by Elvennotes is a going to be the newest Yu-Gi-Oh! deck after Burst Protocol, which is the next core set. Elvennotes is also the newest addition to the Medius the Pure lore.
Overview
Elvennotes is a synchro deck capable of summoning level 5, level 7, and level 10 synchros with ease. All of the main deck monsters, except the Elvennotes Power Patron, can all summon themselves from the hand to your center main monster zone (CMMZ). This makes sense thematically as they are shown to be similar to pop stars, and the CMMZ is like the spotlight shining on the pop star. Then, they can each get an archetypal card into rotation: Lucina searches a monster, Dyina places a spell from deck, and Fortona places a trap from deck.
The Power Patron is not like the other cards. Unlike the other cards, it can’t special summon itself nor get an archetypal card into rotation. However, it is able to change the level of the monster in your CMMZ by 3 and then synchro summon immediately after. It is also the only archetypal tuner in the deck, so it is the only access you have to synchro summons without hand traps.
Synergy
So, what is the synergy between Elvennotes and Fiendsmith? Well, Elvennotes can make a level 5 or a level 10 synchro monster depending on the hand. That synchro monster in question is a light fiend: Armades, Keeper of Boundaries, and Fabled Levilazebul, respectively. After making the light fiend, you link it off into Fiendsmith’s Requiem. Then you would do the standard Fiendsmith combo to end on D/D/D Wave High King Ceaser before continuing the Elvennotes combo.
Positives
- High ceiling
- Good into handtraps
- 18 non-engine
- Good grind game
- Good synergy
- Consitent
- Independently strong
Negatives
- Issues going second
- Bad into Mulcharmy cards
- Board breakers hurt
- A few bricks
- 2 soft bricks
- 1-2 hard bricks
- Very reliant on the CMMZ
- Can lock itself out of Fiendsmith
- Weak into Droll & Lock Bird
- Difficult to use interaction
How To Play
Elvennotes Fiendsmith has pretty linear combos, but it also has room for self-expression depending on what you draw.
Here is a sample combo, which needs 1 copy of medius the pure, and any 2 monsters:
- Normal Summon Medius
- Use Medius’s effect to summon Elvennotes Power Patron from your deck
- Using Power Patron and Medius as synchro material, summon Armades, Keeper of Boundaries
- Activate the effect of the Power Patron to add Elvennotes Dyina to your hand
- Use Armades as link material for Fiendsmith’s Requiem
- Use Requiem’s effect to summon Lacrima he Crimson Tear from your deck
- Use Lacrima’s effect to send Fiendsmith Engraver from your deck to your grave
- Use Requiem’s effect to equip itself to Lacrima
- Contact fuse using Requiem and Lacrima into Necroquip Princess
- Use Engraver’s grave effect to shuffle back Armades and summon itself
- Overlay Engraver and Necroquip into D/D/D Wave High King Ceaser
- Make sure you don’t put Ceaser into the CMMZ
- Summon Dyina from your hand
- Use Dyina’s effect to place Elvennotes ~Homecoming Parallelism~
- Activate Parallelism’s effect to send Dyina to the grave and summon Elvennotes Lucina from the deck
- Make sure you don’t put Lucina in the CMMZ
- Use Lucina’s effect to add Elvennotes Fortona to your hand
- Summon Fortona from your hand
- Use Fortona’s effect to place Elvennotes ~Maddening Rhapsodia~
- Use Rhapsodia’s effect to send a monster from your hand to the grave and summon Power Patron
- Use the Power Patron and Fortona as synchro material to synchro summon Elvennotes Seraphim Stlitzia
- Use Stlitzia’s effect to summon back Power Patron
- Use Medius’s effect to shuffle a monster from you hand back to the deck to summon itself
- Make sure either Medius or Power Patron are in the CMMZ
- Now, using Medius and Power Patron make any level 8 synchro of your choice
Sample List
Main [40]
[4]
[4]
[32]
Extra [15]
[4]
[1]
[8]
[2]
Side [15]
[2]
[7]
[6]
In this deck list, the level 8 synchro of choice to make after the sample combo is PSY-Framelord Omega. This lets you recycle Medius the Pure in your opponent’s standby phase, and lets you banish a card out of your opponents hand. The other level 8 synchro you may see is Cyber Slash Harpie Lady. The reason she’s in the deck is because she is a wind winged-beast monster so you can you use Harpie’s Feather Storm when you go first.
Alternate Options
The deck is still not out in the TCG so there is a lot of room for experimentation. You could try Adamancipator Risen – Dragite or Crystal Wing Synchro Drago as your level 8 synchro monsters to be better into breakers or have a higher ceiling. Another option you have is playing Theorealize. Theorealize is a combo starter and can also make any monster a Light Fiend for you to access fiendsmith if you get stopped at any point in your combo. Fiendsmith’s Lacrima is also another option you could use. Lacrima can give you an alternative monster to summon with Fiendsmith’s Sequence, and it can summon back Fiendsmith Engraver after Engraver already used its effect.
How to Beat
To beat Elvennotes Fiendsmith, you want to prevent the person playing the deck from getting access to their extra deck. The best way to do this is by making sure they can’t summon Power Patron. The best way to do this is to use your hand traps on Medius, Lucina, or Elvennotes ~Homecoming Parallelism~ as all of those cards get access to Power Patron, and by extent, their extra deck. Some hand traps that can help are: Infinite Impermanence, Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring, Effect Veiler, Nibiru the Primal Being, Dominus Purge, and Dominus Impulse. It is also a good idea to play a deck with board wipes, or cards that take cards of the opponent’s board, usually in big numbers. The Elvennotes Fiendsmith player can’t synchro summon if they don’t have any material to synchro summon with, and if they can’t synchro summon, they can’t get access to Fiendsmith.