Dracotail Deck #774344 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 64/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Dragon boss monsters (Arthalion, Albion Sanctifire, Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Mirrorjade) from Extra Deck through Dracotail disruption and Fallen of Albaz material lines; Dracotail Gulamel and Dracotail Pan board-breaking after a fusion, plus Mulcharmy card advantage over long rounds
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Dracotail Faimena or Ketu Dracotail to Fusion Summon a Dragon, or Fallen of Albaz to Fusion from hand, while keeping Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler and Ghost Belle up for the opponent's first combo
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler x2, Ghost Belle, Maxx C, Droll and Lock Bird) on the opponent's turn to break their board, then answer with fusions and Dracotail recursion
• Recovery: Recover through Dracotail GY and banished recursion (Lukias, Urgula, Phryxul), Mulcharmy draws, and Dracotail Flame, Horn or Sting card-neutral draws
• After siding: No side deck is registered in the export; post-side plan not evaluable from this evidence

Why it scores here

The deck opens functionally through several redundant starters: three Dracotail Faimena, two Ketu, two Mululu, two Urgula, and five Mulcharmy draw monsters give a high chance of a live engine in the opening hand, with the archetype-core proxy near 99.5 percent (Inferred). Its real strength is interaction on the system, not the individual cards: eight hand traps and several Dracotail trap and spell disruptors let it answer the opponent's turn and keep the Extra Deck fusions online. Extra Deck fusions (Arthalion, Albion Sanctifire, Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Mirrorjade) provide 3000 ATK closing power, but many depend on Fallen of Albaz or the Fallen of the White Dragon line, which is a real choke point. No combo boards, win rates, tournament link or side deck were supplied, so the floor and median scores are Inferred and the Meta Power stays provisional; popularity of the archetype did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Control. Structural ≈ 69, Going First ≈ 74, Going Second ≈ 74, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 62. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-2); single-card dependence on Fallen of Albaz (-2); engine conflicts (-2); redundant starter access (2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural(69.1) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(62) + ContextModifiers(-4) = 63.7, rounded to 64; Meta provisional (no dated sample)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 1 · 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

• Redundant starter access through three Faimena, two Ketu, two Urgula, two Mululu and five Mulcharmy
• Eight hand traps covering both going-first and going-second
• Dragon boss fusions at 2700 to 3000 ATK with layered removal and negation support
• Strong card advantage through Mulcharmy and card-neutral Dracotail traps

Weaknesses

• Fallen of Albaz dependence is a single-card choke for several Extra Deck fusions
• Engine conflict across Dracotail, Mulcharmy, Albaz/Branded and Ecclesia lines
• Six Limited singletons limit consistency if the banlist shifts
• No side deck registered, so post-side adaptation is unverified

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz (1 copy) plus two Fallen of the White Dragon treats as the Albaz material source for most Albaz-dependent fusions

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal size (40/15/0) and copy limits for all 11 restricted cards; Card texts and banlist statuses from the evidence pack; Usage statistics: core inclusion 60 percent present, archetype-standard core mostly run
• Observed: Usage-statistics inclusion rates for the Dracotail core
• Inferred: Starter access and brick estimates from hypergeometric odds and card text; Interaction quality from text role hints; Engine conflict and pilotability reads
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup/format fit; Post-side plan
• Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot records are absent no win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick, starter rates) no side deck registered for a Master Duel list Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample