Dracotail Deck #774172 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Stun
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Dracotail or Invoked Extra Deck bosses (Hyperinvoked Aeon, Dracotail Gulamel, Dracotail Shaulas, Dracotail Pan) off a hand-based material set; Mulcharmy draw-and-hand-size pressure and Aleister/Invoked recursion from GY and banishment
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Dracotail starter (Faimena, Lukias, Ketu, Rahu) with a Fusion path into a Dracotail boss; hold Ash Blossom and Ghost Belle as protection for the follow-up turn
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash, Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre, Nibiru, Infinite Impermanence) to disrupt the opponent's board, then recover with Dracotail recursion from GY and banishment
• Recovery: Dracotail Flame, Horn, Sting and Urgula recycle Dracotail cards from GY or banishment to the bottom of the Deck and draw, which is the main rebuild route after an interrupted turn
• After siding: Not evaluable: the Side Deck is empty, so no post-side plan exists in the submitted list

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Dracotail starter: the archetype core group has an estimated 97% chance of at least one card in a 5-card opening hand, and this is an Inferred hypergeometric estimate from the main deck only. Its conversion ceiling comes from Fusion Summons into Dracotail and Invoked Extra Deck bosses such as Hyperinvoked Aeon and Dracotail Gulamel, while the median output is not measured because no combos were supplied. Interaction is dense (13 hand traps, 15 negation-text cards, 21 removal-text cards), which lifts its going-second and endboard scores, but several engines conflict: exact archetype purity is only 22.9% and the deck mixes Mulcharmy, Aleister, Magistus, Solemn and Harpie cards. The score is structural and capped because the list is illegal (Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization each run 3 copies against a limit of 2), and popularity or archetype usage was not credited as power; card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 59, Going First ≈ 56, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Illegal list cap (-9); Banlist exposure (-4); Engine conflicts (-3). Final formula: No reliable metagame: Final = 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*59.2 + 0.20*45 - 12 = 44.4, then capped at 35 because the list is Illegal (copy-limit violations); theoretical/structural read only

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.97 · 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

• Archetype core is near-certain in the opening hand (0.97 for at least one core card)
• Layered hand-trap and negation suite (13 hand traps, 15 negation-text cards) gives strong going-second disruption
• Recursion through Dracotail Flame, Horn, Sting and Urgula gives recovery after a disruption

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy-limit violations on Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization
• Low archetype purity (22.9%) with several competing engine families
• Empty Side Deck leaves no post-side plan
• No recorded combos, tournament data or win telemetry

Critical choke points

• Dracotail Faimena and Lukias as the starter pair, each with 2-3 copies and no alternate starter beyond Ketu and Rahu
• Fusion Summon routes that rely on Ketu Dracotail and Rahu Dracotail, both Limited at 1 copy
• Hand traps that compete for the same 5-6 card hand

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0 against size range 40-60 / 0-15; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Super Polymerization are over copy limit (3 run vs 2 legal); Limited and Semi-Limited statuses for listed restricted cards; Archetype spread: Dracotail 16, Invoked 9, Mulcharmy 8, Aleister 3, Magistus 2, Solemn 2 and others; Extra Deck: 12 Fusion, 3 Link; Usage stats: core cards present 15 of 25 (60%)
• Inferred: Dracotail core opens with 0.97 probability in 5-card hand; Going-second hand-trap availability 0.82; Ceiling from Fusion Summon routes and Hyperinvoked Aeon / Gulamel; Interaction density and resilience read from card text; Brick-risk and pilotability estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit (no tournament data)
• 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 One Main Deck passcode (86120751) is unresolved and counted as main No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates) exists in YGOVN Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Empty Side Deck: no post-side evidence