Dracotail Deck #766487 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 55/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon a Dracotail boss (Arthalion, Gulamel, Pan, Urgula) from the Extra Deck, using hand and field monsters, then keep the board with recursion and recycled Dracotail Spell/Traps.; Albaz-chain Fusions (Albion, Rindbrumm, Mirrorjade) when the Fallen of Albaz line is live.
• Turn 1 (going first): Search or Normal Summon a Dracotail starter (Faimena, Lukias, Phryxul, Ketu, Mululu) and convert it into a Fusion boss, holding Ash Blossom, Droll and Maxx C for the opponent's first response.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Ash, Droll, Maxx C, Incredible Ecclesia) to answer the opponent's first board, then Fusion Summon through the disruption that remains.
• Recovery: Recycle Dracotail cards from the GY and banishment with Flame, Horn, Sting and Urgula, and return Dracotail monsters with Phryxul, Lukias and Urgula.
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so no post-side plan can be evaluated; the deck plays the same 40 cards every game.

Why it scores here

The deck opens a functional Fusion line reliably: the archetype core is present in 26 of 40 main slots, and the starter group has a P(at least one searcher in a 5-card opening hand) of about 0.82 (Inferred). Its real strength is interaction on the system: six hand traps, Maxx C and the Dracotail Spell/Traps give it negation and removal in both turns, so it can keep a Fusion line alive through the opponent's first response. Recursion through the Dracotail GY and banish cards gives it a second wave after a disruption, which is why resilience and resource economy score above the median. Its weak points are the 37 off-archetype copies (exact-name purity 32.7%, spread across Branded, Albaz, Mulcharmy, Despia and Ecclesia), the lack of a Side Deck, and the absence of any recorded boards, so the floor and median are not measured. The score was reached from consistency, interaction and recovery on the system; popularity did not earn points and no card scores were averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary; Control secondary treated as a context read only, not a second weight profile. Structural ≈ 61.5, Going First ≈ 56, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-3); engine_conflicts (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional, no dated metagame sample)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.82 · 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

• Layered hand-trap and Maxx C interaction on both turns
• Dracotail recursion gives a second route after disruption
• Core archetype cards present in 26 of 40 main slots, with a 0.997 open-probability proxy

Weaknesses

• Only 32.7% exact-name archetype purity; three or more sub-archetypes compete for hand space
• No Side Deck; no post-side adaptability
• Five Limited cards in single copies create banlist fragility

Critical choke points

• Single copies of Dracotail Lukias, Rahu Dracotail and Branded Fusion as the only Fusion/starter access for their lines
• Reliance on Fallen of Albaz as the Albaz-chain link

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in master-duel format: 40 main, 15 extra, 0 side, no violations; Banlist: 5 Limited and 4 Semi-Limited cards, each within legal copies; Archetype usage stats show 26 core cards present (64% core present)
• Inferred: Starter consistency ~0.82 (searcher group hypergeometric); Hand-trap density P(>=1 in hand6) ~0.65; Ceiling and interaction read from card text and archetype role tags
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit and Side Deck adaptability (no post-side or tournament data)
• 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 (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) no Side Deck registered; post-side plan unscored Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied