Dracotail Deck #774367 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 54/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck Fusion boss (Albion the Sanctifire Dragon 3000 ATK, Gulamel 2800 ATK, Granguignol and Titaniklad at 2500 ATK) summoned through Dracotail starters and Fusion enablers; Dracotail recursion and card advantage (Lukias, Urgula, Phryxul, Sting, Horn, Flame) grinding the opponent down over several turns
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a starter (Faimena, Ketu, Mululu, Lukias or a Fallen) with the Dracotail/Albaz recursion chain toward one Fusion boss; keep one hand trap (Ash, Ghost Ogre, Nibiru, Maxx C) up for the opponent's first summon
• Turn 2 (going second): Respond on the opponent's turn with hand traps (Ash, Ghost Ogre, Nibiru, Maxx C) and spell/trap disruption, then Fusion Summon into the board they leave behind
• Recovery: Return Dracotail monsters from the GY or banishment to the Deck via Lukias, Urgula and Phryxul, then re-run a Fusion Summon with the remaining starters
• After siding: No side deck is supplied (side_count 0), so there is no evidenced post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck opens a functional plan reliably enough: at least one Dracotail-family starter is live in 5 cards with high probability across its 26 archetype-core copies, and the 8 searcher-text cards give a 0.69 chance of at least one searcher in an opening 5 (Inferred). It converts that plan into pressure through a 14-card Fusion Extra Deck whose bosses reach 2500-3000 ATK, but no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median are text-only inference and carry wide uncertainty. Its strongest dimension is interaction and grind: 10 hand traps, several spell/trap disruption cards and recursion draws keep it in the game after a single interruption, which is why D6 and D7 lead the structural score. It is held back by brick risk from conditional cards, a single-copy Fallen of Albaz line that serves as a choke point, an empty side deck, and an archetype spread that splashes Branded, Albaz, Mulcharmy and Bystial rather than running one engine. Popularity did not earn points: the archetype usage data only confirms the list is real and accessible, and the score was built from system-level dimensions, not an average of card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Control profile; D13 dropped and weights renormalised (93) because no dated metagame exists. Structural ≈ 59, Going First ≈ 56, Going Second ≈ 63, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: Unrecoverable choke point (-2); Engine conflict (-1); Weak post-side plan (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers; Structural 59.3 (D13 dropped), TR 52, modifiers -4 -> 54

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.34 · 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

• Strong interaction density: 10 hand traps plus spell/trap disruption and Fusion removal
• Card advantage and recursion through Dracotail draw effects and GY-to-Deck returns
• Extra Deck bosses at 2500-3000 ATK give a real closing threat
• Core is real and accessible: 26 archetype-core copies with 0.997 chance of at least one in an opening 5

Weaknesses

• No recorded combo boards, so ceiling and median are unmeasured
• Brick risk from reactive hand traps on the going-first turn and conditional Mulcharmy cards
• Single-copy Fallen of Albaz enabler narrows several Extra Deck routes
• No side deck and no post-side plan
• Splashes several sub-archetypes, lowering engine coherence (exact purity 32.7%)

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz (1 copy) plus the Fallen of the White Dragon alias for Albaz-mention Extra Deck material
• Starter access: any single 3-copy starter has only about a 34% chance of appearing in an opening 5

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status and 40/15/0 size against master-duel rules (0 side permitted); All 8 restricted cards at their legal copy limits; Card text and stats for every listed card; Usage statistics: 100% inclusion for Dracotail core cards
• Inferred: Starter and searcher probabilities from hypergeometric draws; Interaction density and grind from card text; Going-first and going-second splits from hand-trap and draw math; Brick risk from conditional and reactive cards
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13, excluded from structural score); Post-side plan (no side deck)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchup, brick or OTK rates No side deck supplied, so no post-side data usage_statistics flags Dracotail Gulamel, Mirrorjade, Rindbrumm, Ecclesia and the Dragon that Devours as in_this_deck=false, but the cards list has them in the Extra zone; core_present 16/25 and missing_core are therefore unreliable and were not used for scoring Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample