Dracotail Deck #770383 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 57/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Dracotail boss monsters (Arthalion, Gulamel, Pan, Urgula line) off Fusion enablers (Ketu, Rahu, Mululu, Branded Fusion, Fallen of Albaz / White Dragon) and convert the resulting board into pressure; Disrupt the opponent's turn with 8 hand traps and negation/removal text, then close with Fusion boards after the interaction is spent
• Turn 1 (going first): Opening starter from the Dracotail/Fallen engine (Fallen of White Dragon, Mululu, Ketu, Faimena) to reach a Fusion, then hold hand traps for the opponent's first Fusion or Special Summon
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Effect Veiler, Maxx C) to break the opponent's first board, then rebuild with Fusion Summon from the Extra Deck through the GY recursion effects
• Recovery: Recur Dracotail monsters from the GY through Lukias, Phryxul and Urgula effects and draw/search with Dracotail Horn, Flame and Searchers
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so no post-side plan can be evaluated; any sideboarding would require re-building the list

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional plan: archetype-core cards are present in about 99.5% of 5-card openings by the hypergeometric proxy, and 11 searcher-text cards give a search route to the starter (Inferred). Interaction is the strongest system feature, with 8 hand traps, 9 negation-text cards and 8 removal-text cards, so the deck can answer a first board on either turn order, and 76% of going-second 6-card hands contain at least one hand trap (Inferred). Conversion to pressure is moderate: the Extra Deck has Fusion bosses at 2500–3000 ATK, but there is no recorded combo data, so the ceiling and median are read from card text only and capped accordingly. The score comes from consistency, recursion, and interaction across the system, not from averaging the card scores. Dracotail's popularity and the single guide describing it as a disruptive control deck were not credited as power, and the deck's 33% exact-name archetype purity (with Bystial, Predaplant, Mulcharmy, and Maxx C as off-plan pieces) reduces the modifier.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, no secondary weighting applied; Toolbox noted as descriptive only. Structural ≈ 63, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-2); Engine conflicts / purity (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional, no dated meta sample)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 1 · 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

• Eight hand traps and negation/removal text give layered answers to the opponent's board
• Recursion effects in the GY (Lukias, Phryxul, Urgula, Pan) support rebuilding after disruption
• Fusion bosses at 2500–3000 ATK provide closing power if the Fusion route is reached

Weaknesses

• No recorded combo boards, so ceiling and median are text-only inference
• Low exact-archetype purity (32.7%) with several off-plan staples competing for slots
• No side deck registered, so no post-side plan

Critical choke points

• Reaching a Fusion Summon depends on a small number of enablers (Ketu, Rahu, Mululu, Branded Fusion, Fallen of Albaz/White Dragon)
• Several key Fusion and disruption cards are 1-of Limited cards
• Lack of a side deck means no adjustment after game one

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status: 40 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side within master-duel size rules; All restricted cards at or under legal_copies (Limited 1, Semi-Limited 2); Usage stats: 27 archetype rows, 15 of 25 core cards present by the in_this_deck flags; Guide describes a control deck built on hand traps and disruption during Fusion
• Inferred: Opening-hand consistency from hypergeometric probabilities; Hand-trap and interaction density from role_hint_tags and text; Fusion route access and recursion value from card text; Going-second hit rate of hand traps
• Provisional: Meta Power; Matchup fit and tournament reliability (no dated sample or tournament link); Post-side plan (no side deck)
• 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 exists in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied usage_statistics in_this_deck flags disagree with the cards list for several refs (e.g., Dracotail Arthalion, Dracotail Gulamel, Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon, Titaniklad the Ash Dragon are in the deck but flagged in_this_deck=false), so core_present_pct is understated and the core-coverage read is unreliable No side deck registered (side_count 0)