Dracotail Deck #772813 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 54 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 6 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion boss out of the Extra Deck (Dracotail Arthalion 3000 ATK, Dracotail Gulamel 2800 ATK, Secreterion Dragon, Dracotail Pan) converting Dracotail fusion material into board pressure.; Recursion-driven grind through Dracotail Lukias, Phryxul and Urgula searches and Dracotail Flame/Horn/Sting card advantage.
• Turn 1 (going first): Opening Dracotail Faimena, Lukias or Ketu, then Rahu or Ketu into a Fusion Summon from the Extra Deck. Hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Effect Veiler) are held for the opponent's first activation.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash, Ghost Belle, Effect Veiler, Infinite Impermanence, Droll) to slow the opponent's starter, then a Dracotail Fusion Summon to rebuild the board.
• Recovery: Dracotail monsters recurring from GY or banishment via Phryxul, Horn, Flame and Sting, which place GY cards on the bottom of the Deck to draw.
• After siding: Not evaluable: side deck is empty (0 cards) in the export.

Why it scores here

This list is structurally a Dracotail fusion engine with a dense hand-trap and searcher package, and the structure is what earns the modest structural read. The archetype core is reliably present (about 95% of hands hold at least one core card, Inferred), so the engine usually turns on early. Interaction is the strongest part of the system: Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Effect Veiler and Infinite Impermanence give layered answers on either turn. The score is capped because the list is Illegal: two Forbidden Albion copies, one Forbidden Triple Tactics Talent, and four cards over their copy limits. Under the Illegal rule this is a theoretical, structural-only read, and no combo, win-rate or meta evidence was supplied. Popularity and archetype usage did not add points, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: 100% Combo profile (Midrange noted as the secondary read only). Structural ≈ 56, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); copy_limit_violations (-4). Final formula: Illegal: theoretical/structural-only. Uncapped read = 0.80*56 + 0.20*50 - 12 (modifiers) = 42.8; capped at 30 under the Illegal rule. Meta Power null (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

• Dense hand-trap package (Ash, Ghost Belle, Effect Veiler, Impermanence, Droll) covers both turns
• Core archetype group is present in about 95% of opening hands (Inferred)
• Multiple independent starters and GY recursion support recovery

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Forbidden and over-limit cards prevent any normal score
• No side deck, so there is no post-side plan
• Several hand traps are dead without a board to protect

Critical choke points

• Forbidden Albion and Triple Tactics Talent are removed in any legal build, which removes a closing line
• Dracotail Faimena/Ketu/Rahu starter access is the only route into the Fusion boss package

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 54 and Extra 15 are within size rules; Six copy-limit violations including two Forbidden cards (Albion, Triple Tactics Talent); Side deck is empty; Card text for all 53 distinct cards is present in the export
• Observed: Archetype usage stats: Ketu, Sting, Flame, Rahu, Mululu and Faimena are common core cards (inclusion 80-90%)
• Inferred: Core-group opening-hand access 0.946 (hypergeometric); Hand-trap coverage 0.874 on going-second; Structural dimension scores based on card text and composition; Going-first and going-second power estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and D13 matchup/format fit; Tournament reliability (no tournament link)
• 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 No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) Meta Power provisional; no dated metagame sample Empty side deck: post-side plan not evaluable Data inconsistency: usage statistics marks Secreterion Dragon, Dracotail Gulamel and Dracotail Arthalion as in this deck=false (and lists Arthalion missing core cards), but cards[] shows Arthalion x2, Gulamel x1 and Secreterion x1 in the Extra Deck; the usage flags were treated as unreliable for those cards