Dracotail Deck #770082 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 56/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Dracotail and Magistus boss monsters (Dracotail Arthalion 3000 ATK, Zoroa the Magistus Verethragna 2900, Zoroa the Magistus Conflagrant Calamity 2900, Dracotail Gulamel 2800) and convert the board with Chaos Angel 3500 ATK when available (Inferred); Raigeki, Harpie's Feather Duster and Book of Moon to strip the opponent's board after a hand-trap-protected Fusion starter (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on Dracotail Faimena, Dracotail Pan or Dracotail Lukias; use Dracotail Lukias's on-summon search or Ketu/Rahu/Super Polymerization to reach a Fusion Summon, while holding Ash Blossom or Effect Veiler for the opponent's first answer
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Infinite Impermanence, Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring, Ghost Belle, Effect Veiler, Ghost Ogre and Droll & Lock Bird to stop the opponent's first play, then Fusion Summon from the Extra Deck (Inferred)
• Recovery: Dracotail Flame and Dracotail Horn return a Dracotail card from the GY or banishment to the bottom of the Deck to draw 1; Dracotail Urgula and Dracotail Gulamel recur from the GY (Inferred)
• After siding: None. The list has 0 Side Deck cards, so there is no post-side plan (Verified)

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens on a Fusion-enabler starter: Dracotail Faimena and Dracotail Pan (3 and 2 copies) and the searcher Dracotail Lukias give about a 0.34 chance of a 3-copy starter in a 5-card opening hand, and the 12-copy archetype core gives about 0.85 chance of at least one core card (Inferred). It converts that into pressure through a 14-slot Extra Deck of Fusion, Synchro, Link and Xyz bosses, but the recorded-board evidence is empty, so the ceiling and median come only from card text (Inferred). Survival is the strongest part of the list: 10 hand traps (about 0.85 chance of at least one going second) plus Raigeki, Harpie's Feather Duster and Book of Moon give layered interaction on the board (Inferred). The score reflects consistency, median output and interaction on the system as a whole, not an average of card scores and not the popularity of the Dracotail archetype, whose exact-name purity is only 32.7%. The main drags are the empty Side Deck (D12 = 20), two dead-in-hand Blazing Cartesia (its hand Special Summon needs Fallen of Albaz, which the list does not run), and the absence of any tournament or win-rate evidence.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 60.3, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 63, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-1); archetype purity and engine conflicts (-2); no side deck (-2); redundant hand-trap suite (2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional, no dated sample) = 0.80*60.3 + 0.20*55 - 3 = 56.3

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.85 · 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: 10 hand traps, Raigeki, Feather Duster and Book of Moon
• Redundant Fusion starters (Faimena, Pan, Urgula, Lukias, Ketu, Rahu)
• Strong boss-monster ceiling: Arthalion, Verethragna, Conflagrant Calamity, Gulamel, Chaos Angel
• Fully legal list with all restricted cards at their legal copy count

Weaknesses

• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Two Blazing Cartesia cannot be Special Summoned from hand because Fallen of Albaz is not in the deck
• Low exact-name archetype purity (32.7%); off-archetype Magistus, Bystial, Chaos and Harpie cards dilute the engine
• No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median are text-only inference

Critical choke points

• Single-card Limited pieces (Ketu, Rahu, Mululu) on the Fusion path; losing one to a banlist change slows the engine
• Going first, the opening must hit a Fusion starter (about 0.34 for the 3-copy starter, 0.85 for any core card)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 40 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side within 40-60 / 0-15 / 0-15 size rules; All restricted cards run at their legal copy count (Limited 1, Semi-Limited 2); Card text and copy histogram; Usage stats: 8 of 16 core cards present (50%)
• Observed: Usage stats: 8 of 16 core cards present; the export marks Dracotail Gulamel as absent, although card 79755671 is in the Extra list (see data_gaps)
• Inferred: Starter, searcher and hand-trap hypergeometric odds; Midrange strategy call and all dimension scores beyond the composition counts; Going-first and going-second power estimates; Modifier values
• Provisional: Meta Power (null); D13 matchup and format fit
• Data gaps: combos_evidence has 0 boards: combo ceiling, median and floor are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry (going first/second, matchup, brick, starter rates) Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample Data inconsistency: usage_statistics lists Dracotail Gulamel (ref 79755671) as in_this_deck=false, but cards[] has it in the Extra Deck (1 copy); the core-present count of 8/16 may be understated by one Side Deck is empty, so post-side analysis is inferred only