Branded Deck #773272 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 52 / Extra 18 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck fusion, synchro and ritual boards (Black Chaos, Chaos Angel, The Crimson King, Mirrorjade) once the Fallen of Albaz and Light and Darkness Ritual starters land; Going-second disruption into a 3000-ATK ritual or synchro boss
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a searcher such as Mulcharmy Fuwalos, Ragged Records or Mind Shuffle, then reach a Fallen of Albaz or Ritual Monster line into a Synchro or Fusion boss
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Droll and Lock Bird, Maxx C) to answer the opponent's first summon, then convert with Light and Darkness Ritual
• Recovery: Recover through Mulcharmy draw effects and Ritual Spell GY recursion, with Chaos Magical Hats and Black Chaos re-summons
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck list has no side deck, so no post-side plan can be scored

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal in OCG: its Extra Deck holds 18 cards against a 15-card cap, Branded in High Spirits is run three times against a limit of one, and Albion the Branded Dragon, a Forbidden card, is included. Under the rubric it is capped and its numbers are structural-only. On the system, the 15 searcher-text cards give a high chance of at least one starter in the opening hand (about 0.83), and the 7 hand traps give about 0.60 odds of one in a going-second six-card hand, which supports the going-second read. Interaction density is the strongest structural feature, while the three-archetype engine split (Mulcharmy and Light and Darkness Ritual against Fallen of Albaz and Ecclesia lines) and the lack of any recorded boards pull the scores down. Popularity was not credited: the Branded core is inclusion-supported, but only 5 of 10 core cards are present. No card scores were averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Toolbox secondary (not separately weighted; Midrange profile used). Structural ≈ 51.5, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (illegal in format) (-8); Engine conflicts (-4); Illegal cap (-8). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*51.5 + 0.20*45 - 12 = 38.2, then capped to 30 because the deck is Illegal (theoretical/structural-only)

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 and hand-trap coverage makes the opening hand likely to contain a functional card
• Interaction density is high across negation and removal text, giving layered answers to the opponent's boards
• Multiple 3000-plus ATK bosses (Black Chaos, Chaos Angel, The Crimson King, Black Luster Soldier) provide closing power once an engine is live

Weaknesses

• Illegal as listed: Extra Deck of 18 exceeds 15, Branded in High Spirits is over its limit, and Albion the Branded Dragon is Forbidden
• Engine split across roughly six sub-archetypes, with 65 of 70 cards off the exact Branded name
• No recorded combos, no side deck and no tournament data, so most dimensions are inferred

Critical choke points

• Extra Deck legality: three Extra Deck cards must come out before this list can be played in OCG
• Fallen of Albaz as a single-copy enabler that gates Fusion, Synchro and Ecclesia lines

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main Deck size 52 is within the 40-60 range; Extra Deck count 18 exceeds the 15 cap; Branded in High Spirits runs 3 copies against a limit of 1; Albion the Branded Dragon is Forbidden and run once; Side Deck is empty
• Inferred: Starter probability about 0.83 from searcher-text group hypergeometric estimate; Going-second hand-trap coverage about 0.60; Interaction density from removal and negation text counts; Engine conflicts across sub-archetypes
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link); Median and floor output (no recorded boards)
• 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 are absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchup or brick rates No Side Deck present, so post-side adaptability cannot be scored Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied