Dracotail Deck #766432 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 57/100 (±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 2500-3000 ATK Dragon boss (Arthalion, Mysterion, Albion the Sanctifire Dragon, Gulamel) from the Extra Deck, using Dracotail and Fallen of Albaz monsters as material; Disruption via hand traps and Spell/Trap negation, grinding the opponent's resources while the deck recurs Dracotail cards
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a Dracotail starter (Faimena, Mululu, Lukias, Phryxul) or a Blazing Cartesia/Fallen of White Dragon line to reach a Fusion Summon; hold Ash Blossom or Effect Veiler for the opponent's first effect
• Turn 2 (going second): Respond on the opponent's turn with hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre, Effect Veiler, Maxx C) and Dracotail Flame or Horn, then rebuild a board with a Fusion Summon in the End Phase or on the next turn
• Recovery: Dracotail monsters and Spell/Traps placed on the deck bottom from the GY or banishment, combined with draw effects (Mululu, Flame, Sting, Horn) and Ketu/Rahu searches, to restock the hand
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan in the list; the best-of-3 adjustment is unevaluated

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional plan: the 26-copy Dracotail core has a 99.7% chance of at least one card in a 5-card opening hand, and the 9 searcher-text cards give a 74% chance of at least one search in the same hand. It converts that plan into Fusion boards with several 2500-3000 ATK bosses and a large Extra Deck with no garnets. Eight hand traps and ten negation effects give the deck a strong going-second answer (76% chance of a hand trap in a 6-card hand), so interaction is layered rather than single-threaded. Its weaknesses are the lack of recorded boards, which leaves the ceiling and median as text-based inference, and the empty Side Deck, which gives no post-side plan. Popularity and archetype usage stats confirm the list is a real build but did not add points; the score comes from consistency, recursion, interaction and closing power on the system, not from averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange 100% (Control influence reflected in D7 and D5 scores, not weights). Structural ≈ 62, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 68, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-2); no_side_deck (-2). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*62.14 + 0.20*55 - 4 = 56.7, rounded to 57

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 1 · 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 interaction: 8 hand traps plus 10 negation-text cards, with 76% odds of a hand trap going second
• Strong Fusion closers: multiple 2500-3000 ATK bosses with removal or bounce text
• Core consistency: the Dracotail core has 99.7% odds of appearing in the opening 5
• Recursion and draw: Mululu, Flame, Sting and Horn restock the hand after disruption

Weaknesses

• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan and a weak best-of-3 adjustment
• Fusion-heavy line with 13 Fusion monsters; execution depends on specific material combinations
• Six Limited cards at a single copy each create a single point of failure if one is removed or banned
• No recorded boards, so ceiling and median are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Fusion Summon enablement: most boss lines need Dracotail or Fallen of Albaz monsters in hand plus a valid Extra Deck monster
• Limited single copies (Branded Fusion, Dracotail Lukias, Rahu Dracotail) as irreplaceable engine pieces

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status: 40 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side within Master Duel size rules; Restricted cards: 6 Limited at 1 copy, 3 Semi-Limited at 2 copies, all within legal limits; Card text for all 40 Main and 15 Extra cards from the card database; Usage stats: Dracotail core inclusion rates from the archetype table
• Observed: Core Dracotail cards present: 16 of 25 tracked core cards
• Inferred: Opening-hand consistency estimates from hypergeometric draw tables; Going-first and going-second strength split; Resilience and resource economy estimates from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); D13 matchup and format fit (no tournament context)
• 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 are absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN for going-first, going-second, matchup, brick or OTK rates Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Side Deck is empty, so post-side behavior cannot be evaluated