Branded Deck #761891 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Toolbox
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 9 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion boards from Branded and Dracotail Fusion Monsters (Albion-line boss plus Dracotail Arthalion, Gulamel, Secreterion, Hyperinvoked Aeon) with Fallen of Albaz as the shared Fusion material; Dogmatika and Despia Ecclesia/Fallen-line Synchro and Fusion pressure via Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon-style boards
• Turn 1 (going first): Branded Opening or Fallen of the White Dragon / Blazing Cartesia to reach Branded Fusion or Ketu/Rahu Dracotail, then a Fusion Summon of a level 8 boss (Inferred, no recorded boards)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Evenly Matched and Branded Retribution through the opponent's first summon, then force a Fusion through the gap (Inferred)
• Recovery: Search via Dracotail Lukias, Dogmatika Ecclesia or Incredible Ecclesia and recur Fallen monsters from the GY (Inferred from text)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has zero Side Deck cards

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal: nine main/extra slots exceed their copy limits, including three Forbidden cards (Albion the Branded Dragon x2, Called by the Grave, Triple Tactics Talent), so it receives a theoretical, structural-only score capped at 30 and does not receive a normal Final Contextual score. The structural read comes from the system: a 0.96 chance of opening at least one archetype-core card and 0.86 for at least one searcher in five cards give the engine a reliable T1 start (D1 60), and interaction density (Ash, Droll, Evenly Matched, Branded Retribution, Dracotail Mululu) plus a broad Extra Deck of level 8 bosses gives strong endboard and closing power (D7 65, D9 66). Brick management (D2 48), main-deck efficiency (D10 42, 15.7% exact-name purity, Mulcharmy and Pot of Sloth as cross-archetype dead weight) and the missing Side Deck (D12 10) pull it down. No combos were recorded, so the ceiling and median scores are text-only inference; popularity and archetype usage confirm the list is real but did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 54, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-10); Engine conflicts (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*54 + 0.20*42 - 12 = 39; capped at 30 because the list is Illegal (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.86 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.04 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Consistent T1 starter access via archetype core (0.96) and searchers (0.86)
• Layered interaction: Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Evenly Matched, Branded Retribution, Dracotail Mululu
• High-ATK Fusion bosses available in the Extra Deck (Hyperinvoked Aeon 3800, Dracotail Arthalion 3000, Secreterion Dragon 3000)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: nine copy-limit or banned-card violations
• Only 15.7% exact-name Branded purity; Mulcharmy and Pot of Sloth are cross-archetype dead weight
• No Side Deck, so the deck cannot adapt best-of-3
• No combo data, so ceiling and floor are unverified

Critical choke points

• Branded Fusion (1 copy) is the only dedicated Fusion-enabler beyond Fallen of Albaz, so losing it removes the main route to bosses
• Single Ketu and Rahu Dracotail copies (Limited) limit the second Fusion route

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: 9 copy-limit violations including 3 Forbidden cards; Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 size rules met; Archetype core P(>=1) 0.96 and searcher P(>=1) 0.86 from the hypergeometric table; Exact-name purity 15.7%; 59 off-archetype copies; No Side Deck cards
• Observed: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is in 96.9% of archetype usage stats and Fallen of the White Dragon in 71.9% (usage stats available)
• Inferred: Fusion-based combo plan and T1 starter route from card text; Interaction density and hand-trap value from text roles; Brick rate and going-second hand-trap strength
• Provisional: Meta share and matchup fit (no tournament link); Meta power (no dated metagame sample)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: ceiling, median and floor are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry for this deck Meta power is provisional without a dated metagame sample Deck has no side cards, so post-side performance cannot be assessed