Branded Deck #773775 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 59/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Fusion, Graveyard-centric
• Format: master-duel

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion-summoned Level 8 bosses at 3000 ATK (2x Dracotail Arthalion, 2x Albion the Branded Dragon, Albion the Sanctifire Dragon) enabled by a Fallen of Albaz / Fallen of the White Dragon fusion chain; Dracotail Pan (2700 ATK) and Dracotail Gulamel (2800 ATK) removal-plus-attack finishers
• Turn 1 (going first): Turn 1 Fallen of Albaz or Fallen of the White Dragon route (Ketu Dracotail or Branded in High Spirits to find a Dracotail or Albaz) into a Fusion Summon of an Albaz-based boss; Dracotail Faimena discard-fusion as the alternate starter
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll and Maxx C to protect the first combo attempt, then rebuild with Dracotail Mululu / Faimena fusion or Branded Fusion
• Recovery: Dracotail graveyard recursion: Dracotail Lukias and Phryxul re-summon or re-add Dracotails, Dracotail Flame / Sting / Horn draw and place a Dracotail on the Deck bottom, Pan and Gulamel GY effects
• After siding: None: the list runs no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan (Verified)

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens into a fusion chain: three Albaz-equivalent starters (Fallen of Albaz plus two Fallen of the White Dragon, which are always treated as Albaz) and a searcher suite (Branded in High Spirits, Ketu, Dracotail Lukias) give it several independent first-turn routes, and the archetype core group has a high chance of at least one piece in the opening hand. Its ceiling comes from Level 8 fusion bosses at 3000 ATK, and it protects that line with six hand traps (Ash Blossom x3, Droll & Lock Bird x2, Maxx C) plus Dracotail removal and negation text, which is what carries it through disruption and into the going-second plan. Its weaknesses are a 40-card main with six Mulcharmy copies that draw only while the controller has no cards, a Dracotail-heavy list that is only 7 exact Branded cards (12.7% exact-name purity), no Side Deck, and no recorded boards, so the median output is unmeasured. The score comes from consistency, redundancy, interaction and closing power on the system, not from Branded being a popular archetype and not from averaging card scores; no meta sample exists, so Meta Power stays provisional.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo, with D13 excluded and the remaining weights renormalized over 97. Structural ≈ 62, Going First ≈ 65, Going Second ≈ 67, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (no metagame sample; Meta provisional): 0.80*62 + 0.20*50 - 1 = 58.6, rounded to 59

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.95 · 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

• Several independent starters and searchers, including three Albaz-equivalents
• Six hand traps and a 1-of Maxx C protect the engine on both turns
• Three 3000-ATK and two 2800-2700 ATK bosses give late-game closing power
• Graveyard recursion keeps Dracotails in play after interruption

Weaknesses

• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Six Mulcharmy copies are weak when the board is in use
• Exact Branded purity is 12.7%; the list is mostly Dracotail, so its engine identity is split
• No recorded boards, so the combo median and floor are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz is a 1-of; the two Fallen of the White Dragon copies are the backup Albaz route
• Branded Fusion is a 1-of Limited card that sets up several Albaz-based fusions

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal: 40 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side, all copy limits met (Legal); Card stats and text excerpts for every listed card; Extra Deck breakdown: 13 fusion, 1 link, 1 synchro
• Observed: Usage statistics: Branded core-group inclusion rates (34 stat rows)
• Inferred: Hypergeometric consistency estimates; Engine and interaction read from card text; Going-first and going-second estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13 placeholder)
• Data gaps: usage_statistics in_this_deck flags are false for Extra Deck cards that are in the list (Albion the Branded Dragon, Rindbrumm, Mirrorjade, Lubellion, Alba-Lenatus, Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon). The flag appears to count Main Deck only, so missing_core is overstated; the true core presence is 16 of 25 (64%), not 9 of 25 (36%) no combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent deck title is null no win-rate telemetry exists; going-first, going-second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied