Branded Deck #773890 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 60/100 (±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 Level 8 boss monsters (Albion the Sanctifire Dragon, The Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Albion the Branded Dragon) built off Fallen of Albaz and Fallen of the White Dragon.; Fusion and Synchro bosses that banish or negate interaction on the opponent's board (Titaniklad, Mirrorjade, Three Champions of Swordsoul).
• Turn 1 (going first): Turn 1 Branded in High Spirits or Aluber to search, then Fallen of Albaz or Fallen of the White Dragon to Fusion Summon a Level 8 boss with Branded Fusion or Super Polymerization.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll and Lock Bird, Maxx C or Ghost Ogre to answer the opponent's first summon or search, then rebuild through Mulcharmy draw and Fallen of the White Dragon.
• Recovery: Recover from GY through Aluber (GY trigger), Fallen of the White Dragon (hand special summon by sending an Albaz-mention Extra Deck card) and The Fallen & The Virtuous.
• After siding: No side deck is built (0 of 15 slots), so there is no tested post-side plan; the post-side read is structural only.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens on its searchers: about 92% of opening 5-card hands hold at least one of its 15 searcher-text cards, and Branded in High Spirits and Aluber each give a 34% chance of at least one copy in hand. Its engine turns Fallen of Albaz and Fallen of the White Dragon into Level 8 Fusion bosses, which gives a high ceiling (D3 74, Inferred from text only, since no recorded boards exist). Its median output is weaker and depends on Albaz-mention pieces being present (D4 58, Inferred). Interaction is broad, with 7 hand traps and 10 negation-text cards, so the deck can answer a going-second opponent (D7 70, D8 60). The score is built from consistency, median output and interaction on the system; the card-level scores were not averaged, and the Branded name's popularity earned no points, since usage stats only confirm the list is real and accessible.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 63, Going First ≈ 63, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 56. Modifiers: Engine conflicts (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers = 0.80*63.3 + 0.20*56 - 2 = 59.8, rounded to 60

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.92 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.08 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Starter density: 15 searcher-text cards and about 92% searcher access in opening 5 cards
• Interaction breadth: 7 hand traps, 10 negation-text cards and 9 removal-text cards
• High-ceiling Fusion bosses with 2500 to 3000 ATK and recursion
• Legal copy limits respected for all 7 restricted cards

Weaknesses

• Exact-name archetype purity is only 18.2%; many off-archetype tech and Mulcharmy pieces dilute the engine
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptability
• Combo ceiling is inferred from card text, with no recorded boards to confirm it
• Pilot burden is high: many multi-step Fusion and Albaz-mention checks

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz is a single copy and a key Albaz-mention material; losing it to a going-first or going-second interruption cuts the Albaz route
• Branded Fusion is a single Limited copy and a main Fusion route

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status; main 40, extra 15, side 0 within size rules; All restricted copies within legal limits (Branded Fusion, Crossout Designator, Gold Sarcophagus, Maxx C at 1; Droll, Super Polymerization, The Fallen and The Virtuous at 2); Card text, stats and composition from the evidence pack
• Observed: Archetype usage stats confirm the list is real and accessible (14 of 25 core cards present)
• Inferred: Opening-hand probabilities (hypergeometric, Main Deck only); Engine consistency and brick estimate from text and probabilities; Combo ceiling and median from card text, with no recorded boards; Interaction quality from text (semantic read)
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13); Post-side performance (no side deck)
• 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 exists in YGOVN, so going-first, going-second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied usage_statistics in_this_deck flags conflict with the deck list: Rindbrumm, Mirrorjade, Albion Branded, Dragon that Devours, Granguignol, Titaniklad and Alba-Lenatus are in the Extra Deck with copies > 0 yet flagged or listed as missing core. Core-presence figures were not used for scoring No side deck built, so no post-side evidence