Dracotail Deck #772101 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · 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. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Dracotail/Invoked bosses from the Extra Deck (Hyperinvoked Aeon 3800 ATK, Dracotail Arthalion 3000 ATK, Dracotail Gulamel 2800 ATK, Invoked Oceanus 3000 ATK); Board control through Solemn/hand-trap interaction and Dracotail recursion, then a single Fusion boss to close
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Dracotail/Aleister starter (core group P≈0.91 in a 5-card hand), Fusion Summon via Ketu Dracotail or Rahu Dracotail, and use hand traps and Solemn effects to protect the first boss (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx "C" and Solemn effects through the opponent's first combo, then rebuild a Fusion boss from the GY and Extra Deck (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recover through Dracotail Pan, Dracotail Urgula and Dracotail Lukias GY effects that return Dracotail cards to the Deck and rebuild the hand (Inferred from card text)
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; the deck cannot adapt between games in a best-of-3 (Verified from legality data)

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system: the archetype core (20 copies, P(≥1 in a 5-card opening hand) ≈ 0.91) gives it a high chance of a live starter, and 12 hand traps plus 25 removal-text cards give it layered interaction. The Fusion-boss ceiling from the Extra Deck is high, but there are no recorded boards, so conversion and floor are text-only estimates. Popularity was not credited, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score. The list is Illegal in OCG (Baronne de Fleur is Forbidden and Dracotail Lukias is over its Semi-Limited limit), so the final score is capped at 30 and is structural only. The deck has no Side Deck, which lowers its post-side and tournament reliability scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 58, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-6); No Side Deck (-3); Illegal legality cap (-15). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(58) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) + modifiers(-9) = 45; capped at 30 because the deck is Illegal (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.91 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.09 (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 dense (20 copies; P≈0.91 of at least one in a 5-card hand)
• Layered interaction: 12 hand traps, 15 negation-text cards and 25 removal-text cards
• High Extra Deck boss ceiling (Hyperinvoked Aeon 3800, Arthalion 3000, Oceanus 3000, Gulamel 2800)
• Multiple Dracotail recursion routes from GY and banishment

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Baronne de Fleur (Forbidden) and Dracotail Lukias at 3 copies (limit 2)
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Only 27% exact-archetype purity with 51 off-archetype copies, which raises brick risk
• Fusion-heavy and multi-decision lines with low pilotability
• No combo or tournament data to confirm conversion or floor

Critical choke points

• Single Fusion boss protected only by hand traps and Solemn effects
• Fusion Summon reliance on Ketu/Rahu Dracotail (one copy each) as the main access to Extra Deck bosses
• Dracotail Lukias over the Semi-Limited cap

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality status Illegal: Baronne de Fleur Forbidden (1 run) and Dracotail Lukias over limit (3 run vs 2 legal); Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0 within OCG size rules; Card stats and archetype labels from the export; Copy histogram 17/10/6 and archetype purity 27.1%
• Observed: Usage stats: 12 of 17 core cards present (70.6%)
• Inferred: Starter accessibility P≈0.91 from the core-group hypergeometric estimate; Recovery and interaction roles from card text; Going-first and going-second plan descriptions from text and probability
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference No tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent 1 passcode in CardIDList could not be resolved to a card (counted as Main) No win-rate telemetry — going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No Side Deck supplied, so post-side adaptability is unmeasured Deck title is null in the export