Dracotail Deck #773837 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 55/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Control
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Toolbox
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Level 8 or higher Dragons and Fallen-of-Albaz-linked Fusions (Arthalion, Albion, Titaniklad, Granguignol, Dogma, Mirrorjade) that outclass the board at 2500 to 3000 ATK; Direct and multi-attack pressure from Dracotail Arthalion and Alba-Lenatus after the opponent's board is cleared by Dracotail removal and Fusion-based destruction
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Faimena, Mulcharmy or Ash-type cards in hand, search or recur a Dracotail or Albaz enabler, and hold a Dracotail Spell/Trap (Flame, Sting or Horn) to answer the first big play
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash, Droll and Lock Bird, Maxx C, Ghost Belle, Nibiru) to break the opponent's opening summon, then Fusion Summon on the following turn from the remaining hand and field
• Recovery: Recover Dracotail monsters from the Graveyard (Urgula, Phryxul, Lukias effects) and rebuild a Fusion line through the Albaz enablers that remain in hand or Deck
• After siding: Not applicable: Master Duel exposes no Side Deck (side_count 0), so no post-side plan exists; this is a single-game format for the deck as built

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Control-style plan on the opponent's turn: roughly 82 percent of 5-card hands contain at least one searcher-text card and about 76 percent of 6-card going-second hands contain at least one hand trap, which is what lets it answer the first summon. Its conversion ceiling comes from a complete Extra Deck of 2500 to 3000 ATK Fusion finishers, with Dracotail Arthalion and Alba-Lenatus providing multi-attack pressure once the board is cleared. Interaction is layered across hand traps, Spell/Trap removal and Fusion-based destruction, and Graveyard recursion gives it recovery across turns, though the recorded combo evidence is empty so floor and median output are text-based inference only. Score is computed from the seven-part system (engine, consistency, interaction, resilience, resource economy, closing power, Extra Deck coverage), not from averaging individual card scores, and popularity from usage statistics did not earn points. The deck carries no Side Deck and has no metagame or tournament data, so Meta Power is provisional and the score is held at Medium confidence with a band of plus or minus 7.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Control. Structural ≈ 61, Going First ≈ 64, Going Second ≈ 68, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: Engine conflicts and low archetype purity (-2); Single-copy Albaz enabler dependence (-2); Banlist exposure (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); Structural 61.21 gives 59.97 before modifiers; modifiers -5 gives 54.97, rounded to 55

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

• Eight hand traps and Maxx/Droll/Nibiru give strong going-second disruption
• Complete 15-card Extra Deck with 2500 to 3000 ATK Fusion finishers and multi-attack
• Multiple Fusion routes (Branded Fusion, Rahu, Ketu, Mululu, Pan) and Graveyard recursion provide redundancy
• Legal under Master Duel size and Limited/Semi-Limited rules at declared copy counts

Weaknesses

• No combo boards recorded, so ceiling and median are text inference only
• Only 34.5 percent exact archetype purity; generic hand traps dilute the engine
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation is available in this format
• Hand-trap-heavy hands can brick on the controlling player's own turn

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz (1 copy) plus the Fallen of the White Dragon enablers gate most Extra Deck Fusion lines
• Branded Fusion and Rahu Dracotail are Limited at one copy, so a single lost copy removes a Fusion route

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in Master Duel: 40 main, 15 extra, 0 side; all restricted copies within legal_copies; Extra Deck composition: 13 Fusion, 1 Link, 1 Synchro; 14 distinct; Archetype purity 34.5 percent exact name
• Observed: Usage statistics show Dracotail core inclusion at 84 to 100 percent for the cards in the list
• Inferred: Hypergeometric starter, searcher and hand-trap probabilities; Interaction density and disruption read from card text; Structural dimension scores D1 to D11 and D14
• Provisional: Meta Power (null); D12 side adaptability (no Side Deck in format); D13 matchup and format fit (no dated metagame or tournament data)
• 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 exists in YGOVN for this deck (going-first, going-second, matchup, brick and OTK rates) Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied usage_statistics in_this_deck flags are false for every Extra Deck core card (Gulamel, Arthalion, Alba-Lenatus, Albion Sanctifire, Titaniklad, Mirrorjade, Rindbrumm, Dogma, Ecclesia and Dark Dragon, Secreterion) even though the cards list shows all of them in the Extra Deck; the flag appears to cover the Main Deck only, so missing_core 64 percent is understated and the Extra core is effectively complete Deck title is null in the export, so the deck name cannot be shown