Branded Deck #770343 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 63/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon a 2500-3000 ATK Fusion Monster (Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Mirrorjade, Albion the Branded Dragon, Lubellion, Titaniklad) that uses Fallen of Albaz or Fallen of the White Dragon as material, then press the attack with the boss.; Synchro and Fusion boss follow-ups (The Three Champions of Swordsoul, Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon) and Branded Retribution / Triple Tactics Talent for control and removal of the opponent's board.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a searcher (Branded in High Spirits, Aluber, Nadir Servant) or a Fallen starter, reach Fallen of Albaz or Fallen of the White Dragon, then use Super Polymerization or Branded Fusion to make a boss; keep Ash Blossom, Droll and Maxx C up for the opponent's response.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand to hold Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C or Branded Retribution for the opponent's first chain, then rebuild through Fallen starters and a Fusion Summon into a 2500+ ATK boss.
• Recovery: Recur Fallen-named monsters and Branded spells from the Graveyard (Albion the Shrouded Dragon, Fallen of the White Dragon, Branded Opening) and re-search through Aluber, Incredible Ecclesia and Blazing Cartesia.
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan in the evidence; the deck has no measurable adaptation.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a starter: 17 searcher-text cards give P(at least one searcher in a 5-card hand) of about 0.95, and 26 archetype-core copies give about 0.997 for at least one in hand, so engine access is strong (Inferred). Conversion rests on the Fusion path into 2500 to 3000 ATK bosses, which is a real ceiling, but there are no recorded boards, so the median output is unmeasured and scored conservatively. Interaction is layered across six hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C), Branded Retribution, Triple Tactics Talent and Golden Swordsoul, which earns the going-second and endboard scores on the system rather than on any single card. The deck has no Side Deck, which caps adaptability and tournament reliability, and the Fusion chains are demanding to pilot. Popularity and archetype usage confirm the list is real, but they did not add points, and no card scores were averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 67, Going First ≈ 70, Going Second ≈ 68, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 56. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-1); unrecoverable_choke_point (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; Structural = 67.24, TR = 56, modifiers = -2)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.95 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Redundant starters (searchers and Fallen-linked monsters) keep the Fusion engine live on most openings
• Six hand traps plus Branded Retribution and Triple Tactics Talent give layered interaction on both turns
• Extra Deck is fully used with 11 distinct Fusion bosses, several at 2500 to 3000 ATK

Weaknesses

• No Side Deck registered, so there is no post-side adaptation
• Heavy reliance on Fusion chains; hands with hand traps but no Fusion route are a real brick risk
• Low exact-name archetype purity means the list leans on a cross-archetype cluster that is harder to pilot

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz (1 copy) is a material for most boss Fusions
• Branded Fusion and Super Polymerization are the main Fusion enablers; losing both removes most boss routes

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in master-duel: 40 main, 15 extra, 0 side, no violations; Limited and Semi-Limited copy counts are within legal limits; Card stats and text for listed cards; 13 Fusion and 2 Synchro in the Extra Deck
• Observed: Usage stats show the archetype core is largely present (15 of 25 core cards)
• Inferred: Starter probability and brick estimates from hypergeometric draw odds; Hand trap and interaction density read from card text; Going-first and going-second power estimates
• Provisional: Matchup and format fit (D13); Meta Power (null); Post-side adaptability (D12)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link; archetype meta share and per-pilot record absent usage_statistics in_this_deck flags conflict with the card list (for example Dragon that Devours, Albion the Branded Dragon, Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon, Rindbrumm and Mirrorjade are shown as not in deck but appear in the Extra Deck list); core-missing counts are not relied on no win-rate telemetry; going-first and going-second splits are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample no Side Deck registered, so D12 is based on the absence of a side plan