Branded Deck #774362 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 62/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Fallen of Albaz-linked boss monsters (The Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Albion the Branded Dragon, Mirrorjade, Rindbrumm, Titaniklad) off Branded Fusion, Fallen of Albaz and the Fallen of the White Dragon line, then attack through or banish the board; Hand-trap and negate-based interaction (Ash Blossom, Droll and Lock Bird, Maxx C, Branded Retribution, Mirrorjade) to protect the boss and deny the opponent's answers
• Turn 1 (going first): Search Fallen of Albaz or Branded in High Spirits, use Fallen of the White Dragon or Branded Fusion to reach a Fusion Monster, and finish with a boss that gains a field-control effect
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll and Lock Bird, Maxx C and Branded Retribution to stop the opponent's first summon, then rebuild through the Dogmatika and Despia monsters in the GY and Extra Deck
• Recovery: Recur Fallen of Albaz, Blazing Cartesia and Incredible Ecclesia from the GY through their GY effects, and re-fuse from the remaining Extra Deck bosses
• After siding: No side deck in Master Duel; the plan is fixed for the match and relies on main-deck hand traps and negates

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens its engine: the archetype-core proxy gives about 99.5 percent at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand, and 17 searcher-text cards (Branded in High Spirits, Fallen of Albaz, Dogmatika Ecclesia, Blazing Cartesia) keep a functional starter in reach on most turns. Its conversion ceiling is high because one Branded Fusion or Fallen of White Dragon line can reach several 3000-ATK bosses with negate and destruction text, but the median output is not measured: the combos evidence is empty, so the floor is an inference from card text only. Interaction is layered across six hand traps and several GY-activated negates, which earns credit for going second (about 65 percent to hold at least one hand trap in a 6-card opening). Points are deducted for a mixed multi-archetype build (exact archetype purity 18.2 percent across Despia, Dogmatika, Swordsoul, Ecclesia, Predaplant and Tri-Brigade support), for single-copy off-archetype tech that can brick, and for a Limited-status single copy of Branded Fusion and Maxx C. The score was built from consistency, median output and interaction on the system, not from Branded's popularity and not from averaging individual card scores; no meta sample exists, so Meta Power is provisional.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 68, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 62. Modifiers: Off-archetype dilution (-3); Banlist exposure (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional/null)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.95 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.01 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense searcher and starter text gives high access to the engine on turn 1 and turn 2
• Layered interaction: six hand traps and several GY-activated negates protect the boss
• Multiple 3000-ATK closing bosses with recursion after removal

Weaknesses

• Low archetype purity (18.2 percent) lets off-archetype support and tech cards dilute the engine
• Single-copy tech (Gold Sarcophagus, Droll, Maxx C, Forbidden Droplet) adds dead-card risk
• Fusion chains require several steps and optional GY triggers, which is hard to pilot consistently

Critical choke points

• Branded Fusion (1 copy, Limited) is the main route to Albion and Devours bosses; losing it removes the cleanest fusion line
• Fallen of Albaz and Fallen of the White Dragon are the central link in every route; heavy hand-trap or Ash Blossom responses can cut it

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in master-duel: 40 main, 15 extra, 0 side; all 7 restricted cards within legal copy limits; Usage stats show Fallen of Albaz, Branded Fusion and The Fallen and The Virtuous at 100 percent inclusion among Branded lists
• Inferred: Starter access ~0.95 to 0.995 from hypergeometric proxies; Interaction density and negate coverage from card text; Going-second hand-trap coverage ~65 percent
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit (no tournament link or win-rate data)
• 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 no win-rate telemetry; going-first, going-second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample usage_statistics in_this_deck flags contradict the cards list for 9 Extra Deck cards (Mirrorjade, Rindbrumm, Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon, Lubellion, Alba-Lenatus, Titaniklad, Albion the Branded Dragon, Granguignol, Three Champions); the cards list was trusted, so core coverage is understated in usage_statistics deck title is null; archetype label taken from the deck record