Branded Deck #770392 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 58/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion boss from the Extra Deck (Albion the Branded Dragon, Alba-Lenatus, Alba System Dogmatikalamity at 4500 ATK) enabled by the Fallen of Albaz fusion engine; Repeated Fusion Summons through Branded Fusion, Branded in High Spirits and Branded Banishment to keep boards replaced
• Turn 1 (going first): Opening searcher (Branded Opening, Branded in High Spirits, Fallen of the White Dragon) into Fallen of Albaz or Branded Fusion, then a Fusion Summon of a Level 8 boss while Fusion Materials are in hand or GY
• Turn 2 (going second): Six-card hand with Droll and Maxx C for summon-timing disruption, then a Fusion boss through Super Polymerization or Branded Banishment as the board is rebuilt
• Recovery: Recursion from the GY through Despian Tragedy, Blazing Cartesia (Fallen of Albaz in GY), Branded Retribution and Light of the Branded to return bosses and rebuild a Fusion board
• After siding: No Side Deck is run (side count 0), so there is no post-side plan in the list; the deck relies entirely on its Main Deck

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a searcher in hand (about 96% for at least one searcher-text card in a 5-card hand, Inferred), which keeps the Fallen of Albaz engine reachable on turn 1 or 2. Its ceiling comes from Fusion boss conversion (Albion, Alba-Lenatus, Dogmatikalamity), and the median is held down by 35 single-copy slots, a 22.7% exact-archetype purity, and a sprawl of one-of tech such as Foolish Burial, Gold Sarcophagus and That Grass Looks Greener. Interaction is layered (Droll, Maxx C, Branded Retribution, Branded Lost and Guiding Quem) but depends on Fallen-named Fusion materials, and the single Fallen of Albaz is a choke point. The score comes from the system: engine access, Extra Deck coverage and resilience through GY recursion. It does not come from Branded being a popular archetype (usage stats confirm the list is real, not strong), and it is not an average of card scores. No recorded boards, win rates or meta sample exist, so the meta and matchup reads remain Provisional.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 65, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-2); single-copy engine choke (-2); engine sprawl and conflicts (-1). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(65.0) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(55) = 63.0; plus ContextModifiers (-5) = 58 (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.96 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.14 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• High starter access: searcher-text cards are present in roughly 96% of 5-card openings (Inferred)
• Layered Fusion boss suite (Albion, Alba-Lenatus, Dogmatikalamity) with high closing ATK
• Multiple GY recursion routes that allow a board to be rebuilt after disruption

Weaknesses

• Fallen of Albaz is a single copy and is the root of most lines
• Low exact-archetype purity (22.7%) and many one-of tech slots reduce consistency
• No Side Deck; no post-side plan

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz (1 copy) as the engine starter
• Branded Fusion (1 copy, Limited) for the early fusion summon

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status, 60 Main / 15 Extra / 0 Side and all Limited and Semi-Limited copies within the Master Duel limit; Card text and stats for every distinct card; Composition counts (type, copy histogram, archetype purity, role tags); Usage stats: 52% of core cards are present
• Inferred: Starter access probability (0.96) and full-brick proxy (0.14); Combo ceiling and median reads from card text, since no boards exist; Interaction layering from negation and removal text; Engine coherence and the choke-point assessment
• Provisional: Meta Power (null); Matchup coverage and format fit; Side Deck adaptability, since there is no Side Deck and no post-side data
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent no win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter/OTK rates) exists in YGOVN Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no Side Deck in the list, so post-side stability cannot be measured