Branded Deck #762737 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 60/100 (±5 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 14 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fallen of Albaz starts a fusion chain (Branded Fusion, Albion/Titaniklad/Rindbrumm-style Albaz fusions) that puts a 2500-3000 ATK Dragon on board, with Dracotail fusion monsters as a second pressure route.; Dracotail Gulamel / Dracotail Arthalion / Albion the Branded Dragon as board-breaking or recursive follow-ups off Dracotail Lukias, Mululu and Ketu searches.
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon Fallen of Albaz or Dracotail Lukias, search a Dracotail or Albaz monster, and convert into an Albaz or Dracotail fusion through Super Polymerization, Branded Fusion or Rahu Dracotail; hold Ash Blossom and Effect Veiler for the opponent's first activation.
• Turn 2 (going second): Open with Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler or Maxx "C" to strip the opponent's first interaction, then fuse through the board with Fallen of the White Dragon, Ketu Dracotail or Blazing Cartesia (Grand Fusion) toward a 2500+ ATK boss.
• Recovery: Recycle Dracotail monsters from the GY and banishment through Dracotail Phryxul, Dracotail Urgula and Dracotail Flame/Horn/Sting, which place Dracotail cards on the bottom of the Deck to draw; use Fallen of the White Dragon's GY recursion to rebuild the Albaz line.
• After siding: No side deck is registered (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan; the deck cannot adapt between games in a best-of-3 event.

Why it scores here

The deck's score comes from how the system opens and converts: 78 on engine access, since the searcher text group reaches at least one searcher in five cards about 78% of the time and the Branded/Dracotail core is almost always present, and 74 on combo ceiling, because the 13 Fusion + 1 Synchro Extra Deck gives several independent boss routes. The interaction layer (6 hand traps, Maxx "C", Effect Veiler, Dracotail Sting/Flame, Super Polymerization) is what keeps lines alive through the first response, which earns the resilience score (70). Median output is weaker than the ceiling (62), and the lack of a side deck and the two competing engines (Dracotail vs Albaz/Branded) pull the score down. Popularity in the archetype's usage data confirms the list is real and accessible, but it added no points on its own, and the card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo 100%. Structural ≈ 67, Going First ≈ 69, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: single-copy starter choke point (-2); no side deck (-2); engine conflict (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.78 · 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

• Fusion ceiling: 13 Fusion + 1 Synchro bosses give multiple routes after the first starter resolves.
• Redundant searchers (10 searcher-text cards) and 3-copy Ash/Fuwalos keep the engine accessible.
• Interaction layer covers both first activations and mid-combo responses (6 hand traps, Maxx "C", Effect Veiler, Dracotail Sting/Flame).

Weaknesses

• No side deck: no post-side adaptation in best-of-3.
• Two overlapping engines (Dracotail and Albaz/Branded) compete for Fusion materials and Extra Deck slots.
• Single-copy Fallen of Albaz and Branded Fusion are fragile starters for the Albaz line.

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz (1 copy) is the key starter for Albaz fusion routes.
• Branded Fusion (Limited, 1 copy) is the only single-card fusion route without material constraints.
• Opponent's first activation negated before Ash/Veiler resolve leaves the starter dead.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal under master-duel size and copy rules (40 main, 14 extra, 0 side).; Limited/Semi-Limited copy counts all respected (Branded Fusion 1, Maxx "C" 1, Mululu 2, Ketu 2).; Card text and stats for all 40 main and 14 extra cards.
• Observed: Archetype usage stats: 35 rows, core present 12/25 (48%).
• Inferred: Starter access 0.78 (searcher group) and 0.98 (archetype core) from hypergeometric estimates.; Going-second and interaction strength from text reads.; Engine conflict and choke-point assessments.
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample).; Matchup fit (D13) from archetype usage only.
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference. No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent. No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates). Data conflict: usage_statistics marks Mirrorjade, Rindbrumm, Titaniklad, Alba-Lenatus, Granguignol, Albion the Branded Dragon, The Dragon that Devours the Dogma and Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon as not in this deck (copies_in_deck 0), but the resolved card list places them in the Extra Deck. The resolved card list was used; the usage flags should be checked. Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied.