Dracotail Deck #757299 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 58 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 7 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Dracotail / Fallen of Albaz Fusion Monsters (Arthalion, Lukias-fed fusions, Alba-Lenatus, Granguignol) from the Extra Deck to establish a 2500–3000 ATK board; Recursion of Dracotail monsters and Spells through Dracotail Flame/Horn/Sting and Rahu Dracotail, grinding through repeated Fusion Summons
• Turn 1 (going first): Opening Dracotail Faimena / Lukias / Fallen of the White Dragon to reach a Fusion Summon via Ketu or Rahu Dracotail, with Ash Blossom and Droll held up for the opponent's first response
• Turn 2 (going second): Six-card hand with a hand trap (Ash, Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre, Droll) to break the opponent's first turn, then Fusion through Branded Fusion or Super Polymerization
• Recovery: Ghost Belle and Ghost Ogre recycle hand traps; Dracotail Sting, Horn and Flame draw and return Dracotail cards from GY/banishment to the Deck
• After siding: Not evaluable: the list has no Side Deck (0 cards), so no post-side plan exists

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal: seven card entries exceed their TCG copy limits, and two are Forbidden (Albion the Branded Dragon, Called by the Grave). Under the rubric, the structural score is shown for reference only and the final score is capped at 30. The engine itself is coherent: 25 archetype-core copies give a 94.8% chance of at least one core card in a 5-card opener (Inferred), and the searcher text group reaches 66.5%. Interaction is dense, with 11 hand traps and 14 removal-text cards, so the deck can answer disruption. The weaknesses are the 58-card main with 36 distinct cards, 22 level-0 Spells, and no Side Deck, which lowers consistency and post-side adaptability. Combo ceiling and median are not scored from recorded boards, since none were supplied, so those dimensions are text-only inference. Archetype popularity was not credited; the score comes from the system's consistency and interaction, not from averaging the individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Banlist and copy-limit violations (-10); No Side Deck (-2). Final formula: Illegal deck: Structural 55 and TR 45 give 0.80*55 + 0.20*45 = 53 before modifiers; modifiers -12 gives 41; illegal-deck cap sets the final score to 30

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.24 · 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 dense: 25 copies give a 94.8% chance of at least one core card in the opening 5 (Inferred)
• Interaction density is high, with 11 hand traps and 14 removal-text cards (Verified text, Inferred quality)
• The Extra Deck is fully used (14 Fusion, 1 Synchro) with several 2500–3000 ATK finishers (Verified)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: five over-limit entries and two Forbidden cards (Verified)
• 58-card main with 36 distinct cards and 22 level-0 Spells dilutes starter density (Verified composition)
• No Side Deck (0 cards) (Verified)

Critical choke points

• Fusion starters depend on Dracotail Faimena, Lukias, Ketu or Rahu being drawn; the 3-copy starter opens in only 24% of 5-card hands (Inferred)
• Forbidden Albion the Branded Dragon and Called by the Grave cannot be legally run in the TCG format (Verified)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: seven over-limit entries and two Forbidden cards in the TCG format; Main 58, Extra 15, Side 0; the Main and Extra counts are within size rules; Archetype core inclusion and card text from the evidence pack
• Inferred: Starter probabilities (P≥1 = 0.24 for a 3-copy starter in 5 cards; core P≥1 = 0.95); Interaction quality from hand-trap and removal text; Consistency and brick-risk estimate from composition
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit (no dated metagame sample supplied); Tournament reliability, based on the unavailable tournament context
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and a per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry, so going-first/second and matchup performance are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No Side Deck supplied, so post-side plan cannot be assessed