Dracotail Deck #773344 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Dracotail Fusion Monsters (Arthalion, Gulamel, Pan) off Dracotail Fusion-enabler spells and Fusion-material discards, then close with 2700-3000 ATK bodies; Branded and Fallen of Albaz Fusion lines (Branded Fusion, Albion-style boss plans) and Albaz Dragon Extra Deck monsters, which share Fallen of Albaz as material
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on Dracotail starters (Faimena, Lukias, Urgula, Ketu, Rahu), search or Special Summon a second Dracotail, Fusion Summon one boss, and keep Flame, Horn, or Sting up for interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Maxx C, or Droll as hand traps to break the opponent's first line, then recover through Dracotail GY and banish recursion (Faimena, Urgula, Phryxul) into a Fusion
• Recovery: Dracotail monsters and spells recycle from GY and banish (Urgula bottom-deck, Flame and Horn draw), and Mululu or Pan can rebuild a board after a single removal
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs an empty Side Deck (0 of 15 slots), so there is no post-side plan in the evidence

Why it scores here

The score comes from how the deck is built as a system, not from averaging its card scores. The 23 archetype-core copies give a 0.99 chance of at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand, and Dracotail searchers (Lukias, Ketu, Urgula) keep the engine live on turn 1 to 2, which earns D1 credit. The Extra Deck offers a strong closing set (Arthalion, Gulamel, Pan, Sanctifire-class 3000 ATK bodies), and the Main Deck has about 8 interaction or hand-trap pieces, which supports D7 and D9. Points are held back by 34.5% exact-archetype purity: Mulcharmy, Branded, Despia, and Albaz padding dilute the plan and cost D2, D10, and D14. The deck is Illegal (Forbidden Albion and an over-limit Lukias), has no combo records, no tournament link, and no Side Deck, so it is capped at 30 and scored as theoretical and structural only. Popularity and archetype usage were not counted as power.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 57.8, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); engine conflicts (-4). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*57.8 + 0.20*45 - 12 = 43.3 pre-cap; the deck is Illegal, so the score is capped at 30 and the evaluation is theoretical and structural only

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.99 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.01 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Archetype-core density gives near-certain access to a Dracotail starter on turn 1 (0.99 for 23 core copies in a 5-card hand)
• Multiple Dracotail Fusion bosses at 2700 to 3000 ATK with recursion from GY and banish
• Four hand traps (Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Droll) plus several Dracotail spell and trap interaction cards

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Albion the Branded Dragon is Forbidden and Dracotail Lukias is over its Semi-Limited limit
• Low exact-archetype purity (34.5%) with three or more competing engines
• No Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan

Critical choke points

• Fusion Summon depends on Dracotail Fusion-enablers (Ketu, Rahu, Branded Fusion) and their Extra Deck material; losing those turns off most bosses
• Going second, 4 hand traps show up in only about 49% of six-card hands

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Albion the Branded Dragon is Forbidden (1 copy run); Dracotail Lukias: 3 copies run vs 2 legal (Semi-Limited); Main 40 and Extra 15 are within the OCG size rules; Side is 0 of 15; Archetype core inclusion 82.4% present in usage stats
• Observed: Usage stats show 14 of 17 core cards present in this list
• Inferred: Opening-hand consistency (0.99 core access, 0.34 for 3 copies of one card); Interaction density and going-second hand-trap coverage (0.49); Engine conflicts from 34.5% purity; Combo conversion and resilience ratings from card text only
• Provisional: Meta Power (null); Matchup and format fit (D13); Tournament reliability (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo floor, median, and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot records are absent no win-rate telemetry (going-first, going-second, matchup, starter, or OTK rates) Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample Side Deck is empty, so post-side performance cannot be scored