Branded Deck #774009 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Combo
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fallen of Albaz and Dogmatika/Ecclesia-enabled Fusion and Synchro boards (Titaniklad, Mirrorjade, Rindbrumm, The Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon) that convert Extra Deck summons into pressure; Ritual boards from Light and Darkness Ritual (Black Chaos, Black Luster Soldier) and Chaos Angel as a Synchro payoff
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a starter such as Nadir Servant, Ragged Records of Rites, or Fallen of the White Dragon, Special Summon Dogmatika/Fallen pieces, and make a Fusion or Synchro summon; hold Ash Blossom and Ghost Ogre for the opponent's first interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 3-copy hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, Nibiru) and Droll & Lock Bird to stop the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Fallen of Albaz or Ecclesia-based summons
• Recovery: Recover via Mind Shuffle, Skull Archfiend of Chaos and Ragged Records of Rites from Deck/GY, and Dogmatika Ecclesia / Incredible Ecclesia to re-summon after a removal or negation
• After siding: No side deck is registered (side_count 0), so there is no evidenced post-side plan

Why it scores here

This deck is Illegal in TCG as submitted (five copy-limit violations, including two Forbidden cards), so it receives only a theoretical structural read capped at 30 rather than a normal contextual score. Its strongest system feature is interaction density: three-copy hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, Nibiru) plus Droll & Lock Bird and Solemn Judgment give it a broad stop layer, and the 0.93 probability that an archetype-core card appears in a going-first opening hand (Inferred) supports a reasonable starter floor. Conversion is limited by the engine split: only about 7% of main cards carry the exact Branded name, the list mixes Branded/Dogmatika with Light and Darkness Ritual and Mulcharmy, and Mulcharmy's requirement to control no cards conflicts with a Fusion/Synchro board. No recorded boards exist, so combo floor and ceiling are text-only inferences, and the deck has no side deck, so post-side adaptability is scored at its floor. Popularity and archetype usage were not credited, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 54, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); engine conflicts (-4). Final formula: Theoretical structural read: 0.80*Structural(54) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) + Modifiers(-12) = 39, capped at 30 because the list is Illegal; Meta provisional

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · 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

• Broad hand-trap and negation layer, with three-copy hand traps and Droll & Lock Bird
• Large Extra Deck coverage across Fusion and Synchro payoffs (15 of 15 slots)
• Multiple Fallen of Albaz and Ecclesia routes give some redundancy on the starter side

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: five copy-limit violations, two of them Forbidden
• Low archetype purity (7.1%) and conflicting sub-engines
• No side deck, so no post-side plan and no matchup adaptation

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz (1 copy) and Dogmatika Ecclesia (1 copy) are single-copy gates to several Extra Deck lines
• Forbidden Albion removes one Fusion route; the list must be rebuilt before its line is playable

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55 and Extra 15 are within TCG size rules; Five copy-limit violations; Albion and Called by the Grave are Forbidden; No side deck (side_count 0); Extra Deck is full (8 Fusion, 7 Synchro)
• Inferred: Starter access probabilities (hypergeometric, 0.25 per 3-copy card in hand5); Going-second hand-trap coverage ≈ 0.82; Interaction breadth from card text and role tags
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated meta sample); Matchup and tournament reliability (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: No recorded combos: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first/second, matchup, brick or starter rates Meta Power is provisional without a dated sample No side deck registered (side_count 0) Inconsistency: usage_statistics marks Granguignol, Titaniklad, Rindbrumm, Mirrorjade, Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon as not in this deck, but the card list contains them in the Extra Deck; the core_present_pct (57.1) is therefore likely understated and was not used as evidence Deck title is null