Branded Deck #774224 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 51/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Albaz-family and Dracotail bosses (Albion the Sanctifire Dragon, Arthalion, Mirrorjade, Gulamel at 2800 to 3000 ATK) and convert the board into direct pressure; Hand-trap-supported disruption that keeps the opponent from establishing a board while the Fusion line resolves
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on Fallen of the White Dragon, Branded in High Spirits, Ketu Dracotail or Dracotail Mululu to reach a Fusion Summon, then chain Albaz-material fusions into a 3000 ATK boss; keep Ash Blossom, Droll and Maxx C for the opponent's turn where possible
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll and Lock Bird, Maxx C) against the opponent's first summon or engine, then rebuild through Fallen of the White Dragon and Dracotail Mululu into Fusion bosses
• Recovery: Recycle Dracotail cards from the Graveyard through Dracotail Lukias, Dracotail Phryxul and Dracotail Urgula, and the Dracotail Flame, Horn and Sting spells that place a GY Dracotail on the bottom of the Deck and draw
• After siding: None. The deck runs 0 side cards, so there is no post-side plan to evaluate

Why it scores here

The score comes from how the 40-card system behaves, not from averaging its cards. Eleven starter copies (Fallen of the White Dragon, Branded in High Spirits, Ketu Dracotail, Dracotail Mululu, Dracotail Faimena) give an estimated 82% chance of at least one starter in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred), and the Fusion Extra Deck of 13 Fusion monsters supplies many 2800 to 3000 ATK bosses, which lifts the ceiling and closing scores. Six hand traps give about a 65% chance of at least one in a 6-card going-second hand (Inferred), and the Dracotail recursion loop helps the deck recover after disruption. Against that, there are no recorded boards, so the median output is unmeasured and rests on text reads; the single copy of Fallen of Albaz is a choke point; six Mulcharmy copies are dead-card tax that conflicts with a card-filled hand; and the deck runs no side deck, which removes any post-side plan. Popularity and usage stats only confirm that the list is real and played; they did not add points, and no Meta Power is assigned because no dated metagame sample exists.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 63, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-2); Single-copy engine choke point (-2); No side deck (-3); Engine conflict (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; Structural uses the Combo profile with D13 dropped and renormalized over 97 weight points: 6107/97 ≈ 62.96 → 63; 0.80*62.96 + 0.20*50 - 9 ≈ 51.4 → 51)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.82 · 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

• Eleven starter copies across five cards give a high chance of a live starter in the opening hand
• Fusion Extra Deck of 13 monsters provides multiple 3000 ATK bosses with overlapping material routes
• Six hand traps give meaningful going-second disruption
• Dracotail recursion gives recovery after the opponent interrupts

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so no post-side plan
• Single copy of Fallen of Albaz is a choke point for the Albaz material route
• Six Mulcharmy no-cards copies are dead-card risk and conflict with card-filled hands
• No recorded boards, so the median output is unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz (1 copy) as the Albaz material enabler
• Branded Fusion (1 copy, Limited) as the Fusion access card

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in master-duel with 40 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side; Restricted copies within legal limits (Limited and Semi-Limited); Extra Deck composition 13 Fusion, 1 Link, 1 Synchro; ATK values of Fusion bosses (2400 to 3000); Usage stats show the Branded core is played in the archetype
• Inferred: P(at least one starter) ≈ 0.82 going first and ≈ 0.88 going second; P(at least one hand trap in 6 cards) ≈ 0.65; Ceiling read from card text and the Albaz boss chain; Interaction density from text flags; Pilotability burden from summon restrictions
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit (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 pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN for this deck Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Data conflict: usage statistics marks Rindbrumm, Mirrorjade, Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon, Lubellion, Alba-Lenatus and The Dragon that Devours the Dogma as not in this deck, but the cards array lists all of them in the Extra Deck; the Extra Deck list was used as the source of truth No side deck exists, so post-side behavior cannot be assessed