Branded Deck #772799 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 59/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Predaplant Fusion chain into high-ATK Fusion monsters (Starving Venom Predapower Fusion Dragon 3600, Greedy Venom 3300, Triphyoverutum 3000) backed by Predator Counter negations; Synchro and Fusion boards (Bal Teah, Bramble Rose, Clear Wing, Black Rose) for extra board presence
• Turn 1 (going first): Turn 1 Predap searcher (Longinephila, Byblisp, Bufolicula) into Polymerization-family fusion enabler, Fusion Summon a Predaplant monster, then extend with Predaprimitive or Predapractice for a second fusion
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold up Ash Blossom, Ghost Sister, Infinite Impermanence and Droll & Lock Bird for the opponent's first search or summon, then convert the surviving hand into a Predator Counter fusion board
• Recovery: Recycle from GY through Predaplant Byblisp and Predaplant Darlingtonia Cobra, and re-fuse using Predaplant Dragostapelia or Triphyoverutum once the field has Predator Counters
• After siding: No side deck is registered (Side Deck size 0), so there is no recorded post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens its engine: 16 searcher-text copies give P(at least one in a 5-card opening hand) of about 0.94, and the fusion enablers (Predaprimitive x3, Predapractice x2, Super Duper/Super/Ultra Polymerization, Fusion Substitute) feed 11 Fusion monsters. Its system strength is interaction layered on the Predator Counter engine: seven hand traps give about 0.71 for at least one going second, and the Extra Deck carries several negate-capable Fusion and Synchro monsters, so the board survives disruption better than a bare combo. Ceiling is high (3600 ATK Fusion boards), but the median is unmeasured because no combos were recorded, so the floor is scored conservatively. The score is not driven by Branded popularity: the list contains zero Branded-named cards, and the score is not an average of card scores. Missing a side deck, the dense Polymerization and Predap requirements, and a Medium-confidence evidence base keep the final score in the mid-range.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 66, Going First ≈ 67, Going Second ≈ 68, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: Side deck absent (-2); Engine conflict (-1); Banlist exposure (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional, no dated metagame sample)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.94 · 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

• Compact Predap engine with five three-of cores and redundant searchers (16 copies)
• Seven hand traps cover the opening and going-second interaction
• High-ATK Fusion ceiling backed by Predator Counter negations

Weaknesses

• Zero side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• No recorded combos, so median output is unverified
• Archetype label Branded does not match the card list

Critical choke points

• Polymerization-family enablers are needed for most Fusion lines; losing them to a hand trap or Ash Blossom stalls the board
• Predator Counter lines depend on a field monster, so a clean board removes most of the engine

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal OCG list: 40 main, 15 extra, 0 side; all copy limits satisfied; Copy histogram: five 3-ofs, nine 2-ofs, seven singletons; Extra Deck: 11 Fusion, 4 Synchro; Zero Branded-named cards; Predaplant/Predap is the dominant engine (33 copies)
• Inferred: Engine accessibility 0.935 for searcher-text group (hypergeometric); Hand trap at-least-one going second 0.71; Interaction layering from Predator Counter negations and hand traps; Ceiling from Fusion ATK totals and card text
• Provisional: Meta power unknown; matchup fit scored at neutral placeholder; Tournament reliability depends on untested brick and choke rates
• 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, going-second and matchup rates unknown Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample Archetype field Branded conflicts with the card list (0 Branded cards; 9 core Branded cards absent) Deck title is null