Branded Deck #754203 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 54/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 28 / Extra 9 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon 2500-3000 ATK Fusion Monsters (Albion the Branded Dragon, Mirrorjade, Lubellion, Alba-Lenatus) through the Fallen of Albaz engine, then convert the board with Fusion boss attacks.; Bystial monster and banish-based removal (Druiswurm, Magnamhut, Saronir) to clear blockers, with Branded Beast destruction support.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Fallen of Albaz (x3) or a Bystial/Blazing Cartesia starter, Normal/Special Summon to trigger the Fusion effect, and use Branded Fusion (x2) or Albaz-based fusions to reach a Fusion boss.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 6-card hand to Special Summon through Bystial Saronir or Lubellion, hold Branded Retribution or Tri-Brigade Mercourier to negate the opponent's summon, then rebuild a Fusion Monster from the GY or Extra Deck.
• Recovery: Recover via searchers (Aluber, Bystial Lubellion, Springans Kitt, Blazing Cartesia), GY recursion (Branded Beast returns Continuous Spell/Trap, Screams of the Branded), and Albaz-triggered Fusion from the GY.
• After siding: No side deck is registered in this list (side_count 0), so no post-side plan is evidenced; any side adjustment is unverified.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Fallen of Albaz or a Bystial/Cartesia starter with about 46% (first) and 53% (second) odds for a single 3-copy starter, plus about 88% for at least one of the nine searcher-text cards in an opening hand (Inferred hypergeometric estimates). It converts that opening into Fusion bosses via Albaz and Branded Fusion, which gives a high text-based ceiling but has no recorded boards to confirm the median. It survives disruption through four negation-text cards, Branded Beast and Screams of the Branded recursion, and Bystial removal. Its weak points are the single-engine dependence on Albaz, the off-plan Ra Sphere Mode and Lava Golem slots, and the absence of any side deck or post-side plan. Score was built from consistency, median and interaction on the system, not from Branded's popularity or from averaging the card scores, and the usage-stat table is treated as partly unreliable because it does not count Extra Deck members as in-deck.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 61, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 53. Modifiers: unrecoverable choke point (-2); engine conflicts (-2); banlist exposure (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); Structural 61.0, TR 53, pre-modifier 59.4, modifiers -5 → 54

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.46 · 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

• Two-to-three independent starters (Albaz, Saronir, Cartesia, Lubellion) reduce single-card bricks
• Nine searcher-text cards and Branded Lost/Beast give rebuild and recovery
• Multiple negation and removal-text cards cover both the summon and the end-board

Weaknesses

• Only 3 copies of Fallen of Albaz as the Fusion trigger; roughly half of openings lack it
• Ra Sphere Mode and Lava Golem are off-plan and situational
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• No recorded boards, so the combo median is unverified

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz (3 copies) gates most Fusion Summons

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 28, Extra 9, Side 0 pass Duel Links size rules (20-30 / 0-9); Bystial Druiswurm and Magnamhut Semi-Limited, each run at 1 (legal 2); Archetype purity 21.6% exact-name; sub-archetype spread as listed
• Observed: 9 Fusion Monsters in the Extra Deck; Usage-stat core list shows 14/25 core cards present (flags unreliable for Extra Deck members)
• Inferred: Starter hypergeometric odds (≈0.46 first, ≈0.53 second); Ceiling from card text (Albaz-triggered Fusion into 2500-3000 ATK bosses); Interaction and resilience scores from negation/removal text
• Provisional: Meta power (null); Format fit and matchup coverage (D13) from the guide's Top Tier claim only; Post-side plan (no side deck)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot records absent No win-rate or matchup telemetry in YGOVN Usage-stat in_this_deck flags are false for Extra Deck members that the deck does run (Albion the Branded Dragon, Mirrorjade, Lubellion Searing, Granguignol, Khaos, Alba-Lenatus), so core_present_pct and missing_core are understated Duel Links cards and rules are only as current as the export's BanDuelLink field Meta Power is provisional: no dated metagame sample