Branded Deck #765504 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 62/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Fallen of Albaz-material boss monsters (Albion the Branded Dragon, The Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Despian Proskenion, Titaniklad) that remove or destroy the opposing board; Synchro and Fusion bosses that negate or banish the opponent's field (Three Champions of Swordsoul, Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon, Mirrorjade)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Branded in High Spirits or Nadir Servant to reach Fallen of Albaz or Fallen of the White Dragon, then convert via Branded Fusion or Super Polymerization into a Fallen-material boss; hold Ash Blossom and Droll as protection
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Maxx C and Droll to disrupt the opponent's first summon, then fuse through the opposing monsters with Branded Fusion or Super Polymerization while Mulcharmy Fuwalos draws off their Special Summons
• Recovery: Recover through Mulcharmy Fuwalos and Branded Retribution reuse, plus Fallen of the White Dragon and Blazing Cartesia GY effects that re-summon Fallen monsters and Fusion Materials
• After siding: No side deck is run in Master Duel format; adaptation is limited to the fixed 40-card main and 15-card Extra Deck

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens its Fallen of Albaz engine: the archetype core group has about a 99.5% chance of at least one copy in a 5-card opening hand, and searcher text covers roughly 92% of hands, so the Fusion route is usually live by turn 2 (Inferred from hypergeometric estimates). Conversion is strong at the system level, since Branded Fusion and Super Polymerization feed several 2500+ ATK bosses from a 15-card Extra Deck with redundant material routes. Survival depends on a dense interaction suite of Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Droll and Branded Retribution, which gives the deck layered answers to the opponent's first summons, although two Limited cards and a single Fallen of Albaz limit how many times the line can be run. Popularity and archetype share were not counted toward the score, and the score was not derived by averaging card scores; the 62 reflects consistency, a plausible median output and interaction on the system, with no recorded boards and no meta sample to confirm it.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 66.8, Going First ≈ 65, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-2); single_copy_starter_choke (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional) = 0.80*66.8 + 0.20*58 - 3 ≈ 62

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 1 · 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

• Core engine redundancy: archetype-core group opens about 99.5% of hands
• Dense interaction suite of hand traps and negations (Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Droll, Branded Retribution)
• Strong closing bosses in the Extra Deck (Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Despian Proskenion, Titaniklad)

Weaknesses

• No recorded boards, so median output and combo floor are unverified
• Heavy reliance on Limited and Semi-Limited cards (Branded Fusion, Maxx C, Crossout Designator, Super Polymerization, Droll)
• Several Extra Deck bosses are not run, so the Fallen-material route depends on a narrow subset

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz is a single copy and is the key Fusion material for the Branded bosses
• Branded Fusion is Limited (1 copy) and is the main route into the Fallen-material bosses

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status and copy counts for all Limited and Semi-Limited cards; Main 40 / Extra 15 composition and copy histogram; Hand-trap and searcher text role counts; Usage stats: 15 of 25 archetype core cards present
• Inferred: Starter access probabilities and brick estimates; Combo ceiling from card text; Interaction and resilience estimates; Going-first and going-second reads
• Provisional: Meta Power is null; matchup and format fit are unverified; Tournament reliability and side-deck adaptability
• 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, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck title is null; identity is taken from archetype and card list only