Dracotail Deck #765119 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 53/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 45 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion-summoned boss monsters (Dracotail Arthalion, Dracotail Gulamel, Titaniklad, Khaos Starsource Dragon) that grind the opponent out after hand-trap disruption; Dracotail Urgula and Dracotail Pan as high-ATK Fusion material and Fusion-chain follow-up, plus Secreterion Dragon if present in the Extra Deck
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Dracotail starter (Faimena, Lukias, Phryxul, Fallen of the White Dragon) and go to a Fusion while keeping Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler or Maxx C up for the opponent's first response
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold a hand trap (Ash, Nibiru, Effect Veiler, Maxx C) to answer the opponent's first summon or set, then Fusion Summon on the opponent's turn with Mululu, Ketu or Rahu Dracotail
• Recovery: Dracotail Flame, Horn and Sting each draw 1 card and place a Dracotail card from the GY or banishment on the bottom of the Deck; Dracotail Phryxul revives a Dracotail from the GY
• After siding: No side deck is registered (Side Deck size 0), so no post-side plan can be assessed

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Dracotail starter: the 28-copy archetype core has an estimated 0.995 chance of at least one card in a 5-card opening hand, and the 13 searcher-text cards add redundancy (Inferred). Its score comes from interaction and recovery rather than raw speed: 10 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Nibiru, Effect Veiler, Maxx C) and 9 negation-text cards give high interaction density, and the Flame/Horn/Sting recycle-and-draw loop keeps resources alive across turns (Inferred from card text). Combo conversion and median output are scored from text only, because no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling of the Fusion bosses is not treated as typical output. The deck is held back by a split engine (only 22 of 60 copies share the exact Dracotail name, with 38 off-archetype copies from Albaz, Branded, Ecclesia, Predaplant and Bystial), by a missing side deck, and by hand traps that go dead without an opponent action. The score was not produced by averaging card scores or by Dracotail's popularity, which earned no points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Control. Structural ≈ 61.4, Going First ≈ 65, Going Second ≈ 67, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: engine conflict (-3); banlist exposure (-2); unrecoverable choke point (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional) = 0.80*61.4 + 0.20*52 - 7 = 52.5, rounded to 53

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.99 · 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 hand-trap suite: 10 cards (Ash x3, Nibiru x3, Effect Veiler x3, Maxx C) that answer summons, effects and draws
• Recursive card economy: Flame, Horn and Sting each draw and recycle a Dracotail card from the GY or banishment
• Archetype core is very accessible: 28 core copies with an estimated 0.995 chance of at least one in opening 5 (Inferred)
• Fusion ceiling of high-ATK bosses (Arthalion 3000, Gulamel 2800) with removal text

Weaknesses

• Exact-name purity is only 36.7%; 38 off-archetype copies from Albaz, Branded, Ecclesia, Predaplant and Bystial split the engine
• No side deck registered, so there is no post-side adaptation
• Hand traps are dead in hand when the opponent does not act, which raises brick risk on the going-second hand
• No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling, median and floor are text-only inference

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz (1 copy) gates Branded Fusion and Albaz-linked Fusions
• Six 1-copy Limited cards (Branded Fusion, Rahu Dracotail, Maxx C, Dracotail Lukias, Bystial Magnamhut, Predaplant Verte Anaconda) define the list's ceiling; any limit change alters it
• Dracotail Mululu and Ketu Dracotail are at the Semi-Limited 2-copy cap, so their role cannot be expanded

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal under BanMasterDuel; all 9 restricted cards are within legal copies (Limited 1, Semi-Limited 2); Main 45 and Extra 15 are within master-duel size rules; no side cards; Card text and stats for all 37 distinct cards are present in the evidence; Usage stats: 16 of 25 core cards present; Dracotail Pan runs 3 copies versus typical 1
• Inferred: Consistency: P(at least one archetype-core card in opening 5) = 0.995, hypergeometric from copy counts; Interaction density is high: 10 hand traps and 9 negation-text cards from card text; Recursion and card economy from Flame, Horn, Sting and Phryxul text; Control strategy and hand-trap plan from card text and the Vietnamese guide snippet describing the deck as control with hand traps and resource-based disruption; Going-second hand-trap availability: P(at least one hand trap in 6) = 0.80
• Provisional: Meta and matchup fit (D13) and Meta Power: no dated metagame sample or tournament link; Side deck adaptability (D12): side is empty, so no post-side data exists
• 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 rates) exists in YGOVN no side deck registered; post-side plan cannot be assessed Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Guide evidence is a single Vietnamese snippet with no sections; it is used only for intent