Branded Deck #774279 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 60/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon 2500-3200 ATK bosses (Albion the Branded Dragon, Despian Proskenion, The Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Albion the Sanctifire Dragon) through Branded Fusion, Branded in High Spirits and Branded Opening; Recursive fusion loops through Fallen of White Dragon, Aluber, Blazing Cartesia and Incredible Ecclesia (Inferred from text; no recorded boards)
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon Fallen of White Dragon or Fallen of Albaz, then Branded in High Spirits / Branded Opening to fetch a Fusion enabler and build a Fusion board; hold Ash Blossom and Forbidden Crown for the first interruption
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand trap (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C, Evenly Matched) to break the opponent's starter, then Branded Retribution to punish their Special Summon and rebuild through the GY
• Recovery: Send Fallen of Albaz or Fallen of White Dragon from the hand/GY to re-enable Fusion; Super Polymerization and Branded Banishment restore a Fusion board from the GY (Inferred)
• After siding: No Side Deck in the export; Master Duel is single-game, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Fusion starter: the archetype core of 24 copies gives a hypergeometric P(at least one core card in a 5-card opener) of about 0.93, and 23 searcher-text cards push the searcher estimate to about 0.92 (Inferred). Its real strength is system-level interruption resilience: 9 hand traps, 2 Maxx C, 2 Branded Retribution, Forbidden Crown and Droplet, and 3 Ash Blossom together give about a 0.64 chance of at least one hand trap in a 6-card going-second hand (Inferred). The ceiling comes from Branded Fusion and the Albion/Titaniklad/Rindbrumm bosses, but there are no recorded boards, so the median is a text-based estimate and is scored lower than the ceiling. Dead-card risk (Pot of Sloth, Forbidden Crown, Droll, and off-archetype tech) and a 22.7 percent exact-name purity pull down consistency and efficiency. The score comes from consistency, median output and interaction on the whole system, not from Branded being a popular archetype and not from averaging individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo primary, Toolbox secondary; no blend ratio applied, Combo weights used as-is. Structural ≈ 68, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 64. Modifiers: engine conflicts / splash spread (-3); no post-side plan (-2); single-copy choke point (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers = 0.80*67.7 + 0.20*64 - 7 = 60.2

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.93 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.07 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Core Branded engine is present with 24 copies and strong searcher density
• 9 hand traps plus Maxx C and Branded Retribution give layered interruption
• Extra Deck covers multiple 2500-3200 ATK Fusion bosses
• Legal in Master Duel with no size or copy violations

Weaknesses

• Off-archetype splash and dead-card risk (Pot of Sloth, Forbidden Crown, Droll) lower consistency
• No recorded boards, so the median and ceiling are text-based estimates
• No Side Deck and no tournament data
• High pilot burden from multi-step Fusion chains

Critical choke points

• Branded Fusion (1 copy, Limited) as the main Fusion enabler
• Fallen-named access (Fallen of Albaz 1 copy, Fallen of White Dragon 2, Albion Shrouded 3) as the gate for the Albaz Dragon line

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in Master Duel: 60 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side, no violations; Restricted cards: Branded Fusion, Maxx C, Gold Sarcophagus, Bystial Magnamhut (Limited); Droll, Super Polymerization, The Fallen and The Virtuous (Semi-Limited); Archetype purity 22.7 percent and off-archetype spread from composition; Extra Deck list contains Albion Branded x2, Titaniklad, Mirrorjade, Rindbrumm, Lubellion, Alba-Lenatus, Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon, Granguignol, and others
• Observed: Guides name the deck as a Fusion-spam Branded build and mention Fallen of White Dragon as a substitute for Braindead Fusion (guide text, not measured games)
• Inferred: P(>=1 core card in 5-card opener) about 0.93 (hypergeometric proxy); Hand-trap access about 0.64 going second; Combo ceiling and median from card text only (no boards); Interaction layering and recovery routes from text
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link); Post-side plan (no Side Deck, single-game format)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN: going-first/second, matchup, game-level, brick and starter rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied usage_statistics in_this_deck flags contradict the card list for Extra Deck cards (Mirrorjade, Rindbrumm, Lubellion, Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon, Titaniklad, Albion Branded all listed in the cards array but flagged in_this_deck false); missing_core and core_present_pct (60) are unreliable and were not used, the cards array was trusted No Side Deck in the export