Branded Deck #773601 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 61/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Level 8 Dragons (Albion the Branded Dragon, Albion the Sanctifire Dragon, Alba-Lenatus) off Fallen of Albaz / Fallen of the White Dragon, then attack through a 2500-3000 ATK board; Hand-trap and negate interaction (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx "C", Ghost Ogre, Ecclesia negates) that protects the Fusion board or breaks the opponent's setup
• Turn 1 (going first): Search or Special Summon a Fallen of Albaz-alias (Fallen of Albaz or Fallen of the White Dragon) through Branded in High Spirits, Aluber, Guiding Quem or Blazing Cartesia, then Branded Fusion or Super Polymerization into a Level 8 Fusion Monster
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Ghost Ogre or Maxx "C" for the opponent's first summon or activation, then rebuild a Fusion board from the hand and GY
• Recovery: Fallen of Albaz-alias recursion from the GY, Albion the Branded Dragon's GY effect, and Branded Retribution to clear a boss monster, with searchers rebuilding the next starter
• After siding: None: the deck has no Side Deck (side_count 0) and Master Duel gives no sideboarding window in this data

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens its engine through a wide searcher package: 15 searcher-text copies give roughly 92% odds of at least one in a going-first opening hand (hypergeometric, Inferred), while the three Fallen of Albaz-alias copies alone give only about 34%. Once a Fallen of Albaz-alias lands, the Fusion route into 2500-3000 ATK Dragons is the main conversion, and the ceiling is strong on the card text alone. The median output is held back by three Mulcharmy Fuwalos that are weak early, by a split archetype spread (only 10 of 55 archetype-linked copies are exact Branded, 18.2% purity), and by the absence of any recorded boards. Interaction is the real strength: seven hand traps and about ten negate-text cards make it hard to set up against, and going second is stronger than going first. The score comes from consistency and median output on the whole system and from interaction density, not from Branded being a popular archetype, and not from averaging individual card scores. Meta Power is null and Meta-neutral, since no dated metagame sample was supplied.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 64, Going First ≈ 61, Going Second ≈ 67, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: Starter dependence on three alias copies (-2); Engine conflicts (-2); Redundant interaction layers (2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural(64) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(58) + ContextModifiers(-2) = 61 (Meta provisional, Structural computed with D13 dropped and re-normalized, so meta-neutral 64.4)

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

• Wide searcher package (15 searcher-text copies) gives high odds of a live soft-start
• Seven hand traps and about ten negate-text cards provide layered interaction, strongest going second
• Fusion Dragons at 2500-3000 ATK give a strong closing board and boss-tier targets
• Legal in Master Duel: 40/15 sizes and all Limited/Semi-Limited copy counts are within limits

Weaknesses

• Only three hard starters (Fallen of Albaz-alias), so the going-first Fusion route is thin at about 34%
• Three Mulcharmy Fuwalos are weak early and add bricks under the 'control no cards' condition
• Low exact-name archetype purity (18.2%) with split support across several sub-archetypes
• No Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan
• Usage-core Rindbrumm and Mirrorjade (100% inclusion) are absent, a deviation that may mean a missing payoff

Critical choke points

• The 3 Fallen of Albaz-alias copies: losing them to a single disruption shuts down Branded Fusion and the Dragon line
• Going-first hands without a searcher or Albaz-alias on turn 1

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in Master Duel: 40 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side; all restricted copies within legal limits; Hand-trap role count of 7 and negate-text count of 10 from the card text; Rindbrumm, Mirrorjade and Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon are usage-core cards absent from this list
• Inferred: Hypergeometric starter, searcher and hand-trap probabilities; Interaction density and going-second read from card text; Consistency and brick risk from copy histogram and card roles
• Provisional: Meta and format fit (D13 at 50); Meta Power is null without a dated metagame sample
• 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, brick or starter rates Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No Side Deck in the export, so post-side adaptability cannot be assessed