Branded Deck #773540 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 55/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Toolbox
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 41 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fallen of Albaz-based Fusion Summons into 2500-3000 ATK Dragon bosses (Albion the Branded Dragon, The Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Mirrorjade, Secreterion) that are hard to remove once on the field; Synchro closers (The Three Champions of Swordsoul, Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon) and Mulcharmy draw pressure
• Turn 1 (going first): Turn 1 starter (Branded in High Spirits, Branded Opening, Fallen of the White Dragon, Blazing Cartesia or Guiding Quem) into Branded Fusion or Super Polymerization for a 2500+ ATK boss, keeping Ash Blossom and Forbidden Droplet up as interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand trap (Ash Blossom, Maxx C) on the opponent's first summon or search, then Fallen of Albaz or Fallen of the White Dragon to Fusion into a boss through the remaining board
• Recovery: Recover from the GY through Albion the Branded Dragon, The Fallen and The Virtuous and Fallen of the White Dragon, which search or Special Summon Fallen of Albaz-mentioning monsters back
• After siding: No Side Deck is run (side count 0); there is no post-side plan in the list

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional plan: about 93 percent of opening hands run at least one searcher-text card and the Branded core is near-universal in the hypergeometric estimate, so the engine is accessible on turn 1 (Inferred). Conversion rests on Fusion Summoning Fallen of Albaz-mentioning bosses at 2500 to 3000 ATK, which gives strong endboards once the line lands. Resilience comes from three Ash Blossom, Maxx C and Forbidden Droplet plus a second route through the GY recursion monsters, though no recorded boards exist to confirm median output. The score is not earned from Branded being a popular archetype, and card scores were not averaged; it reflects the system's consistency, conversion and interaction, reduced for a low archetype-purity count, no Side Deck and Limited/Semi-Limited exposure.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo primary; D13 dropped for meta-neutral structural score and weights renormalized over 97 points. Structural ≈ 64, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: no_side_deck (-3); banlist_exposure (-2); engine_conflict_subarchetypes (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional); 0.80*64 + 0.20*55 - 7 = 55

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.93 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Engine is accessible in most opening hands (searcher-text group 0.93)
• Layered interaction: 3 Ash Blossom, 3 Forbidden Droplet, Maxx C and Branded Retribution
• Strong Fusion boss density in the Extra Deck with 13 Fusion monsters
• Recursion through GY-linked Fallen of Albaz monsters aids recovery

Weaknesses

• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Low exact archetype purity (17.9 percent) across several sub-archetypes
• No recorded combo boards to confirm median or ceiling output
• Dependence on Fallen of Albaz and Branded Fusion for the main Fusion route

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz is the common key for the Fusion routes; losing it to a hand trap or board wipe slows the whole plan
• Branded Fusion and Super Polymerization are the only fast boss enablers and are capped at 1 and 2 copies

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status: 41 main, 15 extra, 0 side within master-duel size rules; Restricted cards: Branded Fusion, Gold Sarcophagus and Maxx C are Limited at 1 copy; Super Polymerization and The Fallen and The Virtuous are Semi-Limited at 2 copies; Extra Deck is 13 Fusion and 2 Synchro monsters; Archetype purity is 17.9 percent by exact name
• Inferred: D1 consistency from hypergeometric estimates; Interaction density and resilience from card text; Fallen of Albaz as the common Fusion key; Going-second read from hand traps
• Provisional: Meta Power is null and D13 is a placeholder; no dated metagame sample exists
• 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 usage_statistics in_this_deck flags appear to ignore Extra Deck cards: Rindbrumm, Mirrorjade, Lubellion, Titaniklad, Alba-Lenatus, Granguignol, The Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Albion the Branded Dragon and Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon are listed as absent yet present in cards; core_present_pct 64 is understated no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN; going-first, going-second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample deck title is null