Dracotail Deck #773947 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 56/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon a 3000-ATK Dragon/Albaz Fusion (Dracotail Arthalion x2, Albion the Sanctifire Dragon, Dragon that Devours the Dogma) after hand-trap disruption; Dracotail Pan (2700 ATK) and Dracotail Gulamel as board-control and pressure follow-ups
• Turn 1 (going first): Opening starter (Faimena, Mululu, Ketu, Super Polymerization or Fallen of Albaz) into a Fusion Summon, keeping hand traps for the opponent's turn
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash, Droll, Veiler, Maxx C, Ghost Ogre, Ghost Belle) to break the opponent's first combo, then a Fusion line through the resulting board
• Recovery: Recover Dracotail cards from GY/banishment through Phryxul, Urgula and Gulamel effects and draw through the Dracotail card-neutral traps (Flame, Horn, Sting)
• After siding: None in evidence: the deck runs 0 Side Deck cards

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a starter in most hands: roughly 16 starter-class cards (Faimena, Mululu, Ketu, Super Polymerization, Branded Fusion, Rahu, Fallen of Albaz, Fallen of the White Dragon) give an inferred P(at least one starter in a going-first hand) of about 0.93. It converts that opening into Fusion Summons of 3000-ATK closers, and it survives disruption through ten hand traps and several independent fusion routes. Its weaknesses are a low exact-name Dracotail purity (32.7%), four conditional Mulcharmy cards that need an empty field, and no recorded boards, so the ceiling and median are inferred from text rather than measured. Popularity and the usage-statistics presence did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score; the score comes from consistency, interaction and Fusion conversion on the system as a whole.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 62, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 65, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-2); engine conflicts (-3). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); Structural is the meta-neutral Midrange profile with D13 dropped and re-normalized over 95 weight points (5919/95 = 62.3); 0.80*62 + 0.20*55 = 60.8, then modifiers -5 = 55.8, rounded to 56

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.93 · 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

• Legal list: every Limited and Semi-Limited card is at or under its legal copy limit (Verified)
• Dense starter and hand-trap package gives a reliable opening and disruption (Inferred)
• Fusion Extra Deck carries several 3000-ATK closers (Verified stats, Inferred role)

Weaknesses

• Exact-name Dracotail purity is only 32.7%, spread across Albaz, Branded, Mulcharmy, Ecclesia, Bystial and Predaplant (Verified)
• Starter access leans on the Fallen of Albaz trigger chain (Inferred)
• No recorded combos, so ceiling and median are text-only inference (Verified gap)

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz trigger: one Fallen of Albaz plus two Fallen of the White Dragon are the Albaz-mention pieces that unlock many Extra Deck Fusions (Inferred)
• Hand traps are dead when they are not in hand; they cannot act on an empty hand (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 40 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side, all restricted cards within legal copy limits; Card text and banlist status for every resolved card in the cards array; Copy histogram and archetype purity counts
• Inferred: Starter count (about 16) and P(>=1 starter going first) of about 0.93; Hand-trap coverage, going-second interaction and Fusion-route redundancy; Ceiling and median output inferred from card text and Fusion closers; Community guide describes the deck as a control-style Dracotail that uses hand traps during the opponent's turn
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup fit (D13 placeholder); Post-side plan (no Side Deck present)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent usage statistics in this deck flags disagree with the cards array for Mirrorjade, Rindbrumm, Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon, Secreterion Dragon, Dracotail Arthalion, Alba-Lenatus, Albion the Sanctifire Dragon and Dracotail Gulamel; the cards array was treated as the source of truth, so missing core cards and core-card presence are not used No win-rate telemetry: going-first/second split, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample Deck title is null, so the deck is identified by id and archetype only