Branded Deck #770612 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 14 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Blitzclique board disruption (destroy/negate) followed by 3000-ATK beaters (Whisker Blitzclique, Lava Golem, Nibiru) and Extra Deck Xyz/Link/Fusion finishers; structural read only because the list is illegal; Hand-trap attrition (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Skull Meister, Droll & Lock Bird, Solemn x3) that trades 1-for-1 while Mulcharmy draws
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Blitzclique starter (Surge, Crackle, Grain, Emi or Breakaway) and use its hand-revealing destroy effect on the opponent's first monster or Spell/Trap, then build a Thunder board toward Whisker Blitzclique; no combo boards are recorded so this is text-only inference
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Skull Meister, Droll and Solemn to interrupt the opponent's starter and Extra Deck summons (P(>=1 hand trap in 6 cards) = 0.82, Inferred), then convert with a Blitzclique hand-trap-plus-destroy sequence
• Recovery: Mulcharmy Fuwalos/Purulia draw when the controller has no cards on field, Pot of Extravagance/Prosperity refill, and Blitzclique Steppleader/Breakaway return Thunder monsters from the GY (Inferred from card text)
• After siding: No side deck is registered (side_count 0), so no post-side plan exists; best-of-3 play is structurally unsupported in this list

Why it scores here

This list is illegal as submitted: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and The Fallen & The Virtuous are each run 3 times against a Semi-Limited limit of 2, so it receives no normal Final Contextual score and is capped at 30 with a structural-only read. The structure is real and fairly redundant: 21 Blitzclique cards give a 65% chance of at least one archetype-core card in an opening 5 (Inferred), and 13 hand traps plus Solemn Judgment, Droll and the Blitzclique destroy effects give layered interaction. Weaknesses are equally clear: the deck spreads across Blitzclique, Mulcharmy, Branded, Solemn, Greed, Ryzeal, Lswarm, Death, Gusto and Charmer, with only 3 exact-name Branded copies (4.3% purity), so the engines conflict and bricks are frequent. The ceiling is text-only (no recorded boards), the list has no side deck, and popularity was not used to earn points. Scores were computed per dimension on the system, not averaged from card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: 100% Midrange (Structural); Stun not blended. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); engine conflicts (-6). Final formula: Illegal cap: normal formula 0.80*Structural(55.45) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(48) + Modifiers(-12) = 42, capped to 30 because status is Illegal; this score is structural-only and not a normal Final Contextual score

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.65 · 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

• Layered hand-trap and negation coverage (13 hand traps, Solemn x3, Droll)
• Blitzclique starter density gives 65% chance of an archetype-core card in an opening 5 (Inferred)
• Strong going-second hand-trap plan (P>=1 in 6 = 0.82, Inferred)

Weaknesses

• Illegal: Ash Blossom and The Fallen & The Virtuous exceed their Semi-Limited limit of 2
• Engine fragmentation: 21 Blitzclique plus Mulcharmy, Branded, Solemn, Greed, Ryzeal, Lswarm, Death, Gusto and Charmer cards
• Only 4.3% exact-name Branded purity
• No side deck (side_count 0)
• No recorded combos, so ceiling and median are text-only

Critical choke points

• Legal copy limit on Ash Blossom and The Fallen & The Virtuous (must cut 1 copy each before the list is playable)
• Blitzclique starter must be in hand to start the engine; no alternative opener is recorded

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Illegal, Ash Blossom 3 copies vs legal 2, The Fallen & The Virtuous 3 copies vs legal 2; Main 55, Extra 14, Side 0 within size rules; Archetype purity 4.3% and archetype spread from composition; Hypergeometric draw odds from probabilities block
• Inferred: Starter access and brick risk (P>=1 archetype core 0.65); Interaction density and going-second plan (P>=1 hand trap in 6 = 0.82); Engine conflicts from archetype spread; Offensive closing read from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power is null; no dated metagame sample; D13 matchup fit is provisional
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry: going-first and going-second splits are Inferred No side deck (side_count 0): post-side adaptability cannot be scored Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample