Dracotail Deck #770329 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 60/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon 2800-3000 ATK boss monsters (Dracotail Arthalion, Albion the Sanctifire Dragon, The Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Mirrorjade, Dracotail Gulamel) after disrupting the opponent's turn, using Dracotail/Branded fusion enablers.; Synchro (Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon) and Link (Predaplant Verte Anaconda) Extra Deck options, plus Titaniklad and Rindbrumm as Fusion boss alternatives.
• Turn 1 (going first): Search a Dracotail or Ecclesia enabler (Ketu Dracotail, Dracotail Lukias, Incredible Ecclesia, Blazing Cartesia) and convert it into a Fusion from hand/field with Mululu, Ketu, Rahu or Branded Fusion, keeping at least one hand trap available (Inferred from card text).
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C and Effect Veiler to answer the opponent's first Summon or search, then use Mululu, Pan, Gulamel or Sting to disrupt and Fusion on a later turn (Inferred; guide describes the deck as a control deck that plays in the opponent's turn).
• Recovery: Recycle Dracotail monsters from the GY and banishment through Faimena, Urgula, Phryxul, Lukias and the Dracotail Flame/Horn/Sting draw-and-bottom effects, then re-run a Fusion (Inferred from card text).
• After siding: None. The deck has no side deck (side_count 0), so the evidence contains no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Dracotail or Ecclesia searcher and converts it into Fusion summons through several overlapping enablers (Ketu, Mululu, Rahu, Branded Fusion, Pan, Urgula), which gives it route redundancy after disruption. Its seven hand traps across four cards, plus three trap cards and several opponent-turn effects, give it layered interaction, and the Extra Deck carries multiple 2800-3000 ATK bosses for closing. Scores are computed on the system: the deck earns points for redundancy, layered interaction and closing power, not from averaging card scores. Popularity and archetype usage were not counted as power; usage statistics only confirmed that the core cards are present. Floor and median output are unmeasured because no boards were recorded, so those scores carry low weight and are Inferred. The deck is penalised for conditional bricks (Mulcharmy Fuwalos), low archetype purity (34.5 percent exact-name), a complex Fusion sequence, and having no side plan.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Control. Structural ≈ 65, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 68, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-2); engine conflict (-1). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers. Structural is the Control profile with D13 dropped and the remaining weights re-normalised over 93 (weighted sum 6010/93 = 64.6). 0.80*64.6 + 0.20*55 = 62.7; modifiers -3 gives 59.7, rounded to 60.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.82 · 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

• Redundant hand-trap suite: 7 copies across Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C and Effect Veiler
• Fusion route redundancy: Ketu, Mululu, Rahu, Branded Fusion, Pan and Urgula each feed Fusion from hand or field
• Boss ceiling of 2800-3000 ATK Fusion monsters at 1-2 copies each
• Core coverage is complete once the Extra Deck is counted (see data gaps)

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so no post-side plan
• Mulcharmy Fuwalos x3 is conditional and needs an empty field to work
• Low exact-name purity (34.5 percent): Branded, Albaz Dragon, Ecclesia, Predaplant, Despia and Dogmatika copies dilute the Dracotail engine
• Nine banlist-restricted cards, including single-copy Limited engines
• Complex Fusion sequencing with Extra Deck summon restrictions

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz (1 copy) plus Branded Fusion (1 Limited copy) for the Albaz Fusion lines; five Main Deck Fallen-named copies mitigate this
• Extra Deck is 13 of 15 Fusion: removing Ketu, Mululu, Rahu or Branded Fusion before the Fusion lands cuts the Extra Deck's use
• Rahu, Branded Fusion and Pan restrict Extra Deck summons to Fusion for the turn, which blocks Synchro and Link lines in the same turn

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Legal; 40 Main / 15 Extra / 0 Side within size rules; All nine restricted cards are at or below their legal copy counts; Composition counts: 13 Fusion, 1 Synchro, 1 Link, 7 hand traps, 40 Main / 25 distinct; Boss ATK values from card data; Exact-name purity 34.5 percent from archetype counts; Core usage coverage is 25/25 once Extra Deck cards are counted
• Inferred: Control primary strategy, based on hand-trap density and disruption text, plus the guide's description; Consistency estimates from hypergeometric values (searcher group 0.82, hand-trap group 0.71); Ceiling and floor scores from card text, with no recorded boards; Turn-1 and going-second plans from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); D13 matchup and format fit (no tournament or meta-share data); D12 side adaptability scored from the absence of a side deck only
• 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 absent No win-rate telemetry in YGOVN: going-first/second, matchup and brick/starter rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Preprocessor defect: usage_statistics in_this_deck and copies_in_deck ignore Extra Deck cards (Dracotail Gulamel, Arthalion, Mirrorjade, Titaniklad, Rindbrumm, Secreterion, Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon, Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Alba-Lenatus all show false though present). The reported 16/25 core coverage and missing_core list are therefore wrong; actual coverage is 25/25 No side deck (side_count 0); no best-of-3 or post-side data Guide evidence is a single Vietnamese snippet with no section structure