Branded Deck #772801 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Level 8 Fusion Monsters (Albion the Sanctifire Dragon, Titaniklad, Mirrorjade, Rindbrumm) off Fallen of Albaz material, using Branded Fusion, Super Polymerization, Branded in High Spirits and Branded Opening as the engine; Fallen of Albaz and Fallen of the White Dragon Special Summon lines that convert hand or GY monsters into a Fusion Summon
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a searcher (Incredible Ecclesia, Blazing Cartesia, Branded Opening, Nadir Servant) to reach Fallen of Albaz or Branded Fusion, then Fusion Summon a Level 8 boss; the first-turn plan depends on a hand with at least one searcher, roughly 96% of hands per the searcher-text count (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Branded Retribution, Nibiru, Ghost Belle or Tri-Brigade Mercourier to interact with the opponent's first summon or engine, then rebuild through Fallen of the White Dragon and Blazing Cartesia (Inferred)
• Recovery: GY recursion through Bystial Saronir, Bystial Magnamhut, Fallen of Albaz and Branded in Red, plus Albion the Sanctifire Dragon's GY effects (Inferred from text)
• After siding: Not assessable: the deck has no side deck, so there is no post-side plan to evaluate

Why it scores here

This deck is scored as a structural system on consistency, engine cohesion, interaction and closing power, not as an average of its card scores. Its engine is real but only partly consistent: about 64% of opening hands hold at least one archetype core card and about 96% hold a searcher by text count, yet only 11 of 40 main deck cards are exact Branded names and 44 are off-archetype, so the Branded engine shares slots with Despia, Mulcharmy, Forbidden and Dogmatika pieces. The Fusion ceiling (Albion the Sanctifire Dragon, Titaniklad, Mirrorjade) is high on paper, but there are no recorded boards, so combo floor and median are text-only inference and carry low confidence. Interaction is dense on paper (about 9 negation texts and 9 removal texts, plus 2 hand traps), which earns the interaction and resilience dimensions. The deck is illegal in OCG: Albion the Branded Dragon is Forbidden and run twice, and three other limited or semi-limited cards are over their copy limits; it also has no side deck. Under the rubric it is capped low and labelled structural-only. Popularity was not used to earn points: usage stats show Branded is a common archetype, but that confirms the list is real, not that it is strong.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 51, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 45, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); weak or absent post-side plan (-4); archetype purity (0). Final formula: Illegal deck: structural score 51 and tournament reliability 40 give 0.80*51 + 0.20*40 = 48.8 before modifiers; modifiers total -12 (clamped); the illegal cap then sets the final score to 30 (theoretical/structural only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.64 · 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

• Dense searcher text (18 cards) gives high access to an engine piece on turn 1
• Interaction on paper: 9 negation and 9 removal texts plus 2 hand traps
• High-ATK Level 8 Fusion bosses (2500 to 3000 ATK) give closing power when a Fusion lands
• Searcher and recursion text give some route redundancy

Weaknesses

• Illegal under OCG copy limits and Forbidden status for Albion the Branded Dragon
• Low exact-name archetype purity (20%) dilutes the Branded engine
• No side deck, so no best-of-3 adaptability
• Off-archetype spells and tech cards (Forbidden Droplet, Super Polymerization, Nadir Servant, Gold Sarcophagus) add brick risk
• Fusion-dependent lines with no recorded boards: floor and median are unknown

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz and Branded Fusion as the Fusion enablers: losing them to a single interaction ends most Level 8 lines
• Super Polymerization (3 copies) as the main Fusion enabler: the deck is over its limit on it

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 40 main, 15 extra, 0 side; Albion the Branded Dragon is Forbidden and run twice; Super Polymerization, Branded in High Spirits and Branded Opening are over their copy limits; Copy histogram: 14 singletons, 7 doubles, 4 triples; Core archetype group: 7 copies, P(open at least one in 5) of about 0.64
• Observed: Usage stats: 4 of 9 core cards present, with 5 core cards missing (Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon, Droll and Lock Bird, Mirrorjade, Titaniklad, Rindbrumm)
• Inferred: Engine access on turn 1 and turn 2 from searcher text and hypergeometric draws; Interaction density from negation and removal text; Going-first and going-second plans from card text
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit (no dated meta sample supplied)
• 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 absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first or second, matchup, brick or starter rates) Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Side deck is empty, so no post-side evaluation is possible