Branded Deck #770366 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 55/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Level 8 boss monsters (Albion the Branded Dragon, The Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Borreload, Lubellion) from the Extra Deck, using Fallen of Albaz-linked materials and Branded Fusion / Super Polymerization as enablers; Synchro and Ecclesia/Dogmatika follow-ups (Three Champions, Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon, Incredible Ecclesia) that recover the Fusion line after a board is broken
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Branded spell/trap or Despia searcher (Branded in High Spirits, Aluber, Branded Opening), search a Fallen of Albaz-linked monster, and convert to a Level 8 Fusion through Branded Fusion or Super Polymerization; use Droll and Maxx C to answer the opponent's hand traps
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C, Branded Retribution or Golden Swordsoul to interrupt the opponent's first board, then Fusion Summon or Synchro-Summon through the remaining Branded and Ecclesia starters
• Recovery: Recover Fallen of Albaz and Despia monsters from the Graveyard via Branded Sword, Despian Tragedy, Albion the Shrouded Dragon and Branded Lost, and rebuild the Fusion line from the GY
• After siding: No Side Deck (0 cards); there is no post-side plan in this format, so adaptation is limited to in-game choices

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional starter: a 17-card set of Branded, Despia and Fallen of Albaz-linked starters gives about 82% at-least-one in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred, hypergeometric), and the Branded Fusion and Super Polymerization enablers convert that into 2500 to 3000 ATK bosses. Its ceiling is credible because the Extra Deck carries several 3000 ATK Fusion bosses and the deck runs 15 Branded and Despia cards for redundancy. Its weaknesses are the single-copy Fallen of Albaz / Branded Fusion chokepoint (only 3 Albaz-named monsters plus Albion the Shrouded Dragon, about 36% to appear in an opening 5), a bloated off-archetype block (Mulcharmy, Bystial, Tri-Brigade, Springans, Swordsoul), and only 3 hand traps. No recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median are text-based inferences, and the score does not reflect the archetype's popularity or any meta share, nor did it average the individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 59.7, Going First ≈ 61, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: engine_conflicts (-2); banlist_exposure (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; no dated metagame sample)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.82 · key two-card combo ≈ 0.01 · 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

• Multiple 3-copy and 2-copy starters across Branded, Despia and Ecclesia routes give high at-least-one starter odds
• Level 8 Fusion bosses at 2500 to 3000 ATK with several Extra-Deck boss options, so the Extra Deck has ceiling
• Four interaction routes (Droll x2, Maxx C, Branded Retribution, Golden Swordsoul) plus removal text on 15 cards
• Legal on every copy limit and size rule; no violations

Weaknesses

• Only 15 of 60 Main-Deck cards are exact-name Branded; the rest are off-archetype and conditional
• Fallen of Albaz is a single copy and is the only direct Branded Fusion material; Albaz-named cards reach an opening 5 only about 36% of the time
• Only 3 hand traps; hand-trap density is below typical Master Duel standard
• Extra Deck is 13 Fusion/Synchro cards with specific material requirements, so flex slots are scarce

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz (1 copy) and the Albaz-named cards (White Dragon x2, Albion Shrouded x2): most Fusion routes need one of them on field or in GY
• Branded Fusion (1 copy, Limited) as the only dedicated Fusion enabler besides Super Polymerization x2 and Branded in Red/White

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 60, Extra 15, Side 0; all copy limits satisfied (Limited 1, Semi-Limited 2); Composition: 39 distinct main, 13 distinct extra, copy histogram 22/13/4; Archetype purity: exact-name Branded 15 copies (20%); Usage stats: archetype core present 14 of 25 as reported, but 10 extra-deck core cards in the card list are marked not-in-deck (see data_gaps)
• Inferred: At-least-one starter ≈ 0.82 going first from the 17-card broad starter set (hypergeometric); Albaz-named access ≈ 0.36 going first (5-card set: Fallen of Albaz, White Dragon x2, Albion Shrouded x2); Going-second hand-trap exposure ≈ 0.28 for 3 hand traps in 6 cards (provided probability); Ceiling and median are text-based only, since no boards are recorded
• Provisional: Format fit (D13) and matchup coverage: no dated metagame sample, no tournament link; Meta Power left null
• Data gaps: combos: total_combos 0, so no recorded boards for ceiling, median, power distribution, or going-first/second split usage_statistics in_this_deck flags conflict with the card list: Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon, Rindbrumm, Mirrorjade, Lubellion, Alba-Lenatus, Titaniklad, Albion the Branded Dragon, Granguignol, The Dragon that Devours the Dogma and The Three Champions of Swordsoul are listed as not in the deck although they appear in the extra zone. Core presence (14 of 25) is therefore understated; the card list suggests 24 of 25 (Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is the only true absence). Scored from the card list. no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry: going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates are Inferred or unknown Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied guides are Vietnamese community guides only and give no measured results