Branded Deck #770579 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 46 / Extra 18 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Level 8 boss monsters (Dracotail Arthalion, Dracotail Gulamel, Albion the Sanctifire Dragon, The Dragon that Devours the Dogma) backed by Fallen of Albaz and Branded Fusion/Branded Opening; Synchro Dis Pater and the Dracotail/Despia Fusion boards for pressure
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon Fallen of Albaz or a Tuner, search or Fusion Summon via Branded Fusion/Ketu/Rahu into a Level 8 boss; Ash Blossom and Droll hold disruption
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre and Snow Rabbit, Droll and Lock Bird, Tri-Brigade Mercourier) to stop the opponent's engine, then rebuild a Fusion board from the hand
• Recovery: Searchers (18 searcher-text cards) and Dracotail recursion from GY/banish to rebuild the Fusion engine after a disruption
• After siding: Not available: the list runs no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal: its Extra Deck holds 18 cards against a TCG maximum of 15, so it receives a capped, structural-only score of 30 and no normal contextual score. Its structure scores on the system, not on card averages: the core Branded/Fallen of Albaz engine is reasonably accessible (about 85% to find at least one core card in an opening hand, Inferred), and the five hand traps plus removal and negation text give it real interaction density. Output is the weak point: there are no recorded combo boards, so ceiling and median are Inferred from text alone, and 54 of 64 main-deck copies are off the exact Branded name, which lowers coherence and pilotability. Popularity did not earn points: the archetype usage data confirms the list is real, not that it is strong. The deck has no Side Deck, so it earns almost nothing for side adaptability.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 54.2, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Illegal Extra Deck size (-20); Limited banlist exposure (-2). Final formula: Capped Illegal: 0.80*Structural(54.2) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) = 52.4, then ContextModifiers -22 gives 30.4, rounded to 30. Meta provisional.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.85 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.15 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Core engine access is good: 14 archetype-core copies and 18 searcher-text cards
• Dense interaction: five hand traps plus negation and removal text
• Multiple Level 8 and Synchro closers with 2500–3500 ATK bosses

Weaknesses

• Illegal: Extra Deck exceeds the 15-card maximum by 3
• No Side Deck, so no best-of-3 adaptation
• Low composition coherence: 15.6% exact-name purity across four or more sub-archetypes
• Heavy Limited/Semi-Limited dependence for the engine

Critical choke points

• Extra Deck size must be fixed before the list is playable
• Engine depends on Fallen of Albaz and Branded Fusion/Opening, which are Limited (one copy each)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Extra Deck of 18 exceeds the TCG maximum of 15 (status Illegal); Main 46 and Side 0 counts; Copy limits respected for all Limited and Semi-Limited cards; Card text and banlist status for all listed cards; Archetype core inclusion 14 copies
• Observed: Usage statistics confirm the archetype core is widely run (Branded Fusion, Ash Blossom, Ecclesia and the Virtuous)
• Inferred: Starter access and brick rates from hypergeometric estimates; Ceiling and median from text alone; Interaction density from role flags and text
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit: no dated meta sample; Going-first and going-second splits
• Data gaps: Illegal Extra Deck size; a legal list is required before a normal score applies No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry; going-first, going-second and matchup rates unknown No Side Deck, so post-side performance is not assessable Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample