Branded Deck #765875 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 61/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon a 2500-3800 ATK boss (Albion the Branded Dragon, Alba-Lenatus, Titaniklad, Mirrorjade, Hyperinvoked Aeon) using Fallen of Albaz or its alias monsters as material; Multi-boss pressure from Dragon that Devours the Dogma, The Three Champions of Swordsoul and Secreterion Dragon once the first boss lands
• Turn 1 (going first): Branded in High Spirits or Branded Opening to search Fallen of Albaz (or an Albaz alias), then Branded Fusion or Super Polymerization into a boss, with Ash Blossom and Maxx C held as hand interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Droll and Lock Bird, Maxx C and Branded Retribution to stop the opponent's board, then Fusion Summon from the Albaz alias monsters in hand
• Recovery: Recover Fallen of Albaz or Albion the Shrouded Dragon from the GY or banish, and re-run Fusion Summons from the field and GY
• After siding: None: Master Duel has no sideboard, and side_count is 0

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system: its Fallen of Albaz alias engine (four Albaz-named main monsters), searcher spells, and Fusion Summon enablers give it a high chance of a live starter, and its Fusion boss suite gives a high ceiling. Hand traps (Ash Blossom x3, Droll, Maxx C) and Branded Retribution support resilience and going-second interaction. Output and closing are strong when a boss lands, while the median is text-only and unverified because no recorded boards exist. Popularity (94.8% usage on Fallen of Albaz, four guides) confirmed the list is real and accessible but earned no points, and no card scores were averaged. Meta Power is provisional and excluded, and D13 was removed from Structural with the Combo weights renormalized.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo profile with D13 dropped and the remaining weights renormalized to a sum of 97. Structural ≈ 68.5, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-2); engine conflicts and dead slot (-2); unrecoverable choke point (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional, no dated sample) = 0.80*68.5 + 0.20*58 - 5 = 61.4 -> 61

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.96 · 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

• Four Albaz-named main monsters plus three searcher spells give a high chance of an engine starter
• Layered negation: Ash Blossom x3, Branded Retribution, Mercourier, Three Champions
• Boss suite in the Extra Deck reaches 3000+ ATK with several recursion routes

Weaknesses

• Single-copy Branded Fusion and Fallen of Albaz make the line fragile if they are missed
• Dead slot D.3.S. Frog and 5 off-theme Mulcharmy copies
• No side deck and no post-side plan

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz (1 copy) as the shared Fusion material
• Branded Fusion (1 copy, Limited) as the main Fusion enabler

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 40 main, 15 extra, 0 side; all five restricted cards within legal copy limits; Copy histogram and Extra-Deck breakdown match the card list; Hypergeometric draw odds recomputed and matched the evidence; Card text and stats from the resolved card list
• Observed: Usage inclusion: Fallen of Albaz 94.8%, Fallen of the White Dragon 94.8%, Ash Blossom 93.5% (archetype usage stats); Four guides exist for the archetype (not used as score evidence)
• Inferred: Structural and dimension scores from draw odds and card text; Going-first and going-second power estimates; Dead-slot identification for D.3.S. Frog
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); D12 post-side and D13 matchup dimensions
• Data gaps: No recorded combo boards: floor, median, and ceiling are text-only inference usage_statistics.in_this_deck ignores the Extra Deck: the core list shows 15/25 present, but the card list contains all 25 core cards (10 are Extra-Deck monsters), so core_present_pct = 60 is an artifact No tournament link: no archetype meta-share and no per-pilot record No win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchup, or starter rate Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample deck title is null