Branded Deck #774021 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Midrange
• 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 / Fallen of the White Dragon Fusion and Synchro routes into large Extra Deck beaters (Mirrorjade, Rindbrumm, Despian and Swordsoul boss monsters), if the list were legal; Light and Darkness Ritual line into Black Chaos or Black Luster Soldier (Ritual Summon, non-engine ceiling)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a starter (Nadir Servant, Mulcharmy, Ragged Records) and search an Albaz/Dogmatika piece, then reach a Fusion or Synchro boss. Expect this to be contested by the first hand trap (Ash Blossom, Droll) on the opponent's turn
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Nibiru and Ghost Ogre as hand traps to blank the opponent's first summon, then convert the surviving board through Mulcharmy and Griffoh draw and recovery
• Recovery: Recover through Mulcharmy draw effects, Ragged Records and Mind Shuffle searches, and Fallen of the White Dragon special summon from hand
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no side deck (Side Deck size 0), so no post-side plan exists

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal in the TCG format: it runs two Forbidden cards (Albion the Branded Dragon and Called by the Grave) and exceeds the Semi-Limited and Limited copy caps on Ash Blossom, Branded in High Spirits and Droll & Lock Bird. Under the rubric, that cap governs the final score, so the 25 is a structural-only read, not a normal contextual score. The structural component (about 54) comes from the system as a whole: a dense hand-trap package (13 hand traps, 6 negation texts, 19 removal texts) gives it real going-second interaction, and its Fallen of Albaz and Dogmatika engine gives it a plausible route to Fusion and Synchro boss monsters. The deck pulls against itself, though, because it spreads across Mulcharmy, Light and Darkness Ritual, Dogmatika, Despia, Swordsoul and Stardust with only 4 exact-name Branded cards (5.7 percent purity), so brick and conflict risk are high. No recorded boards exist, so the combo ceiling and floor are text inference, and the score is not an average of card scores or a reflection of Branded's popularity.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 54, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-10); no Side Deck (-2); illegal_cap (-14). Final formula: Illegal cap applied: unconstrained 0.80*Structural(54) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) + modifiers(-12) = 39, capped to 25 under the Illegal rule (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.92 · 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

• Dense hand-trap and negation package (13 hand traps, 6 negation texts)
• Access to Fallen of Albaz and Dogmatika Fusion and Synchro routes into large boss monsters
• Layered removal and interaction across Main and Extra Deck

Weaknesses

• Illegal: two Forbidden cards and several copy-limit violations
• Five or more sub-archetypes with 5.7 percent exact-name purity, so high brick and conflict risk
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz as the key Fusion and Synchro enabler, with a sub-archetype that has no independent recovery
• Forbidden Albion and Called by the Grave must be removed before any legal reading is possible

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 counts within size rules; Forbidden status on Albion the Branded Dragon and Called by the Grave; Copy-limit violations on Ash Blossom, Branded in High Spirits and Droll & Lock Bird; Core-group P(>=1 in opening 5) = 0.92 from the probability table
• Inferred: Consistency, brick and conflict estimates from composition and text; Going-first and going-second interaction reads from card text; Closing-power read from Extra Deck ATK values and text
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit, with no dated metagame sample
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent no win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchup or brick rates Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no side deck, so post-side performance cannot be assessed