Branded Deck #773163 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fallen of Albaz into Fusion or Synchro boss monsters (Chaos Angel, The Crimson King, Black Chaos / Black Luster Soldier from Light and Darkness Ritual), with Albion removed from the legal pool; Ritual boss monsters (Magician of Dark Chaos - Black Chaos, Black Luster Soldier) via Light and Darkness Ritual
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a searcher and starter (Ragged Records of Rites, Mind Shuffle, Skull Archfiend of Chaos, Incredible Ecclesia), reach Fallen of Albaz or a Ritual Spell line, and hold Droll & Lock Bird, Ash Blossom and Solemn Judgment as interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Use 6-card hand interaction (Ash Blossom x2, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C, Solemn Judgment) to break the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Fallen of Albaz and Synchro or Fusion extenders
• Recovery: Recover through Mulcharmy draw effects, Pot of Sloth and the Light and Darkness Ritual GY-to-hand effects, and Skull Archfiend of Chaos returning Ritual Spells and monsters from GY
• After siding: Not applicable: the deck runs no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan (best-of-3 adaptation is absent)

Why it scores here

The deck is a multi-archetype brew (exact Branded purity 4.2%, 68 off-archetype copies) spanning Light and Darkness Ritual, Fallen of Albaz, Mulcharmy, Stardust, Ecclesia and Red Dragon Archfiend engines, so its engine cohesion is weak and its consistency is capped by conflicting starters. Its strongest component is interaction: six hand traps, Solemn Judgment, Solemn Accusation, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C and Feather Duster give dense negation and removal that play best going second. Conversion is real but unmeasured: no combos were recorded, so the ceiling (Fallen of Albaz into Synchro or Fusion bosses) and median are text-only inferences. The deck runs no Side Deck and includes Albion the Branded Dragon, which is Forbidden in OCG, so it is illegal as built and receives a capped, theoretical-only score. Popularity was not credited: the Branded archetype's 67% core inclusion of Mulcharmy Fuwalos and the other usage stats confirm the cards are accessible, not that this list is strong, and no card scores were averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 51, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12); engine conflicts (-3). Final formula: Illegal deck: Structural 51 blended 0.80/0.20 with Tournament Reliability 40 (≈48.8), then context modifiers −15, then capped to the low Illegal band at 30 (Meta provisional, null)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.72 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.4 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense hand-trap and negate interaction, especially going second
• Multiple boss monsters across Synchro, Fusion and Ritual lines
• Broad searcher and recursion text for resource recovery

Weaknesses

• Multi-archetype engine with low exact-archetype purity (4.2%)
• Illegal as built: Albion the Branded Dragon is Forbidden
• No Side Deck
• Several cards are dead without a specific partner (Ritual Spell, Fallen of Albaz, Mulcharmy)

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz (3 Fusion or Synchro routes depend on it)
• Light and Darkness Ritual or Ragged Records for the Ritual line
• Albion's Forbidden status removes one Extra Deck route

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Albion the Branded Dragon is Forbidden and run 1 copy; the deck is otherwise within copy limits; Main 56 and Extra 15 are within the OCG size rules, Side 0; Searcher and negation text counts from the card excerpts
• Inferred: Opening-hand probabilities for searchers, bricks and hand traps; Interaction quality from hand-trap density; Engine conflict across Ritual, Fusion and Synchro lines
• Provisional: Matchup fit and Meta Power (no dated metagame sample)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN — matchup, going-first/second and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied