Branded Deck #770331 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 63/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Stun
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Fallen-of-Albaz-named bosses (Alba-Lenatus, The Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Albion dragons) for 2500-3000 ATK pressure; Fusion-chain recursion through Ecclesia/Cartesia and removal from Forbidden Crown, Magnamhut and Granguignol
• Turn 1 (going first): Branded in High Spirits or Nadir Servant to fetch Fallen of Albaz or an alias (Fallen of the White Dragon x2), then Branded Fusion or a Fallen-named Fusion
• Turn 2 (going second): Ash Blossom and Maxx C to hand-trap the first summon or search, then Fusion through the weakened board
• Recovery: Fallen of the White Dragon and Albion the Shrouded Dragon re-supply the Albaz name from GY and hand; Mercourier and Springans Kitt rebuild the board
• After siding: Master Duel has no side deck in ranked play; no post-side plan exists and none is penalised

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens its engine: searchers appear in 96% of 5-card opening hands and the Fallen-of-Albaz name is held by four cards (the Albaz itself plus two Fallen of the White Dragon and Albion the Shrouded Dragon), so a single missing copy does not stop the Fusion route. Its ceiling comes from 2500-3000 ATK Fusion bosses that chain into recursion, and its median is held back by copy-conditional bricks such as Nadir Servant and Mulcharmy Fuwalos. Interaction is layered: three Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Branded Retribution, Tri-Brigade Mercourier and Forbidden Crown give several answers to the first summon. The score comes from consistency, interaction and closing power on the system; Branded's popularity and archetype usage confirm the list is real but earned no points, and card scores were not averaged. The lack of recorded boards and tournament data keeps the uncertainty band wide.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 67, Going First ≈ 64, Going Second ≈ 68, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-2); engine conflicts (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional); 0.80*67.1 + 0.20*60 - 3 = 62.7, rounded to 63

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.96 · 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 (18 cards) gives about 96% opening-hand access
• Alias redundancy for the Fallen-of-Albaz name (4 cards)
• Layered negation: Ash Blossom x3, Maxx C, Retribution, Mercourier
• Fusion bosses at 2500-3000 ATK with recursion from GY

Weaknesses

• Single-copy Branded Fusion and Limited restrictions limit redundancy
• Conditional 3-copy cards (Nadir Servant, Mulcharmy Fuwalos) raise brick risk
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• No combo or tournament data to confirm the ceiling

Critical choke points

• Branded Fusion (1 copy, Limited) as the main fast Fusion enabler
• Fallen-of-Albaz name requirement, mitigated by four alias holders

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status, zone counts (40/15/0) and copy limits under BanMasterDuel; Banlist status: Branded Fusion, Magnamhut and Maxx C Limited; Super Polymerization and Fallen & Virtuous Semi-Limited; Card text for the 14 Fusion and 1 Synchro extra-deck monsters
• Inferred: Consistency estimates from the hypergeometric draw table; Interaction and recursion reads from card text; Combo ceiling from text, not from recorded boards
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup fit, with no dated metagame sample; Median output and side-deck adaptability (no sideboard in Master Duel)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied, so floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot records are absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Master Duel has no side deck, so D12 is a neutral placeholder