Spell
NormalBranded Fusion
Archetype:
Branded
View:
20637
Fusion Summon 1 Fusion Monster that mentions "Fallen of Albaz" as material from your Extra Deck, using 2 monsters from your hand, Deck, or field as material. You cannot Special Summon from the Extra Deck, except Fusion Monsters, the turn you activate this card. You can only activate 1 "Branded Fusion" per turn.
Branded Fusion — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 62 ± 6 · Confidence: High
- Intrinsic: 60 · Deck: 67 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Starter / Combo enabler · Secondary: Extender
Why it scores here
Branded Fusion is a one-slot Fusion Spell that turns two hand, deck or field monsters into a Fusion boss, and it converts that access into a full board in every recorded line: it is the starter in 18 of 51 boards and appears in 100% of them, with power_index 100 in the top examples. It is live in all 400 sampled decks and in 100% of Mirrorjade co-decks, so the high inclusion confirms accessibility but does not by itself raise the score (guardrail 3). Its ATK-free, body-less nature earns almost nothing on material utility, and it has no opponent interaction of its own, so the points come from reliable conversion and a clean one-copy deckbuilding cost.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 78 | Spell in hand that needs a Fallen of Albaz partner, and that partner is in 99.8% of decks; live across 400 decks and in 35% of boards as starter (observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 75 | Two materials into one Fusion boss, with 3 end monsters in the top boards and combo power_index 100 in the top examples; avg power when present is 53.4 (observed, with the boss-text reading inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 62 | Top boards show netCardAdvantage 5 to 6 after the Fusion, but the spell itself is a -1 cost with no recursion (observed for the board numbers, inferred for the per-card math). |
| Effect & Interaction | 25 | The card has no negate or removal text of its own; it only disrupts through the Fusion boss it produces, and sub_scores show disruption of 2 to 8 (verified text, observed sub_scores). |
| Material Utility | 5 | A Spell card has no body to use as material, and as_material is 0 of 51 boards (verified card type, observed zero). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | A spell with one Fusion, once per turn, so one spell negate ends the line; the materials can come from hand, deck or field, which gives some multi-zone flexibility (verified text, inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 78 | One copy in 385 of 400 decks, max 3, no garnet or lock beyond the once-per-turn clause, and a single slot (observed copies_per_deck, verified text). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Starter / Combo enabler + 0.3 Extender. Intrinsic ≈ 60, Deck ≈ 67, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Limited-to-1 banlist (-2). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Converts two bodies into a Fusion boss in one card, reliably
- Present in 100% of sampled Branded boards as a starter
- One-copy, single-slot cost with no garnet restriction
- Strong partner support: Fallen of Albaz and Mirrorjade are near-universal
Weaknesses
- A spell, so a single negate ends the line
- No opponent interaction of its own
- Gives no value as a body or material
- Only Fusion-capable routes; Extra Deck Special Summons are blocked the same turn
Counters / choke points
- Spell negation (for example Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring, which appears in 85.8% of co-decks)
- Disruption that removes the materials before the Fusion resolves
Best use
Starter for Branded Fusion lines, turning Fallen of Albaz and a second monster into a Fusion boss. Decks: Branded, Despia, Dracotail, Dogmatika, Bystial/Byssted. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: Fusion Summon 1 Fusion Monster mentioning Fallen of Albaz as material, using 2 monsters from hand, Deck or field; Card text: cannot Special Summon from the Extra Deck except Fusion Monsters, the turn it is activated; Card text: only 1 Branded Fusion per turn; legal_copies is 1 in TCG, OCG and MasterDuel
- Observed: Present in 400 of 400 sampled decks; 385 run one copy; Starter in 18 of 51 combo boards (35.3%); as_material 0%; Top-board netCardAdvantage 5 to 6; disruption sub_scores 2 to 8; Fallen of Albaz in 99.8% of co-decks; Mirrorjade in 100%; Top-card rank 27 in Duel Links, 28 in Master Duel, 52 in OCG
- Inferred: The one-spell negate weakness comes from the card type plus the single Fusion; The Limited-to-1 modifier is applied from legal_copies, since the card is a one-copy staple by design
- Data gaps: No recorded combo has the card as searched, material, payoff or end-board, so the role split is thin No rulings or exact ruling clarifications on the Extra Deck Fusion restriction were provided No dated metagame sample, so meta_power stays null