Branded Deck #774334 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 58/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon a 2500-3200 ATK Extra Deck boss (Albion the Branded Dragon x2, Albion the Sanctifire Dragon, Despian Proskenion, Mirrorjade) using 'Fallen of Albaz' named materials; Alternate bosses from the Extra Deck (Titaniklad, Lubellion, The Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Granguignol) when the primary fusion line is answered
• Turn 1 (going first): Inferred from card text: Branded in High Spirits, Branded Opening or Nadir Servant to reach a Fallen of Albaz or Fallen of the White Dragon, then Fusion Summon a boss; Ash Blossom, Droll and Evenly Matched cover the first interaction window
• Turn 2 (going second): Inferred from card text: hold Ash Blossom, Maxx C and Droll to answer the opponent's starter, then Fusion Summon through Branded Fusion or a Fallen-named monster
• Recovery: Fallen-named monsters and Branded Spell/Traps recur from the Deck or GY (Aluber, Branded Retribution, Branded Lost, Albion the Shrouded Dragon GY effect), per card text only
• After siding: None: the deck runs 0 side cards

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Branded engine: at least one core Branded or Fallen-named card is in a 5-card opening hand about 93% of the time (proxy), and at least one searcher about 92%, so the consistency score is driven by the system rather than by any single card. It converts that engine into 2500-3200 ATK fusion bosses from a 15-card Extra Deck, and nine hand traps plus 16 negation-text cards give it a real interaction layer, so D7 and D9 are high. The score is held back by the absence of recorded boards (floor, median and ceiling are text inference only), by a 22.7% exact-archetype purity spread over about 14 sub-archetypes, and by running no side deck at all, which leaves D12 near the floor. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged; the structural score was built from the Combo weight profile with D13 dropped (no dated meta), then blended 0.80/0.20 with an estimated tournament reliability and reduced by -4 of context modifiers.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 65, Going First ≈ 68, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-1); engine dilution (-2); no post-side plan (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional, D13 dropped from Structural and renormalized: 6276/97 = 64.7 -> 65; 0.80*65 + 0.20*52 = 62.4; -4 modifiers = 58)

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

• Legal in Master Duel: 60 main and 15 extra within size rules, and all 8 restricted cards run at their legal limit
• Core Branded and Fallen-named line is fully present, including Branded Fusion, Fallen of Albaz, 2 Fallen of the White Dragon and 3 Branded in High Spirits
• High searcher density (about 92% for at least one in 5 cards) keeps the engine accessible
• Nine hand traps and 16 negation-text cards give layered interaction
• Extra Deck offers several 2500-3200 ATK bosses with different fusion routes

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so there is no post-side plan and D12 is at the floor
• Low exact-archetype purity (22.7%) and about 14 sub-archetypes dilute the engine
• No recorded boards, so floor, median and ceiling are text inference only
• Several 1-copy restricted or key cards (Branded Fusion, Fallen of Albaz) make single points of failure

Critical choke points

• Branded Fusion (1 copy, Limited) is the main fusion-access card
• Fallen of Albaz (1 copy) is the named-material hub, backed only by Fallen of the White Dragon x2 and Blazing Cartesia
• Second-turn interaction depends on hand traps, which are dead without an opponent action

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 60 main, 15 extra, 0 side; no violations; all 8 restricted cards within legal copies (BanMasterDuel); Card text and stats for all listed cards from the export; Archetype usage stats: 35 rows, core present 15 of 25 by the export (see data gap on Extra Deck flags); Composition counts: type, attribute, copy histogram and archetype purity 22.7%
• Inferred: Consistency estimates from hypergeometric probabilities (at least one core card 0.93, at least one searcher 0.92, proxy brick 0.069); Ceiling and interaction ratings from card text, since no boards were recorded; Going-first and going-second plans from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power is null: no dated metagame sample; D13 matchup and format fit is 50 by neutral default and excluded from Structural; Tournament Reliability estimate of 52 from D1, D2, D5, D6, D12 and D14
• 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 absent usage_statistics in_this_deck is false for every Extra Deck card (for example Rindbrumm, Mirrorjade, Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon, Titaniklad), although the card list contains them; core_present_pct of 60% therefore understates coverage and was not used as a score input no win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick or starter rates) no side deck, so no post-side evidence Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied