the core hand-trap stack, so legal copy limits will reduce interaction

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal: Elfnote Lucina 3/1, Ash Blossom 3/2, Dominus Impulse 3/2 copy limits; Extra Deck has 16 cards, maximum 15; Side Deck is empty; Archetype-core P(>=1 in 5 cards) ~0.97; per-card 3-copy ~0.25
• Inferred: Engine accessibility and brick management from composition and text; Interaction density from negation and hand-trap text; Going-first and going-second strength from text and probability; Closing power from stats and text
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit (no tournament data)
• 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 and starter rates) Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample Side Deck is empty, so no post-side evidence Illegal list: the score is capped and is not a normal Final Contextual score