Dracotail Deck #765877 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 59/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Dracotail and Albaz-family bosses (Arthalion, Albion the Sanctifire Dragon, Gulamel) after the opponent's turn has been disrupted by hand traps and Spell/Trap responses; Attrition: Dracotail Sting and Dracotail Flame remove cards and recur Dracotail monsters from the GY or banishment to the bottom of the Deck while drawing
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a Dracotail starter (Faimena, Mululu, Ketu, Lukias) or a searcher, keep hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Droll, Effect Veiler) up for the opponent's first Main Phase, and fuse only when a sweep or a hand trap cannot be stopped
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand to present a hand trap on the opponent's first meaningful activation (about 85% of 6-card hands contain one), then rebuild with Fallen of the White Dragon, Ketu and Branded Fusion into a 3000-ATK boss
• Recovery: Recur Dracotail monsters from the GY (Phryxul, Lukias, Urgula) and rebuild through Dracotail Sting / Flame draws, using the 10 searcher-text cards to refill the hand
• After siding: No side deck is registered (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan in the export; if the format allows a side, the empty slot is a gap, not a strength

Why it scores here

The deck opens reliably: the searcher-text group reaches at least one copy in a 5-card opening hand about 78% of the time, and the archetype core is essentially always present (Inferred, hypergeometric). Its real strength is interaction on the system rather than any single card: 10 hand traps and 10 removal-text cards mean the opponent's turn is usually answered, and about 85% of 6-card going-second hands contain a hand trap, which lifts the going-second score. Conversion into a closing threat relies on 3000-ATK fusion bosses reached through Fusion Summons that disruption can break, so the ceiling is held back by the lack of recorded boards and the fragility of the single Fusion route. The score comes from consistency, interaction and resilience on the system; Dracotail's popularity and the archetype share did not add points, and card scores were not averaged. The deck has no side and no tournament record, so Meta and matchup fit stay provisional.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Control. Structural ≈ 64, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 72, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-2); engine split (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional, null)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.78 · 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

• Ten hand traps and nine negation-text cards answer the opponent's turn
• Strong going-second hand-trap density (about 85% of 6-card hands)
• Recursive Dracotail monsters and Sting/Flame give card economy
• Wide Extra Deck coverage across 13 Fusion options

Weaknesses

• No combo evidence, so the ceiling and median are text-based only
• Low exact-name purity (32.7%) splits the engine across sub-archetypes
• No side deck registered, so no post-side adaptation
• Six Limited cards run at their caps

Critical choke points

• Fusion Summon access: most bosses need a Dracotail or Albaz monster plus material from hand or field
• Limited Maxx C and Dracotail Lukias are single copies; their loss removes a route

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 40, Extra 15, Side 0 within master-duel size rules; All restricted cards run within legal copy limits; Exact-name purity 32.7%; Usage stats: Dracotail core cards at 100% inclusion
• Inferred: Opening-hand and going-second probabilities via hypergeometric estimates; Strategy classification from card text and guide snippet; Floor, median and ceiling inferred from text only (no recorded boards)
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link); Post-side plan (no side deck)
• 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 in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates); those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Guide snippet is one Vietnamese excerpt with no sections, so strategy intent is only lightly confirmed