Branded Deck #769952 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Toolbox
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 50 / Extra 20 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro-summon Red Dragon Archfiend variants (3000-4500 ATK) and Tyrant/Red Supernova-class boss monsters, then protect the board with negation and Red Zone/Chains-style interaction; Repeated Synchro Summons through Resonator Tuners and Archfiend recursion to rebuild a board after a disruption
• Turn 1 (going first): Search a Resonator or Archfiend starter (Soul Resonator, Resonator Call, Bone Archfiend, Crimson Gaia) and Normal Summon a Tuner into a Synchro Summon of a Red Dragon Archfiend variant
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom and Red Dragon Archfiend's Chains / Fiendish Golem to answer the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Resonator searchers
• Recovery: Recycle Resonators and Archfiends from the GY via Synkron Resonator, Obsessive Uvualoop and Red Mirror, then re-Synchro through the Extra Deck
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck is illegal in OCG: it runs 20 Extra Deck cards against a maximum of 15, so it receives a capped, structural-only score of 30. Within that structure, the engine is reasonably accessible: 23 searcher-text cards give a 0.96 chance of at least one searcher in an opening 5, and the Resonator and Archfiend lines recover through the GY. Ceiling output is credible on paper (Red Supernova Dragon, Red Hypernova Dragon and Tyrant Red Dragon Archfiend reach 3500 to 4500 ATK), but no recorded boards exist, so median output and combo floor are Inferred and not measured. Interaction is moderate (7 negation-text and 18 removal-text cards, two Semi-Limited hand traps), and the going-second hand-trap chance is only about 0.23. The deck has no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan. The Branded archetype label does not reflect the list: exact-name purity is 1.4%, and the deck is a Resonator and Archfiend Synchro build. Popularity and archetype meta-share earned no points, and no card scores were averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 58, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 48, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: Extra Deck over size limit (-12). Final formula: Illegal cap: min(0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers, 30) = min(0.80*58 + 0.20*50 - 12, 30) = 30; Meta provisional

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.28 · 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

• Searcher density (23 cards) gives a near-certain searcher in the opening 5
• Red Dragon Archfiend and Synchro boss ceiling reaches 3500 to 4500 ATK
• Layered interaction: two Ash Blossom, Red Dragon Archfiend's Chains and seven negation-text cards

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: 20 Extra Deck cards against a maximum of 15
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptability
• Heavy reliance on Synchro-dependent cards that brick without a Synchro on the field
• Branded label does not match the list (exact-name purity 1.4%)

Critical choke points

• A single Synchro Summon is required for most Resonator and Archfiend lines
• Two Semi-Limited Ash Blossom and two Limited Bystial cards are the only interaction against a hand trap or boss

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 50, Extra 20, Side 0; Extra exceeds OCG maximum of 15; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is Semi-Limited with 2 copies; Bystial Magnamhut and The Bystial Lubellion are Limited with 1 copy each (legal); Searcher-text count 23; negation-text 7; removal-text 18; hand-trap count 2; Exact-name archetype purity 1.4%
• Inferred: P(>=1 starter in 5) ≈ 0.28 per 3-copy card; searcher group ≈ 0.96; Starter reliability and brick risk for Synchro-dependent cards; Ceiling output from Red Dragon Archfiend and Red Supernova/Hypernova boards; Going-second hand-trap chance ≈ 0.23
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit (no dated meta sample; no tournament link); Post-side plan (no Side Deck)
• 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/second, matchup, brick and starter rates) Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample No Side Deck: post-side performance cannot be assessed Archetype label (Branded) does not match the list's real engines (Resonator/Archfiend)