Dracotail Deck #769764 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Combo
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon a Dracotail Fusion Monster (Arthalion, Gulamel, Pan-line) from the Extra Deck off Dracotail starters and Dragon or Spellcaster material, then attack or clear the board; Stun-style lock through 16 hand traps (Ghost Ogre, Ghost Sister, Ghost Belle, Effect Veiler, Ash Blossom, Maxx C) that stall the opponent's combo while Fusion pressure builds
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Dracotail starter (Faimena, Lukias, Mululu, Ketu, Rahu) and Fusion Summon, using Dracotail Lukias or Faimena as material to set a Dracotail Spell or Trap for recursion
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold 2 to 3 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Effect Veiler, Maxx C) to answer the opponent's first summon or search, then Fusion Summon from the board on the next turn
• Recovery: Recursion from the GY through Dracotail Phryxul, Dracotail Gulamel and Dracotail Urgula, plus Dracotail Sting and Dracotail Flame to reset the board
• After siding: Not evaluable: side_count is 0, so no post-side plan exists in the export

Why it scores here

The deck has a real archetype core (22 Dracotail-family copies, about 93% chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand per the hypergeometric estimate), so its Fusion engine is usually accessible on turns 1 and 2. Its strongest feature is interaction: 16 hand traps (Ghost trio, Effect Veiler, Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Droll and Lock Bird) give high negate and disruption density, which is why interaction quality scores above the other dimensions. Opening-hand bricks and off-archetype dilution (about 28% exact archetype name purity, many Magistus, Mulcharmy and Branded copies) pull consistency down. Combo ceiling and median are not scored from recorded boards because none exist, so those figures are text-based Inferred reads. The score comes from consistency, interaction and recovery on the system, not from Dracotail's popularity and not from averaging card scores. Because two Forbidden cards and one over-limit Semi-Limited card are present, the deck is capped low and the score is theoretical only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange profile used for structural score; Stun traits (hand-trap density) are reflected in D7 and D14, not in a separate weight blend. Structural ≈ 52, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 48, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); dependence on one Extra-Deck card (-4); illegal-deck cap (-15). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability = 49.6, then context modifiers -10 = 39.6 theoretical; illegal-deck cap applied, final score 25 (theoretical/structural only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.93 · 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

• Archetype core is well represented (22 copies, about 93% chance of at least one in a 5-card hand)
• 16 hand traps give high interaction density on both turns
• Extra Deck offers several Dracotail Fusion and Link bosses with 2500 to 3000+ ATK
• Recursion from GY plus Sting and Flame gives some card economy after disruption

Weaknesses

• Illegal: Dracotail Lukias over its Semi-Limited limit, and two Forbidden Extra Deck cards (Albion, Borreload)
• Low archetype purity (28%): 51 off-archetype copies from several sub-archetypes
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptability
• Hand-trap heavy hands risk dead cards when no starter appears
• No recorded combos or tournament data for a grounded median

Critical choke points

• Dracotail starter availability in the opening hand (Inferred, about 0.25 per 3-copy starter)
• Single Extra Deck Fusion bosses that are Limited or Forbidden in OCG (Mululu, Gulamel, Albion)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck size 56 main and 15 extra are inside OCG size rules (40 to 60 and 0 to 15); Albion the Branded Dragon and Borreload Savage Dragon are Forbidden in OCG; Dracotail Lukias is Semi-Limited with a legal limit of 2 but 3 copies are run; The deck has no Side Deck cards
• Inferred: Archetype core group P(at least one in 5-card hand) ≈ 0.93; Hand-trap density gives high interaction (D7 ≈ 68); Brick rate is high because hand traps and searchers compete for hand space
• Provisional: Meta Power and D13 matchup or format fit are provisional: no dated metagame sample or tournament link
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only Inferred reads No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and pilot match record are absent No win-rate telemetry; going-first and going-second splits are Inferred No side deck in the export, so D12 cannot be measured Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample