Branded Deck #773018 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 51/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Toolbox, Ritual, Fusion/Synchro
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fallen of Albaz and Branded Fusion starters, or Fallen of the White Dragon, Blazing Cartesia and Black Chaos, converting into Fusion/Synchro boards such as Chaos Angel, Titaniklad, Granguignol, Mirrorjade or The Dragon that Devours the Dogma; Light and Darkness Ritual line (Black Chaos, Magician of Dark Chaos, Black Luster Soldier) with Ragged Records and Pre-Preparation of Rites as searchers
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a searcher or starter (Branded Fusion, Fallen of Albaz, Fallen of the White Dragon, Blazing Cartesia), search or Fusion into a Fallen of Albaz-mentioning boss, then protect the board with Solemn Accusation, Spell Shattering Sword or Droll & Lock Bird
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Nibiru, Droll & Lock Bird) and the Dominus Spark or Mistaken Arrest line to answer the opponent's board, then rebuild through Albaz or Light and Darkness Ritual recursion from the GY
• Recovery: Pot of Sloth and Ragged Records of Rites refill the hand; Fallen of Albaz, Skull Archfiend of Chaos and Fallen of the White Dragon recur from the GY or banishment
• After siding: No side deck is registered (0 of 0 to 15 cards), so there is no post-side plan; the deck cannot adapt between games

Why it scores here

The deck's score comes from how the system behaves, not from averaging its cards. Its engine is reasonably accessible: 89% of 21 searcher-text cards give at least one searcher in an opening 5, and the archetype core (11 copies) has a 65% chance of at least one in hand (Inferred). Interaction is layered across Typhoon, Solemn Accusation, Spell Shattering Sword, Dominus Spark, Mistaken Arrest and two hand traps, which lifts the endboard and resilience dimensions. The closing power is strong, with several 2500 to 3500 ATK Fusion and Synchro bosses. The deck is pulled down by an unstable main deck: six Mulcharmy copies and several Dogmatika, Dominus and Chaos cards split the engine across sub-archetypes (exact-name purity 5.3%), it runs no side deck, and its pilot needs many multi-step lines. Popularity did not add points: Branded is an accessible archetype, but the usage stats only confirm the list is real, not strong. No combos, guides or tournament link were supplied, so the combo ceiling and floor are text-only Inferred reads, and the meta is Provisional.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 61, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: engine conflicts (-4); no side deck (-2); banlist exposure (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers = 0.80*60.67 + 0.20*50 - 8 ≈ 50.5, rounded to 51

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.65 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.35 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Strong closing bosses at 2500 to 3500 ATK
• Layered interaction: Typhoon, Solemn Accusation, Spell Shattering Sword, Dominus Spark, Mistaken Arrest and two hand traps
• Multiple searchers and draw/recursion resources (Pot of Sloth, Ragged Records, Pre-Preparation of Rites)

Weaknesses

• Engine split across Branded, Light and Darkness Ritual, Mulcharmy, Dogmatika and Chaos (exact-name purity 5.3%)
• No side deck, so no adaptation between games
• Mulcharmy copies are conditional and risk dead draws
• Multi-step lines with several 1-ofs make the deck fragile in execution

Critical choke points

• Branded Fusion (1 copy, Limited) and Fallen of Albaz (1 copy) are the main engine enablers
• Droll & Lock Bird and Bystial Magnamhut (1 copy, Limited) are required for hand-trap and recursion lines

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in OCG: 60 main, 15 extra, 0 side; all restricted cards within legal copies; Card stats and text for all 36 main and 14 extra distinct cards; Composition: 9 Fusion and 6 Synchro in Extra Deck; 71 off-archetype copies; Usage stats: Branded core cards present 6 of 10
• Inferred: P(at least 1 core in hand5) ≈ 0.65 from hypergeometric draw; Engine conflicts and their effect on consistency; Interaction quality read from card text; Combo ceiling from text, not recorded boards
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); D13 matchup fit (no tournament link); Going-second split and post-side performance
• 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, going-second, matchup, brick and OTK rates are Inferred or Unknown no side deck: post-side performance cannot be assessed no guides for this archetype Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied