Forbidden Deck #650641 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 22/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Fusion
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon a Fallen of Albaz-material boss (Mirrorjade, Titaniklad, Albion the Branded Dragon) and protect it with negations; Recursion-based grind through Branded and Despia searchers into repeat Fusion boards
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Fallen of Albaz / Branded starter, search through Branded Opening or Branded in High Spirits into a Fusion Summon via Super Polymerization or Branded Fusion, then keep Ash Blossom and Droplet up
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Forbidden Droplet and Droll & Lock Bird on the opponent's first engine, then rebuild through Despia and Branded recursion
• Recovery: Recycle Despian Tragedy, Branded Sword and Mirrorjade's GY effect to rebuild Fusion material from the GY
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so no post-side plan can be evaluated

Why it scores here

The deck is capped low because it is Illegal: Super Polymerization runs 3 copies against a Semi-Limited limit of 2, so this score is theoretical and structural only. The structural read is a Fallen of Albaz Fusion engine. Its three Fallen of Albaz copies and the Branded and Despia searchers give it a reasonable chance to reach a live Fusion board on turn 1, and its negation stack (Ash Blossom, Forbidden Droplet, Droll & Lock Bird, Branded Retribution, Mudragon-style text) gives it some interaction. Its weak points are a wide spread of single-copy support cards, no recorded boards to show a median output, and no Side Deck. The score does not come from averaging card scores, and the archetype label 'Forbidden' does not add points: the list is really a Branded / Fallen of Albaz build, and the usage stats point to a different archetype's core.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo primary with Midrange secondary, Structural only; Final uses the theoretical illegal cap. Structural ≈ 48, Going First ≈ 46, Going Second ≈ 44, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: Illegal copy limit (-20); No Side Deck (-3). Final formula: Illegal cap applied: theoretical structural score only; 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) would be ≈ 47, capped to 22 for legality

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

• Three Fallen of Albaz copies plus Branded and Despia searchers give a real chance to start the engine
• Ten negation-text cards and five hand traps give layered interaction
• Fusion bosses (Mirrorjade, Titaniklad, Albion the Branded Dragon) provide closing power

Weaknesses

• Illegal: Super Polymerization exceeds its copy limit
• No combos or tournament data to measure floor or median output
• Many singleton support cards raise brick risk
• Archetype label 'Forbidden' does not match the actual Branded / Fallen of Albaz core
• No Side Deck

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz (3 copies) is the engine's core material for almost every Fusion boss
• Super Polymerization is the main Fusion route and is currently over its copy limit

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Super Polymerization exceeds Semi-Limited copy limit (3 run, 2 allowed); Main 40, Extra 15, Side 0 within Master Duel size rules; Hand-trap, negation, searcher and Fusion counts from card text and composition
• Inferred: Hypergeometric opening-hand estimates for the Fallen of Albaz engine; Interaction and recursion reads from card text; Closing power of Fusion bosses
• Provisional: Meta and tournament relevance (no dated metagame sample or tournament link); Post-side plan (no Side Deck)
• Data gaps: Illegal copy limit means only a theoretical, structural score is available No combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No Side Deck registered Deck title is null and archetype is recorded as Forbidden while the list is a Branded / Fallen of Albaz build usage statistics core cards (Yummy, Dominus) are almost all absent (8% present), so the core-stat comparison is unreliable for this list No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN