Power Patron Deck #774481 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Power Patron Link/Synchro board built from Elfnote and Ars Magna engine lines, closing through high-ATK Link and Synchro monsters (Mediclius, June Pride, Dragite-class bodies) once a starter is live (Inferred from card text; no combo evidence); Vidolium and Ars Magna attack-pump and battle-chain effects for lethal (Inferred from card text)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Medius or Elfnote starter, search a Power Patron or Elfnote engine piece, and reach a Link or Synchro board while holding hand traps for the opponent's turn (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Effect Veiler, Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Skull Meister and Infinite Impermanence to answer the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Elfnote summons (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recover through Mulcharmy draw effects, Theorealize recursion and Elfnote GY summons (Inferred from text; not verified in play)
• After siding: No side deck is run (Side Deck size 0), so there is no post-side plan; the list cannot adapt between games (Verified)

Why it scores here

The list reliably opens an archetype starter: the Power Patron/Elfnote core of 27 copies gives a 96.9% chance of at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand, and searcher text covers about 89% of hands (Inferred hypergeometric estimate). Interaction is dense for a Midrange list, with 18 hand traps and 16 negation effects plus removal text, and the going-second hand-trap estimate is 91.5% (Inferred). Closing power depends on Link and Synchro bodies that have no recorded boards, so conversion and median output are unverified and scored conservatively. The deck is illegal in its format because Elfnote Lucina runs 3 copies against a limit of 1 and Ash Blossom runs 3 against a limit of 2, so it receives a theoretical, structural-only score capped low. The score comes from consistency, interaction and extra-deck coverage on the system, not from the archetype's popularity, and the card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary; Control secondary used for interpretation only, weights not blended. Structural ≈ 50, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*50 + 0.20*40 - 12 = 36, then capped at 30 because the deck is Illegal (theoretical, structural-only read)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.97 · 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 suite (18 hand traps, 16 negation texts) for going second
• Archetype core at 3 copies gives high starter access
• Broad Extra Deck coverage across Synchro, Link, Xyz and Fusion

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy-limit violations on Elfnote Lucina and Ash Blossom
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Low exact-name purity (5.6%) across 14 sub-archetypes

Critical choke points

• Medius the Pure / Elfnote summon lines are the main starter route; losing them to interaction leaves a low-consistency rebuild (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Copy-limit violations (Elfnote Lucina 3 vs 1; Ash Blossom 3 vs 2); Main 56, Extra 15, Side 0 within size rules; Extra Deck breakdown: 8 Synchro, 5 Link, 1 Xyz, 1 Fusion; Hand-trap and negation flags from curated tags
• Inferred: Starter access ≈ 0.97 and searcher access ≈ 0.89 from hypergeometric estimates; Going-second hand-trap coverage ≈ 0.915; Midrange plan and interaction read from card text; Engine conflicts across Elfnote, Ars Magna and Mulcharmy sub-archetypes
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13)
• 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 and going-second splits are Inferred No side deck; post-side plan cannot be scored from evidence Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied