Dracotail Deck #774223 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 57/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon 3000-ATK bosses (Dracotail Arthalion, Albion the Sanctifire Dragon, Mirrorjade, The Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Secreterion) through Dracotail and Fallen-of-Albaz fusion routes; Dracotail board destruction (Gulamel, Pan, Urgula) followed by recursion-driven grind
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a searcher (Ketu, Lukias, Branded in High Spirits, Cartesia) to reach a Dracotail or Fallen of Albaz starter, then Fusion Summon; keep hand traps for going second
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll and Maxx C plus Dracotail Flame, Horn and Sting to disrupt the opponent's first board, then Fusion through the gap
• Recovery: Dracotail Flame, Horn and Sting each draw 1 and recycle a Dracotail card; Phryxul, Lukias and Urgula recur Dracotail monsters from the GY; Gulamel and Pan re-enable from GY
• After siding: None: Master Duel size rules allow 0 side cards and this list runs 0, so there is no post-side plan (Verified)

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens through its searcher density: 11 searcher-text copies give about 82 percent odds of at least one in a 5-card opening hand, and the Dracotail and Fallen-of-Albaz starters bootstrap a Fusion from there. Its strongest system feature is interaction on the opponent's turn: 6 hand traps, 6 negation effects and 7 removal effects, with hand-trap odds of about 65 percent in a 6-card going-second hand. It converts through five 3000-ATK Fusion bosses and recovers through Dracotail Flame, Horn and Sting, which each draw a card while recycling a Dracotail card. Scores are deducted for the 36 percent exact archetype purity (Mulcharmy, Branded, Albaz and generic cards split the engine), for Mulcharmy's empty-field requirement, and for the single Fallen of Albaz gate. Popularity and usage statistics did not add points, no combo boards exist to measure median output, and the score was not built by averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 64, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 68, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: engine_conflict (-3); unrecoverable_choke_point (-2); banlist_exposure (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional): 0.80*64 + 0.20*58 - 6 = 56.8, rounded to 57

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.82 · 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 with every restricted card at or under its legal cap
• Dense interaction on the opponent's turn: 6 hand traps and 6 negation effects
• Card economy: Dracotail Flame, Horn and Sting each draw and recycle a Dracotail card
• Searcher density of 11 copies gives about 82 percent odds of at least one in a 5-card hand
• Five 3000-ATK Fusion bosses give a high closing ceiling

Weaknesses

• 36 percent exact archetype purity: Branded, Mulcharmy, Albaz and generic cards split the engine
• Mulcharmy needs an empty field, which conflicts with the Fusion board
• Hand traps are dead on a going-first hand without an opposing action
• No combo data, so median output and the realistic ceiling are unmeasured
• No sideboard: no post-side adaptation at all

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz (1 copy) plus Fallen of the White Dragon (2 copies) gate 8 Albaz-named Extra monsters
• Single-copy Limited enablers such as Branded Fusion and Rahu Dracotail are the non-searched Fusion routes

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 40 main, 15 extra, 0 side; all Limited and Semi-Limited copies within legal caps under BanMasterDuel; Card text and stats for all listed cards, including five 3000-ATK Fusion bosses; Archetype purity 36.4 percent and sub-engine composition from the export
• Inferred: Opening-hand hypergeometric odds (searcher 0.82, hand-trap 0.65, core 0.997) as consistency estimates; Dimension scores for D1 to D11 and D14; Interaction density and recursion economy read from text
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and D13 matchup fit: no dated metagame sample or tournament link
• 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 No win-rate telemetry: going-first, going-second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Export inconsistency: usage_statistics in_this_deck is false for all 9 Extra-Deck core cards (Arthalion, Gulamel, Rindbrumm, Mirrorjade, The Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon, Secreterion, Alba-Lenatus, Albion the Sanctifire Dragon) although cards[] lists them in zone extra; core_present_pct 64 and missing_core are unreliable. Recomputed from cards[]: 25 of 25 core cards present (Inferred) No side deck in this format, so post-side adaptability cannot be measured