Dracotail Deck #771846 — 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 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Dragon boss monsters (Dracotail Arthalion, The Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Secreterion Dragon, Albion) from the Extra Deck, enabled by Dracotail searchers and Fusion-material recursion; Hand-trap and removal control (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Ghost Ogre, Lightning Storm, Typhoon, Dracotail Sting) into a Fusion board
• Turn 1 (going first): Opening starter (Dracotail Faimena, Mulcharmy Fuwalos/Purulia draw engine, Dracotail Pan or Lukias) into Ketu Dracotail or Rahu Dracotail to Fusion Summon a Dracotail boss; Typhoon or Lightning Storm for backrow or attack-position clearance
• Turn 2 (going second): Six-card hand with one hand trap (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, Droll & Lock Bird) to stop the opponent's first engine, then recover through Dracotail GY recursion into a Fusion boss
• Recovery: Dracotail monsters in the GY (Urgula, Phryxul, Lukias) return to the field or Deck; Dracotail Horn, Sting and Flame each draw one card while recycling a Dracotail card
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; the list cannot adapt between games

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal: three cards exceed their OCG copy limits, so it receives a capped, structural-only score of 35 rather than a normal contextual score. The structural read is driven by the Dracotail engine's consistency: the archetype core has about 95% chance of at least one card in a 5-card opening hand, and the Fusion searchers Ketu and Rahu plus Dracotail Faimena give several independent starts. Interaction is broad (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Ghost Ogre, Lightning Storm, Typhoon, Dracotail Sting and Horn), which lifts the endboard and going-second dimensions. Weaknesses are a large brick and tech load (17 tech cards, several conditional backrow or Spell removal cards), a missing Side Deck, a fusion-heavy line that requires several decision points, and no recorded combo boards to measure floor or median output. The score does not come from popularity or from averaging card scores; archetype usage was not used as a power input.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 62, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: Illegal copy-limit cap (-18); Banlist exposure (-4); No side deck (-3). Final formula: Illegal cap: uncapped 0.80*Structural(62) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(50) + modifiers(-7) ≈ 53, capped to 35 for copy-limit violations; theoretical/structural-only (Meta provisional)

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

• Archetype core has about 95% chance of at least one starter in the opening 5-card hand
• Layered interaction: Ash, Droll, Ghost Ogre, Lightning Storm, Typhoon and Dracotail Sting
• Multiple 2800–3000 ATK Fusion bosses in the Extra Deck
• Searchers (Ketu, Rahu, Lukias, Urgula) and Dracotail GY recursion give redundancy

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy counts: three cards are over their OCG limit
• Roughly 17 tech or conditional cards dilute the 55-card main
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan
• Dependence on Limited Fusion-enablers (Ketu, Rahu, Mululu)

Critical choke points

• Ketu Dracotail and Rahu Dracotail (Limited, one copy each) are the main Fusion enablers; losing them to a Limited-card restriction or to interruption cuts the main boss route
• Faimena and the Fusion-material chain: a single backrow or hand-trap answer can stop the first Fusion

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is Illegal: Ash Blossom, The Fallen & The Virtuous and Super Polymerization exceed OCG copy limits; Main count 55 within 40–60; Extra count 15 within 0–15; Side count 0; Seven Limited and three Semi-Limited restricted cards are present at legal copy counts (or at the copy limit for the three over-limit cards); Archetype core group 24 copies with P(≥1 in opening 5) = 0.9512
• Observed: Usage statistics show Dracotail core cards such as Ketu, Sting, Flame and Rahu at 85–90% inclusion
• Inferred: Hypergeometric consistency read (≈95% starter access, ≈61% searcher access); Interaction density and going-second read from card text; Board-breaker and endboard assessment from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit (no tournament link); Median and floor output (no combo boards)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Usage statistics mark Dracotail Arthalion, Dracotail Gulamel and Secreterion Dragon as not in deck (copies 0) while the Extra Deck card list includes them; core-coverage numbers are unreliable until this is reconciled No Side Deck supplied (Side Deck size 0); post-side evaluation is not possible