Dracotail Deck #771655 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 54 / Extra 16 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon a large Dracotail/Invoked boss (Hyperinvoked Aeon, Invoked Elysium, Dracotail Arthalion) from the Extra Deck via hand-discard and Fusion starters (Faimena, Ketu, Rahu, Mululu); Aleister/Invoked Fusion lines through Aleister the Reminiscent, Aiwass and Invocation
• Turn 1 (going first): Turn 1: Dracotail Faimena or Mulcharmy draw engine, Ketu/Rahu searcher into a Fusion Summon; Ash Blossom and Ghost cards held up for responses
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Ghost Belle, Effect Veiler, Droll & Lock Bird) answer the opponent's first line, then Fusion from the field
• Recovery: GY recursion via Dracotail Lukias, Arthalion and Pan (Set a Dracotail Spell/Trap from Deck) plus Aleister searches
• After siding: Not evaluable: the list runs 0 side cards, so no post-side plan exists in the evidence

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Dracotail/Invoked starter in most hands: the archetype core group has about a 0.90 chance of at least one copy in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred, hypergeometric). Its engine converts through several independent starters (Faimena, Ketu, Rahu, Mululu, Lukias, Aleister) into high-ATK Fusion bosses such as Hyperinvoked Aeon and Invoked Elysium, and the 12 hand traps give it a real going-second interaction layer (about 0.80 chance of at least one in a 6-card hand, Inferred). The score is capped low because the list is illegal: Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization run 3 copies against a limit of 2, and the Extra Deck holds 16 cards against a limit of 15. Popularity was not credited: archetype usage stats only confirm that this list is a real, accessible build. Card scores were not averaged; the score reflects the system's consistency, interaction, and boss output, with no combo or tournament data to measure its actual output.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo primary with Midrange secondary, weighted as the Combo profile. Structural ≈ 60, Going First ≈ 56, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (over-limit copies) (-6); No side deck (-4). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(60) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(50) = 58, plus context modifiers (-10) = 48, then illegal cap applied -> 35 (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.9 · 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

• Several independent Fusion starters (Faimena, Ketu, Rahu, Mululu, Lukias)
• Dense hand-trap and negation layer (12 hand traps, 13 negation text)
• High-ATK boss options in the Extra Deck (Hyperinvoked Aeon 3800, Invoked Elysium 3200)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: over copy limit on Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization; Extra Deck 16 over the cap of 15
• Low archetype purity (18.6% exact-name); 57 off-archetype copies dilute the engine
• No side deck (0 cards), so no adaptability or post-side plan

Critical choke points

• Limited starters (Ketu, Rahu, Mululu) each run 1 copy, so losing them to a single interruption removes the main searcher
• Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization over the limit would be removed on legalisation, cutting interaction and Fusion options

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization over copy limit; Extra Deck 16 over cap of 15 (legality); Boss ATK stats from card data (Hyperinvoked Aeon 3800, Invoked Elysium 3200, Arthalion 3000); Archetype core group presence and usage stats (58-92% inclusion for core cards)
• Observed: Usage-stat inclusion for core Dracotail cards (archetype usage, not win rate)
• Inferred: Starter consistency ~0.90 for the archetype core in a 5-card opening hand (hypergeometric); Hand-trap coverage ~0.80 going second (hypergeometric); Combo ceiling and median from text only (no parseable boards); Interaction density and resilience read from card text
• Provisional: Meta power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13) - no tournament context
• 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 1 passcode in CardIDList (86120751) could not be resolved to a card and was counted as main No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) Meta Power is Provisional: no dated metagame sample Title is null on the deck record