Branded Deck #772780 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 41 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon a high-ATK Extra Deck boss (Invoked Oceanus, Hyperinvoked Aeon, Mirrorjade, Dark Magician of Destruction) through Fallen of Albaz and Branded Fusion-style material lines; Silent Magician, the Silent Fighter and Nibiru as late-game boards once the Fusion line is blocked
• Turn 1 (going first): Opening Fallen of Albaz or Branded Fusion-line starters, searcher chains through Primite Lordly Lode, Diabellstar, and Dark Magician to reach a Fusion boss; the four Forbidden cards cannot be used, so the Albion and Azamina lines are unavailable
• Turn 2 (going second): Six-card hand with a 0.64 chance of at least one hand trap (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C, Infinite Impermanence, Nibiru) to answer the opponent's first board, then rebuild through searchers
• Recovery: Searchers (16 cards) and graveyard Fallen-of-Albaz recursion; the deck has no side deck to rebuild against interaction
• After siding: None: the deck has zero side cards, so no post-side plan exists

Why it scores here

This OCG Branded list is illegal: four Forbidden cards (Albion the Branded Dragon, Azamina Ilia Silvia, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Triple Tactics Talent) are in the deck and it has no side deck, so the score is capped at 25 and treated as structural only. Structurally, it has good searcher density (16 searcher-text cards give about 93% chance of at least one in an opening 5), a strong closing board of Extra Deck bosses, and six hand traps that give about 64% of a hand-trap answer on the second player's first turn. The main weaknesses are the single-copy Albaz core (about 12% chance of having Fallen of Albaz in an opening 5), a lot of off-archetype cards (only 4 of 41 main cards are named Branded, purity 7.1%), and no combo data to measure the median output. Popularity alone did not earn points; the score comes from the system's interaction and closing power, not from averaging the individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 51, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 38. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12); illegal cap (-11). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(51) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(38) = 48.4; banlist modifier -12 gives 36.4; Illegal deck capped at 25 (theoretical/structural only, not a normal Final score)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.93 · 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

• 16 searcher-text cards give high starter access
• Six hand traps and multiple negates give layered interaction
• Extra Deck bosses at 2800 to 3800 ATK close games

Weaknesses

• Four Forbidden cards make the list illegal
• Zero side deck, so no post-side adaptability
• Singleton core (Fallen of Albaz, Branded Fusion) is fragile
• Low Branded purity (7.1%) weakens the engine

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz (1 copy) gates most Albaz-based Fusion lines
• Branded Fusion (Limited, 1 copy) is the main Fusion enabler

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Four Forbidden cards over the OCG copy limit; Searcher count 16, hand trap count 6, 41 main, 15 extra, 0 side; Extra Deck composition 12 Fusion, 2 Synchro, 1 Link
• Inferred: Starter, hand-trap and closing estimates from text and hypergeometric draws; Combo conversion ceiling from card text only
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit (no dated metagame or tournament data)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent no win-rate telemetry; going-first, going-second and matchup rates are unknown Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample no side deck; post-side plan cannot be assessed