Dracotail Deck #771263 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 36/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Fusion
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 42 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon large Dragon and Spellcaster Fusion Monsters (Dracotail Gulamel, Invoked Aeon, Dracotail Arthalion, Secreterion Dragon) from the Extra Deck, using Dracotail and Aleister monsters as material.; Link and Synchro pressure (S:P Little Knight, Aleister the Invoker of Madness) and Baronne de Fleur board control, which is unusable as printed in this format.
• Turn 1 (going first): Opening starter (Dracotail Faimena, Lukias, Aleister, Ketu or Rahu Dracotail) searches or Fusion Summons into a Dracotail Fusion Monster; Dracotail Mululu or Flame and Droll & Lock Bird protect the line.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, Effect Veiler, Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird) answer the opponent's first play, then Fusion Summon through the remaining hand.
• Recovery: Dracotail recursion from the GY and banishment through Dracotail Flame, Horn, Sting and Ketu, plus Mulcharmy draw effects, rebuilds the hand after a failed line.
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has 0 Side Deck cards, so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

This is an illegal list, so its score is structural only and capped low. The Dracotail core is real: 19 exact-name Dracotail copies plus Mulcharmy, Aleister and Invoked support, and the archetype core group has a 97.6% chance of at least one piece in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred). The engine is accessible, but the hypergeometric draw odds for the single starter are only about 32% at three copies, so the line depends on several redundant starters. Interaction is strong on paper, with 8 hand traps and 19 removal-text cards, and the Fusion finishers have high ATK. The score comes from consistency, interaction, and closing power across the whole system, not from averaging card scores or from Dracotail's popularity. Forbidden Baronne de Fleur and the over-limit Lukias cap the result, and the absence of combo boards, a side deck, and matchup data keeps the confidence low.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: banlist exposure (Forbidden card run) (-10); illegal list cap (-8). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 53.6, then modifiers -18 for banlist exposure and illegal-list cap, final 36

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.91 · 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

• Archetype core is present in nearly every opening hand (97.6%, Inferred)
• Eight hand traps and multiple negation effects provide layered interaction
• Extra Deck has high-ATK Fusion finishers with several Dracotail recursion routes

Weaknesses

• Forbidden Baronne de Fleur and over-limit Dracotail Lukias make the list illegal
• Only 33% exact-name Dracotail purity; 38 off-archetype copies dilute the engine
• No Side Deck, so there is no post-side adaptation
• No recorded combo boards, so the floor and median are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Single-copy starters (Ketu, Rahu, Mululu) are the only non-Faimena routes into the Extra Deck, so one missed starter ends the line
• Fusion monsters need specific material; losing Dracotail monsters to a hand trap can strand the Extra Deck

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is Illegal: Baronne de Fleur Forbidden with 1 copy; Dracotail Lukias 3 copies vs 2 legal; Main 42, Extra 15, Side 0; Main within the OCG 40-60 range; Usage stat: Dracotail core and Ketu/Rahu/Mululu inclusion 89-92%
• Observed: No combo boards observed for this deck
• Inferred: Consistency estimates from hypergeometric draw odds; Interaction quality from hand-trap and negation text; Going-first and going-second splits from card text and draw odds
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit (no dated metagame sample or tournament link)
• 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 Side Deck is empty, so post-side performance cannot be evaluated 1 unresolved passcode (86120751) counted as Main no win-rate telemetry; going-first/second and brick rates are Inferred Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample