Dracotail Deck #773944 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 41 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Dracotail/Albaz boss monsters (Arthalion 3000 ATK, Pan 2700, Gulamel 2800) after disrupting the opponent's Main Phase with hand traps and Spell/Trap negations.; Branded/Albaz fusions (Albion the Branded Dragon, Mirrorjade-style fusion boards) reached through Branded Fusion, Rahu and Ketu Dracotail.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a Dracotail/Branded starter (Faimena, Mululu, Lukias, Ketu) to search or Fusion Summon, holding Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler and Ghost Ogre to protect the first Fusion.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold a hand trap (Ash, Veiler, Maxx C, Ghost Ogre) to answer the opponent's first summon or Spell/Trap, then rebuild the Fusion line from the GY through Dracotail Pan and Urgula material effects.
• Recovery: Recursion through Dracotail Flame, Horn and Sting, which return a GY/banished Dracotail to the Deck bottom and draw 1, plus Lukias/Phryxul GY effects to restore a starter.
• After siding: Not applicable: Master Duel is a single-game ladder format with 0 side cards.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional plan: the archetype core (27 copies) gives a 0.997 hypergeometric chance of at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred), and 3-of starters (Faimena, Ash Blossom, Fuwalos, Aluber, Veiler) give redundant entry points. Its 8 hand traps, 12 negation-text cards and 9 removal-text cards give strong interaction density and a 0.754 chance of a hand trap in a going-second 6-card hand, which earns the interruption and going-second scores. Conversion is the weak link: with no recorded boards, the ceiling (Arthalion, Pan, Gulamel, Albion fusions) and median are text-only inferences and are scored conservatively. Exact archetype purity is only 37.5% (Branded, Despia, Albaz and generic cards fill the rest), which lowers main-deck efficiency and adds a small engine-conflict penalty. Usage statistics confirm the list is the real archetype core, but that popularity earned no points; the score comes from consistency, interaction and closing power on the system, not from averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Control. Structural ≈ 63, Going First ≈ 68, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-2); engine_conflicts (-1); engine_compactness (1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers(-2) (Meta provisional); Structural = 6263/100 = 62.6 -> 63 under Control profile

Probability & combo summary

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

Strengths

• Core archetype starters are redundant (3-of Faimena, Ash, Fuwalos, Aluber, Veiler) with P(>=1 core in 5) about 0.997
• Layered hand-trap and negation coverage, with 0.754 chance of a hand trap in a going-second hand
• Strong fusion closing body in the Extra Deck (Arthalion 3000, Gulamel 2800, Albion 2500)
• Recursion through Flame/Horn/Sting restores lines after disruption

Weaknesses

• Only 37.5% exact archetype purity; Despia, Branded and Albaz cards dilute the engine
• No recorded boards, so combo ceiling and median are text-only inference
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptability
• Hand-trap-heavy hands can be dead on going first

Critical choke points

• Fusion Summon route depends on Dracotail monsters or Fallen of Albaz being available; Branded Fusion and Rahu are Limited single copies
• Interaction-heavy hands (8 hand traps) may stall without a starter on going first

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is Legal in master-duel with 41 Main and 15 Extra, 0 Side; Copy limits satisfied for all 8 restricted cards; Archetype core inclusion 100% for 16 of 25 core cards in usage stats
• Observed: 35 usage-statistic rows exist for the Dracotail archetype
• Inferred: P(>=1 core starter in opening 5) = 0.9973; Hand-trap coverage of going-second hands = 0.754; Interaction density from negation and removal text roles; Fusion-ceiling and median output from card text, no recorded boards
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit and format position (no tournament link); Side-deck adaptability (no side deck in format)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied - combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link - archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN - going-first/second, matchup, brick and OTK rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No side deck in master-duel format, so D12 has no post-side data