Branded Deck #770221 — 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 57 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 6 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Level 8 boss monsters (Fallen of Albaz line: The Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Rindbrumm-style and Dragon-type fusions) off Branded Fusion, Super Polymerization and Fallen of Albaz; Synchro and Ecclesia follow-ups (The Three Champions of Swordsoul, Ecclesia-linked Fusions) once the Fusion line is established
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on a searcher (Nadir Servant, Incredible Ecclesia, Branded Opening, Aluber) into Fallen of Albaz or Branded Fusion, then Fusion Summon a Level 8 boss; the single-copy starters make this line fragile on the first draw
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre, D.D. Crow, Nibiru, PSY-Framegear Gamma) to break the opponent's board, then rebuild through Mulcharmy draw and a Fusion boss
• Recovery: Mulcharmy draw engine plus Branded in High Spirits / Fallen of the White Dragon recursion to rebuild the Fusion line from the GY
• After siding: Not evaluable: side_count is 0, so there is no post-side plan in the list

Why it scores here

The list is Illegal: Albion the Branded Dragon is Forbidden in OCG and two copies are run, and five other cards exceed their Limited or Semi-Limited copy caps, so the deck is capped and this score is structural and theoretical only. Structurally the deck is a connected Fusion engine: 17 searchers and 14 hand traps give it a high chance of opening a live starter (about 0.84 for at least one searcher in 5 cards, Inferred) and good interaction on both turn orders. Its ceiling rests on Fallen of Albaz and Level 8 boss Fusions, but each engine starter is a single copy, so the floor and median output are much lower than the best line and cannot be measured because the export has no recorded boards. Popularity did not earn points: Branded is an archetype with stats present, and the core-card check only confirms the list follows the standard shell, while the score comes from consistency, interaction and boss output on the system. Card scores were not averaged, and the 0.80 structural and 0.20 reliability blend with Meta provisional gives a pre-cap value of about 46 before the Illegal cap.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-8); hard_garnet_burden (-2). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability = 0.80*57 + 0.20*50 = 55.6, then modifiers (-10) give 46 pre-cap; the deck is Illegal, so the final score is capped at 30 and is structural and theoretical only

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.84 · 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

• Dense searcher and hand-trap package (17 searchers, 14 hand traps)
• Strong Level 8 Fusion boss options (2500 to 3000 ATK) with a healthy Extra Deck spread
• Good interaction on both turn orders via Ash, Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre, D.D. Crow and Nibiru

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Albion (Forbidden) and five Limited or Semi-Limited cards exceed their copy caps
• Low archetype purity (13.9% exact-name) and 30 distinct main cards dilute the engine
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Single-copy engine starters (Fallen of Albaz, Branded Fusion) make the line fragile

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz (1 copy) as the main Fusion enabler
• Branded Fusion (1 copy, Limited)
• Extra Deck access for Fusion summons, which Branded Opening and Branded Fusion both restrict for the turn

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: 6 violations (Albion Forbidden x2; Ash, Fallen & Virtuous, Super Polymerization each over Semi-Limited cap by 1; Branded in High Spirits and Droll over Limited cap by 1); Main 57 and Extra 15 are within size rules; Side 0; Composition: 13 Fusion and 2 Synchro in Extra; 17 searchers and 14 hand traps by text tag; Archetype purity 13.9% exact-name
• Inferred: At least one searcher in 5 cards about 0.84; Core archetype group in 5 cards about 0.59; Going-second hand-trap strength and interaction density; Ceiling from Level 8 boss Fusion lines
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup fit (D13) because no dated metagame or tournament link exists
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchup or brick rates Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No side deck in the export, so no post-side evidence