Tri-Brigade Deck #770749 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fallen of Albaz-material Fusion Summons (Albion the Branded Dragon, Titaniklad, Brigrand, Sprind) that out-stat the board and recur through the GY; Synchro and Xyz boards (Draco Berserker of the Tenyi, Gung-Ho! Springans!) as a second body
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on a Fallen of Albaz-enabling starter (Blazing Cartesia, Springans Kitt, Tri-Brigade Springans Kitt, Fallen of Albaz), search a Branded/Despia spell, then Fusion Summon an Extra Deck boss through Fusion Deployment or Branded in Red
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Skull Meister, Tri-Brigade Mercourier and Branded Retribution to negate the opponent's first interaction, then rebuild through Fallen of Albaz and Fusion Summon a boss
• Recovery: Recover from the GY: Fallen of Albaz and the Despia/Branded searchers return to hand or deck, and Aluber and Mercourier can be banished or sent from the GY to re-enable Fusion Summons
• After siding: No side deck is present in the export, so there is no post-side plan to assess

Why it scores here

The deck is a Fallen of Albaz fusion shell: 21 searcher-text cards and a 12-card Fusion Extra Deck give it a high chance of finding a starter, and the Albaz-material bosses (Albion, Titaniklad, Brigrand) give it a clear ceiling. Interaction is layered across Skull Meister, Tri-Brigade Mercourier, Branded Retribution, Final Bringer and Mystical Space Typhoon, which supports a credible end-board. Median output is held back by a 3-copy Fusion Deployment/Branded Opening core that is over the OCG limit, and by the Forbidden Albion (2 copies), so the list cannot be played as built. The score comes from consistency, median output and interaction across the system; it does not come from Branded or Tri-Brigade popularity, and card scores were not averaged. Because the deck is Illegal, the final score is capped to a theoretical, structural-only read.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: ~85% Combo / ~15% Midrange. Structural ≈ 56, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); illegal deck cap (-17). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(55.6) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) = 53.5; modifiers -6 (banlist exposure) = 47.5; illegal-deck cap applied to a theoretical structural-only score of 30

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.92 · 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 negation across Skull Meister, Tri-Brigade Mercourier, Branded Retribution and Final Bringer
• Multiple Fallen-of-Albaz-material Fusion bosses with clear ceilings
• Dense searcher text for consistent starter access (Inferred)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: three cards exceed OCG copy limits, including a Forbidden card
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• No recorded boards, so the median output is unverified

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz as the sole material for most Fusion bosses
• Branded in High Spirits and Branded Opening as the main searchers, which are over-limited

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 within OCG size rules; Albion the Branded Dragon is Forbidden in OCG and is run at 2 copies; Branded in High Spirits and Branded Opening are Limited with 3 copies each; Searcher-text group size of 21 and copy histogram from evidence
• Inferred: Hypergeometric starter access (~0.92 for searcher group, ~0.25 per 3-copy card); Interaction density from text roles (negation 11, removal 14); Going-first and going-second estimates from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit (no tournament or match data)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no side deck in export deck title is null