Branded Deck #764858 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 58/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Albaz-line Fusion Summons (Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Albion the Branded Dragon, Despian Proskenion) that leave a 2500-3200 ATK board; Synchro/Fusion follow-ups (The Three Champions of Swordsoul, Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon) and Albaz-material chains through Fallen of the White Dragon
• Turn 1 (going first): Search or Normal Summon a Fallen of Albaz-named monster (Fallen of Albaz, Fallen of the White Dragon, Albion the Shrouded Dragon), use Branded in High Spirits or Nadir Servant to find a second Albaz-material monster, then Fusion Summon via Branded Fusion or Super Polymerization
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler and Ghost Ogre to break the opponent's first interaction, then continue the Albaz Fusion line through the remaining hand
• Recovery: Rebuild from the GY using Albion the Shrouded Dragon, Branded Retribution and Ecclesia monsters, which send Albaz-named monsters back to the Deck or GY
• After siding: No side deck is run (0 of 15 allowed), so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck reliably finds its searchers (16 searcher-text cards, about 94% to have at least one in a 5-card opening, Inferred), but its Albaz-named starter pool is only four monsters, so a live starter is about 43% going first and 49% going second (Inferred hypergeometric). Conversion is strong on paper because the Albaz Fusion lines reach 2500-3200 ATK boards, but no recorded boards were supplied, so ceiling and median are semantic reads only. Six hand traps plus several negate and removal effects give layered interaction, which supports going second. Archetype popularity and the Branded core inclusion confirm the list is real and accessible but added no points, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score. The score is held down by the empty side deck, Limited banlist exposure on Branded Fusion and Bystial Magnamhut, and the lack of any dated meta sample.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 62, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-2); engine_conflict (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers; 0.80*62 + 0.20*55 - 3 = 57.6, rounded to 58

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.43 · 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 hand-trap package (16 searcher-text, 6 hand traps)
• Layered interaction: Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Ghost Ogre, Branded Retribution, Forbidden Droplet, Golden Swordsoul
• High-ATK Fusion and Synchro finishers in the Extra Deck (3000 and 3200 ATK)
• Four Albaz-named monsters give recursion and multiple Fusion material routes

Weaknesses

• Albaz-named starter pool is only 4 monsters, so a clean starter is roughly 43% going first (Inferred)
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation (Verified)
• Off-archetype tech and singletons (Forbidden Droplet, Springans Kitt, Effect Veiler) dilute coherence
• Maxx C (inclusion 92% in usage stats) is absent from the Main Deck (Verified)

Critical choke points

• Albaz-named monster count (4) for the Fusion engine
• Branded Fusion (Limited, 1 copy) for the Albaz Fusion line
• Hand-based starter reliance without a second independent Fusion route when hand traps are used

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 40, Extra 15, Side 0 are legal for master-duel; Limited and Semi-Limited copy counts are respected; Composition counts and copy histogram match the card list; Exact-name purity 16.4%
• Observed: Usage-stat inclusion for the Branded core (about 70-96%)
• Inferred: Hypergeometric starter, searcher and hand-trap probabilities; Strategy and interaction read from card text; Combo ceiling and median from semantic text
• Provisional: Matchup and format fit (no dated meta sample)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied; combo 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 and going-second splits and matchup results are Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied usage_statistics in_this_deck and missing_core flags appear to count only main-deck copies: 10 of the 11 'missing' core cards are present in the Extra Deck, so core coverage is 24 of 25 (Maxx C is the only true absence)