Branded Deck #773582 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 51/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Control, Stun
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion boss beatdown (Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Titaniklad, Despian Proskenion) enabled by Branded Fusion or a Fallen of White Dragon route into Fallen of Albaz fusions; Synchro and fusion pressure off Ecclesia/Cartesia/Quem bodies, with Droll, Ash and Maxx C interrupting the opponent's line
• Turn 1 (going first): Search and summon Fallen of White Dragon or Mulcharmy/Aluber bodies, then reach a 2500+ ATK fusion boss through Branded Fusion or Fallen-material fusion
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold 5 hand-trap and negation cards (Ash x3, Maxx C, Droll, Branded Retribution, Mercourier) to break the first summon, then rebuild through Fallen of White Dragon and the Extra Deck
• Recovery: Recover from the graveyard with Fallen of White Dragon, Aluber and Springans Kitt, which search or revive Fallen-linked monsters and Branded Spells
• After siding: None: the deck registers 0 side cards, so there is no post-side plan to evaluate

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a searcher-heavy hand: P(at least one searcher-text card in a 5-card opener) is about 0.94, and the 24-copy archetype core is almost always present (about 0.99), so the list is consistently functional at the start. Its conversion comes from a fusion engine that can reach 2500+ ATK bosses, but the single-copy Branded Fusion and single-copy Fallen of Albaz are narrow choke points, so the ceiling is held back. Interaction is a real strength on the system level: five hand traps and about ten negation-text cards give layered answers going second, while graveyard recovery through Fallen of White Dragon and Aluber keeps the plan alive after disruption. Popularity and the archetype's usage share did not earn points, the deck has no recorded boards, no tournament record and no side deck, and the score is not an average of individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo primary; Control secondary weighting folded into D7 and D12 emphasis only. Structural ≈ 62, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-3); hard-garnet burden (-2); single-copy engine choke point (-2); no side deck (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers(-9) = 0.80*62 + 0.20*52 - 9 ≈ 51

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.13 · 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

• Searcher density (16 searcher-text cards) makes the opening hand almost always find a playable route
• Five hand traps and ten negation-text cards give layered interaction going second
• Fusion bosses reach 2500–3200 ATK with a clear Branded Fusion and Super Polymerization access route
• Graveyard recovery through Fallen of White Dragon, Aluber and Springans Kitt supports a second attempt

Weaknesses

• Single-copy Branded Fusion and Fallen of Albaz are choke points for the engine
• Sub-archetype spread (Dogmatika, Tri-Brigade, Springans, Mulcharmy, Ecclesia) lowers exact-name coherence
• Zero side deck removes post-side adaptability in best-of-3 play
• Albion the Branded Dragon (usage core, about 89%) is absent from the list

Critical choke points

• Branded Fusion (1 copy, Limited) gates most Fallen-material fusions
• Fallen of Albaz (1 copy) is the only direct fusion-material starter besides Fallen of White Dragon
• Fallen of White Dragon (2 copies) carries most of the going-first route

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in Master Duel: 40 main, 15 extra, 0 side; all 7 restricted cards within legal copy counts; Archetype is Branded (archetype_id 754), with 13 Fusion and 2 Synchro in the Extra Deck; Usage statistics show Albion the Branded Dragon as a core card at about 89% inclusion and absent from this deck
• Inferred: Hypergeometric opening-hand probabilities for starters, archetype core and searchers; Hand-trap coverage going second (about 0.58); Boss ATK ceilings read from card text (2500–3200); Interaction density read from text tags
• Provisional: Meta Power is null: no dated metagame sample; Matchup coverage and format fit are provisional: no tournament link
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent no win-rate telemetry for going-first/second, matchup, brick or starter rates Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample Usage-statistics in_this_deck flags appear to check only the Main Deck: Rindbrumm, Mirrorjade, Lubellion, Titaniklad, Alba-Lenatus, Granguignol, Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon, and The Dragon that Devours the Dogma are listed in cards[] as zone extra but reported in_this_deck false; these are treated as present, and missing_core is not used as evidence of absence Deck title is null; the deck is identified by its id and archetype only