Dracotail Deck #765014 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 61/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon an 8-level boss (Dracotail Arthalion, Albion the Sanctifire Dragon, Albion the Branded Dragon) from Dracotail and Albaz resources, typically on the opponent's turn after hand traps have been used.; Grind the opponent out with negation and Spell/Trap disruption, then recur Dracotail cards from the GY or banishment with the Urgula, Lukias, Phryxul and trap-family effects.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a Dracotail monster or a Fusion starter (Faimena, Ketu, Rahu, Branded Fusion). Hold hand traps for the opponent's first summon, and treat Mulcharmy as a weak draw response.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll and Lock Bird, Effect Veiler and Maxx C for the opponent's first summon or search, then Fusion on your own turn once the board is stable.
• Recovery: Return Dracotail cards to the Deck bottom with the trap family and Urgula/Lukias/Phryxul to draw and refill resources, then rebuild a Fusion boss from the Extra Deck.
• After siding: No side deck (side count 0, which is legal for Master Duel). There is no post-side plan in this format.

Why it scores here

The score comes from the deck as a system. It reliably opens a functional hand: about 78% of 5-card openings contain at least one of its 10 Dracotail monsters (Inferred hypergeometric estimate), and it has several independent starters (Faimena, Ketu, Rahu, Branded Fusion, Lukias). Its interaction is dense, with 9 hand traps, Maxx C, and negation and removal text across the Spell/Trap set, which earns the highest dimension score. Recursion through Urgula, Lukias, Phryxul and the trap family keeps resources regenerating across turns. The deck is held back by the absence of recorded boards (no combo ceiling or median can be measured), no side deck, and 5 low-impact Mulcharmy bodies. Archetype popularity and the guide's control framing did not add points directly; the score is not an average of card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Control. Structural ≈ 64, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-2); low_impact_bodies (-1); engine_compactness (1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional): 0.80*64.2 + 0.20*58 - 2 = 61

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.78 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.01 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense interaction: 9 hand traps plus negation and removal Spell/Trap text
• Several independent starters and Fusion access (Faimena, Ketu, Rahu, Branded Fusion, Lukias)
• Resource recursion through Urgula, Lukias, Phryxul and the trap family
• Compact 40-card main with 24 distinct cards

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median are unmeasured
• Five low-impact Mulcharmy bodies dilute consistency
• Going-first hands have fewer hand traps available early

Critical choke points

• Dracotail monster or Fusion starter needed to reach the 8-level bosses; the Limited Fusion starters (Branded Fusion, Lukias, Rahu) are single copies
• Hand-trap timing depends on the opponent's summon or search being declared

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: all restricted cards within legal copies (Limited x1 for 5 cards, Semi-Limited x2 for 4 cards); 40/15/0 sizes within Master Duel rules; Card text and stats for all 40 main and 15 Extra cards; Composition counts (archetype purity 34.5%, 13 Extra-Deck distinct cards); Guide exists (Hướng Dẫn Chơi Dracotail) and describes a control deck
• Inferred: Primary strategy Control, secondary Combo and Toolbox; Opening-hand functionality: P(>=1 Dracotail monster in 5) = 0.78; searcher group 0.74; hand-trap group on going second 0.81; Interaction density and resilience scores from card text; Going-first and going-second power estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup coverage and format fit (no tournament_context); Side-deck adaptability (no side deck)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter/OTK rates) exists in YGOVN Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied usage_statistics in_this_deck flags contradict the cards list for Extra-Deck cards (Dracotail Gulamel, Dracotail Arthalion, Rindbrumm, Mirrorjade, Secreterion Dragon, The Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon, Alba-Lenatus, Titaniklad). They appear to be Main-Deck-only, so core_present_pct (64%) understates the deck's core coverage no side deck data (side 0): post-side performance cannot be assessed deck title is null; name taken from archetype only guide evidence is a single short excerpt with no sections