Dracotail Deck #763000 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 20/100 (±6 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Blind-Second/OTK
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 9 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Level 8 boss monsters (Dracotail Arthalion, Albion the Branded Dragon) from the Extra Deck, using Dracotail and Branded starters; Repeated Fusion Summons through Dracotail GY-recursion, with Fallen of Albaz monsters providing fusion material
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Dracotail or Fallen of Albaz starter, search a second engine piece (Ketu or Rahu Dracotail, Branded Fusion), and Fusion Summon a boss on turn 1 or 2 (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 11 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Droll & Lock Bird, Nibiru) to disrupt the opponent's opening, then rebuild through the Dracotail GY loop (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recycle Dracotail cards from the GY or banishment to the Deck bottom while drawing (Dracotail Flame, Horn, Sting) and re-search an engine monster (Inferred)
• After siding: No side deck is present, so no post-side plan can be evaluated (Provisional)

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal under the TCG banlist: it runs three Forbidden cards and copy counts above the Semi-Limited and Limited caps, so it receives no normal Final Contextual score and is capped at 20 as a theoretical, structural-only read. The structural read (57) rests on the archetype core: the Dracotail and Branded engines have about a 96% chance of at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred), and the 11 hand traps and 16 negation/removal texts give real interaction density. Scoring is on the system, not an average of card scores. The Dracotail archetype's popularity and usage stats confirm that the list is real, but they did not earn points. The lack of recorded boards, a tournament link, a side deck, and any dated meta means floor, median, matchup, and post-side scores are unsupported and carry the most uncertainty.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-12); illegal_cap (-35). Final formula: Illegal cap: theoretical Structural 57 (Combo profile) = 0.80*57 + 0.20*50 = 55.6 before cap; capped at 20 because the list is Illegal (Forbidden cards + copy-limit violations)

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

• Strong archetype core density (27 copies, about 96% opening access, Inferred)
• Dense interaction: 11 hand traps and 16 negation/removal texts
• Multiple recursion routes from the Dracotail GY and banishment zones
• Fusion boss threats at 3000 ATK

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Forbidden and over-limit cards
• No side deck
• Mixed sub-archetype spread lowers engine coherence (26.7% exact-name purity)
• No recorded boards, so the floor and median are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Extra Deck access depends on a few 3-copy Fusion starters and Fallen of Albaz
• A single Forbidden or over-limit card set would make the deck unplayable as built

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 3 Forbidden cards and multiple copy-limit violations; Composition counts: 60 main, 15 extra, 0 side, 13 Fusion and 2 Synchro; Card text and banlist status for each listed card; Core archetype group: 27 copies
• Inferred: Opening access ~0.96 for the archetype core; Interaction density from text roles; Turn-1 and turn-2 plans; Going-second hand-trap coverage ~0.72
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit (no dated meta or tournament link)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied; combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent no win-rate telemetry; going-first/second and matchup rates unknown Meta Power provisional no side deck; post-side plan unevaluated