Kashtira Deck #560280 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Stun
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 8 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Dracotail Fusion monsters (Arthalion, Gulamel) from the Extra Deck, using Dracotail monsters and hand/field material, to take the board.; Recursion-driven board pressure from Dracotail Pan and Dracotail Urgula after they go to the GY as Fusion material; Kashtira Fenrir is listed but cannot legally be run.
• Turn 1 (going first): Turn 1: Normal Summon a Dracotail or Lukias to search a Dracotail, then Fusion Summon via Ketu or Rahu. Each of these copies is over its banlist limit, so the line is only available in an unrestricted list.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle and Droll & Lock Bird as hand traps for the opponent's first summon or search, then rebuild through the Dracotail Fusion line.
• Recovery: Dracotail Pan and Urgula recycle from the GY on Fusion Summon, and Dracotail Flame and Horn draw cards, but none of these recovery effects is tested against real boards.
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered (Side count 0), so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system: Structural Power is about 41 on the Combo profile. The score is capped at 25 because the list is Illegal under the TCG banlist, with Kashtira Fenrir x3 (Forbidden) and eight other cards over their copy limits. Engine access is middling: the hypergeometric estimate for one copy of the archetype core in a 5-card opening hand is about 0.25, but the searcher group reaches about 0.81 and the hand-trap group about 0.92 on the going-second 6-card hand (Inferred). Combo ceiling and floor are unscored because the export has no parseable boards, so these dimensions rest on card text alone. Interaction density from 18 hand traps and 16 negation effects is the strongest part of the system. Popularity was not credited, since the archetype usage stats show only 1 of 25 core cards present, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 41, Going First ≈ 40, Going Second ≈ 42, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*41 + 0.20*35 = 39.8; modifier -12 (banlist exposure) gives 27.8; capped at 25 because the list is Illegal (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · 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

• 18 hand traps and 16 negation-text cards give broad interaction
• Strong Fusion finishers (Arthalion, Gulamel, Mysterion, Secreterion) in the Extra Deck
• Searchers (15 by text) help find the engine

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Kashtira Fenrir x3 is Forbidden, and eight other cards exceed copy limits
• Only 1 of 25 archetype core cards is present (4%), so the deck is off-core for Kashtira
• No Side Deck
• No recorded boards, so the combo floor and ceiling are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Every line depends on Dracotail Fusion Summons, and most of them require over-limit copies
• No Side Deck means there is no post-side answer to a changed format

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Kashtira Fenrir x3 Forbidden, and eight cards over their copy limits; Composition counts and copy histogram from the export; Usage stats: 1 of 25 core cards present
• Inferred: P(at least one starter in 5-card opening hand) about 0.25, from hypergeometric calculation; Hand-trap coverage on the going-second hand about 0.92; Interaction density and resilience read from card text
• Provisional: Matchup and format fit (no tournament link or dated meta sample); Meta Power (null)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no Side Deck registered