Dracotail Deck #765437 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 54/100 (±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 Dracotail Fusion boards (Arthalion, Gulamel, Titaniklad, Dragon Devours) that outpace a stalled opponent (Inferred); Mulcharmy draw pressure and Dracotail recursion grinding card advantage over a long game (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a searcher (Lukias, Ketu, Faimena, Urgula) into a Fusion Summon, keeping hand traps up for the opponent's first response (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Maxx C) and Crossout Designator to break the opponent's first summon, then Fusion through the turn (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recur Dracotail monsters from the GY (Phryxul, Lukias, Urgula) and re-fuse using the Spell/Trap set from Dracotail Fusion material effects (Inferred)
• After siding: None. The deck has no Side Deck, so there is no recorded post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system: a 40-card Dracotail list with three copies of its key searchers and hand traps, plus a 15-card Extra Deck of mostly Fusion monsters. Its probability estimate of at least one searcher in the opening hand is about 0.82 (Inferred), which supports a strong chance of a live T1 searcher, but the list has no recorded boards, so the ceiling and median are text-based reads only. Interaction is the strongest part: six hand traps, Crossout Designator, Dracotail Sting and Flame, and Gulamel-style destruction give layered answers that hold up after the opponent's first line. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged. The score is pulled down by a 34.5% exact-name archetype purity (Branded, Albaz, Ecclesia, and Mulcharmy splash), the absence of any Side Deck, and the lack of a dated meta sample.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Control. Structural ≈ 61, Going First ≈ 68, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: engine_conflicts_off_archetype_splash (-3); no_side_deck (-2); banlist_exposure (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional)

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

• Layered hand-trap and spell/trap interaction (six hand traps plus Crossout Designator, Sting, and Flame)
• Redundant three-copy searchers and starters (Faimena, Ash Blossom)
• Recursion lines that rebuild after disruption (Phryxul, Lukias, Urgula)
• Extra Deck with several 2500–3000 ATK Fusions in every ratio

Weaknesses

• Off-archetype splash (Branded, Albaz, Ecclesia, Mulcharmy) lowers engine coherence
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptability
• Pilot-heavy Fusion lines and hand-trap timing decisions
• No combo or win-rate telemetry to confirm conversion

Critical choke points

• Single Fusion Summon route through Branded Fusion / Rahu (Limited, one copy each)
• Dependence on Fallen of Albaz as Fusion material for several Extra Deck monsters

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in master-duel (BanMasterDuel), 40 Main / 15 Extra / 0 Side; All restricted cards run at legal maximum; Exact-name archetype purity 34.5%; Fourteen Fusion and one Synchro in Extra Deck
• Observed: Usage statistics show Dracotail core cards at 100% inclusion
• Inferred: Searcher access probability (P ≈ 0.82 in 5-card hand); Interaction layering and going-second strength; Fusion-line pilotability and recursion resilience
• Provisional: Meta and tournament reliability (no dated sample or tournament link)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied; combo floor, median, and ceiling are text-only inference usage_statistics in_this_deck flags are false for Extra Deck cards that are present in the cards list (Gulamel, Secreterion, Arthalion, and others); missing_core is therefore unreliable and was not used as evidence no tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) no Side Deck, so no post-side evaluation possible deck title is null