Branded Deck #762944 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 62/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 57 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fallen of Albaz fusion line (Branded Fusion / Branded in High Spirits / Branded Opening) into 2500-3000 ATK Dragons such as Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Mirrorjade, Secreterion Dragon and Albion the Branded Dragon; Albion the Shrouded Dragon and Branded Sword recurring Fallen of Albaz pieces from the GY to rebuild the fusion line
• Turn 1 (going first): Opening searcher (Branded in High Spirits, Branded Opening, Nadir Servant) or Fallen of White Dragon from hand, then Fusion Summon a Level 8 boss through Branded Fusion or Fallen of Albaz
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Maxx C) to stop the opponent's first summon or engine, then Fusion Summon through the gap; Triple Tactics Talent or Forbidden Droplet as conditional interaction
• Recovery: Return Albion the Shrouded Dragon, Branded Sword and Branded Retribution from GY/banish zone; Mulcharmy draw effects refill the hand when the field is empty
• After siding: None. The deck runs zero side-deck cards, so there is no defined post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens its engine: the 26 archetype-core copies give about a 0.96 chance of at least one core card in a going-first 5-card hand, and about 0.90 for at least one searcher, so the Fallen of Albaz line is usually live by turn 1-2 (Inferred). Its ceiling is high because the Extra Deck holds several 2500-3000 ATK bosses that can be recurred and that are unaffected by effects, and the 7 hand traps plus 11 negation-text cards let it interrupt on the opponent's turn (Inferred from card text). The structural score was computed from the system (consistency, interaction, recursion, closing power) and not by averaging card scores; the Branded name, the 4 community guides and the usage statistics confirm the list is real but earned no points on their own. Points are withheld for the missing side deck (D12 = 10), the lack of any recorded boards or dated meta sample, and the 59 off-archetype copies that dilute the engine. Meta Power stays null and Tournament Reliability is lowered for single-copy chokes (Branded Fusion, Fallen of Albaz).

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 68.6, Going First ≈ 72, Going Second ≈ 68, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: Single-copy Limited engine chokes (-2); Off-archetype dilution (-3); Engine compactness (2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + modifiers (-3) (Meta provisional) = 65.3 - 3 = 62.3

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.96 · 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

• Full Albaz/Branded core runs with redundant starters and searchers
• Seven hand traps plus negation text give interaction on both turns
• Extra Deck bosses at 2500-3000 ATK, several unaffected by effects, with GY recursion to rebuild
• Legal: all 7 restricted cards within legal copy limits; Extra Deck fully used

Weaknesses

• Zero side-deck cards means no post-side adaptation
• High off-archetype count (59 copies) dilutes the engine
• Single-copy Limited chokes (Branded Fusion, Fallen of Albaz)
• Weak conditional cards (Triple Tactics Talent, That Grass Looks Greener, Pot of Desires) that can brick

Critical choke points

• Branded Fusion (1 copy, Limited) as the main fusion enabler
• Fallen of Albaz (1 copy) as the core Dragon starter for the fusion line

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in master-duel; all 7 restricted cards within legal copy limits; Main 57, Extra 15, Side 0 (within size rules); Exact-name purity 18.1%; 59 off-archetype copies; Extra Deck: 12 Fusion, 2 Synchro, 1 Xyz; Four Vietnamese guides exist for the archetype
• Inferred: Opening-hand consistency ≈ 0.96 core and 0.90 searcher (hypergeometric); Hand-trap coverage ≈ 0.56 going second; Engine ceiling from card text (no recorded boards)
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup fit (D13)
• 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 usage_statistics in_this_deck/copies_in_deck is false for 10 Extra Deck core cards (Mirrorjade, Rindbrumm, Lubellion, Ecclesia and Dark Dragon, Alba-Lenatus, Titaniklad, Albion the Branded Dragon, Granguignol, Dragon that Devours, Three Champions) even though the cards list shows them in the Extra Deck; core_present_pct 60 is likely an undercount. This evaluation uses the cards list Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied