Branded Deck #773264 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Dracotail boss monsters (Arthalion 3000 ATK, Gulamel 2800 ATK, Secreterion Dragon 3000 ATK) through Dracotail Fusion chains, backed by Magistus Synchro and Link bodies.; Synchro and Xyz bosses (Zoroa Conflagrant Calamity, Vahram, Borreload) that come online after the Fusion line has been established.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a Dracotail starter, search or summon a second Dracotail through Ketu or Lukias, then Fusion Summon a boss using hand and field materials.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Maxx C, Nibiru) to answer the opponent's first board, then continue the Fusion line from the surviving hand.
• Recovery: Recur Dracotail monsters from the GY and banishment through Urgula and Phryxul, and reuse Dracotail Flame, Horn and Sting for card flow.
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so no post-side plan can be verified; the deck has no side slots filled.

Why it scores here

The score is built from the deck as a system: Dracotail and Magistus bodies share Fusion and Synchro routes, 12 searcher-text cards and 8 hand traps give the list several independent openings and answers, and several 3000-ATK bosses close games. Probabilities are weak for a single starter: each 3-copy card has about 0.34 chance of appearing in a 5-card opening hand, and the archetype core group has about 0.42 chance of no core card in hand, so consistency is middling. The deck is Illegal (two Semi-Limited cards run 3 copies and two Forbidden cards are present), so no normal Final Contextual score is awarded and the 30 is capped. Popularity (Branded usage stats) confirmed the list is real but earned no points, and no card scores were averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 51.5, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 42, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-8); illegal_cap (-10). Final formula: Illegal cap: uncapped 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + modifiers = 0.80*51.5 + 0.20*35 - 8 ≈ 40; capped to 30 as theoretical/structural-only (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.34 · 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

• Several independent openers: 12 searcher-text cards and 8 hand traps
• Layered interaction with Maxx C, Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle and Nibiru
• Multiple 3000-ATK closing bosses across Fusion, Synchro and Link

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: two Forbidden cards and two copy-limit violations
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan
• Low single-card access (about 0.34 for 3-copy starters in an opening hand)
• Heavy off-archetype spread (55 copies) weakens the engine

Critical choke points

• Dracotail starter in the opening hand (Faimena, Lukias, Urgula, Phryxul)
• Fusion Summon enablers, since Branded Fusion is absent from the list

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Triple Tactics Talent and Borreload Savage Dragon are Forbidden; Dracotail Lukias and Dracotail Arthalion run 3 copies against a limit of 2; Main 40 and Extra 15 are within size rules; Side count 0; Archetype spread: Dracotail 20, Magistus 11, Mulcharmy 3
• Inferred: Starter-access probabilities (hypergeometric); Interaction density from hand-trap and negation text counts; Going-first and going-second plans from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament data)
• 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 exists in YGOVN — going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no Side Deck registered, so post-side adaptability is unverified deck is Illegal, so the score is structural-only and capped