Tri-Brigade Deck #772457 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Tempo
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 58 / Extra 17 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon high-ATK boss monsters (Albion, Mirrorjade, Light and Darkness Dragonlord, Despian Proskenion) through Fallen of Albaz and Branded fusion routes; Hand-trap-supported Fusion lines that stop the opponent from interacting with the Fusion Summon
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Fallen of Albaz or a Despia/Branded starter, search Branded Opening or Branded in Red, and fuse into a 2500+ ATK boss while holding hand traps back
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Effect Veiler and Droll & Lock Bird to answer the opponent's first search or summon, then rebuild through Mulcharmy, Fallen of Albaz and the Branded searchers
• Recovery: Use Fallen of Albaz GY effects and Branded/Despia recursion (Branded Banishment, Despian Tragedy) to re-enter a fusion after a hand trap or interruption
• After siding: No sideboard is registered, so no post-side plan can be evaluated

Why it scores here

The deck's Fallen of Albaz and Branded/Despia engine gives it a real fusion route to 2500-3400 ATK boss monsters, and the nine hand traps plus Ash Blossom and Droll give it a credible going-second interaction layer. Scores come from the system: starter access (about 24% to see one 3-copy starter in a 5-card hand), a fusion ceiling that is plausible but unmeasured, and interaction density, not from averaging card powers or from Tri-Brigade being a popular archetype. Consistency is held back by only 2.7% exact-name Tri-Brigade purity, a thin core (3 of 5 core cards missing), 22 searcher-text cards competing for slots, and no Side Deck. The list is illegal (three Ash Blossom and three Super Polymerization against a limit of two, and 17 Extra Deck cards against 15), so it cannot receive a normal final score; the figure above is a theoretical, structural-only cap. No combo boards or tournament data exist, so floor, median and meta fit stay Inferred or Provisional.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 54, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: illegal_copy_limit_and_extra_size (-12); banlist exposure (0); no Side Deck (0). Final formula: Illegal cap: unmodified No-reliable-meta Final = 0.80*Structural(54) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) = 52, then capped to 30 as a theoretical, structural-only score because the deck is illegal (copy limit and Extra Deck size). Meta Power provisional.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.24 · 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

• Real Fusion ceiling into 2500-3400 ATK bosses
• Nine hand traps plus Ash Blossom and Droll give strong going-second interaction
• Searcher density (22 cards) makes the engine findable on most hands

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: three copies each of Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization, and 17 Extra Deck cards
• Only 2.7% exact-name Tri-Brigade purity; the core Tri-Brigade pieces are missing
• Empty Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Dependence on single-copy Branded and Limited cards for the engine

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz (3 copies) is the single starter that most lines depend on
• Branded Fusion and Branded Opening are one-copy Limited cards with no backup

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 58 and Extra 17 counts; Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization each run 3 copies against a legal limit of 2; Branded Fusion, Branded Opening, Branded in High Spirits, Bystial Magnamhut, Droll & Lock Bird, Gold Sarcophagus and The Bystial Lubellion each at 1 copy, Limited; Archetype purity 2.7%; 22 searcher-text, 9 hand-trap and 18 negation-text cards
• Observed: Usage stats: Droll & Lock Bird (69.7%) and Mulcharmy Fuwalos (54.5%) are the common core cards present; 3 core cards are missing
• Inferred: P(>=1 starter in 5 cards) ~0.24 for 3-copy starter; Interaction density and going-second strength from hand-trap count and card text; Fusion ceiling plausible from card text but unmeasured
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated sample); Format fit and matchup coverage (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: No combo boards: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: meta share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate or matchup telemetry in YGOVN No Side Deck in the list, so no post-side evidence Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample