Branded Deck #774053 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Stun
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon a Fallen of Albaz-linked boss (Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Secreterion Dragon, Mixousia) through the Branded Fusion / Fallen of Albaz engine; Synchro boss (Three Champions of Swordsoul, Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon) after Blazing Cartesia / Incredible Ecclesia tuner setups
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Fallen of Albaz or Branded Opening access, summon Fallen of the White Dragon or Fallen of Albaz, then Fusion Summon a 3000 ATK boss; Ash Blossom and Droll protect the line
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre and Nibiru as hand traps against the opponent's first summon, then rebuild through Dogmatika Ecclesia and Guiding Quem searches
• Recovery: Recursion from GY via Aluber, Fallen of the White Dragon and Blazing Cartesia; Mulcharmy Fuwalos refills the hand when the field is empty
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so no post-side plan can be evaluated

Why it scores here

The deck's Branded and Fallen of Albaz core is unusually dense: 25 archetype-core copies give about a 96% chance of at least one in the opening five (Inferred), so the engine is usually accessible on turn one. The Extra Deck (13 Fusion, 2 Synchro) supplies several 2500-3000 ATK bosses, and the deck has enough hand traps and negation text (10 hand traps, 11 negation-text cards) to contest a turn-one line. Score is pulled down by the list's construction rather than its power: 39 generic cards and only 9.9% exact-name purity dilute the engine, the list is Illegal at three copy-limit violations, and there is no side deck and no combo or tournament data to confirm the median output. The score comes from consistency, closing power and interaction read on the deck as a system; neither the popularity of the Branded archetype nor an average of card scores contributed to it.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); no Side Deck (-4). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(57) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) + Modifiers(-12) = 43, then capped at 35 because the list is Illegal (theoretical/structural-only); Meta Power provisional

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.96 · 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 archetype core gives near-certain access to the engine in the opening five
• Heavy hand-trap and negation package (10 hand traps, 11 negation-text cards) for interruption
• Extra Deck supplies several 2500-3000 ATK boss options with recursion

Weaknesses

• Three copy-limit violations make the list Illegal
• No side deck, so no post-game adaptation
• Low exact-name purity (9.9%) and 39 generic cards dilute engine coherence
• Single-copy starters (Fallen of Albaz, Branded Fusion) create choke points

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz (1 copy) and Branded Fusion (1 copy) are the single-point starters for the Fusion route
• Branded Opening and Branded in High Spirits are Limited to one copy and gate the Despia search line

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 56, Extra 15, Side 0 are within the format size rules; Ash Blossom, The Fallen & The Virtuous and Super Polymerization exceed their Semi-Limited copy limit (legal 2, run 3); Limited cards Branded Fusion, Branded Opening, Branded in High Spirits, Droll & Lock Bird and Gold Sarcophagus run at their legal 1 copy
• Observed: Archetype usage stats show 25 core cards with a 96% inclusion rate across the sampled decks (usage statistics)
• Inferred: Opening-hand access to the engine ≈ 0.96 (hypergeometric); Going-first and going-second scores from text and probability, not from boards; Interaction and resilience read from card text tags
• Provisional: Meta Power is null: no dated metagame sample supplied; Matchup and format-fit scores (D13) are provisional
• 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 (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) No side deck registered, so post-side performance cannot be assessed Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied