Dracotail Deck #770578 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 46 / Extra 18 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon 3000-ATK Dragons (Dracotail Arthalion, Albion the Shrouded/Sanctifire Dragon lines) and Bystial Dis Pater 3500 via Synchro, enabled by Fallen of Albaz as a fusion material; Recursion-based grind through Dracotail GY effects and Branded Fusion / Branded Opening lines
• Turn 1 (going first): Discard Dracotail Faimena or search with Dracotail Lukias / Ketu Dracotail into a Fusion Summon off Fallen of Albaz (Inferred from card text)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit and Droll & Lock Bird for hand-trap interaction, then rebuild through GY recursion and Dis Pater (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recycle Dracotail monsters from GY via Dracotail Phryxul, Lukias and Urgula effects; Branded Bond returns Fallen of Albaz (Inferred)
• After siding: Not evaluable: side deck is empty (0 cards)

Why it scores here

This list is illegal as built: the Extra Deck holds 18 cards against a TCG maximum of 15, so the score is capped and reported as a theoretical, structural-only read. Structurally the deck reliably reaches its Fusion engine: Dracotail Faimena (3 copies) gives about a 30% chance of at least one copy in a 5-card opening hand, and the searcher text group gives about 93% for at least one searcher. Its interaction suite (Ash Blossom x2, Ghost Ogre x2, Droll & Lock Bird, Dracotail Flame/Sting/Horn, Branded Retribution) is dense, and its closers (3000-ATK Fusions, Dis Pater at 3500) are strong on paper. The score did not come from averaging card scores or from the popularity of the Dracotail archetype: only 25% of the Main Deck is exact-name Dracotail, 11 core cards are absent, there is no side deck, and no recorded boards exist to confirm any combo floor or median.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 58, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-4); dependence on Extra Deck and Fallen of Albaz (-3); engine conflicts (-3). Final formula: Illegal cap applied: uncapped 0.80*58 + 0.20*50 - 10 modifiers ≈ 36, capped to 30 per rubric Step 2 (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.3 · 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

• Dense negation and hand-trap suite (Ash Blossom x2, Ghost Ogre x2, Droll & Lock Bird)
• Strong closers: Dis Pater 3500 and several 3000-ATK Fusions
• Searcher density is high (18 searcher-text cards, P ≈ 0.93)

Weaknesses

• Extra Deck is 3 over the TCG limit, so the list is illegal as built
• Mixed sub-archetypes: exact-name Dracotail purity is only 25%
• No side deck and no recorded combo data

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz (2 copies) is a material for most Fusion routes
• Extra Deck overflow of 3 cards must be cut before the list is legal

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Extra Deck has 18 cards, violating the TCG maximum of 15; All restricted cards run at or under their legal copy limit; Side deck is empty (0 cards); 11 usage-core cards are absent from the list
• Inferred: Starter probability from hypergeometric draw odds (Faimena 0.2978; searcher group 0.9283); Interaction density and closing power from card text and stats; Pilotability from the number of multi-step Fusion lines
• Provisional: Meta Power is null: no dated metagame sample; Matchup and format fit are neutral placeholders
• Data gaps: Extra Deck has 18 cards versus a TCG maximum of 15 (illegal as built) 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; going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck title is null