Dracotail Deck #773864 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 57/100 (±8 · 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 Dracotail/Albaz bosses from the Extra Deck (Arthalion, Albion Sanctifire, Albion Branded, Titaniklad, Granguignol, Khaos Starsource) after disrupting the opponent in their turn with hand traps; Recursive value from the GY (Pan, Urgula, Phryxul, Faimena, Fallen of the White Dragon) that rebuilds fusion access after disruption
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a searcher or starter in hand (Ketu Dracotail, Dracotail Lukias, Fallen of the White Dragon, Blazing Cartesia) to reach a Fusion Summon, keeping Ash Blossom and Droll for the opponent's first activation
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Droll and Lock Bird, Maxx C) in the opponent's turn to break their line, then convert the surviving resources into a fusion board
• Recovery: Use Dracotail Flame, Horn, or Sting to draw and recycle a Dracotail from the GY or banishment to the bottom of the Deck, then re-search or re-summon from the GY
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; the deck relies on its main-deck hand traps for every matchup

Why it scores here

The deck scores on how the whole system behaves, not on the average of its cards. It reliably reaches a starter: the hypergeometric estimate gives about 0.78 for at least one searcher-text card in a 5-card opening hand, and the Dracotail core is almost always present. Its eight hand traps (Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Droll and Lock Bird, Maxx C) give it a strong answer to the opponent's first activation and a credible going-second plan. The Dracotail Flame, Horn and Sting draw-and-recycle effects and the GY recursion monsters keep resources flowing after disruption, which earns the resilience and economy scores. Offensive power is moderate: the Extra Deck bosses are real but are limited by a fusion-only Extra Deck and no side deck. No combo boards and no tournament or win-rate data are present, so the combo scores are text-based Inferred reads and the score is Medium confidence. Archetype popularity was not credited, and the score does not reflect averaging individual card strength.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Control profile; Midrange is noted as a secondary read and not blended into the weights. Structural ≈ 63, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 68, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 56. Modifiers: No side deck (-3); Fusion-access choke points (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional) = 0.80*63 + 0.20*56 - 5 ≈ 57

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.78 · 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 negation-text cards in the main deck
• Multiple draw-and-recycle and GY recursion effects
• Fusion bosses with 2500 to 3000 ATK and multi-attack text
• Consistent Dracotail core with near-complete hand presence by proxy

Weaknesses

• Fusion-only Extra Deck relies on a few starter cards
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Conditional Mulcharmy cards can be dead in hand
• No recorded combo or win-rate data to confirm real performance

Critical choke points

• Ketu Dracotail, Rahu Dracotail, Dracotail Mululu and Branded Fusion are the fusion starters; disrupting them removes most of the Extra Deck conversion
• Going first without a searcher-text card in the opening hand (about 22% by proxy)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is legal in master-duel: 40 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side, every restricted card within its banlist limit; Hand-trap count 8 and searcher-text count 10 from role-tag counts; Fusion Extra Deck of 14 distinct fusions and 1 synchro; No side deck registered (side_count 0)
• Observed: Usage statistics show the Dracotail core is standard for this archetype (16 of 25 core cards present)
• Inferred: Starter access and consistency from hypergeometric estimates (about 0.78 for a searcher-text card in a 5-card hand); Disruption and recovery from card-text reads; Going-second strength from hand-trap density
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit (no tournament or win-rate data)
• 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 match record are absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter/OTK rates) Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied