Branded Deck #773871 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion-summon Dragon bosses (Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Alba-Lenatus, Titaniklad, Mirrorjade, Lubellion) through the Fallen of Albaz / Fallen of the White Dragon engine, then close with 2500-3000 ATK boards.; Ecclesia / Dogmatika / Cartesia Synchro and Fusion boards that stack disruption (Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Droll) and grind with Mulcharmy draw and searchers.
• Turn 1 (going first): Opening Nadir Servant, Aluber, Mulcharmy or Ecclesia searches into Branded Fusion or Fallen of Albaz (needs a Fallen-named Fusion material), then Fusion Summon a boss and protect it with Ash Blossom and Fallen and Virtuous.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Droll and Lock Bird, Tri-Brigade Mercourier) to break the opponent's first summon, then a Fusion boss from Albaz access; no side deck, so the plan is the same as going first.
• Recovery: Searchers (16 searcher-text cards) and Mulcharmy draws rebuild the hand; Fallen of the White Dragon, Albion and Super Polymerization give replacement Albaz access after a hand trap or negate.
• After siding: Not applicable: the deck has no side deck and Master Duel is a single game, so no post-side plan exists.

Why it scores here

The deck opens a functional plan most of the time: 16 searcher-text cards give about a 0.93 chance of at least one searcher in the opening five, and the Albaz access group (Fallen of Albaz, two Fallen of the White Dragon, Albion) gives about a 0.43 chance of a Fallen-named Fusion starter. It converts that plan into 2500-3000 ATK bosses and holds up under disruption through three Ash Blossom, Maxx C and Droll with independent starters. The score is driven by consistency and interaction on the system, not by Branded being a popular archetype, and card scores were not averaged. Single-copy Branded Fusion and Fallen of Albaz are the main choke points, and two Extra Deck monsters (Favorite HERO, Three Champions) lack support, which pulls the score down.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 65, Going First ≈ 68, Going Second ≈ 67, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: Unrecoverable choke point (-2); Engine conflicts (-2); Banlist exposure (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional, no dated sample) = 0.80*65.2 + 0.20*58 - 5 ≈ 59

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.43 · 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

• 16 searchers give consistent access to Fusion starters
• Albaz-named material is multi-sourced, so one negate does not end the line
• Three Ash Blossom plus Maxx C and Droll give layered interaction
• Dragon that Devours the Dogma and Alba-Lenatus provide effect-proof and multi-attack bosses

Weaknesses

• Branded Fusion and Fallen of Albaz are single copies with Limited or single-copy status
• Two Extra Deck monsters (Favorite HERO, Three Champions) have little support
• Mixed sub-archetypes (about 9% exact Branded) dilute the engine
• High pilot complexity from multi-step Albaz and Albion transforms

Critical choke points

• Branded Fusion (Limited, 1 copy) is the main Fusion enabler
• Fallen of Albaz (1 copy) plus the Fallen-named White Dragons are the only Albaz material sources

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status, 40 main and 15 extra counts, Limited and Semi-Limited copy limits; Archetype purity 9.1% and archetype spread; Usage stats (Albion the Branded Dragon absent; 15 of 25 core cards present in Main)
• Inferred: Albaz-access probability ≈ 0.43 and searcher probability ≈ 0.93 (hypergeometric); D3 ceiling and D4 floor from card text, no combo boards; Choke point assessment from copy counts
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); D13 matchup fit (no tournament link); D12 side deck (no side deck in Master Duel)
• 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 absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN Meta Power provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied usage_statistics in_this_deck flag only checks the Main Deck: 9 of the 10 core cards marked missing (Rindbrumm, Mirrorjade, Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon, Lubellion, Alba-Lenatus, Titaniklad, Granguignol, The Three Champions, The Dragon that Devours the Dogma) are in the Extra Deck, so core_present_pct 60 understates the real presence; only Albion the Branded Dragon is truly absent Branded in High Spirits runs 1 copy against a typical 3, which weakens the Branded spell engine