Dracotail Deck #774338 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 56/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon a 3000-ATK Dragon (Arthalion, Albion, Filia Regis, Secreterion) from the Extra Deck after the Dracotail Fusion engine converts hand and field resources.; Albaz Dragon fusions (Albion the Sanctifire, Alba-Lenatus, Titaniklad) as alternate boss threats when the Dracotail line is disrupted.
• Turn 1 (going first): T1 Normal Summon Dracotail Faimena or Mulcharmy Fuwalos, use Fallen of the White Dragon or Lukias to search or set a Dracotail Spell/Trap, then Fusion Summon a 3000-ATK boss from the Extra Deck.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Droll and Maxx C as hand traps on the opponent's turn, then use the Dracotail Fusion resources on the next turn if the board is cleared.
• Recovery: Recover through Dracotail Flame, Horn and Sting (each draws 1 after placing a Dracotail card from the GY or banishment to the Deck bottom), plus Phryxul and Lukias revival and search from the GY.
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so no post-side plan can be evaluated; the deck relies on the Main Deck alone.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Dracotail starter: the 25 archetype-core copies give an estimated 99.5% chance of at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand, and the search and Fusion-enabling cards (Faimena, Mulcharmy, Lukias, Fallen of the White Dragon) keep the engine live on turns 1 and 2. Its conversion ceiling comes from the 3000-ATK Fusion bosses and the Dracotail Fusion engine, but no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median are both text-based inferences and the median is scored conservatively. Interaction is the strongest part of the system: eight hand traps, Dracotail Sting, Flame and Horn, and several Fusion effects that negate or destroy give the deck layered disruption on the opponent's turn. Popularity and archetype usage confirm the list is real and accessible but did not add points by themselves, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score. The score is held back by the lack of a sideboard, the mixed engine (Branded, Albaz, Despia, Predaplant and Bystial elements), and a high pilot burden.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 61, Going First ≈ 57, Going Second ≈ 63, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: engine conflicts (-2); banlist exposure (-1); no Side Deck (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers(-4); 0.80*60.9 + 0.20*55 - 4 = 55.7, rounded to 56

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 1 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.01 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Engine opens reliably from the 25-card archetype core
• Layered interaction through eight hand traps and Fusion-linked negations and removal
• Recursion and draw-on-recycle spells keep card economy healthy through disruption
• Four 3000-ATK Fusion bosses give a high closing ceiling

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Mixed sub-archetype engine (Branded, Albaz, Despia, Predaplant, Bystial) creates summon conflicts
• Heavy reliance on Extra Deck Fusion and high pilot skill
• Low archetype purity (34.5% exact name) increases conflict risk

Critical choke points

• Dracotail Faimena or Mulcharmy as the turn-1 starter, since most lines begin there
• The Fallen of Albaz or Fallen of the White Dragon for Albaz Fusion access
• Ash Blossom and Droll for going-second disruption, with no other hand-trap density

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal 40/15/0 with all Limited and Semi-Limited copies within legal counts; Archetype core of 25 copies and 15 of 25 core cards present; Hand-trap and searcher text counts
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter estimate of 0.995; Going-first and going-second power estimates; Interaction and recursion reads from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power is null; no dated metagame sample; Matchup fit and tournament reliability are provisional
• Data gaps: no combos supplied, so floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent no win-rate telemetry (going-first, going-second, matchup or brick rates) Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no side deck, so post-side performance cannot be assessed