Branded Deck #770065 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Boss monsters from the Light and Darkness Ritual and Dogmatika/Albaz lines (Black Chaos, Black Luster Soldier, Chaos Angel, Dogmatika Maximus) attacking after the opponent's interaction is spent; Fusion and Synchro bosses (Mirrorjade, Rindbrumm, Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon) when the Albaz or Ecclesia engine goes live
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a starter (Fallen of the White Dragon, Ragged Records, Mind Shuffle or a searcher), search the Albaz or Ritual piece, and keep Solemn-type protection up for the Fusion or Synchro boss
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll and Lock Bird, Maxx C, Solemn Warning) to slow the opponent's first board, then rebuild through the searchers into a ritual or extra-deck boss
• Recovery: Recur Skull Archfiend or Ragged Records from the GY and re-search the Ritual or Albaz support through the searchers
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no side deck, so no post-side plan exists in the evidence

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal in OCG: Albion the Branded Dragon is Forbidden and Branded in High Spirits is run three times against a limit of one, so it does not receive a normal Final Contextual score and is capped at 30 with a theoretical, structural-only label. The structural read comes from the system, not from averaging card scores: the 15 searcher-text cards give about 0.81 chance of at least one searcher in a 5-card opening, which supports engine access (D1 ~55, Inferred), but the archetype core shows only about 0.56 chance of an opening hit, and 6 sub-archetypes (Ritual, Dogmatika, Albaz, Ecclesia, Despia, Chaos, Stardust, @Ignister) with exact-name purity of 8.6% dilute the engine. Interaction is the strongest part of the list (Solemn Judgment, Solemn Warning, Ash Blossom, Droll and Lock Bird, Maxx C, Feather Duster), giving D7 ~68 (Inferred). Popularity did not earn points: Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon, a core card at 83.5% inclusion, is absent, and the deck has no combo boards, no tournament record, and no side deck, so the median and side-deck scores remain low.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 51, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8). Final formula: Pre-cap 0.80*Structural(51) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(42) = 49, plus banlist modifier -8 = 41; Illegal cap applied, final score 30 (theoretical, structural-only). Meta Power null (Provisional).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.81 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.44 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Searcher density (15 searcher-text cards) gives a high chance of finding a starter
• Interaction suite of Solemn Judgment, Solemn Warning, Ash Blossom, Droll and Lock Bird, Maxx C and Feather Duster
• Strong closing bosses at 3000-3500 ATK

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: Forbidden Albion and three copies of a Limited card
• Six sub-archetypes split the engine (exact-name purity 8.6%)
• No side deck and no post-side plan
• No recorded combo boards or tournament data to confirm the ceiling

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz and Fallen of the White Dragon are the only Albaz-line starters, and the core is absent in about 44% of openings
• Solemn-type protection depends on limited copies that cannot be replaced

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Albion the Branded Dragon Forbidden with 1 copy; Branded in High Spirits 3 copies against Limited 1; Main 55 and Extra 15 are within OCG size rules; side is 0; Exact-name archetype purity 8.6%; 64 off-archetype copies; Interaction text counts: 22 removal, 11 negation, 4 hand traps; Usage stats: Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon (83.5% inclusion) missing from the list
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter probability ~0.81 and archetype core ~0.56 from hypergeometric estimates; Interaction layering rating for D7; Going-first and going-second power estimates
• Provisional: Meta power (null) and matchup fit (D13); Median output (D4) with no recorded boards
• 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 for going-first, going-second, matchup, or brick and starter rates no side deck: post-side adaptability cannot be scored Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied