Branded Deck #773826 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 58/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion bosses from the Extra Deck (Despian Proskenion 3200, Albion the Sanctifire Dragon 3000, The Dragon that Devours the Dogma 3000, Mirrorjade 3000, Secreterion Dragon 3000) after an Albaz-mention Fusion chain; Hand-trap-protected Fusion follow-up and recursion from the GY (Aluber, Fallen of the White Dragon, The Fallen & The Virtuous)
• Turn 1 (going first): Turn 1 search or summon (Branded in High Spirits, Aluber, Mulcharmy, Fallen of Albaz if drawn), then Fusion Summon via Branded Fusion or Super Polymerization into an Albaz-mention boss
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 6-card hand's hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C) to stop the opponent's board, then rebuild through Fallen of the White Dragon or a Fusion from the GY
• Recovery: Fallen & The Virtuous and Aluber recover monsters from the GY; Blazing Cartesia and Guiding Quem reach Fallen of Albaz from the Deck
• After siding: Not applicable: Master Duel has no side deck (Side Deck size 0 by format rules)

Why it scores here

The deck opens a functional plan reliably only in combination: about 34% of going-first hands contain one of the three hand-openable Albaz-named monsters, but Branded in High Spirits, Aluber, Mulcharmy and Fallen of the White Dragon give non-Albaz turn-1 plays and 16 searcher-text cards keep most hands live. It converts into pressure through a Fusion chain into 2500 to 3200 ATK bosses, and its six hand traps (Ash Blossom x3, Droll & Lock Bird x2, Maxx C) plus negation and removal text carry interaction across both turns, with about 65% odds of at least one hand trap in a going-second 6-card hand. Recovery comes from GY effects and a dense searcher base, which earns the grind and resilience scores. Popularity did not earn points: the Branded archetype's usage stats confirm the list is standard, and the deck's exact-name purity of 18.2% is scored as a cost. No card scores were averaged; the score comes from consistency, interaction and closing power on the system, with the lack of recorded boards holding the combo dimensions to moderate values.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 65, Going First ≈ 64, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-1); Unrecoverable single-copy choke point (-2); Engine dilution across sub-archetypes (-3). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional). Structural is meta-neutral: D12 and D13 dropped and Combo weights re-normalized over 95 (6138/95 = 64.6, rounded to 65). Score = 0.8*65 + 0.2*58 - 6 = 57.6, rounded to 58.

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

• Six hand traps plus negation and removal text give interaction on both turns
• Nine Extra Deck monsters mention Fallen of Albaz, giving many Fusion routes from one enabler
• Legal at every restricted-card limit with the Extra Deck full
• Main deck closely matches the archetype core usage list once Extra Deck cards are counted

Weaknesses

• Only three hand-openable Albaz-named monsters (Fallen of Albaz x1, Fallen of the White Dragon x2)
• Dead in hand without an Albaz board: Nadir Servant, Fusion Deployment, Branded Retribution, Tri-Brigade Mercourier
• Low exact-name purity (18.2%) with several sub-archetypes competing for slots
• No recorded boards, so combo ceiling and floor are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Going first with no Albaz-named monster in opening 5 (about 66% of hands) leaves the Albaz Fusion line offline until a turn-1 search or summon

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: all restricted cards at or below legal copies; 40 main and 15 Extra; Card text and stats for every listed card; Hypergeometric draw table and per-card probabilities from the evidence; Exact-name purity 18.2% and 45 off-archetype copies
• Inferred: Starter access and brick estimates from hypergeometric draws and card text; Ceiling and floor read from card text; no recorded boards; Interaction quality from text roles; Pilotability from step count
• Provisional: Meta power (no dated meta sample); D12 side adaptability (no side deck in Master Duel); D13 matchup fit (no tournament context)
• 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, going-second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred usage statistics flags 9 Extra Deck cards as not in this deck (Rindbrumm, Mirrorjade, Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon, Lubellion, Alba-Lenatus, Titaniklad, Albion the Branded Dragon, Granguignol, The Dragon that Devours the Dogma), but the cards list shows all of them with copies. Only The Three Champions of Swordsoul is truly absent, so the reported core-present count of 15/25 is understated; the usage zone check appears to skip the Extra Deck Meta power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied