Branded Deck #774329 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 59/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Albion the Sanctifire Dragon or The Dragon that Devours the Dogma (3000 ATK boss) off Branded in High Spirits, Branded Fusion and Fallen of Albaz chains; Synchro and fusion board pressure through Chaos Archfiend, Golden Cloud Beast - Malong and Granguignol, with Branded Retribution and Ash Blossom as interaction
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Branded in High Spirits or Nadir Servant to search Fallen of Albaz or a Dogmatika/Branded monster, then chain Fallen of Albaz into a Fusion Summon of a Level 8 boss while Ash Blossom or Droll and Lock Bird holds up interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Nibiru, Maxx C, Droll and Lock Bird) on the opponent's first engine activation, then rebuild through Fallen of Albaz and Branded Fusion from the GY and Deck
• Recovery: Recur Fallen of Albaz and Fusion Monsters from the GY through Blazing Cartesia, Guiding Quem and Branded in High Spirits; the archetype core is 20 copies so most hands contain a starter
• After siding: No side deck in Master Duel (single game, side count 0); post-side planning does not apply

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a connected Fusion-Combo system: the 20-copy Branded/Dogmatika/Despia core and three copies of Branded in High Spirits and Nadir Servant give a high chance of a live starter in the opening hand (about 0.98 for at least one archetype-core card in hand of 5, Inferred), and Fallen of Albaz plus Blazing Cartesia and Guiding Quem provide recursion when the first line is stopped. Interaction is dense for Master Duel (Ash Blossom x3, Droll and Lock Bird x2, Nibiru, Maxx C, Branded Retribution, Dominus Spark), so the deck can continue through a single hand trap or negate, which carries most of the resilience score. The ceiling is a 3000-ATK boss plus a Branded Fusion chain, but there are no recorded boards to confirm a median output, so floor and median stay near the midpoint. Popularity and archetype usage confirm the list is real and accessible but did not earn points on their own, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score. The lack of a side deck and of any dated meta sample holds Meta Power provisional and pulls the side and matchup dimensions down.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 61, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: unrecoverable choke point (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers = 0.80*61.3 + 0.20*58 - 2 = 58.6, rounded to 59

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.98 · 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 (20 copies) gives a live starter in most hands
• Eight hand traps plus negates and recursion give interruption resilience
• Multiple 3000-ATK Level 8 Fusion bosses give closing power

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so no post-side plan
• No recorded boards, so the floor and median are unverified
• Single-copy Fallen of Albaz is a choke point for the main fusion lines

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz (1 copy) is needed for most Branded Fusion lines
• Branded Fusion (Limited, 1 copy) is the main way to reach the Level 8 bosses

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 40, Extra 15, Side 0 is within Master Duel size rules; Legal copy limits met for Limited and Semi-Limited cards; Core cards and copy counts from the usage statistics and deck list; Archetype purity of 16.4 percent from the deck list
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter probability of 0.976 for the archetype core; Recovery and interaction estimates from card text; Going-first and going-second power values
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta share and per-pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first/second, matchup or brick rates Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied