True Draco Deck #548504 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 0 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Tribute Summon True Draco / True King monsters (Dinomight, Ignis Heat, Majesty Maiden, Master Peace) through Continuous Spell/Trap fodder and convert the board with 2300-2950 ATK bodies; Floodgate and lock pressure (Skill Drain, Rivalry of Warlords, Powersink Stone, Soul Drain) that stalls the opponent while the True Draco board grows
• Turn 1 (going first): Set Dragonic Diagram or True Draco Heritage to draw and deploy a Continuous Spell/Trap, then Tribute Summon a True Draco boss; hold Lose 1 Turn or Monarchs Erupt as backup interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Monarchs Erupt, Skill Drain or Powersink to shut down the opponent's board, then Tribute Summon a boss through the Continuous backrow
• Recovery: Recover from the GY with Disciples of the True Dracophoenix (shuffle 3 True Draco/King cards from GY, draw 1) and True King's Return (revive a True Draco/King from GY)
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so no post-side plan can be evaluated

Why it scores here

The deck's engine is the Continuous Spell/Trap loop: Dragonic Diagram and True Draco Heritage supply draws and Continuous fodder, and the Tribute-from-backrow boss monsters convert that into 2300-2950 ATK bodies. Core-card access is high (the archetype core has a 0.9998 chance of at least one copy in a 5-card opening hand), so consistency is credited as an engine-accessibility read, not as a single-starter guarantee. Interaction is the deck's strongest system feature: Skill Drain, Rivalry of Warlords, Powersink Stone, Soul Drain, Monarchs Erupt, Lose 1 Turn and Apophis together give layered negation and lock pressure, which carries the endboard score. Recorded combo data is absent, so the ceiling and median scores rest on the text read and are labelled Inferred. The deck has no Extra Deck, no Side Deck and no tournament or meta data, so post-side and matchup scores are low-confidence. The score is not a popularity read and not an average of card scores, and it is capped low because the list is illegal (Solemn Strike at 3 copies against a limit of 1).

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-6); illegal_deck_cap (-17). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 53 before modifiers; illegal-deck cap applied (Step 2)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.34 · 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

• Layered interaction with floodgates and negation (Skill Drain, Rivalry, Powersink, Soul Drain, Monarchs Erupt, Apophis)
• High archetype-core access and two overlapping engine routes (backrow Tribute and GY recursion)
• Compact 40-card main with no Extra Deck dependency

Weaknesses

• Illegal as submitted: Solemn Strike at 3 copies against a limit of 1
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Heavy off-archetype and tech density (19 off-archetype copies) reduces engine purity
• No recorded combos, so ceiling and median claims are text-only

Critical choke points

• A Continuous Spell/Trap in the backrow is the Tribute enabler for every boss, so losing the backrow to a disruption stalls the whole line
• Floodgate-heavy lines can lock the controller's own monsters if the board is not set up first

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main Deck is 40 cards; Extra and Side are 0; Solemn Strike is at 3 copies against a limit of 1 (Illegal); Skill Drain, Rivalry of Warlords, Pot of Duality and There Can Be Only One are Limited with 1 copy each; Boss ATKs are 2300-2950 as printed
• Inferred: At least one starter in a 5-card opening hand ≈ 0.34 for a single 3-copy starter; Interaction density is high relative to the engine, which supports the Stun/Midrange read; Consistency and brick estimates are from copy counts and text, not recorded games
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit: no dated metagame sample supplied; Post-side and tournament reliability: no side list or match data
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; the combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot match records are absent No Side Deck registered; post-side plan cannot be evaluated No win-rate telemetry; going-first and going-second splits are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample