Branded Deck #774151 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion/Synchro boss summons (Fallen of Albaz-based Fusions such as Mirrorjade or Titaniklad, plus Synchro bosses) built off the Branded/Fallen of Albaz starter package; Light and Darkness Ritual boss (Black Chaos, Black Luster Soldier) and Ecclesia/Dogmatika extenders
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Fallen of Albaz or Nadir Servant starter, search through Branded/Fallen support, and extend into a Fusion or Synchro boss; Ash Blossom protects the line from one interruption.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, Droll & Lock Bird, or Nibiru to disrupt the opponent, then rebuild the Fallen line from the Deck or GY.
• Recovery: Recover from GY through Fallen of the White Dragon, Dogmatika Ecclesia, and Crimson Call, then re-summon an extender to rebuild the board.
• After siding: No side deck is listed, so there is no post-side plan; the deck cannot adapt between games in its current export.

Why it scores here

The deck's Branded core is well represented (about 93% chance of at least one archetype core card in a 5-card opening hand, Inferred), and the list runs 8 Fusion and 7 Synchro monsters that give it real boss density, so the structural read is moderate rather than weak. Its interaction package (Ash Blossom x3, Ghost Ogre, Droll, Nibiru, and removal text on about 17 cards) lifts the going-second and end-board scores. The score is held down by three things: the list is illegal on copy limits (3 copies each of Ash Blossom, The Fallen & The Virtuous, and Super Polymerization against a limit of 2), it has no side deck, and it has no combo, tournament, or win-rate data, so the floor and median are unmeasured. Popularity of the Branded archetype and the card-level scores were not averaged or used to raise the result. The final score is capped at 30 because the list is illegal, so the value is theoretical and structural only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 56, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: copy-limit violations (-12); no side deck (0). Final formula: Illegal list: theoretical/structural only. Unclamped 0.80*Structural(56) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) = 53.8, with modifiers -12 applied, then capped at 30 for copy-limit violations. Meta Power is provisional (null).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.93 · 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

• Large Fusion and Synchro boss pool with 3000 ATK options
• Strong interaction density: 8 hand traps and 17 removal-text cards
• Redundant starters, with 3 copies each of Nadir Servant and Fallen of the White Dragon-style lines

Weaknesses

• Illegal on copy limits (3 copies of three Semi-Limited cards)
• No side deck
• Core Fusion bosses (Mirrorjade, Titaniklad, Rindbrumm) absent from the list
• Low exact-archetype purity (5.7%)

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz is the single gate to most Fusion lines; with 1 copy, the list can lose its boss route
• The 3-copy Semi-Limited cards would be rejected by the format in any event

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal copy-limit violations: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring, The Fallen & The Virtuous, Super Polymerization (3 copies vs limit 2); Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0 (within size rules, side empty); Extra Deck: 8 Fusion, 7 Synchro; Usage stats: 62% of core cards present
• Inferred: P(at least 1 archetype core card in opening 5) ~ 0.93; Interaction density from hand-trap and removal text; Going-second disruption value of Ash Blossom and hand traps; Boss ATK ceiling from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit (no tournament data)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied; floor, median, and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link; archetype meta share and per-pilot record absent no win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) Meta Power provisional without a dated metagame sample no side deck listed deck title is null