Branded Deck #770153 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Yubel-based boss pressure (Yubel - Terror Incarnate / The Ultimate Nightmare, Lava Golem, Imsety, Zombie Vampire) backed by hand-trap interaction; no recorded line confirms it converts; Fusion/Link end-boards (Yubel - The Loving Defender Forever, Phantom of Yubel, Accesscode Talker, Super Starslayer TY-PHON)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a searcher (Nightmare Pain, Nightmare Throne, Spirit of Yubel) to reach a Yubel boss, keep Mulcharmy draw engine for resources; hold Ash Blossom and Infinite Impermanence as interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 11 hand traps (Ash, Ghost Sister, Nibiru, Infinite Impermanence, Droll & Lock Bird, Solemn Judgment, Crossout Designator) to disrupt the opponent's first board, then play Yubel or Horus follow-ups
• Recovery: Yubel recursion (Spirit of Yubel, Nightmare Throne, Yubel-banished search) and Mulcharmy draw-on-summon; Horus revival via King's Sarcophagus
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so no post-side plan exists; this is a structural gap for a best-of-3 event

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal in OCG (three Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring against a limit of two, and one Forbidden Triple Tactics Talent), so the score is a structural-only theoretical read capped low rather than a normal Final Contextual score. Its strongest system features are interaction density (11 hand traps, 10 negation-text cards, 17 removal-text cards) and a Mulcharmy draw engine that rewards the opponent's summons, which earn the going-second score its main support. Starter reliability is moderate: searcher-text cards reach a hand 65% of the time, but only 2 of 8 archetype-core cards from usage statistics are present, and the list is labelled Branded while containing no exact-name Branded cards. Consistency is held back by 22 tech slots and 11 single-copy cards, which add brick risk and dilute the engine. The deck has no recorded combos, no tournament link and no side deck, so the floor, median and ceiling cannot be measured and the closing and side-deck dimensions rest on text inference only; popularity did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 49, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: Illegal legality cap (-24); Combo evidence absent (0). Final formula: Illegal cap: Structural 49 is capped to a theoretical 25; the normal 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) is NOT applied because the deck is Illegal

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.65 · 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

• Eleven hand traps and ten negation-text cards give layered interaction
• Mulcharmy draw engine punishes summons on both turn orders
• Yubel recursion keeps the engine alive after removal
• Boss ATKs of 2200 to 3000 supply closing pressure

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: Ash Blossom over limit and Forbidden Triple Tactics Talent
• 22 tech slots and 11 single-copy cards raise brick risk
• Only 2 of 8 archetype-core cards from usage stats are present
• No side deck, so no best-of-3 plan
• Archetype label Branded does not match the card pool (0% exact-name purity)

Critical choke points

• Yubel engine access depends on a few searchers (Nightmare Pain, Nightmare Throne, Spirit of Yubel)
• Legality failure blocks any event use until the list is corrected

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Ash Blossom 3 copies vs legal 2 (over limit); Triple Tactics Talent is Forbidden in OCG; Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0 within size rules; Usage stats: 2 of 8 core cards present
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter probability ~0.65 for searcher group; Brick risk from 22 tech and 11 single-copy cards; Interaction quality from negation and removal text; Going-second hand-trap plan
• Provisional: Meta power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link); Side-deck adaptability (no side cards)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied, so the combo floor, median and ceiling are text inference no tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN for this deck no side deck registered, so post-side plan is unverifiable Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied