Branded Deck #762739 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±10 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 43 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Albaz Dragon-family boss monsters (Albion the Sanctifire Dragon, The Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Rindbrumm, Lubellion-style fusions) from Extra Deck via Branded Fusion / Super Polymerization / Fallen of Albaz material; Fallen of White Dragon and Blazing Cartesia / Incredible Ecclesia pressure through Fallen-of-Albaz fusion and Ecclesia Synchro/Fusion follow-ups
• Turn 1 (going first): Opening Branded in High Spirits / Nadir Servant / Blazing Cartesia search, then Fallen of Albaz or Fallen of the White Dragon special summon into a Branded Fusion or Super Polymerization for a 3000-ATK boss while Ash Blossom / Droll & Lock Bird protect the line (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx "C" and Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit as hand traps to break the opponent's turn-1 board, then recover with Fallen-family searchers and a boss fusion (Inferred)
• Recovery: Searchers (Aluber, Branded in High Spirits, Incredible Ecclesia) and Fallen-of-Albaz GY recursion rebuild the Fusion starter after a single removal or negation (Inferred)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no Side Deck, so there is no recorded post-side plan (Verified gap)

Why it scores here

The deck's score comes from the system: the Fallen-of-Albaz engine (searchers, Fallen recursion, and Branded Fusion/Super Polymerization as starters) has a high chance of a live starter in opening hands (P(≥1 searcher in 5) ≈ 0.92; archetype core ≈ 0.996), and the 14 Fusion-line bosses at 2500–3000 ATK give it real ceiling and closing power. Seven hand traps and about 11 negation effects keep the line alive through one interruption, and Fallen recursion gives a second route after removal. Scores are capped by three things: no recorded boards (median output is unknown, so D4 sits at 50), no Side Deck (D12 is 15), and an illegal list (The Fallen & The Virtuous at 3 copies against a limit of 2). Because the list is illegal, this is a structural-only score, not a normal contextual one. Archetype popularity (usage stats) confirms the list is real and accessible but earned no points, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 63, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); no side deck (-4); dependence on Fusion starter (-2). Final formula: Illegal cap: Structural 63 from Combo weights; normal formula 0.80*63 + 0.20*45 = 59 with modifiers -12 gives 47, but an Illegal list does not receive a normal Final score, so it is capped at 25 and labelled theoretical/structural-only

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.92 · 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

• Dense searcher and Fallen recursion engine (16 searcher-text cards)
• Seven hand traps plus 11 negation-text cards give layered interaction
• 14 Fusion bosses at 2500–3000 ATK provide a real closing ceiling
• Archetype core is almost always present in opening hands (≈0.996)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: The Fallen & The Virtuous runs 3 copies against a limit of 2
• No Side Deck, so no best-of-3 adaptation
• Mixed sub-archetypes (Branded 10 exact copies out of 43 main) weaken engine coherence
• No recorded boards, so the median output cannot be measured

Critical choke points

• Branded Fusion / Super Polymerization as the only consistent fusion route
• Fallen of Albaz as the material for almost every boss
• Extra Deck access restricted on the turn Branded Fusion resolves

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 43 and Extra 15 are within Master Duel size rules (main 40–60, extra 0–15); The Fallen & The Virtuous: 3 copies against a legal limit of 2 (violation); Side Deck is 0 cards; Archetype exact purity 17.2%; 14 Fusion and 1 Synchro in the Extra Deck; Banlist: Maxx "C", Gold Sarcophagus, Branded Fusion Limited; Droll, Super Polymerization, The Fallen & The Virtuous Semi-Limited
• Observed: Archetype usage: Branded core cards present (Albion, Fallen of Albaz-family, Ecclesia) at 75–100% inclusion
• Inferred: Starter access ≈0.92 (searcher group) and ≈0.996 (archetype core) from hypergeometric draws; Going-first and going-second splits from hand-trap and starter counts; Brick and redundancy estimates from copy histogram and tech density
• Provisional: Meta power (null); matchup fit D13 at 50 with no dated meta; Median output D4 with no recorded boards
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN — going-first/second, matchup, brick and OTK rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No Side Deck in the export, so post-side performance is unknown