Elfnote Deck #774518 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 40/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Control
• 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 boards (Lucina, Fortuna, Regina, Vidolium, June Pride) closing through Synchro and Link beatsticks; Artmage and Ars Magna recursion chains into Fusion/Synchro/Link pressure
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on Elfnote Regina or Lucina from hand, search an Elfnote or Power Patron monster, then chain Synchro or Link into the Extra Deck boss
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Ash, Effect Veiler, Skull Meister, Infinite Impermanence, Kuriboh) to blank the opponent's first summon, then rebuild the Elfnote engine from the GY
• Recovery: Recurse Elfnote and Power Patron monsters from GY via Regina, Fortuna and Medius; Mulcharmy Fuwalos draws off opponent summons
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no side deck (0 cards), so no post-side plan exists

Why it scores here

The list reliably opens into its Elfnote core: the archetype core group has about a 98% chance of at least one copy in a 5-card opening hand, and there are 15 hand traps plus 25 searcher-text cards to keep the engine moving. Interruption resilience is the deck's strongest trait, with multiple negations in both hand and Extra Deck that cover the first summon and the follow-up. Conversion and closing are plausible but unmeasured, because no combo boards, guides, tournament results or win-rate data exist for this deck. Popularity and archetype-stat presence did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score. The Final score is capped at 40 because three cards exceed their copy limits, so the result is structural and theoretical only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo primary; Midrange secondary (structural weights from Combo profile only). Structural ≈ 60, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: copy-limit exposure (-8); banlist exposure (-4); Illegal cap (0). Final formula: 0.80*Structural(60) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) = 56 (Meta provisional), then modifiers -12 = 44, capped at 40 for an Illegal list (theoretical/structural only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.98 · 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 almost always reachable in the opening hand
• Layered hand traps and Extra Deck negations give strong interruption resilience
• Multiple recursion routes from the GY keep the engine going after disruption

Weaknesses

• Three cards exceed their copy limits, so the list is not tournament-legal
• Engine is split across Elfnote, Power Patron, Artmage and Ars Magna, which lowers coherence
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation

Critical choke points

• Elfnote Regina or Lucina as the first engine piece, since most lines start there
• Banlisted or Limited Lucina and Ash, which are needed for resilience

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Lucina 3/1, Ash 3/2, Dominus Impulse 3/2 copies; Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0 counts within size rules; Banlist: Lucina, Terminus and S:P Little Knight Limited; Ash and Dominus Impulse Semi-Limited
• Inferred: Archetype-core opening-hand probability and hand-trap coverage from hypergeometric estimates; Interaction and resilience reads from card text
• Provisional: Format fit and tournament reliability (no dated meta or results)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry; going-first, going-second and matchup results unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied deck title is null in the export