Dracotail Deck #771785 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Dracotail / Albaz boss monsters (Dracotail Arthalion, Albion, Mirrorjade, The Dragon that Devours the Dogma) from the Extra Deck, enabled by Branded Fusion, Ketu Dracotail and Rahu Dracotail; Hand-trap disruption (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Ghost Belle, Effect Veiler, D.D. Crow) that protects the Fusion line and strips the opponent's interaction
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a Dracotail starter (Faimena, Pan, Lukias, Phryxul) or a Fallen of Albaz line, search via Ketu Dracotail or Dracotail Lukias, then Fusion Summon a boss using Dracotail Mululu or Rahu Dracotail
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Effect Veiler, Droll & Lock Bird) to answer the opponent's first board, then reach a Fusion boss through the Branded or Albaz route
• Recovery: Rebuild from the GY: Dracotail Urgula, Dracotail Pan and Dracotail Phryxul recycle Dracotail monsters, and Dracotail Sting, Dracotail Horn and Dracotail Flame recycle Dracotail cards into the Deck
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no Side Deck at all (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan to score

Why it scores here

The score reflects the deck as a system, not an average of its card scores. A 24-copy Dracotail core gives a near-certain starter in the opening hand (P at least one core card in 5 is about 0.95, Inferred), and the Fusion engine has real route redundancy through Ketu, Rahu, Mululu and Branded Fusion. Hand traps (15 cards, 86% chance of one in a 6-card going-second hand, Inferred) and about 19 removal-text cards give the list interaction it can use while keeping its own line alive. The weaknesses are the 28% exact-archetype purity (Mulcharmy, Branded, Albaz Dragon, PSY-Frame and Despia are splashed in), the lack of any recorded boards or guides to measure a median, and a Side Deck of zero cards. The list is Illegal under OCG Semi-Limited rules because it runs 3 copies each of Ash Blossom and The Fallen and The Virtuous, so it is capped low and the result is structural/theoretical only. Popularity (archetype core present 82%) confirms the list is real and accessible but does not on its own earn power points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary (about 80%) with Combo weights as a secondary read (about 20%); the Midrange profile is used for the structural number. Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: Illegal copy-limit cap (-12); Banlist exposure (-4); Engine conflicts (-4); No side deck (-3). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*56.8 + 0.20*40 - 11 = 42.4; Illegal legality cap applied, final = 30 (structural/theoretical only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.95 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.05 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Core engine is dense: 24 Dracotail-named copies give about 95% chance of at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred)
• Multiple Fusion routes (Ketu, Rahu, Mululu, Branded Fusion) and hand-trap disruption protect the Fusion line
• Strong Fusion bosses with removal or unaffected text (Albion, Mirrorjade, Dracotail Arthalion)

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy counts for Ash Blossom and The Fallen and The Virtuous
• Only 28% exact-archetype purity; splash slots reduce consistency
• No Side Deck at all

Critical choke points

• Single copies of Ketu Dracotail, Rahu Dracotail, Dracotail Mululu and Branded Fusion are the only routes to Fusion without Lukias or Faimena
• Extra Deck access depends on Fusion spells that are Limited to one copy

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Illegal, 3 copies of Ash Blossom and of The Fallen and The Virtuous against a limit of 2; Composition: 56 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side; 28.2% exact-archetype purity; Banlist: Ketu Dracotail, Rahu Dracotail, Dracotail Mululu, Branded Fusion, Branded in High Spirits are Limited
• Inferred: Starter access about 0.95 from hypergeometric draw odds; Hand-trap access 0.86 going second; Interaction and resilience read from card text
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit (no dated metagame or tournament data)
• 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 are absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates); those are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck title is null in the export No guides attached for the archetype