Dracotail Deck #765468 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 57/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Stun
• Secondary strategies: Combo
• Format: master-duel

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Dracotail / Albaz-line boss monsters (Arthalion, Titaniklad, Albion) from the Extra Deck after the opponent's turn has been disrupted by hand traps and Spell/Trap negations.; Dracotail Pan / Urgula / Lukias recursion-driven Fusion chains that fuel repeated Extra Deck summons over multiple turns.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a starter (Ketu, Mululu, Fallen of White Dragon, Fallen & The Virtuous or Rahu) and Fusion Summon a boss, holding Ash, Veiler or Nibiru to protect the first meaningful board from the opponent's turn.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand's hand traps (Ash, Veiler, Nibiru, Maxx C) to answer the opponent's first board, then rebuild a Fusion line from the remaining Dracotail monsters and Spell/Trap recursion.
• Recovery: Recur Dracotail monsters from the GY via Dracotail Lukias / Phryxul and reuse Dracotail Flame, Horn or Sting (placing a Dracotail card on the Deck bottom) to draw back into the engine.
• After siding: Not applicable: Master Duel has no side deck, so there is no post-side mechanism; adaptation must come from main-deck flexibility.

Why it scores here

The deck opens a live plan reliably enough: the Dracotail core is present in roughly 99% of opening hands by proxy, and the 2-copy and 3-copy starters each land in hand at about 21–30% for going-first hands, so the engine is accessible but not dependable from a single card. Its strength is interaction on the system level: ten hand traps (Ash Blossom, Nibiru, Effect Veiler, Maxx "C") and nine negation texts give it a strong answer to the opponent's first board, and the recursion through Dracotail Lukias and the Dracotail Spell/Traps keeps resources flowing into later turns. Floor and median output are unknown because no recorded boards exist, so the combo score rests on text-only inference and is held near neutral. Weaknesses are structural rather than card-quality: only 36.7% of the list is exact Dracotail, three Fallen-of-Albaz enablers must feed seven Albaz-dependent Extra Deck fusions, and twelve Tuner monsters sit against a single Synchro target. Popularity and archetype share were not counted toward the score, and the score was not built by averaging individual card ratings.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Stun profile, D13 removed as meta-neutral. Structural ≈ 62, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-2); Albaz enabler choke point (-2); Tuner/Synchro mismatch (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional); (0.80*62 + 0.20*60) - 5 = 56.6, rounded to 57

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

• Ten hand traps and nine negation texts give layered answers to the opponent's first board
• Dracotail recursion (Lukias, Phryxul, Flame/Horn/Sting) rebuilds resources across turns
• Compact main deck with three-copy hand-trap redundancy keeps interaction reliable

Weaknesses

• Only 36.7% exact-archetype purity: the Albaz, Branded, Ecclesia and Bystial pieces compete for slots
• Three Fallen-of-Albaz enablers against seven Albaz-dependent Extra Deck fusions
• Twelve Tuners against one Synchro target; several Tuners function only as hand traps

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz availability (1 main copy plus 2 Fallen of White Dragon) gates the Albaz Extra Deck fusions
• Branded Fusion and Rahu Dracotail (Limited, 1 copy each) are the main Fusion starters

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status: 45 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side within Master Duel size rules; All restricted cards are at or under legal copy limits (Limited 1, Semi-Limited 2); Archetype core group of 28 copies and usage inclusion percentages; Exact-name purity 36.7% and Tuner/Synchro counts from composition
• Observed: Usage statistics show 16 of 25 core cards present; 9 high-inclusion Extra Deck bosses are absent
• Inferred: Hypergeometric starter and hand-trap probabilities (estimates, not measured); Interaction density and Stun/Combo classification from card text; Going-first and going-second power estimates; Albaz dependency and choke-point reading from text
• Provisional: Meta Power and D13 matchup/format fit (no dated metagame sample); D4 median output (no recorded boards)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry for going-first/second, matchup, brick, starter or OTK rates Meta Power is Provisional: no dated metagame sample supplied Master Duel has no side deck, so post-side dimensions carry no data