Branded Deck #762832 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 52/100 (±9 · Confidence: Low)

• 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 Level 8 Dragons (Lubellion the Searing Dragon, Alba-Lenatus, Albion the Branded Dragon) off Fallen of Albaz as the fusion-material hub, then attack with 2500-3000 ATK bosses.; Bystial Dragon lane (Saronir, Druiswurm, Magnamhut, Lubellion) that Special Summons from hand by banishing LIGHT or DARK monsters from either GY, plus Despia fusion routes via Despia Theater and Masquerade.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Fallen of Albaz (2 copies, P of at least one in 5 cards about 0.31) or a searcher route (searcher text on 13 cards, P about 0.96) to reach a Fusion Summon of a Level 8 boss; Branded Fusion or Despia Theater as the second starter.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ghost Belle and Effect Veiler (2 hand traps, P of at least one in 6 about 0.37) plus Branded Retribution to stop the opponent's Special Summon or activation, then rebuild a fusion board from the GY.
• Recovery: Despian Tragedy and Aluber recover Branded and Despia spells and monsters from the GY; Bystial Saronir and Magnamhut re-enable Special Summons from the GY once the Dragon lane is down.
• After siding: Not applicable: Duel Links decks run no Side Deck (side_count 0), so there is no post-side adaptation.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a fusion plan through searchers (13 searcher-text cards, about 96% at least one in an opening hand) but the engine's single hub, Fallen of Albaz, is only 2 copies (about 31% in 5 cards), so the T1 starter is a real choke point. Conversion has a high ceiling: nine Extra Deck fusions with 2500-3000 ATK bosses and several Fusion Summon triggers, which earns the conversion and closing scores. Consistency is held back by conditional starters (Cartesia needs Albaz in play or the GY, Saronir needs LIGHT or DARK monsters in a GY) and by 13 off-archetype or generic main-deck slots, so the deck is a Branded and Bystial hybrid with low exact-name purity (12.8%). Eight removal-text cards and two hand traps give interaction on the end board and going second. Popularity did not earn points: the guides call Branded Top Tier, but that is not evidence of power, no combos were recorded, and no tournament or win-rate data exists, so Meta Power is provisional and no card scores were averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 59.5, Going First ≈ 56, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: unrecoverable choke point (-3); engine conflict (-2); no post-side plan (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; 0.80*59.5 + 0.20*50 = 57.6, then -6 modifiers = 51.6, rounded to 52)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.31 · 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

• Searcher density: 13 searcher-text cards give about 96% at least one in an opening hand.
• Fusion ceiling: nine Extra fusions including several 2500-3000 ATK Level 8 bosses.
• Interaction breadth: eight removal-text cards, two hand traps and Branded Retribution for negation.
• Recovery: Despian Tragedy, Aluber, Branded Lost and Despia Theater recover from the GY.

Weaknesses

• Single-hub engine: only 2 Fallen of Albaz, so the first starter is fragile.
• Low exact-name purity (12.8%) and 13 generic or off-archetype main-deck slots.
• Conditional starters (Cartesia, Saronir, Lubellion) make some hands dead.
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation.

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz: needed for the fusion gate and Cartesia; 2 copies give about 31% in 5 cards.
• The Bystial lane needs LIGHT or DARK monsters in a GY, so it depends on the earlier fusion and trade turns.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in duel-links: 30 Main, 9 Extra, 0 Side; copies within limits (Limited Super Polymerization 1, Semi-Limited Bystial Druiswurm and Magnamhut 1 each).; Usage stats: Fallen of Albaz typical 3 copies at 92% inclusion; Branded in White, Branded in Red and Branded Beast are absent.; Exact-name archetype purity 12.8%; 13 generic slots; 9 Extra fusions.
• Inferred: Opening-hand probabilities from the hypergeometric model.; Engine ceiling and interaction density from card text.; Turn-1 plan through Albaz and the searchers; going-second hand-trap plan.
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit: no dated metagame sample.; Tournament reliability: no tournament link or match record.
• Data gaps: No recorded combo boards: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference. No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent. No win-rate telemetry: going-first, going-second, matchup and starter rates are Inferred or Unknown. usage_statistics in_this_deck appears to count Main Deck only: Extra Deck cards such as Khaos, Mirrorjade, Predaplant, Granguignol, Lubellion and Albion the Branded Dragon are flagged false although they are in this deck; core-coverage percentages understate Extra Deck coverage. Guide claims about tier placement are unverified and did not earn points.