Dracotail Deck #736198 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 68/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Control, Midrange
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon strong Level 8 monsters with multiple effects and interrupt boards while grinding resource advantage; Hand-trap disruption into board-breaking Fusion removal lines on opponent's turn
• Turn 1 (going first): Search Dracotail core pieces, establish 2-3 Fusion monsters with interaction (negation, removal, recursion) and maintain hand resources
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash, Ghost Belle, Infinite Impermanence) to stop opponent's plays, then Fusion Summon removal-heavy boards like Mirrorjade or Dracotail Arthalion for board breaks
• Recovery: Recursion via Dracotail Spell/Trap recovery effects, Fallen of Albaz tutoring, Extra Deck recycling via Branded Retribution and Branded Lost
• After siding: No side deck provided; unable to assess post-game 2 adaptation

Why it scores here

This Dracotail deck opens a strong fusion-focused engine with ~96% consistency on a Dracotail starter hand 5, backed by redundant searchers (Ketu, Lukias) and bridging through Branded staples. The ceiling board (2-3 negating/removing Fusions with hand resources remaining) is solid, but the median is hampered by a thin combo sample—no parsed boards exist, forcing median inference from card text. The deck runs 10 hand traps for going-second disruption and grind, but lacks a side deck, making post-game 2 adaptation impossible to verify. Resource economy is good via Dracotail recursion effects and Branded recovery, but opening-hand brick risk climbs from 22 distinct main-deck cards and conflicting searcher density. The deck is legal and competent, but does not reach elite power due to missing critical Extra Deck cards (Alba-Lenatus, Secreterion, Mirrorjade) and absent combo verification data.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 68, Going First ≈ 70, Going Second ≈ 69, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 64. Modifiers: Missing high-impact Extra Deck cards (-3); No parsed combo data (-2); No side deck (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional, no dated metagame sample supplied)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.96 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.04 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• High opening consistency (~96% core starter in hand 5)
• Redundant fusion searchers (Ketu, Lukias, Faimena) enable recovery after disruption
• Strong going-second hand traps (Ash x3, Ghost Belle x3, Impermanence x3)
• Efficient Extra Deck use (14 Fusions all live, 1 Synchro for Tuner synergy)
• Recursion engines (Dracotail float, Branded Lost prevention) support grind games
• Branded bridge adds search and fusion flexibility

Weaknesses

• Missing 9 high-inclusion Extra Deck cards (Alba-Lenatus, Secreterion, Mirrorjade, Dracotail Gulamel at 82-100% typical inclusion)
• 22 distinct main-deck cards create high brick variance; 8 singletons vulnerable to disruption
• Median combo output unverified (no parsed boards); ceiling not guaranteed in real play
• Ketu searcher conditional on opponent controlling a monster; can fail on turn 1
• Moderate offensive pressure (most bosses 2500-3000 ATK); requires multiple turns to close
• No side deck; unable to adapt post-game 1
• Archetype niche in Master Duel meta; low tournament representation

Critical choke points

• If Ketu is hand-trapped on turn 1 while in the only playable hand, deck collapses to Mululu/Faimena only (binary output)
• Branded Fusion at 2 copies (semi-limited) becomes bottleneck if both discarded early
• Extra Deck missing 9 commonly-run Fusions (Alba-Lenatus for multi-attack, Secreterion for lock, Mirrorjade for banish) forces improvisation and reduces ceiling
• Branded Lost is the sole protection against negated Fusion Summons; if already activated, opponent can negate subsequent Summons

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Legal status confirmed; all banned/limited cards within copy limits for Master Duel format; Card text: All 60 main + 15 extra cards resolved with full effect text; no errors or unknowns; Extra Deck composition: 14 Fusions + 1 Synchro = 15 valid slots; Restricted cards: 5 cards (Bystial Magnamhut Limited x1, Called by Limited x1, Crossout Limited x1, Maxx C Limited x1, Branded Fusion Semi-Limited x2) all within legal limits
• Observed: Archetype usage stats: 35 total stat rows; deck runs 16/25 core cards (64% of archetype core); 9 missing high-inclusion cards (82-100% inclusion); Hand-trap density: 10 hand traps (Ash x3, Ghost Belle x3, Impermanence x3, Maxx C x1) = 16.7% of 60-card deck
• Inferred: Opening consistency: P(≥1 Dracotail core in hand 5) ≈ 96.31% from hypergeometric calculation on 28-copy core pool; Brick estimate: ~4% full brick (no starters + no hand traps) from copy histogram; Going-second hand traps: P(≥1 hand trap in hand 6) ≈ 68% from hypergeometric; Combo floor/median/ceiling: Inferred from card text effects only; no parsed boards to ground these values; Resource economy: Dracotail float mechanics (Flame, Horn, Sting draw recovery) and Branded recursion (Lost, Retribution, Sword search) support grind from card text; Interaction density: ~3 distinct negation/removal effects per end-board from Mululu, Rindbrumm, Mirrorjade, Arthalion card text; Offensive pressure: 2500-3000 ATK boss monsters inferred as moderate closing power; no OTK or FTK lines present
• Provisional: Meta Power: Archetype meta-share unknown for Master Duel; Dracotail low-to-niche inclusion; no dated metagame sample supplied; Tournament Reliability: No tournament link or per-pilot match record available; reliability inferred from consistency and grind potential only
• Data gaps: No parsed combo data (combos_evidence.total_combos = 0); combo floor, median, ceiling, and board_per_starter are text-inferred only No tournament link; archetype meta-share, per-pilot match record, and going-first/second win rates absent No win-rate telemetry in YGOVN; brick, starter, and OTK rates are Unknown or Inferred No side deck provided; post-game 1 adaptation and best-of-3 plan unverifiable Master Duel meta context incomplete; no dated metagame sample for Meta Power calibration Missing 9 high-inclusion Extra Deck cards reduces confidence in ceiling representation