Branded Deck #769946 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Fusion/Synchro engine
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 13 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon a large Albaz Dragon-family boss (Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Mirrorjade, Rindbrumm, Lubellion) from the Extra Deck, using Fallen of Albaz / Fallen of the White Dragon as material.; Synchro or Fusion boards from Ecclesia and Despia support (Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon, Despian Luluwalilith) and draw-and-pressure from Mulcharmy Fuwalos / Purulia.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Fallen of Albaz or Branded starter, search or Special Summon Fallen of the White Dragon, then Fusion Summon a boss through Branded Fusion or Branded in Red while holding a hand trap for the opponent's first interaction.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle or Nibiru to answer the opponent's board, then rebuild through Branded Opening or the Fallen of Albaz engine and convert the surviving Extra Deck material into a boss.
• Recovery: Recover from GY with Branded in Red (Despia or Fallen of Albaz target), Fallen of the White Dragon or Branded Opening to re-enter the Fusion line; hand traps are the bridge when the first line is stopped.
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered in this export (side_count 0), so no post-side plan can be evaluated; best-of-3 play would be unsupported as submitted.

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal as submitted: five cards exceed their OCG copy limits (Ash Blossom, The Fallen & The Virtuous and Super Polymerization at 3 copies against a limit of 2; Branded in High Spirits and Droll & Lock Bird at 2 against a limit of 1), so it receives a theoretical, structural-only score capped at 35 rather than a normal Final Contextual score. On the system, the deck's Fallen of Albaz / Fallen of the White Dragon engine plus 11 Fusion and 2 Synchro Extra Deck options can reach large boards, and a dozen hand-trap and negation effects give it real interaction density. Consistency is only moderate: the archetype core group opens at least one copy in 5 cards about 56% of the time, and Mulcharmy's 'control no cards' activation conflicts with the backrow and Fusion lines, so brick risk is high. Only 13% of copies are exact-name Branded and 59 copies are off-archetype, which lowers coherence. The score comes from the engine, interaction and board output on the system, not from Branded's popularity and not from averaging individual card scores; no combo boards, tournament link or side deck were supplied, so combo and matchup readings are Inferred or Provisional.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 52, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: Illegal copy counts (cap) (-10); Banlist exposure (-3); Engine conflict (-2). Final formula: Illegal list: 0.80*Structural(52) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(42) = 50, plus modifiers (-5) = 45, capped at 35 for the illegal copy counts; theoretical/structural-only. Meta Power provisional (null).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.56 · 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

• Layered end-board interaction: Witch's Strike, Lightning Storm, Harpie's Feather Duster, Solemn Judgment, Anti-Spell Fragrance and Infinite Impermanence
• Twelve hand traps give going-second interaction (about 79% to have one in 6 cards)
• Strong Fusion bosses in the Extra Deck (Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Mirrorjade, Rindbrumm, Lubellion) with a real Albaz Dragon line

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy counts on five cards (Ash Blossom, Fallen & Virtuous, Super Polymerization, Branded in High Spirits, Droll & Lock Bird)
• Low archetype purity (13.2% exact-name Branded) with 59 off-archetype copies
• No Side Deck, so best-of-3 adaptability is absent
• Engine pieces with conflicting conditions (Mulcharmy empty-field, Ecclesia/Dogmatika summon limits)

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz / Fallen of the White Dragon starter: the Fusion line depends on a small number of these cards
• Branded Fusion / Branded in Red as the bridge into a boss; each is a single copy with a Limited status

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality status Illegal with five over-limit copy counts (ban field BanList, OCG); Main 55 and Extra 13 are within size rules (main 40-60, extra 0-15); Banlist statuses of Limited and Semi-Limited cards as listed in restricted_cards; Composition: 11 Fusion and 2 Synchro Extra Deck cards; 13.2% exact-name Branded purity
• Inferred: Hypergeometric opening-hand estimates (core ≈ 0.56, searcher ≈ 0.86, hand traps ≈ 0.79 going second); Engine coherence and brick risk from card text conflicts; Interaction density and end-board quality from text roles
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup/format fit (no dated metagame sample); Tournament reliability (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry; going-first/second and matchup results are unknown No Side Deck in export; post-side plan cannot be assessed Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample