Branded Deck #770396 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 54/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Tempo
• Format: duel-links

Legality

Main 29 / Extra 9 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Level 8+ bosses from the Extra Deck (Despian Proskenion 3200 ATK, Guardian Chimera 3300 ATK, Lubellion the Searing Dragon, Albion the Branded Dragon), enabled by Fallen of Albaz as Fusion Material; Grind through Branded and Despia recursion and searchers into repeated Fusion Summons across turns
• Turn 1 (going first): Search or draw Fallen of Albaz, then Branded Fusion or a Fallen-material Fusion into a Level 8+ boss; Blazing Cartesia (Tuner) adds a Special Summon route once Fallen is on field or in GY
• Turn 2 (going second): Six-card hand has about 52 percent odds of at least one of the three Fallen-named cards; the deck has no hand traps, so the plan relies on Fusion pressure and Sauravis, Tri-Brigade Mercourier and Aluber-style negation text rather than hand interaction
• Recovery: Fallen of Albaz or Albion the Shrouded Dragon in the GY is reusable (Despian Tragedy, Branded in Red, Branded Regained, Aluber recursion text); 14 searcher-text cards give high search redundancy
• After siding: Not applicable: Duel Links is a single-game format with no Side Deck (side_count 0 is legal)

Why it scores here

This Branded Duel Links list scores as a Fusion combo system: its Fallen of Albaz material requirement links Branded Fusion, six of the nine Extra Deck Fusions and the Albaz-named cards into one engine, and the Extra Deck ends in high-ATK bosses. Consistency is moderate rather than high: the three Fallen-named cards give about 45 percent going-first and 52 percent going-second odds of a live starter in the opening hand (hypergeometric, Inferred), but 14 searcher-text cards lift later-turn access to about 97 percent. Brick risk is real because Radian (3 copies) and Blazing Cartesia (3 copies) need an opposing monster or Fallen on the field or GY, and the three Lubellion copies need a level 6 DARK Dragon to tribute. The deck has no hand traps and no recorded boards (total_combos 0), so the ceiling and median are text-based inference, and the 54 is not an average of card scores: it comes from consistency, redundancy, interaction and closing power on the system. Popularity (Branded is a commonly run archetype, and three guides exist) confirms the list is real and accessible but did not add points, and Meta Power stays provisional.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 59, Going First ≈ 57, Going Second ≈ 54, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: Unrecoverable choke point (Fallen of Albaz) (-3); Conditional-summon brick burden (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers = 0.80*59.37 + 0.20*55 - 5 = 53.5, rounded to 54

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.45 · 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

• Fallen of Albaz is the shared material for Branded Fusion, Mirrorjade, Lubellion, Alba-Lenatus and Albion the Branded Dragon, so one resource feeds many lines
• 14 searcher-text cards give about 97 percent access to at least one searcher in an opening hand
• Extra Deck bosses reach 3200 to 3300 ATK with recursion and banish-based interaction
• Legal in Duel Links: 29 main cards within 20 to 30, 9 Extra within 0 to 9, all restricted cards within legal copies

Weaknesses

• No hand traps, so going-second interaction depends on Fusion pressure and traps
• About 9 main slots are conditional (Radian, Cartesia, Lubellion) and can be dead on a given hand
• No recorded boards, so the combo floor and ceiling are unverified
• Fallen of Albaz is only 2 copies in the Main Deck, against a usage typical of 3

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz (2 copies): the only route to Branded Fusion and most Albaz-material Extra Deck Fusions
• Level 6 DARK Dragon tribute for Lubellion x3 (Bystial Druiswurm, Bystial Magnamhut, Bystial Saronir)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in Duel Links: 29 main, 9 extra, 0 side, legal copy counts, restricted cards Super Polymerization (Limited 1), Bystial Druiswurm and Bystial Magnamhut (Semi-Limited, 1 each); Card text for Fallen of Albaz, Branded Fusion, Blazing Cartesia, Radian, Lubellion and the nine Extra Deck Fusions; Archetype core usage stat: Fallen of Albaz typical_copies 3 vs 2 in deck; 25 core cards listed
• Observed: No recorded boards (total_combos 0), so no measured combo frequency is available
• Inferred: P(at least one Fallen-named card in opening hand) 0.446 going first, 0.515 going second, from the hypergeometric draw table; P(at least one searcher in 5-card hand) 0.975; Interaction, closing and conditional-brick reads from card text; Combo ceiling from Fusion lines to Level 8+ bosses
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup fit, D13 = 55, since no dated metagame sample or tournament link exists; Guide claim that the archetype is Top Tier, from 3 guide snippets
• Data gaps: No combos supplied (total_combos 0), so the floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates) exists in YGOVN Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample usage_statistics in_this_deck flags mark six Extra Deck cards as missing (Lubellion the Searing Dragon, Predaplant Dragostapelia, Mirrorjade, Albion the Branded Dragon, Granguignol, Khaos Starsource Dragon) even though the cards list includes five of them in the Extra zone. The core-present percentage (52) is likely understated; this looks like a main-zone-only check in the stats