Branded Deck #773825 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 53/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Level 8 Fallen-of-Albaz fusions (Albion, Titaniklad, Dragon that Devours the Dogma) and high-ATK bosses (Hecahands Xeno 3400, Dogmatika Alba Zoa 4000) from the Extra Deck, enabled by the Fallen of Albaz package (Branded Fusion, Fallen of Albaz, Fallen of the White Dragon x2); Mitsurugi and Hecahands ritual/fusion bosses (Ame no Murakumo 3200, Hecahands Breus/Godos) as backup boards
• Turn 1 (going first): Branded in High Spirits or Super Polymerization into a Fallen-of-Albaz fusion, with searchers (Mitsurugi Saji/Aramasa/Kusanagi, Hecahands Yadel/Ibtel, Branded Sword) to rebuild a second fusion route; no hand-trap protection is run
• Turn 2 (going second): Respond with Forbidden Droplet, Forbidden Crown, Branded Retribution or Mitsurugi Great Purification to the opponent's summon, then rebuild through the Albaz searchers and Fallen of the White Dragon from hand
• Recovery: Recurring searchers pull Albaz-named monsters and Branded Sword can reclaim a banished Albaz monster; Hecahands Tartaros and GY summons restore the board after a single break
• After siding: Not available: the deck runs an empty side deck, so there is no post-side plan in the evidence

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as one system, not as an average of its card scores. Its consistency rests on 30 searcher-text cards (P(at least one in a 5-card opening hand) ≈ 0.97), but the specific Fallen-of-Albaz starters are thin: three such monsters in 60 cards give P(at least one in hand of 5) ≈ 0.23, so access depends on searchers, not on starters in hand. Conversion is strong on paper because several Level 8 Fusion and Synchro bosses with 2500–4000 ATK can end the game once a fusion lands, and the 10 negation-text cards plus Forbidden Crown and Droplet give real interaction on a turn where it is the controller's turn. The main weakness is structure: the list runs Mitsurugi, Hecahands and Dogmatika ritual and fusion packages alongside the Branded core (exact archetype-name purity 13.3%), it has zero hand traps and an empty side deck, and no recorded boards exist to confirm the ceiling. Archetype popularity (16 core copies at 100% usage in the archetype stats) confirms the list is real and accessible but added no points on its own.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 60.6, Going First ≈ 64, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 49. Modifiers: Engine conflicts across archetype packages (-2); Single-choke Albaz route (-2); Weak post-side plan (-2); Searcher redundancy (2). Final formula: Structural = Combo profile with D13 dropped and renormalized (sum 5881/97 = 60.6); Final = 0.80*60.6 + 0.20*49 + modifiers (-5) = 53.3, rounded to 53. Meta is Provisional.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.23 · 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

• 30 searcher-text cards give near-certain searcher access
• Three Albaz-named monsters, Branded Fusion and Branded in High Spirits give a clear fusion route to Level 8 bosses
• 10 negation-text cards plus Forbidden Crown and Forbidden Droplet give layered interaction
• Boss ATK ceiling is high (Ame no Murakumo 3200, Hecahands Xeno 3400, Dogmatika Alba Zoa 4000)

Weaknesses

• Empty side deck, so no best-of-3 adaptation
• No hand traps to answer going-second boards
• Exact Branded purity is 13.3%; three other archetype packages dilute the engine
• Five ritual monsters depend on specific Ritual spells

Critical choke points

• Branded Fusion (1 copy, Limited) and Fallen of Albaz (1 copy) are the fusion route's single points of failure
• Fallen-of-Albaz-named monsters (3 total) must be reached through searchers in most games

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal under MasterDuel rules: 60 main, 15 extra, 0 side; all Limited and Semi-Limited copies within legal limits; Composition: 27 spells, 4 traps, 5 ritual monsters, 10 fusions, 4 synchros, 1 Xyz; Archetype stats: Fallen of Albaz, Fallen of the White Dragon x2, Branded Fusion and The Fallen & The Virtuous are 100% inclusion core cards
• Inferred: P(at least one Fallen-of-Albaz-named monster in hand of 5) ≈ 0.23; Searcher access P ≥ 0.97 from 30 searcher-text cards; Going-second weakness from zero hand traps; Fallen of the White Dragon and Golden Swordsoul can act like hand-trap responses to summons from hand, though not tagged as hand traps
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and pilot match record are absent No win-rate telemetry: going-first, going-second and matchup rates are unknown Side deck is 0 cards; confirm whether this is a deliberate empty side or an export gap usage statistics in this deck flag disagrees with the cards array for several Extra Deck cards (for example Rindbrumm, Mirrorjade, Albion, Titaniklad, Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon, Alba-Lenatus, The Three Champions, The Dragon that Devours the Dogma); this evaluation trusts the cards array Golden Swordsoul is not tagged as a hand trap, but its summon-from-hand effect may act as one; semantic read only