Branded Deck #770482 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Combo, Toolbox
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion and Synchro boss monsters (Albion-style Branded/Fallen of Albaz lines, Chaos Angel, Granguignol, Hyperinvoked Aeon, Titaniklad) summoned off Fallen of Albaz / Dogmatika starters; Light and Darkness Ritual line (Black Chaos, Black Luster Soldier, Magician of Dark Chaos) as a second engine on a mismatched sub-archetype
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Fallen of Albaz / Dogmatika starter or Branded in High Spirits, fuse or synchro into a 2500+ ATK boss, and protect the line with Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird and Mulcharmy draw engines
• Turn 2 (going second): Stack hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Nibiru, Droll & Lock Bird, Nadir Servant style interruption) to break the opponent's first board, then convert through a Fusion or Synchro boss
• Recovery: Recover through Mulcharmy draw and search effects, Dogmatika Ecclesia and Fallen of Albaz recursion from GY, and Branded Retribution style negates; the list has no hard recovery engine beyond these
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs 0 Side Deck cards, so no post-side plan exists in the list

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal as submitted: five cards exceed their TCG copy limits, including Albion the Branded Dragon, which is Forbidden and sits in the Extra Deck. Structural scoring was done on the Midrange profile, which gives 52. The 23-copy Branded core opens a functional starter in about 94% of going-first 5-card hands (Inferred, hypergeometric), and the 10 hand traps give strong going-second interaction (about 72% at least one in a 6-card hand, Inferred). The Light and Darkness Ritual and Mulcharmy lines pull against the Branded and Dogmatika engine, which keeps the score down, and with no combo boards, no tournament link and no Side Deck, the median output and matchup fit are weakly evidenced. Popularity did not earn points: the 100% inclusion of Ash Blossom and the archetype core only show the list is real. Card scores were not averaged into the deck score. The final score is capped at 25 under the illegal-list rule, and the uncapped contextual value is about 39.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 52, Going First ≈ 48, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); engine conflict (-3). Final formula: Illegal-list cap: uncapped 0.80*52 + 0.20*40 - 11 ≈ 39; the illegal rule caps the final score at 25 (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.94 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.06 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Branded core of 23 copies is reliably drawn (≈94% at least one in 5 cards, Inferred)
• Ten hand traps and five negation-text cards give strong going-second interaction
• Fusion and Synchro bosses (2500–3800 ATK) give a real closing threat

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: five cards exceed copy limits, including one Forbidden card
• Low exact-name archetype purity (10%) with three competing sub-archetype clusters
• Zero Side Deck cards, so no post-side plan
• No recorded combos, so floor and median output are unknown

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz is the shared starter for most Fusion and Synchro lines; it has only one copy
• Extra Deck slot spent on Forbidden Albion removes a boss that cannot legally be played

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main Deck 55 and Extra Deck 15, within TCG size limits; Five copy-limit violations, including Albion the Branded Dragon as Forbidden; Side Deck count is 0
• Observed: No recorded combo boards are available (count 0)
• Inferred: About 94% at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand (hypergeometric); About 72% at least one hand trap in a 6-card going-second hand; Structural dimension scores from text and composition
• Provisional: Matchup fit and Meta Power, pending a dated metagame sample
• Data gaps: no combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent no win-rate telemetry; going-first, going-second and matchup results are unknown Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample deck has no title (Deck.Title null) Side Deck is empty