Branded Deck #773840 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 57/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fallen-of-Albaz-enabled Fusion bosses: Dragon that Devours the Dogma (3000 ATK, x2), Mirrorjade (3000 ATK), Titaniklad and Alba-Lenatus (2500+ ATK, multi-attack); Synchro pressure from Despian Luluwalilith, The Three Champions of Swordsoul and Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon, which also carry negation or removal text
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on a hand-start: Fallen of Albaz or Fallen of the White Dragon (both hand-usable, Albaz-name), or Branded in High Spirits to search. Convert via Branded Fusion or Super Polymerization into a Fallen-material boss. Hold Ash Blossom and Droll for the opponent's turn.
• Turn 2 (going second): Keep Ash Blossom (3), Droll and Lock Bird (2) and Maxx C (1) as the six-card hand-trap package to break the opponent's first summon or search. Then follow with an Albaz-name starter into a Fusion or Synchro boss. P(at least one hand trap in 6 cards) is about 0.65.
• Recovery: Use graveyard-based routes: Albion the Shrouded Dragon takes the Fallen of Albaz name in the GY, Mirrorjade and Dragon that Devours rebuild from GY material, and Tri-Brigade Mercourier banish and Branded Retribution provide follow-up after interaction.
• After siding: None. The deck runs 0 side cards, and Master Duel has no sideboard step, so there is no post-side adaptation.

Why it scores here

The deck opens a functional plan through a small set of hand-start Fallen-of-Albaz-name cards (Fallen of Albaz x1, Fallen of the White Dragon x2) plus Branded in High Spirits and Ecclesia searches. Opening access is moderate, around 0.34 going first for the three hand-start copies and about 0.51 once Albion the Shrouded Dragon is counted, so consistency is scored at 58 rather than higher. It converts through Branded Fusion and Super Polymerization into 3000-ATK or unaffected Fusion bosses, and its ceiling is supported by card text. Interaction is layered: three Ash Blossom, two Droll and one Maxx C, plus negation text on several Extra Deck Synchros. Popularity and archetype usage stats confirm the list is real, but they did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score. No recorded boards exist, so the ceiling, median and combo-conversion claims are Inferred and lower confidence.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo (D13 dropped and renormalized: meta-neutral structural, weights sum to 97). Structural ≈ 63.8, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 56. Modifiers: Fallen-name choke point (-3); No post-side plan (-1); Limited key card (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; Structural drops D13 and renormalizes): 0.80*63.8 + 0.20*56 = 62.2, then -5 modifiers = 57.2, rounded to 57

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

• Legal at full size with no copy-limit violations (Limited and Semi-Limited copies within legal limits).
• Extra Deck is full with boss-level Fusion and Synchro targets; several reach 3000 ATK.
• Layered interaction: 6 hand traps, 8 negation-text cards and 7 removal-text cards.
• Several graveyard-based recovery routes (Albion Shrouded in GY, Mercourier banish, Branded Retribution).

Weaknesses

• Opening access depends on three hand-start Fallen-name copies (about 0.34 going first).
• 9 of 15 Extra copies need Fallen of Albaz as material, so the Extra Deck is concentrated on one card-name requirement.
• Off-exact-archetype density (45 copies, 18.2% exact-name purity) splits the engine: Mulcharmy x5, Springans x2, Cocatorium, Tri-Brigade Mercourier.
• No side deck and no recorded boards, so post-side and combo claims are unmeasured.

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz (1 copy) and Fallen of the White Dragon (2 copies) as the hand-start Albaz-name cards.
• Branded Fusion (1 copy, Limited) and Super Polymerization (2) as the Fusion-materialising spells.
• Hand-trap plus opponent's first summon: the going-second plan depends on Ash Blossom or Droll landing before the opponent's engine starts.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal at 40 main / 15 extra / 0 side with no copy-limit violations (evidence legality block).; Extra Deck breakdown: 12 Fusion, 3 Synchro.; Fallen of Albaz and Fallen of the White Dragon text (hand-usable, Albaz-name); Albion Shrouded name change on field/GY.; Hand-trap count 6 (3 Ash Blossom, 2 Droll, 1 Maxx C).
• Inferred: Hypergeometric starter, hand-trap and brick estimates (see probabilities).; Ceiling, floor and median read from card text; no recorded boards.; Interaction quality read from negation and removal text.; Pilotability from the count of optional triggers and material chains.
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample).; D13 matchup and format fit (no tournament link or meta-share).; D12 post-side adaptability (no side deck, no post-side data).
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter/OTK rates) — Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no side deck and no post-side data