Branded Deck #770557 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 20/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Fallen of Albaz-mentioning Dragons (Albaz Dragon line, e.g. Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Albion the Sanctifire Dragon, Mirrorjade) for board pressure and 3000-ATK closing bodies; Synchro and Fusion extenders via Blazing Cartesia, Guiding Quem and Ecclesia tuners; Granguignol and Hyperinvoked Aeon as additional boss options
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Fallen of Albaz or Fallen of the White Dragon, use Branded/Despia searchers (Branded Opening, Branded in Red, Small World, Nadir Servant) to set up a Fusion or Synchro into a 2500-3000 ATK boss while holding Ash Blossom and Effect Veiler as protection
• Turn 2 (going second): Six-card hand of hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Skull Meister, Effect Veiler, Droll & Lock Bird, Nibiru) to interrupt the opponent's first summon or search, then rebuild through Fallen of Albaz and Fusion Summon
• Recovery: Recover through Branded in Red and Branded Fusion from the GY and Deck, Mulcharmy Fuwalos card advantage, and Fallen of the White Dragon recursion from hand
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; any sideboarding plan is unverified

Why it scores here

This is a structural-only evaluation because the deck is Illegal: three cards (Ash Blossom and Joyous Spring, The Fallen and The Virtuous, Super Polymerization) run 3 copies against a Semi-Limited limit of 2, so the final score is capped rather than contextually scored. The deck's system reads as midrange with strong going-second interaction: six hand traps and a Fallen of Albaz-based Fusion line that can reach 2500-3000 ATK bosses. Consistency is the weak point, since the single-copy starters (Fallen of Albaz, Branded Fusion, Branded Opening) have only about a 9% chance of appearing in a 5-card opening hand, and no combo data exists to confirm a realistic floor or median. Popularity did not earn points: Branded usage statistics confirm the list is accessible but were not used to lift any dimension. No Side Deck is registered, which removes any post-side credit, and no card scores were averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 56.1, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-3); single-copy engine dependence (-2); no side deck (-2). Final formula: Illegal deck: normal formula not applied. Structural 56.1 (Midrange profile) and TR 45 give 0.80*56.1 + 0.20*45 = 53.9 before modifiers; capped at 20 for copy-limit violations (structural-only).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.95 · 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

• Dense interaction suite: hand traps and removal-style text cover much of the going-second turn
• Fallen of Albaz Fusion line reaches multiple 2500-3000 ATK bosses
• Large Extra Deck coverage (13 Fusion, 2 Synchro) gives flexible boss options

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy limits on three three-copy cards
• Single-copy starters make the first turn unreliable
• Low archetype purity (11.4 percent exact name) suggests generic filler
• No Side Deck

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz is a single copy and is required for most Fusion routes
• Branded Fusion is a single Limited copy used as the main Fusion enabler

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55 and Extra 15 are within TCG size limits (40-60 and 0-15); Three cards exceed their Semi-Limited copy limit of 2; Branded Fusion, Branded Opening, Branded in High Spirits and Droll & Lock Bird are Limited and each run one copy; Side deck is empty
• Inferred: Starter odds from hypergeometric draws; Hand-trap and interaction density from card text; Dimension scores for consistency, interaction and closing power
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit (no dated sample)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry exists for this deck Meta power is provisional without a dated metagame sample No Side Deck registered