Power Patron Deck #774236 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 56/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 45 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro beatdown from the Elfnote engine (Elfnote June Pride 3100 ATK, Junora 3100 ATK, Chaos Angel 3500 ATK) backed by Synchro negates and hand traps; Ame no Murakumo no Mitsurugi (3200 ATK, destroys all opposing monsters on Special Summon) and Vidolium (5000 ATK Pendulum) as late-game boards
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with an Elfnote starter (Elfnote Power Patron, Lucina, Regina or Tinia; 12 copies, about 81% to have at least one in a 5-card hand), search with Elfnote or Mitsurugi searchers, and Synchro into a negate-capable boss
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 6-card hand's hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C; about 60% to hold at least one) and Mulcharmy Fuwalos draws to answer the opponent's summon, then convert through an Elfnote Synchro
• Recovery: Re-search through Elfnote Power Patron and Lucina search effects, reuse Elfnote Welcome Home or Elfnotes Rhapsodia recursion, and Synchro back out using the 13 Synchro monsters in the Extra Deck
• After siding: Not applicable in the exported Master Duel format: the deck runs zero Side Deck cards, so there is no sideboard plan to evaluate

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a live Elfnote starter (about 81% to have one in a 5-card opening hand from 12 copies across four self-summoning names) and has near-certain search access (25 searcher-text cards, about 99% to draw at least one in 5 cards). It converts through a 15-card Extra Deck of 13 Synchros, several of which negate or destroy on Summon, and its interaction density is high: Ash Blossom, Droll and Maxx C as hand traps, plus Zalen, Crystal Wing, Baronne and Herald as Extra Deck negates. Score comes from consistency, median-to-ceiling output and interaction on the system as a whole, not from Power Patron's popularity. Three engine lines (Elfnote, Mitsurugi ritual and a thin Power Patron core of 5 exact-name copies) share 45 main slots, and the list runs only 28 percent of the archetype's standard core cards, so the score is held back by engine dilution and the absence of any recorded combo or side plan. No card scores were averaged or summed into the deck result.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 63, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 56. Modifiers: engine dilution across three archetype lines (-3); no side deck and no post-side plan (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; Structural is meta-neutral, D13 dropped and Midrange weights renormalised over 95; 0.80*62.85 + 0.20*56 - 5 = 56.5, rounded to 56)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.81 · 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

• Near-certain search access (about 99% for at least one searcher in 5 cards)
• Elfnote starter density: 12 copies of self-summoning Lv6 starters
• Layered interaction: 6 hand traps plus Extra negates such as Zalen, Crystal Wing, Baronne, Herald and Junora
• Full Extra Deck with 13 Synchros and multiple level-10 bosses
• High ATK ceiling: Vidolium 5000, Chaos Angel 3500, Murakumo 3200

Weaknesses

• Three engine lines compete for 45 main slots, so the engine is diluted
• Thirteen singleton main slots raise dead-card and failed-line risk
• Mitsurugi pieces are Reptile and Ritual conditional and can brick
• No combo or win-rate evidence, so ceiling and floor are inferred only
• Zero side deck, so no post-side adaptation

Critical choke points

• Elfnote Synchro summon depends on a live Elfnote starter; if the opening starter is stopped and no second Synchro route exists, the line stalls
• Hand traps for going second are present in about 60% of 6-card hands, so about 40% of going-second games have no hand trap

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 45 and Extra 15 are inside Master Duel size rules (main 40-60, extra 0-15, side 0-15); Copy limits and banlist statuses for Herald, Maxx C, Mitsurugi Prayers and Semi-Limited cards are within legal copies; Card composition, copy histogram and archetype spread match the card list; Power Patron exact-name purity is 8.3 percent (5 of 60 archetype copies)
• Observed: Usage stats show 7 of 25 standard core cards present (28 percent) for the Power Patron archetype
• Inferred: P(at least one Elfnote starter in hand5) about 0.81 from hypergeometric calculation; Going-second hand-trap availability about 0.60; Interaction quality rated high from negation and banish text; Engine dilution and brick risk from archetype spread and Ritual conditions; Structural score 63 and final score 56 from the Midrange profile with D13 excluded
• Provisional: Meta Power is null because no dated metagame sample exists; D12 side deck score is provisional because Master Duel side play is not evidenced here; D13 matchup and format fit is excluded from Structural
• 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 for going-first, going-second, matchup or brick rate Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Data inconsistency: usage statistics marks Junora the Power Patron of Tuning (card 5914858) as not in this deck, but the cards list includes it as an Extra Deck copy (zone extra, copies 1); the cards list was used, and the usage result should be re-checked Guide snippet (guide 1493) describes general Power Patron Rank 10 and Pendulum play, which this build runs only partially No side deck list exists, so post-side evaluation cannot be scored