Branded Deck #752098 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 60/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange
• Format: duel-links

Legality

Main 30 / Extra 9 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon a high-ATK boss (Mirrorjade, Albion the Branded Dragon, Lubellion or Chaos Angel) off a Fallen of Albaz or Branded Fusion starter, then protect the board with Bystial and Branded negations.; Bystial Dragon beatsticks (Saronir, Druiswurm, Magnamhut at 2500 ATK) recurred from the GY or banished, with Albion the Shrouded Dragon as a Fallen of Albaz-name extender.
• Turn 1 (going first): Turn 1: Searcher (Lubellion, Saronir or Kitt) into Branded Fusion or Fallen of Albaz, then Fusion Summon a Level 8 Fusion boss; hold Retribution or Mercourier for the opponent's Special Summon.
• Turn 2 (going second): Stay live with the hand traps (D.D. Crow, Nibiru, Ghost Belle) and Branded Retribution to break the opponent's first board, then rebuild through the Fusion engine on the following turn.
• Recovery: Branded Lost, Branded Sword and Branded Beast recur Fusion Monsters and Branded Spell/Traps from the GY or banished zone, and Searchers refill the hand.
• After siding: No Side Deck (side_count 0, Duel Links is single-game in this export), so there is no post-side plan; the main deck must cover all matchups.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens its engine: the 20 archetype-core copies give about 99.8 percent at least one in a 5-card opening hand, and 11 Searchers give about 92 percent at least one. Conversion depends on Fallen of Albaz and Branded Fusion, which are only two copies each; the chance of drawing both in the opening 5 is about 8 percent (Inferred), so the deck's ceiling is real but its stable floor is lower. Interaction is the strongest part of the system: 9 hand traps (about 91 percent at least one in a 6-card going-second hand), 6 negation cards and 13 removal-text cards cover the opponent's first board. Popularity did not earn points: the archetype appears in top-tier guides and usage data, but those confirm the list is real and accessible, not that it is strong. No combo boards were recorded, so the floor and median are text-only Inferred estimates and no card scores were averaged into the deck score. The deck has no Side Deck and only 20.5 percent exact-name purity, which pulls the score down through engine conflicts and a single-point-of-failure Fusion enabler.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 67, Going First ≈ 64, Going Second ≈ 70, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 59. Modifiers: single Fusion enabler dependence (-2); engine conflicts and low purity (-2); hard garnet burden (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional); 0.80*66.7 + 0.20*58.6 - 5 = 60.1

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.31 · key two-card combo ≈ 0.08 · 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

• Archetype core is almost always present in opening hands (99.8 percent with 20 copies).
• Nine hand traps and six negations give strong going-second interaction.
• Multiple Level 8 Fusion bosses (Mirrorjade, Albion Branded, Lubellion, Granguignol) give high closing power.
• Searcher-heavy and recursive card text (Lost, Sword, Beast) reduces the cost of a failed turn.

Weaknesses

• Fusion starters are limited to two copies each, so the strongest line is often missing from the opener.
• Exact archetype purity of 20.5 percent indicates a mixed-engine list with conflicting Bystial, Albaz and Dogmatika routes.
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation is available.
• Recorded combo boards are absent, so consistency and conversion claims are Inferred.

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz or Branded Fusion must be drawn to start the Fusion engine; each is 2 copies, so P(at least one in a 5-card hand) is about 0.31.
• Hand-trap timing on the opponent's turn: the going-second plan depends on keeping a hand trap alive through the first Special Summon.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in Duel Links with 30 main, 9 extra and 0 side cards; main-size rule 20-30 is met.; Semi-Limited cards Bystial Druiswurm and Bystial Magnamhut are each run at 1 copy, within a legal limit of 2.; Card stats and text excerpts for all 27 distinct cards.; Archetype purity of 20.5 percent and the copy histogram 10/4/4 (singles/doubles/triples) from composition.; Usage stats: Fallen of Albaz typical_copies 3, Bystial Saronir typical 1, Blazing Cartesia typical 3.
• Observed: Guides describe the archetype as top-tier, but these are unsourced community claims, not measured results.
• Inferred: Opening-hand probabilities for Albaz and Branded Fusion (0.31 each) and their joint probability (about 0.08 going first, 0.12 going second).; Hand-trap availability (0.91 at least one in a 6-card going-second hand).; Structural dimension scores D1-D14, computed from card text and composition without recorded boards.; Engine-conflict and garnet penalties.
• Provisional: Meta Power is null; no dated metagame sample or tournament link exists.; D13 matchup and format fit is provisional.
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only Inferred estimates. No tournament link: archetype meta share and per-pilot match record are absent. No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN for this deck, so going-first, going-second and matchup results are Unknown. Meta Power is Provisional because no dated metagame sample was supplied. The usage_statistics in_this_deck flags mark six Extra Deck cards (Lubellion the Searing Dragon, Predaplant Dragostapelia, Mirrorjade, Khaos Starsource Dragon, Albion the Branded Dragon, Granguignol) as absent, but the cards list has all six in the extra zone. core_cards_present 14 of 25 is therefore an undercount; the corrected figure is 20 of 25 (80 percent). Those six cards are treated as present here. Fallen of Albaz is labelled archetype Dogmatika in the card data but functions as the Albaz/Branded Fusion starter; the archetype_purity count treats it as off-archetype. No Side Deck (side_count 0) and no post-side evidence.