Dracotail Deck #770351 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 54/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 42 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Level 8 Fusion bosses at 2500-3000 ATK (Dracotail Arthalion, Albion the Sanctifire Dragon, The Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Mirrorjade) summoned through Fallen of Albaz / Dracotail material, after interaction has cleared the opponent's board; Disruption grind: 12 hand traps and 10 negation-text cards trade one-for-one and leave the opponent without a follow-up while the Extra Deck keeps producing bosses
• Turn 1 (going first): Use Dracotail Faimena, Ketu Dracotail or Branded in High Spirits to search or fuse toward Fallen of Albaz; hold hand traps for the opponent's first real play
• Turn 2 (going second): Keep Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Ghost Ogre and Droll & Lock Bird to answer the opponent's first summon or search, then convert with a Fusion Summon on the following turn
• Recovery: Dracotail Sting and Dracotail Flame draw a card while recycling Dracotail cards; Dracotail Phryxul and Urgula recur from the GY to rebuild the Fusion engine
• After siding: None: the deck runs 0 side-deck cards, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The score comes from how the deck works as a system: twelve hand traps and ten negation-text cards give it repeatable interruption, and the 3000-ATK Fusion bosses in the Extra Deck give it a closing route once the opponent's board is cleared. Starter access is the main weakness: the Albaz package (Fallen of Albaz plus two Fallen of the White Dragon) is a single choke point with about a 32% chance of appearing in a 5-card opening hand, and the Dracotail and Branded cards only partly overlap with it. Combo ceiling and median output are text-only estimates because the export contains no recorded boards, so D3 and D4 carry low weight in confidence. Going second scores higher than going first because the hand traps and disruption are built to be held. Archetype popularity earned no points: the usage stat is used only to confirm the list is standard, and the score was not built by averaging individual card scores. No side deck and no meta sample keep the score below what the structure alone would earn.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Control. Structural ≈ 60.9, Going First ≈ 61, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: Unrecoverable Albaz choke point (-3); Engine conflicts and low archetype purity (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (no dated meta; D13 dropped and Structural renormalized over weight 93: 5664/93 = 60.9; 0.80*60.9 + 0.20*50 - 5 = 53.7, rounded to 54)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.76 · 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

• 12 hand traps and 10 negation-text cards give repeatable interruption
• Layered end-board interaction (Dracotail Sting/Flame, Urgula, Pan, Gulamel)
• Several 3000-ATK Fusion bosses in the Extra Deck
• All Limited and Semi-Limited copy limits respected

Weaknesses

• No side deck: no post-side plan
• Single Albaz choke point gates most of the Fusion package
• Low exact-name archetype purity (29.8%) with several competing sub-archetypes
• No recorded combos, so ceiling and median are text-only

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz plus Fallen of the White Dragon (3 cards) gate the Albaz Fusion package
• Branded in High Spirits and Ketu are the main searchers into that package

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 42 and Extra 15 within size rules for master-duel; All 5 Limited and 4 Semi-Limited cards run at exactly their legal copy limit; Card text for all 40+ distinct cards from the evidence pack; Guide (Vietnamese, one entry) describes the deck as a control list with hand traps and Fusion disruption
• Inferred: D1/D2 consistency from hypergeometric odds and text roles; D7 and D8 interaction quality from text roles; D9 closing value from ATK and text; Going-first and going-second splits from interaction versus starter access
• Provisional: D13 matchup and format fit (no tournament data); Meta Power (null)
• 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 are absent No win-rate telemetry in YGOVN: going-first, going-second and matchup signals are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied usage_statistics in_this_deck flags are false for every Extra Deck card that is present in the deck (Dracotail Gulamel, Secreterion Dragon, Titaniklad, Mirrorjade, Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon, Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Rindbrumm, Alba-Lenatus, Dracotail Arthalion), so missing_core and core_cards_present are unreliable; this evaluation does not use them probabilities.archetype_core_group copy count (26) is ambiguous; not used Guide snippet is partial (one entry, no sections)