Dracotail Deck #771480 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Toolbox
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Dracotail Fusion Monsters (Arthalion, Gulamel, Albion the Sanctifire Dragon) from the Extra Deck, using Dracotail starters, then convert the board into a 3000-ATK end board; Hand-trap-protected Fusion boards that remove or negate the opponent's interaction and then attack through
• Turn 1 (going first): Starter (Faimena/Pan/Urgula/Lukias/Phryxul) or Ketu/Rahu to Fusion Summon a Dracotail Fusion Monster, using GY and recursion effects to keep a card in hand for follow-up
• Turn 2 (going second): Open with Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Maxx C or Red Reboot to slow the opponent's engine, then Fusion Summon through the board
• Recovery: Dracotail GY effects (Lukias, Phryxul, Faimena) recycle Dracotail monsters; Dracotail Flame, Horn and Sting draw and re-deploy
• After siding: No side deck is listed; a post-side plan cannot be evaluated

Why it scores here

The deck's engine is the Dracotail Fusion loop: starters in hand fuse into 3000-ATK Fusion Monsters, and the GY effects recycle Dracotail monsters, so the deck can open a functional plan in most hands (P of at least one core Dracotail in a 5-card hand is roughly 0.99 across the 22-card core group, Inferred). Interaction is dense, with two Semi-Limited Ash Blossoms, Red Reboot, Effect Veiler, Maxx C and removal in Dracotail Gulamel, Mululu and Sting, so the system is strong at continuing through disruption. The score is held down by the legality failure: three copy-limit violations and a Forbidden Albion the Branded Dragon make the list Illegal, so no normal Final score is given and the value is capped low. There is no side deck, no recorded boards and no tournament link, so the median output, going-second conversion and post-side plan are unmeasured. Popularity in the usage statistics confirms the list is a real, accessible build but did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 61, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12); no Side Deck (0). Final formula: Illegal: uncapped 0.80*Structural(61) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) = 58, plus banlist modifier -12 = 46, then capped at 35 for an Illegal list; Meta provisional

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.99 · 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

• Core Dracotail group is almost always accessible in the opening hand (P 0.987, Inferred)
• Layered interaction: two Ash Blossom, Red Reboot, Effect Veiler, Maxx C and removal on Gulamel, Mululu and Sting
• Dracotail GY recursion gives a second route after disruption

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: three copy-limit violations and one Forbidden card
• No side deck, so best-of-3 adaptability is unmeasured and weak
• No recorded boards, so the median and ceiling can only be inferred from text

Critical choke points

• Fusion Summon depends on a Dracotail starter and an Extra Deck Fusion; disruption that removes the starter or blocks Fusion stalls the line
• Forbidden Albion removes one Extra Deck route entirely
• Going-second hands with no hand trap and no starter have no fallback

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 3 copy-limit violations and Albion the Branded Dragon Forbidden; Composition: 40 main, 15 extra, 0 side; 12 Fusion, 2 Link, 1 Synchro; Usage: core inclusion percentages
• Inferred: D1 consistency from hypergeometric odds; Interaction density from card text; Dracotail recursion value from card text
• Provisional: D4 median output (no boards); D13 format fit (no meta sample); Meta power (null)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no side deck listed for a best-of-3 format no tournament link; archetype meta-share and pilot record absent no win-rate telemetry; going-first and going-second splits are Inferred usage statistics lists Dracotail Gulamel as not in the deck, but the cards list includes it in the Extra Deck (copies 1); one of the two sources is inconsistent Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied