Dracotail Deck #774355 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 58/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Dracotail / Albaz boss monsters (3000 ATK tier: Arthalion, Albion the Sanctifire Dragon, The Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Mirrorjade) after hand-trap and spell/trap disruption has cleared the opponent's board; Fusion-chain card advantage from Dracotail Flame, Sting and Horn recycling GY cards to the Deck while drawing
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Dracotail starter (Faimena, Ketu, Lukias, Phryxul) or a searcher, search a Dracotail or Fallen of Albaz line, and hold a hand trap (Ash, Veiler, Droll, Maxx C) for the opponent's first big play
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash, Veiler, Droll, Mulcharmy, Maxx C, Nibiru) during the opponent's turn to break their first Fusion or Synchro line, then take the board on your own turn with a Fusion boss
• Recovery: Recycle GY Dracotail cards with Dracotail Flame, Horn and Sting (place on Deck bottom, draw 1), and rebuild through Phryxul or Ketu searches
• After siding: Master Duel has no sideboard (side 0 is legal); the only adaptation is choosing which Extra Deck Fusions to bring and which hand traps to keep

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a connected Dracotail control system, not as an average of its card scores. Its consistency comes from 26 copies of the archetype core, with a 0.74 chance of at least one searcher in an opening 5 and about a 0.997 chance of opening at least one core card. Its real identity is interaction: 10 hand traps (Ash, Veiler, Droll, Maxx C, Nibiru) give about an 0.85 chance of a hand trap on the going-second 6-card hand, and Flame, Sting and Horn both disrupt and recycle the GY for card advantage. The Fusion bosses (3000 ATK tier) earn closing points, but the score is held down by the absence of any recorded combos, the lack of a sideboard, and cross-archetype engine conflicts. Archetype popularity and usage statistics confirm the list is real and accessible, and they earned no power points on their own.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Control. Structural ≈ 63.8, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 68, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 62. Modifiers: engine_conflicts (-3); banlist_exposure (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers(-5) = 63.4 - 5 → 58

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.74 · 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

• 10 hand traps, 9 negation-text cards and a Fusion boss package give strong going-second disruption
• Dracotail Flame, Horn and Sting turn GY cards into card advantage
• Core consistency: 26 archetype-core copies and a 0.74 searcher chance in 5 cards

Weaknesses

• No recorded combo boards, so ceiling and median are text-inferred only
• Hand-trap-heavy hands brick when the opponent makes no plays
• Cross-archetype Fusion conflicts and four Extra Deck summon restrictions in one list
• No sideboard in Master Duel, so no post-side adaptation

Critical choke points

• Dracotail Lukias and Rahu Dracotail are one-copy Limited cards that run the search and Fusion chain
• Fallen of Albaz is required for several Fusion routes (Albion, Albaz boss); one copy in the main deck

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: 40 Main / 15 Extra / 0 Side, Legal under Master Duel size rules and banlist; All 10 restricted cards are within legal copy limits; Card texts for hand traps, Dracotail recycle spell/traps and Fusion bosses; Archetype purity 34.5%; 13 Fusion, 1 Link, 1 Synchro; Usage stats: core present 16 of 25 (64%)
• Inferred: Consistency: searcher P≈0.74, core P≈0.997, hand-trap P≈0.85 going second; Interaction and card-advantage quality from text; Engine conflicts from overlapping Extra Deck restrictions; Going-first and going-second splits
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13); Post-side plan (no sideboard in Master Duel)
• Data gaps: No recorded combo boards (combos_evidence total 0): combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only No tournament link: archetype meta-share and pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first/second, matchup, brick or starter rates Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample Master Duel has no sideboard, so post-side performance cannot be measured Usage statistics flag several Extra Deck cards in this list as in_this_deck:false (Arthalion, Gulamel, Ecclesia and Dark Dragon, Albion the Sanctifire Dragon, Alba-Lenatus, Mirrorjade, Rindbrumm, Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Secreterion) even though the cards array lists them with copies 1 or 2; the in_this_deck flag appears to count the Main Deck only, so core_present_pct may be understated Deck title is null; identified by archetype only