True Draco Deck #774299 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 45/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Tribute-summon True Draco / True King boss monsters (Master Peace 2950 ATK, Dinomight 2500 ATK, Ignis Heat 2400 ATK, Majesty Maiden 2300 ATK) while holding Continuous Spell/Trap tributes and negating or locking the opponent's board; Floodgate and negate cards (Gozen Match, Rivalry of Warlords, Skill Drain, Dominus Impulse, Songs of the Dominators) that stop the opponent from rebuilding, followed by a monster beatdown
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a Draco-enabling Spell (Draco Awakening, True Draco Heritage, Dragonic Diagram) or a Pot to find one of only 7 monsters, then set a floodgate or negate trap and hold True Draco Apocalypse / True King's Return as removal
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand to find a monster and set Dominus Impulse / Songs of the Dominators / Lose 1 Turn, then convert with a boss monster while floodgates keep the opponent off their board
• Recovery: Recover through Disciples of the True Dracophoenix (shuffle 3 True Draco/King cards from GY, draw 1), Draco Awakening's GY-to-field effect, and the Pot effects to refill the monster count
• After siding: No sideboard exists in this list (Side Deck size 0); Master Duel single-game play means no post-side plan is available to evaluate

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system: it can usually open a legal, functional line, since its 7 monsters are backed by 14 searcher-text cards (P(at least one searcher in the opening 5) is about 0.89), but it has only 7 monsters among 41 cards, so roughly 37% of going-first opening hands contain no monster (computed hypergeometrically, Inferred). Its strength is interaction density: 11 negation-text cards, 16 removal-text cards, and 5 floodgate or tech cards (7 flagged floodgates in total) let it control the board and keep the opponent off their engine. Its ceiling and median are not measurable here because no recorded boards exist, so combo output is text-only and Inferred. Popularity or the archetype's usage stats confirm the list is real, not that it is strong, and the score does not come from averaging individual card scores. Meta Power is Provisional and no tournament or win-rate data exists, so the Final score rests on Structural (drop-D13) plus Tournament Reliability and modifiers.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Control. Structural ≈ 52, Going First ≈ 54, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 46. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-1); monster-count choke point (-3); engine conflicts (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); Structural drops D13 and renormalizes the remaining weights (sum 93); modifiers total -6

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.63 · 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

• Interaction-dense: 11 negation-text and 16 removal-text cards plus 7 floodgate-flagged cards
• Consistent copy counts: 5 cards at 3 copies, 8 at 2, 10 singles, 23 distinct cards
• Multiple recursion and search routes (14 searcher-text cards, GY recovery via Disciples and Draco Awakening)
• High-ATK boss monsters (2950, 2500, 2400, 2300) that outclass typical end-boards once landed

Weaknesses

• Only 7 monsters in 41 cards; about 37% of going-first opening hands have no monster
• 20 Trap Cards and 14 Spells make the deck reactive and slow to pressure
• No Extra Deck, so no Extra Deck coverage or alternate boss routes
• Only 36.6% exact True Draco name purity; 17 generic cards dilute the engine
• No recorded boards, no win-rate data, and no matchup data

Critical choke points

• Drawing one of 7 monsters in the opening hand
• Having a Continuous Spell/Trap on the field to tribute the Draco monsters that need it (Dinomight, Ignis Heat, Majesty Maiden, Master Peace)
• Floodgate timing against the deck's own monsters (Gozen Match, Rivalry of Warlords, Skill Drain)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 41 Main, 0 Extra, 0 Side; within Master Duel size rules; Five Limited cards, each run at 1 copy, all within the legal limit; Card text excerpts for all 23 distinct cards; Usage stats: all 23 core cards present (100%)
• Inferred: Opening-hand monster probabilities (0.63 for any of 7 monsters; 0.37 monsterless); Control-profile structural score of 52 with D13 dropped; Negation and floodgate interaction density from text; Engine conflict (Gozen Match, Rivalry, Skill Drain, GSAO) and its conditional scope
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and D13 matchup fit (neutral 50); D12 side adaptability (neutral 50; no sideboard on this gameplay)
• 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, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied deck title is null; archetype and cards resolved from the export single guide with no section titles; strategic intent is thin