Branded Deck #766435 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion-summon Branded/Albaz Dragon boss monsters (Albion the Branded Dragon, The Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Titaniklad, Lubellion) via the Fallen of Albaz engine, backed by Branded Fusion and Super Polymerization.; Synchro and Fusion board-breaking through Blazing Cartesia / Guiding Quem / Ecclesia-line tuners and Despian Proskenion to finish.
• Turn 1 (going first): Opening Blazing Cartesia, Fallen of the White Dragon, Fallen of Albaz, or Branded in High Spirits to fetch the Fallen engine, then Branded Fusion or Super Polymerization into a Fallen-material boss.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx "C", and Branded Retribution to disrupt the opponent's starter, then rebuild through Fallen of the White Dragon or Blazing Cartesia.
• Recovery: Fallen of Albaz and Fallen of the White Dragon recur from the GY; Albion and Mirrorjade-style boss recursion is limited here because Mirrorjade and Rindbrumm are absent.
• After siding: No side deck is registered (side_count 0); post-side adaptation is unavailable and cannot be evaluated.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably reaches its Fallen of Albaz engine: the core archetype group (25 copies) has about a 99.5% chance of at least one card in a 5-card opening, and the searcher-text group (15 copies) about 92%. Conversion is real but narrow: Branded Fusion, Super Polymerization and the Fallen-material bosses (Albion, Titaniklad, Dragon that Devours the Dogma) need specific material, and the extra deck is missing Mirrorjade and Rindbrumm, which the usage data says most builds run. Interaction is layered (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx "C", Branded Retribution, Crossout Designator) and the deck can survive a single disruption, but a full brick or a single choke point is not well covered. Popularity and archetype meta-share were not used to earn points, and no card scores were averaged. The score rests on the deck as a system, not on the Branded name.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo 80% / Midrange 20% (primary-weighted). Structural ≈ 63, Going First ≈ 64, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-2); no side deck (-2); absent extra-deck core (-1); archetype purity (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 1 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Core Fallen/Branded engine is almost always reachable in the opening hand (~99.5%)
• Layered hand-trap and negation suite: Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx "C", Branded Retribution
• Fusion-based bosses with high ATK and recursion via Fallen of Albaz / White Dragon

Weaknesses

• No combo data, so the floor and median cannot be measured
• Extra deck is missing the usage-core bosses Mirrorjade and Rindbrumm
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Low exact-name purity (18.2%) means the engine is spread across several sub-archetypes

Critical choke points

• Branded Fusion and Super Polymerization (1 and 2 copies) are the main fusion enablers; losing them to a hand trap or banish-based disruption leaves few Fusion routes
• Fallen of Albaz is required as material for most bosses; one copy in the deck is a single point of failure for several lines

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in master-duel: 40 main, 15 extra, 0 side, no violations; Copy limits: Branded Fusion, Maxx "C", Crossout Designator, Gold Sarcophagus Limited; Droll, Super Polymerization, Fallen & Virtuous Semi-Limited; all within limits; Core group of 25 copies gives P(≥1 in 5-card hand) ≈ 0.9954; Usage stats: Mirrorjade, Rindbrumm, Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon at 97% inclusion but absent
• Observed: Guides describe Braindead Fusion / Fallen-line Branded play, with Predaplant and Despia variants
• Inferred: Engine reliability ~99% for an engine card, not a full combo success; Going-second disruption plan relies on hand-traps being drawn (P≈0.65 in 6 cards); Floor and median output are estimated from card text, not measured boards
• Provisional: Meta power and archetype share (no dated metagame sample); Post-side plan (no side deck)
• 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 side deck empty — post-side adaptation cannot be evaluated