Branded Deck #773803 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 59/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 50 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion boss pressure (Dragon that Devours the Dogma 3000 ATK, Draco-Equiste 3200 ATK, Mirrorjade 3000 ATK, Lubellion, Albion the Branded Dragon) enabled by Branded Fusion and the Fallen of Albaz family.; Ecclesia / Blazing Cartesia / Swordsoul extra-deck lines and Titaniklad or Granguignol boards that remove or outclass opposing monsters.
• Turn 1 (going first): Search or draw a Fallen-of-Albaz-family starter (Nadir Servant, Branded in High Spirits, Aluber, Fallen of the White Dragon) into Fusion or Synchro boards; keep Ash Blossom, Maxx C or Droll up for the opponent's first interruption.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird, Infinite Impermanence) to break the opponent's starter, then rebuild through Mulcharmy draw and the Fallen-family searchers into a Fusion boss.
• Recovery: Recur Fallen of Albaz and Branded Spells from the GY and banishment through Branded Retribution, Branded Sword, Tri-Brigade Mercourier and Mirrorjade; Pot of Desires and Mulcharmy supply extra cards.
• After siding: Not applicable: Master Duel is a single game with no side deck (Side Deck size 0).

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens into a Fallen-of-Albaz-family starter, with 3 copies of that family giving P(at least one in a 5-card opening hand) of about 0.28 and a 92% chance of at least one searcher, so the engine is accessible through redundant searchers rather than a single card (Inferred). Its ceiling comes from Fusion bosses at 2500 to 3200 ATK, and its median is held back by the lack of recorded boards, so the floor is a semantic read only. Interaction is layered across six hand traps, Droplet, Branded Retribution and Mercourier, which lets it survive one interruption and contest the board (Inferred). Scores come from consistency, interaction and closing power measured on the whole system, not from averaging card scores, and archetype popularity from the usage stats confirms the list is real and accessible but did not earn points on its own. Side-deck and matchup adaptability are structurally limited: the format has no sideboard and there is no dated meta sample, so those dimensions are capped and marked provisional.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 66.7, Going First ≈ 68, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-2); single-point starter (-2); engine conflict (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional); 0.80*66.7 + 0.20*55 = 64.4, then modifiers -5 gives 59

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.28 · 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

• Redundant searchers (Nadir Servant, Branded in High Spirits, Aluber, Blazing Cartesia) reach the Fallen-family starter
• Six hand traps plus several negations give layered interaction
• High-ATK Fusion bosses (2500 to 3200 ATK) with recursion through GY

Weaknesses

• Single-copy Branded Fusion and Fallen of Albaz are key choke points
• Many one-of narrow cards (Gold Sarcophagus, Droll, Maxx C, Triple Tactics Talent)
• Complex Extra-Deck restrictions raise error rate

Critical choke points

• Branded Fusion (1 copy, Limited) gates the main Fusion route
• Fallen of Albaz (1 copy) is the fusion material and engine hub; the White Dragon alias adds two more bodies
• Going-second hand without a Fallen-family card or hand trap

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality and copy limits for all 7 restricted cards; Main 50, Extra 15, Side 0 within Master Duel size rules; Card text for all 50 Main and 15 Extra cards
• Observed: Archetype usage: 15 of 25 core cards present, with 100% inclusion for several core cards; Guides describe Branded as a viable archetype
• Inferred: Starter and searcher probabilities; Consistency and brick estimates; Interaction and closing read from card text; Structural scores on all dimensions except the legality and usage inputs
• Provisional: Meta power (null); D13 format fit; D12 side adaptability (structural cap)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and match record absent No win-rate telemetry; going-first, going-second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred Meta power is provisional without a dated metagame sample Master Duel has no side deck, so D12 is structurally capped