Notes & Combos

Branded/Dracotail is obviously better and, while this version runs less non-engines than pure Invoked, it's not really more consistent (you can have some weird hands with a bad mix of both archetypes).

• I tried using Baronne and, while the fusion lock from Rahu and Mululu isn't really an issue, I felt like I was making bad plays most of the time by trying to get to Baronne. Even without Baronne, Chorozo is still very useful as it makes it really easy to get 3 attributes for Aeon and you can end up in situations where it's your best or even your only option to send Sorath in the gy.
• I was playing with only 2 Dracotail traps at first (played that way from M5 to M1 during previous season) and it was working well, but I feel like the 3rd trap makes a significant difference despite running an additional brick. Especially when you got only Dracotail in your hand (which is a good hand to have if you're playing under fuwalos). So either way is fine.
• 2 Sacred Sword and 2 Aiwass is the right way for me. It's as much a Dracotail deck as an Invoked deck, and you don't want to draw too many spells with Dracotail. 1 OG Aleister is more than enough, too many normal summons otherwise. Invocation at 2 is perfect to me, but you could run Sword at 1 as it can brick your hand sometimes, but I prefer it at 2. Maybe you can cut Virakam, giving you also more space in your extra deck since you won't need Baybarron in this case, but I like it, if you have it in your starting hand it gives you more play under droll and it allows you to get a sword ready for the next turn, but it's nearly useless if you can only make Dracotail plays.
• You can bridge from Dracotail to Invoked with Invoker of madness but not the other way around. Best way to do that is : normal summon Lukias > add Faimena > fusion summon Arthalion > with using Lukias > link summon Artemis with Lukias > link summon Invoker of madness with Artmis and Arthalion. It won't allow you to get full Invoked combo, but it gets you any Invoked fusion (even Aeon with 3 attributes). But depending on your hand, it might be better to just use Lukias as a fusion mat instead.
• Some fusions aren't mandatory as they don't constantly come up like Elyseum (never tried De Anima with this version but I would say either one is good but I don't think you need both), Oceanus but it can still work as a plan B against fuwalos (not every deck in the current meta cares about it but it's still a strong floodgate and having a fusion target for dark and water can be useful) and I would say Mechaba too since you need either the single copy of OG Aleister or Invoker of madness to summon it + you don't have that many light attributes and you already need one for Baybarron but it's still worth it to me. So you can replace those 3 cards with anything else.
• Finally, Secretarion didn't come up that often so I replaced it with Mixousia (which is used at its best potential with this deck). But Secretarion is still good there I would say (you can revive new Aleister with it for example).

Both archetypes synergize really well together. Invoked is about using different attributes to fusion summon and Dracotail has every attribute. And Invocation can be used to summon the Dracotail fusions (only from the hand) and while sword can use Dracotail monsters on the field to trigger their gy effect but you can't summon a Dracotail monster with that.

So Invoked gets a bigger boost from Dracotail than the other way. Pure Invoked endboard can feel kinda weak sometimes and Dracotail gives you that boost of power the pure version is sometimes missing.