Dracotail Deck #765855 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 61/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon a Dragon or Spellcaster Fusion Monster (Arthalion, Gulamel, Granguignol, Titaniklad) from the Extra Deck off Dracotail/Fallen of Albaz material, then convert the board with ATK and removal.; Recursion through Dracotail GY and banish effects (Lukias, Ketu, Phryxul, Flame, Sting) that rebuild the engine after disruption.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Dracotail starter, use Lukias or Ketu to search a Dracotail monster, Fusion Summon through Rahu or Mululu, then keep Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle or Maxx C up for the opponent's response.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold a hand trap (Ash, Ghost Belle, Maxx C) in the six-card hand, negate or draw on the opponent's first summon, then Fusion Summon on the next turn from the surviving pieces.
• Recovery: Rebuild from the GY: Dracotail Phryxul and Lukias special-summon or add Dracotail monsters, and Dracotail Flame or Sting recycle GY cards to the bottom of the Deck to draw.
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan. Any sideboarding would require building one and is not evaluable from this evidence.

Why it scores here

The list is legal and compact, with every restricted card at its legal maximum and no copy-limit violations. Its starter access is strong: the archetype core is present in roughly 99.7% of going-first hands, and the searcher text group (11 cards) reaches at least one searcher in 82% of opening 5-card hands. Interaction is layered across six hand traps, Maxx C, Crossout Designator and Dracotail Flame/Sting, so the engine can be protected or rebuilt after one disruption. Converting into a win relies on a 14-card Fusion Extra Deck with several 2800 to 3000 ATK bodies, but the best-line and median combo output is unmeasured because no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and floor are text-only inference. Popularity and archetype usage confirm the list is real, not that it is strong, and no points were earned from that; card scores were not averaged into the deck score. Score is held down by the absence of a side deck and the lack of any tournament or win-rate evidence.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 68, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 62. Modifiers: single_copy_choke_point (-3); banlist_exposure (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional) = 0.80*67.5 + 0.20*62 - 5 = 61.4

Probability & combo summary

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

Strengths

• Legal and compact: 40 main, 15 extra, every restricted card at its legal maximum
• Strong starter access with 99.7% core presence and 82% searcher coverage (Inferred)
• Layered interaction: 6 hand traps, Maxx C, Crossout Designator, Dracotail Flame/Sting
• Recursion routes to rebuild after disruption

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so no post-side plan
• No combo or board evidence, so the ceiling and median are unmeasured
• Long Fusion sequences with material restrictions raise pilot error risk
• Heavy reliance on Fallen of Albaz and Branded Fusion as shared material

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz (1 copy) as material for most Fusion lines
• Branded Fusion (Limited, 1 copy) as a second Fusion route
• Extra Deck access blocked by Extra-only negation or the lack of a second Fusion starter

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status, 40/15/0 counts, copy limits and restricted-card legal copies; Card text excerpts and Extra-Deck breakdown (14 Fusion, 1 Synchro); Usage stats: archetype core inclusion rates
• Inferred: Starter and brick probabilities from the hypergeometric draw table; Recursion and interaction breadth read from card text; Going-first and going-second estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament_context)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference (combos_evidence total_combos 0) no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates): those signals are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Data inconsistency: usage_statistics marks Dracotail Gulamel, Secreterion Dragon, Dracotail Arthalion and Alba-Lenatus as in_this_deck=false, but the cards list includes them in the Extra Deck; the core_present_pct (64%) may be understated