Dracotail Deck #773875 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 55/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 45 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon a 3000-ATK boss (Dracotail Arthalion, Albion the Sanctifire Dragon, The Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Dracotail Gulamel) after the opponent's turn has been disrupted by hand traps and Dracotail spell/trap negation.; Grind card advantage through Dracotail recursion (Lukias, Phryxul, Ecclesia GY effects) and Dracotail Flame / Horn / Sting draw effects.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Dracotail or Fallen starter, search or Fusion Summon via Ketu Dracotail / Rahu Dracotail / Dracotail Mululu, and keep Ash Blossom, Nibiru or Maxx C up as hand traps for the opponent's first turn.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Nibiru, Maxx C and Dracotail Mululu (negation) to stop the opponent's first Fusion or Synchro, then rebuild a board with Dracotail Pan / Urgula removal and a Fusion boss.
• Recovery: Return Dracotail monsters from the GY with Lukias, Phryxul and Ecclesia effects, and draw through Dracotail Flame, Horn and Sting to refill the hand.
• After siding: No side deck is registered (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan; D12 reflects this.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional first turn: the archetype core group has P(at least one in a 5-card hand) of about 0.995 and 13 searcher-text cards give about 0.835 for at least one searcher (Inferred). Its strongest contribution is interaction on the system level: 7 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Nibiru, Maxx C), Dracotail Mululu and Dracotail Flame negation, and Dracotail Sting / Pan / Urgula removal give it several layers to stop an opponent's turn, which the Control profile rewards. Conversion is credible but unmeasured: 12 Fusion targets and several 3000-ATK bosses give a high ceiling, while the median output is unknown because no recorded boards exist. Structure and playability pull the score down: Mulcharmy and Albaz/Branded pieces dilute the engine, the list runs no side deck, and the sequencing is heavy. The score comes from consistency, interaction and recursion on the system, not from Dracotail's popularity or from averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Control. Structural ≈ 64.3, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 71, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: Engine conflict (-3); Banlist exposure (-2); Missing post-side plan (-2); Hard-garnet burden (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural(meta-neutral, D13 dropped and renormalised) + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*64.3 + 0.20*58 - 8 = 55 (Meta provisional)

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

• Hand-trap density (7) with negation text covers the opponent's first turn.
• Archetype core is nearly always accessible in opening hands (P 0.995).
• Strong Fusion boss pool (Arthalion, Albion, Dogma, Gulamel) at 8 levels with 3000 ATK.
• Layered recursion and draw text (Lukias, Phryxul, Flame, Horn, Sting) supports a grind game.

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation.
• Mixed engine: Albaz, Branded, Mulcharmy and Ecclesia pieces compete with Dracotail for slots.
• Mulcharmy and Maxx-style cards can be dead in hand without the right board state.
• Heavy sequencing (Fusion chains, hand-trap timing) lowers repeatability.

Critical choke points

• Branded Fusion, Rahu Dracotail and Lukias are single copies; losing them to disruption cuts a route.
• Fusion Summon routes depend on Ketu, Rahu and Mululu access to the Extra Deck.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal under master-duel BanMasterDuel: 45 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side; all 9 restricted cards within legal copies.; Composition counts: 23 distinct main cards, 13 distinct Extra cards, Extra breakdown 12 Fusion / 2 Link / 1 Synchro.; Archetype core usage: 28 copies in deck; 25 core cards listed in usage_statistics.
• Observed: Guide 1253 describes the deck as control with hand traps and disruption during Fusion (guide text, not a measured frequency).
• Inferred: Opening-hand consistency P(>=1 core) = 0.995 and searcher P = 0.835 from the hypergeometric table.; Control classification and interaction density from hand-trap and negation text.; Going-first and going-second power estimates from interaction and hand-trap probabilities.
• Provisional: D13 matchup and format fit (no dated metagame sample).; Meta Power is null (no dated metagame sample).
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference. No tournament link: archetype meta-share and pilot match record absent. No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates). No side deck, so post-side performance cannot be scored. usage_statistics in_this_deck and missing_core consider only Main Deck cards: Extra-Deck core cards (Gulamel, Rindbrumm, Mirrorjade, Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon, Secreterion, Arthalion, Alba-Lenatus, Albion) are present in the cards list, so the 64 percent core_present_pct is an artifact and was not used. Deck title is null; the guide snippet is a single Vietnamese mention with no sections.