Dracotail Deck #773415 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 60/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Control
• Secondary strategies: Combo, Tempo
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 42 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion boss (Albion the Sanctifire Dragon, The Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Mirrorjade, Dracotail Arthalion) landed after hand-trap and spell/trap disruption; Dracotail recursion from GY and banishment via Dracotail Flame, Horn, Sting, Lukias and Phryxul, rebuilding a second Fusion turn
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Dracotail starters (Faimena, Ketu, Mululu) and Dracotail spell/traps to pressure the board; hold Ash Blossom and Droll for the opponent's first summon.
• Turn 2 (going second): Keep a hand-trap-heavy six (Ash, Droll, Effect Veiler, Ghost Ogre, Maxx C) to stop their engine, then Fusion through the disrupted board.
• Recovery: Recur Dracotail monsters and Spell/Traps from GY and banishment, use Fallen of the White Dragon (treated as Fallen of Albaz) to restart Albaz Fusions, and search with Ketu and Lukias.
• After siding: No side deck (side count 0); no post-side plan is present in the evidence.

Why it scores here

The deck's score comes from how the whole system behaves, not from averaging its 55 cards. Its strongest reads are interaction and recovery: 10 hand traps (three Ash Blossom, two each of Droll, Effect Veiler, Mulcharmy Purulia, Mulcharmy Fuwalos line support), Dracotail recursion, and multiple Fusion routes let it keep answering after disruption. Its weakest reads are the lack of a combo record (no parseable boards, so the ceiling and median are text-based inference) and the absence of a side deck, so no post-side plan can be credited. Popularity did not add points: the archetype core is well represented, but nine core Extra Deck cards, including the 100%-inclusion Dracotail Gulamel, are absent, and that deviation pulls D11 down. Meta Power stays provisional because no dated metagame sample exists.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Control. Structural ≈ 62, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 68, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 56. Modifiers: Engine redundancy (Fallen of the White Dragon x2 counts as Fallen of Albaz) (2); Banlist exposure (Limited key cards at max copies) (-2); Engine conflicts (Mulcharmy draw package vs Fusion-first lines) (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); Structural 61.8, TR 56, pre-modifier 60.6, modifiers -1 → 60

Probability & combo summary

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

Strengths

• Ten hand traps plus Crossout Designator and Dracotail Sting give layered interaction
• Dracotail recursion (Flame, Horn, Sting, Lukias, Phryxul) keeps resources flowing after disruption
• Fallen of the White Dragon x2 provides redundant Albaz Fusion access
• Strong going-second hand-trap coverage (≈0.83 at least one in six)

Weaknesses

• No recorded combo boards, so ceiling and median are text-based inference
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptability
• Dracotail Gulamel (100% core inclusion) is missing from the Extra Deck
• Several non-core Extra Deck Fusions (Titaniklad, Alba-Lenatus, Mirrorjade) take slots from core Dracotail targets

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz is a single copy, though Fallen of the White Dragon x2 reduces that exposure
• Branded Fusion and Dracotail Lukias are Limited at 1 copy each, so a single loss hurts the starter count

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main Deck 42 and Extra Deck 15 are within Master Duel size limits (0 violations); All Limited and Semi-Limited cards are run at or below their legal copies under BanMasterDuel; Card text for hand traps, Dracotail recursion and Fusion enablers; Usage stats: Dracotail Gulamel is 100% inclusion but absent
• Observed: Usage stats show 16 of 25 core archetype cards present (64%)
• Inferred: Starter and searcher hypergeometric estimates (P≈0.72 searcher in hand five); Interaction breadth from ten hand traps and nine negation-text cards; Going-second hand-trap coverage ≈ 0.83; Control classification from the guide's description (Dracotail as a control deck that plays on the opponent's turn)
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit and 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 or OTK rates) No side deck (side count 0), so no post-side evidence Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample