Branded Deck #773661 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Toolbox
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 7 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Level 8 Fusion boards launched from Fallen of Albaz (e.g. The Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Alba-Lenatus, Titaniklad, Despian Proskenion); Branded Fusion / Albion-route fusions, which are cut or capped by the banlist in this list
• Turn 1 (going first): Starter (Fallen of Albaz, Fallen of the White Dragon, Branded Fusion or Branded Opening) into a Level 8 Fusion, holding Ash Blossom and Droll for the opponent's turn
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 14 hand traps to break the opponent's starter, then rebuild through Mulcharmy draw and Ecclesia/Despia searchers
• Recovery: Draw and search through Mulcharmy Fuwalos/Purulia, Incredible Ecclesia and the searchers (Nadir Servant, Branded Opening, Dogmatika Ecclesia)
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered (0 cards), so no post-side plan can be evaluated

Why it scores here

The deck is illegal in its TCG format: it runs three copies of three Semi-Limited cards, two copies of two Limited cards, and two Forbidden cards (Albion the Branded Dragon, Called by the Grave), so the final score is capped at 30 and the rest is a structural-only read. Its Branded core is real and well covered (about 98% chance of at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand per the archetype-core group), and the Fallen of Albaz starter reaches Level 8 Fusions. The deck has 14 hand traps and 12 negation and 12 removal texts, which carry most of its interaction score on the system rather than on individual cards. Its weaknesses are a 14.3% exact-archetype purity (60 of 70 copies off-archetype across Mulcharmy, Despia, Dogmatika, Ecclesia and others), a 0-card Side Deck, and no combo or tournament evidence, so the floor and median are estimates. The score does not come from Branded's popularity or from averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 53, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12). Final formula: Raw = 0.80*Structural(53) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) = 51; Banlist exposure modifier -12 gives 39; Illegal cap sets 30. Meta Power provisional/null. Theoretical/structural-only read.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.98 · 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

• Archetype core (28 copies) reliably appears in the opening hand (about 98%)
• 14 hand traps and 12 negation texts give layered answers to the opponent's starter
• Level 8 Fusion end boards at 2500-3200 ATK, with several searchers and recursion

Weaknesses

• Illegal in TCG: over copy limit on 5 cards and 2 Forbidden cards included
• Exact-archetype purity is 14.3%; the deck is a multi-archetype pile
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptability
• No combo, win-rate, or tournament data, so floor and median are estimates

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz (1 copy) is the single starter for the Fusion route
• Branded Fusion and Branded Opening (1 copy each, Limited) are required for the fusion route

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: copy-limit violations and Forbidden cards (legality block); Main 55 and Extra 15 are within the TCG size rules; Side is 0 (no Side Deck); Core card statistics and card text for Fallen of Albaz, Albion, and the Fusion monsters
• Observed: Archetype core inclusion rates from usage statistics (Ash Blossom 97.3%, Fallen of the White Dragon 78.4%)
• Inferred: Starter access about 0.98 for the core group, from hypergeometric estimates; Brick rate is likely high given 36 generic and 60 off-archetype copies; Interaction quality from text and hand-trap count; Going-second hand-trap coverage 0.845
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (tournament data unavailable)
• 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 (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter/OTK rates) Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Illegal list: a fully legal rebuild cannot be scored from this evidence