Branded Deck #773099 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 20/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion-summoned boss monsters (Granguignol the Dusk Dragon, The Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Titaniklad-style Fallen of Albaz fusions) enabled by Branded Fusion / Branded Opening and Fallen of Albaz as material.; Hand-trap-protected board presence with Ecclesia / Blazing Cartesia Fusion follow-ups.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Branded starter (Branded Opening or Branded in High Spirits), search Fallen of Albaz or Fallen of the White Dragon, and reach a Fusion Summon; the going-first hand has no reliable interaction backup beyond Ash Blossom and Droll.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand's hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Nibiru, Droll) to stop the opponent's first board, then fuse through the remaining starters.
• Recovery: Searchers (Dogmatika Ecclesia, Incredible Ecclesia, Blazing Cartesia, Aluber, Fallen of the White Dragon) rebuild the starter after a disruption; the Fusion engine depends on the Extra Deck staying intact.
• After siding: No side deck is registered (0 of 15 side slots used), so there is no post-side plan to score.

Why it scores here

The deck's score comes from the system: a searcher-dense Branded/Dogmatika Fusion engine (P(at least one searcher in an opening 5) ≈ 0.83) that can reach a boss Fusion Monster, backed by 13 hand traps for interruption and turn-order resilience. Consistency and interaction are the strongest reads, but the list is not usable as built: Kashtira Fenrir is OCG Forbidden (3 copies run, 0 legal) and three Semi-Limited cards are over the limit, so the deck is Illegal and receives only a structural, theoretical score capped at 20. Popularity and archetype usage (the Branded core is only about 50% present) did not earn points, and no card scores were averaged into the deck score. The combo ceiling and median are text-only inferences because the export contains no recorded boards, and no side deck is registered.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo primary, Midrange secondary (not blended numerically; Combo weights used). Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12). Final formula: Illegal list: theoretical structural-only score. Uncapped 0.80*Structural(57) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(50) + modifiers(-12) = 44, capped at 20 because the deck is Illegal. Meta provisional.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.83 · 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 (16 copies) gives a high starter-access rate.
• 13 hand traps and 9 negation effects make the deck resilient on the going-second turn.
• Extra Deck covers 12 Fusion bosses with shared Fallen of Albaz material.

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Kashtira Fenrir is Forbidden and three more cards exceed their copy limits.
• Off-archetype padding (8.5% exact Branded purity) weakens engine coherence.
• No side deck and no recorded boards, so post-side and combo claims are inferred.

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz is single-copy and central to most Fusion lines.
• Branded Fusion and Branded Opening are Limited (1 copy each).
• Extra Deck access is restricted by several Fusion-turn limits.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 56 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side; Kashtira Fenrir Forbidden and three over-limit cards.; Composition: 13 hand traps, 16 searchers, 12 Fusion Monsters, 8.5% exact Branded purity.; Usage: 5 of 10 core archetype cards present.
• Inferred: Consistency from hypergeometric draw odds (P(searcher in 5) ≈ 0.83).; Going-second strength from hand-trap density (P ≈ 0.81 in 6 cards).; Combo ceiling and interaction quality from card text.
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample).
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference. No tournament link; archetype meta-share and pilot record are absent. No win-rate telemetry; going-first/second and matchup signals are inferred. No side deck registered, so post-side adaptability cannot be measured. Deck title is null.