Branded Deck #773999 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Blind-Second
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 7 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Albaz-line Fusion Monsters (Albion/Fallen of Albaz material chains) into 2500-3000 ATK boards, with Fallen of the White Dragon and Fallen of Albaz as the starter-to-Fusion bridge; Fusion/Synchro boss beats from Extra Deck (The Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Mixousia, Despian Proskenion) after hand-trap protection
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Branded/Fallen starter (The Fallen & The Virtuous, Fallen of the White Dragon, Mulcharmy Fuwalos), search with Branded Opening or Gold Sarcophagus, and Fusion Summon a Level 8 boss while holding Ash Blossom and Nibiru as protection
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, Skull Meister, Droll & Lock Bird) to stop the opponent, then Fusion or Synchro through the board they leave behind
• Recovery: Recover from Extra Deck and GY through Ecclesia/Fallen recursion effects (Incredible Ecclesia, Blazing Cartesia, Branded Retribution) and Mulcharmy draw engines
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so no post-side plan can be evaluated; the deck relies on its main-deck hand traps and Harpie's Feather Duster

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system, not as an average of its cards. Its archetype core (28 copies, 97.7% chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand per the hypergeometric estimate) and several starters give it a reasonably reliable opening, so D1 is moderate. Its strength is interruption resilience: 14 hand traps plus Harpie's Feather Duster and Called by the Grave give it several ways to answer disruption, which is why D5 is the highest engine score. The ceiling is high on paper because the Extra Deck holds 2500 to 3200 ATK Fusion bosses, but there are no recorded boards, so the median output (D4) is lowered and marked Inferred. The list is Illegal: two Forbidden cards, Albion the Branded Dragon and Called by the Grave, plus five other copy-limit violations. Under the rubric it is capped at 30 and is theoretical or structural only. Popularity did not earn points: the archetype usage stats confirm the core is real but add no power.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 60, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12); no Side Deck (0). Final formula: Pre-cap: 0.80*Structural(60) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) + modifiers(-12, floor) = 45; Illegal list capped to 30 per rubric (theoretical/structural only). Meta Provisional (null).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.98 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.02 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Archetype core is dense (28 copies), so the Branded/Fallen engine is usually reachable on turn 1
• Hand-trap density (14) gives strong resilience against common interaction
• Extra Deck carries several 2500-3200 ATK Fusion bosses with multiple summon routes

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: two Forbidden cards and five copy-limit violations
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptability
• Heavy off-archetype tech and garnet load lowers consistency and pilotability
• No recorded boards, so the combo floor and median are unknown

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz / Fallen of the White Dragon starter access, since only 1 Albaz and 2 White Dragon are present
• Branded Fusion (1 copy) as the single Fusion enabler for the Albaz-line Fusions

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status and copy-limit violations from legality data; Banlist statuses for Albion the Branded Dragon, Called by the Grave, and the Limited and Semi-Limited cards; Usage stats: Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon 91.9 percent, 97.3 percent for Ash Blossom; Side deck count is 0
• Inferred: Hypergeometric estimates: at least one core card in 5 cards 0.977, starter and brick estimates; Card-text read of Fusion routes, hand-trap function and recursion; Scores for D1 to D11 and D14 from text and composition
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and D13 matchup fit: no dated metagame sample or tournament link; Final score is capped low, so the Illegal tier is provisional until the list is corrected
• Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN no side deck registered, so post-side plans cannot be evaluated Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied