Dracotail Deck #770306 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 61/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion boss (Dracotail Pan, Arthalion, Gulamel, Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Albion) at 2800-3000 ATK, reached through Branded Fusion, Super Polymerization, Ketu and Rahu after the opponent's board is disrupted; Attrition through hand traps, Dracotail GY-to-Deck recursion and Dracotail Sting/Flame/Horn card-advantage cycle
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon a Dracotail monster (Faimena, Phryxul, Lukias, Urgula) to search or set up Ketu/Mululu, then fuse into a 2800+ ATK boss while holding Ash Blossom and Ghost Belle as protection
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre and Maxx C to answer the opponent's turn; use Dracotail Sting/Flame/Horn to strip or bounce, then fuse on the following turn
• Recovery: Dracotail recursion (Phryxul, Lukias, Urgula, Flame/Horn/Sting placing GY cards on the Deck bottom and drawing) rebuilds the hand after a disruption
• After siding: Not applicable: Master Duel format with zero Side Deck cards in this list

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a Control/Combo system on its structure, not by averaging its 40 card scores. Its strongest reliable element is interaction: seven hand traps (Ash Blossom x3, Ghost Belle x2, Ghost Ogre, Maxx C) give a 71% chance of at least one hand trap when going second, and Dracotail Sting, Flame and Horn add spell/trap disruption. Ten searcher-text cards give roughly 78% odds of at least one searcher in an opening hand of five, which carries the engine's starts. Fusion conversion is real but thin: 13 Fusion copies across 12 names, Branded Fusion and Super Polymerization as enablers, and several 2800-3000 ATK bosses, with no recorded boards to measure its median or ceiling. Popularity and the archetype's 99.7% core-group proxy did not earn points, and the 34.5% exact-name purity (Dracotail plus Branded, Albaz, Mulcharmy, Predaplant, Bystial, Ecclesia and Dogmatika) is penalized as an engine conflict.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: 0.7 Control / 0.3 Combo. Structural ≈ 64, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 68, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: Engine conflict across sub-archetypes (-3); Limited-card dependence (-1); Engine redundancy (2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; no dated metagame sample)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.78 · 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

• Seven hand traps and three Ash Blossom copies give strong interaction on the opponent's turn
• Dracotail GY-to-Deck draw cycle (Sting, Flame, Horn, Lukias, Phryxul) gives card advantage and recursion
• Multiple 2800-3000 ATK Fusion bosses with several boss-removal and bounce routes
• Legal in full: all Limited and Semi-Limited copy counts are respected

Weaknesses

• Exact-name purity 34.5%; multiple sub-archetypes compete for the same resources
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Fusion bosses need Branded Fusion, Super Polymerization or Ketu, and each is a single point of failure
• No recorded combo boards, so ceiling and median are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Branded Fusion (1 copy, Limited) and Rahu Dracotail (1 copy, Limited) for the Dracotail/Branded Fusion route
• Ketu Dracotail and Super Polymerization (2 copies each, Semi-Limited) as the main search and Fusion enablers
• Dracotail Lukias (1 copy, Limited) as the only Limited searcher for Dracotail monsters

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 legal for master-duel; Banlist statuses and copy limits for all restricted cards (Limited 1, Semi-Limited 2); Card text and stats for every listed card; Archetype purity 34.5% (19 of 55 copies exact-named Dracotail; composition counts from the export); Guide snippet describing the deck as a control list with many hand traps and Fusion disruption
• Observed: Usage statistics show the Dracotail core is widely run (inclusion 85-100% for core Dracotail cards)
• Inferred: Hand-trap interaction density and going-second answer rate (from text plus hypergeometric odds); Starter access (P>=1 searcher in hand 5 = 0.78); Structural weights for Control with a 30% Combo blend; Engine conflict penalty from cross-archetype composition
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); D12 side adaptability (no side deck); D13 matchup and format fit (no tournament context)
• 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/OTK rates) Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Usage statistics in_this_deck flags contradict the cards list for Extra-Deck cards (Arthalion, Gulamel, Ecclesia and Secreterion appear in cards with zone=extra but are flagged in_this_deck=false); Extra-side reads use the cards list Deck has no title (title null); evaluation uses archetype and card list only Guide evidence is a single Vietnamese snippet with no sections