Dracotail Deck #766387 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 54/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion bosses from the Extra Deck (Dracotail Arthalion x2, Dracotail Pan, Albion the Sanctifire Dragon) after a Dracotail or Fallen-named starter opens the line.; Hand-trap and spell/trap disruption on the opponent's turn, followed by a fusion or draw-based recovery.
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon a Dracotail or Fallen starter (Faimena, Mululu, Ketu, Lukias, Phryxul, or Fallen of the White Dragon), search or fuse into a 3000 ATK boss, and hold Ash Blossom or Maxx C for the opponent's first response.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Ash Blossom, Nibiru, Effect Veiler, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C) to answer the opponent's first summon or search, then convert the disruption into a Fusion Summon on the next turn.
• Recovery: Dracotail draw spells (Flame, Horn, Sting) return a Dracotail card to the bottom of the Deck and draw 1, and Dracotail Phryxul or Lukias recover a Dracotail monster from the GY.
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan in the evidence; this is a limitation of the list, not a judgement of the plan.

Why it scores here

The deck opens a functional plan through Dracotail and Fallen-named starters, with three Ash Blossom and three Faimena and Mululu-style starters giving redundant engine access, although the Albaz-named starter count is thin at one Fallen of Albaz plus two Fallen of the White Dragon. Its strongest scoring comes from interaction density: eight hand traps and seven negation texts sit on the system level, which lifts end-board interaction and going-second disruption. Recovery is credited through the Dracotail draw-and-recycle spells and recursion from the graveyard, not through card count. Offensive closing rests on a few 3000 ATK fusion bosses that run one or two copies each, and the 36 off-archetype copies across Branded, Albaz, Mulcharmy, Predaplant and Ecclesia pull engine coherence down. No combo boards were supplied, so the floor and ceiling are text-based inferences, and the score comes from consistency, interaction, and the system's recovery rather than from Dracotail's popularity or from averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 61, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 56. Modifiers: Engine conflicts / archetype dilution (-3); No Side Deck (-2); Banlist exposure (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (no dated meta; Meta Power provisional). 0.80*61.06 + 0.20*56 = 60.05, then -6 modifiers = 54

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.34 · 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

• Redundant Dracotail starters across three copy-count tiers (Faimena x3, Mululu x2, Ketu x2)
• Layered interaction: 8 hand traps plus 7 negation and 6 removal texts
• Recovery through Dracotail draw-and-recycle spells and GY recursion
• Fusion bosses at 3000 ATK (Arthalion x2) provide closing pressure

Weaknesses

• Thin Albaz-named starter count (1 Fallen of Albaz, 2 White Dragons)
• 36 of 40 main copies are off the exact archetype name, diluting the engine
• No Side Deck, so no best-of-3 adaptation
• No combo evidence, so the floor and median are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Fallen-named starter access (≈0.34 going first in 5 cards, Inferred)
• Single-copy fusion bosses (Albion, Pan) are not guaranteed to be reached

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status: 40 main, 15 extra, 0 side; no size or copy-limit violations; Five Limited and four Semi-Limited cards at or under their legal copy counts; Archetype usage stats: 16 of 25 core cards present (64%); Exact-name archetype purity 34.5%
• Observed: Usage inclusion data for the Dracotail archetype (37 stat rows)
• Inferred: Hypergeometric starter, searcher and hand-trap probabilities; Semantic reads of hand-trap and removal roles from text; Redundancy and recovery judgements from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (null); D13 matchup and format fit (excluded from Structural)
• Data gaps: No combo boards supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot records absent No win-rate telemetry for going first, going second, matchup, brick or OTK rates Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample No Side Deck, so post-side performance cannot be assessed Deck title is null