Branded Deck #773979 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 60/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Combo, Graveyard-centric Fusion
• Format: duel-links

Legality

Main 30 / Extra 9 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Grind out with Branded Fusion lines into Mirrorjade the Iceblade Dragon, Guardian Chimera and Filia Regis backed by layered negates/removal.; Super Polymerization / Fallen of Albaz board-stealing fusion and big-ATK dragon beatdown (Guardian Chimera 3300, Mirrorjade 3000).
• Turn 1 (going first): Open an access route to Branded Fusion (Aluber, Branded Fusion, Kitt, Saronir dump), fuse into Albion/Lubellion -> Mirrorjade plus a Dragostapelia/Guardian Chimera and hold Mercourier / Branded Retribution for interaction.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Forbidden Droplet (x3), Super Polymerization and Fallen of Albaz to strip the opponent's board, then fuse into removal bosses and close with high-ATK dragons.
• Recovery: Rebuild through Branded in Red, Screams of the Branded, Branded Sword, Albion the Shrouded Dragon and Bystial recursion (Magnamhut, Saronir, Druiswurm).
• After siding: Duel Links is best-of-1 with no side deck; adaptation happens through flexible in-deck tech (Droplet, Super Poly) rather than a sideboard.

Why it scores here

This Branded Bystial list is scored as a connected midrange-fusion system, not as an average of its card scores. It reliably opens an access route to Branded Fusion through Aluber, Kitt or a Saronir dump and converts that into a Mirrorjade plus a secondary Fusion with layered interaction (Droplet, Mercourier, Retribution), which is a coherent, functional plan. Its grind and recursion are its backbone, using the Graveyard-centric Branded and Bystial package to rebuild after disruption, and it closes well through high-ATK dragons and multi-attack lines. Consistency is real but not overwhelming: only one Branded Fusion and two Aluber mean a meaningful fraction of opening hands lack a direct starter, and the many singletons add variance. Duel Links runs no side deck and this export has no combo or tournament data, so post-side, matchup and combo-floor claims are inferred or provisional. Branded's popularity and guide reputation were NOT used to add points, and no individual card power scores were averaged into the result.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 63, Going First ≈ 63, Going Second ≈ 63, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 57. Modifiers: singleton_tech_variance (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + modifiers

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.42 · key two-card combo ≈ 0.18 · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.12 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Coherent Branded + Bystial + Despia fetch/dump engine that converts searchable pieces into Mirrorjade and a secondary Fusion.
• Strong grind and recursion through the Graveyard (Branded in Red, Screams, Sword, Magnamhut, Saronir).
• Layered interaction: Mirrorjade banish, Dragostapelia/Mercourier/Retribution negates, plus Droplet and Super Poly.
• High closing power with Guardian Chimera (3300), Filia Regis (3000) and Alba-Lenatus multi-attack lines.
• Real going-second tools in three Forbidden Droplet, Super Polymerization and Fallen of Albaz's opponent-monster fusion.

Weaknesses

• Only one Branded Fusion and two Aluber, so direct starter access is roughly 42% in the opening five.
• Heavy singleton density (14 of 20 distinct main cards) adds draw variance and redundancy risk.
• No side deck in Duel Links limits post-side adaptation to in-deck flex slots.
• Complex, decision-dense lines with low error tolerance per the attached Branded guides.
• No combo or tournament data supplied, so floor/median/ceiling are text-only inferences.

Critical choke points

• Branded Fusion being negated, discarded or not drawn leaves the primary fusion line dependent on slower bridges (Kitt, Saronir dump, Branded in Red).
• Dependence on the Extra Deck fusion toolkit; disruption to Mirrorjade fizzles the main banisher.
• Low redundancy of the singular key spells/traps makes a single Ash-style negate or banish cost a turn.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 30 main / 9 extra / 0 side, all restricted cards within legal copy limits.; Extra Deck is entirely Fusion monsters covering removal, negation, recursion and beatdown.; Super Polymerization is Limited (1) and Bystial Druiswurm/Magnamhut Semi-Limited (2); all within limits.; Key ATK values: Guardian Chimera 3300, Mirrorjade 3000, Filia Regis 3000.
• Inferred: Starter access ~42% in opening five from Branded Fusion, Aluber and bridges.; Layered interaction and grind from card-text reads of Mirrorjade, Dragostapelia, Mercourier, Retribution, Branded in Red.; Moderate brick/variance driven by singleton density.; Going-second breaking power from Droplet x3, Super Poly and Fallen of Albaz.
• Provisional: Matchup coverage and format fit — no dated metagame sample.; Meta Power is null/provisional.
• 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 exists in YGOVN; consistency, brick and matchup claims are Inferred or Unknown. Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample. usage_statistics flags several Extra Deck core pieces (Mirrorjade, Albion, Alba-Lenatus, Dragostapelia, Granguignol, Lubellion) as 'not in this deck' despite their presence in the resolved card list — treating this as a matching inconsistency, not absence.