Dracotail Deck #765088 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 55/100 (±7 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Land a Fusion Monster (Arthalion, Gulamel, Pan or a Dragon Fusion) on an open board after hand traps and Dracotail backrow have answered the opponent's plays.; Albaz-name Fusions (Alba-Lenatus, Lubellion, Mirrorjade, Titaniklad) via Fallen of Albaz, Branded Fusion and the Albaz-name monsters.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Dracotail starters (Faimena, Ketu, Mululu, Urgula) and Fusion into Arthalion or Gulamel, holding Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle and Maxx C for the opponent's turn.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold 6 cards with hand traps (Ash, Ghost Belle, Maxx C, Mulcharmy) to negate or draw through the opponent's first summon, then Fusion from the field.
• Recovery: Recur Dracotail monsters from the GY and banish with Dracotail Sting and Flame, Urgula and Rahu to rebuild Fusion access.
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no documented post-side plan (Side 0 of 15 allowed).

Why it scores here

The deck opens a functional plan reasonably often because it runs three copies of Faimena, Ash Blossom and Branded in High Spirits plus a dense set of Dracotail starters and searchers, and the hypergeometric estimates put at least one searcher in a 5-card hand near 0.82. Its strongest score is interaction: six hand traps, Maxx C, Crossout Designator and a backrow of Dracotail Flame and Sting give it real going-second answers, which lifts D7 and D8. Conversion is the weak point, because the Fusion lines depend on a 4-card Albaz-name chain (Fallen of Albaz x1, Fallen of the White Dragon x2, Albion x1) with roughly a 0.43 chance of at least one in a 5-card hand, and the Albaz and Branded pieces are single copies. Popularity and the 100% core inclusion of Dracotail cards confirm the list is real and accessible but did not earn points, and no card scores were averaged; the score is built from the system and tempered by the missing side deck, the missing combo corpus, and the zero Side count.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Control primary, Midrange secondary (not blended numerically; Control weights used). Structural ≈ 61.3, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-2); unrecoverable choke point (-2); engine conflicts (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional, no dated metagame sample)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.82 · 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

• Six hand traps plus Maxx C and Crossout give broad going-second interaction.
• Dense Dracotail starter and searcher package with GY recursion for recovery.
• Fusion-heavy Extra Deck with a 3-copy Arthalion as a consistent closer.

Weaknesses

• No side deck registered, so the deck has no post-side adaptation.
• Albaz-name chain is thin (single-copy Fallen of Albaz) and drives the Fusion conversion.
• Branded, Mulcharmy and Ecclesia splash lowers exact-archetype purity to 34.5%.

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz (1 copy) and Branded Fusion (1 copy, Limited) gate the Albaz-name Fusions.
• Starters that require a Dracotail monster in GY or a summon to trigger, leaving hand-only openers dead.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in master-duel; 40 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side; all Limited and Semi-Limited copies within limit.; Card text and archetype spread from the evidence pack.; Usage stats: Dracotail core cards at 100% inclusion.
• Inferred: Hypergeometric starter and Albaz-chain estimates.; Going-second hand-trap strength and Fusion ceiling from text.; Interaction density (D7) from negation and removal text roles.
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and D13 matchup/format fit: no dated metagame sample or tournament link.; Post-side plan (D12): no Side cards.
• Data gaps: no combos supplied; floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent no win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates) no side deck registered, so no post-side evaluation possible Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample