Dracotail Deck #773867 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 59/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon a boss (Dracotail Arthalion x2, Albion the Sanctifire Dragon, Gulamel, Secreterion Dragon) after hand traps and Dracotail removal or destruction effects have cleared the opponent's responses.; Chain Fusion Summons through Ketu, Rahu, Branded Fusion and Mululu, with Dracotail GY recursion refilling the line.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Fusion starter (Ketu Dracotail, Rahu Dracotail, Branded Fusion, Dracotail Mululu) or discard Dracotail Faimena or Urgula to Fusion Summon, keeping hand traps up for the opponent's first interruption.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Droll and Maxx C to answer the opponent's first search, draw or Special Summon, then rebuild a board through a Fusion Summon.
• Recovery: Recur through Dracotail GY effects (Phryxul's Special Summon from the GY, Lukias's search, Urgula's bottom-deck effect) and Dracotail Sting, Horn and Flame draw-on-use effects.
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan and the list cannot adapt within a match.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Dracotail starter: P(at least one core Dracotail card in a 5-card opening hand) is about 0.997 and P(at least one searcher-text card) is about 0.82 (Inferred). Its consistency and interaction come from the system, not from averaging card scores: 8 hand traps and 9 removal-text cards protect a Fusion line that can convert into 2500-3000 ATK bosses. Going second, the 6-card hand has about a 76% chance of holding at least one hand trap, which is what makes the deck resilient against a single interruption. Floor and median output cannot be measured because no boards are recorded, so those scores are text-based and carry lower confidence. Popularity and archetype usage were not counted as power, and no points were added for them.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 63.6, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 70, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-2); engine conflicts (-2). Final formula: No reliable metagame, so Meta is provisional: 0.80*63.6 + 0.20*58 = 62.5, minus 4 context modifiers = 58.5, rounded to 59.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 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

• Tight Dracotail core with multiple Fusion starters and a heavy hand-trap package (8 hand traps, 11 searchers)
• Strong going-second interaction: about 76% chance of at least one hand trap in a 6-card hand
• High Extra Deck boss ceiling at 2500-3000 ATK with two Arthalion copies

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so there is no post-side adaptation
• Several single-copy restricted cards (five Limited) are starters or hand traps with no backup
• Fusion restriction riders conflict with the Synchro and Link cards in the Extra Deck

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz is single-copy; Albaz-referencing Fusions and Branded Fusion depend on it, with only Fallen of the White Dragon as partial backup
• Rahu Dracotail and Branded Fusion restrict Extra Deck summons for the rest of the turn, so sequencing must be planned before the Fusion

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 40 and Extra 15 are within Master Duel size rules; no side deck is registered; All Limited and Semi-Limited copy counts are within legal limits (status Legal); Card text, ATK and type values for the deck's main and Extra Deck cards; Archetype core inclusion statistics and the 36.4% exact-name purity
• Inferred: Consistency estimates from the hypergeometric draw table; Hand-trap and interaction density from role tags and card text; Going-first and going-second strength estimates; Engine conflict and choke-point reads from restriction text
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13 neutral placeholder); Median and floor output (D4) with no recorded boards
• 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 for this deck usage statistics in this deck flags appear to count Main Deck copies only: Extra Deck cards such as Gulamel, Albion the Sanctifire Dragon and Arthalion are present in the card list but flagged false, so core-card presence (64) understates the real list Deck title is null; no side deck was registered Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample