Branded Deck #774369 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 64/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fallen of Albaz-engine Fusion/Synchro boss beats (Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Albion the Sanctifire Dragon, Borreload Furious Dragon) converting the Fallen-name starter chain into 2500-3000 ATK bosses; Multi-attack and boss-stacking pressure from Alba-Lenatus, Lubellion and Titaniklad once a Fusion line is online
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Fallen-name starter (Fallen of Albaz, Fallen of the White Dragon, Albion the Shrouded Dragon) or Branded Opening/Branded in High Spirits, search or send to reach Branded Fusion or Super Polymerization, and fuse into a Level 8 boss while holding Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre or Droll for the opponent's first chain
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, Droll & Lock Bird and Branded Retribution to break the opponent's first board or Special Summon, then rebuild through a Fallen-name starter and a Fusion boss from the GY or Extra Deck
• Recovery: Fusion monsters and Albion the Shrouded Dragon recur from the GY, Branded Retribution returns Fusion monsters to the Extra Deck, and 17 searcher-text cards refill the hand
• After siding: Not applicable: Master Duel has no sideboard and Side Deck size is 0

Why it scores here

The deck scores on how the system behaves, not on its card average. Its Fallen-name starters (Fallen of Albaz, Fallen of the White Dragon, Albion the Shrouded Dragon, plus Fallen & The Virtuous) give roughly a 43% chance of at least one going-first and about 49% going-second, which is the main consistency limit, while 17 searcher-text cards and recursive Fusion lines lift the chance of a playable hand. Conversion is strong: a Level 8 Fusion boss at 2500-3000 ATK with multi-attack or ATK-shift text closes out boards, and the deck has no recorded boards so that ceiling is an Inferred read from text. Interaction is layered across 8 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Droll) plus negation and removal text on Branded Retribution and The Golden Swordsoul, which earns resilience and going-second strength. Popularity and the 100% core-inclusion usage stat confirm the list is real and accessible but did not add points by themselves, and there is no sideboard, no tournament record, and no dated meta sample, so Meta Power stays provisional.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 67.2, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 68, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-1); engine conflicts (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional, no dated metagame sample)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.43 · 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

• Layered hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Droll) plus Branded Retribution give interaction on both turns
• High boss ceiling: 3000-ATK Fusion bosses and multi-attack Alba-Lenatus close boards
• Recursion through the GY (Albion the Shrouded Dragon, Branded Retribution) and 17 searcher-text cards support a grind
• Core cards are at 100% inclusion in the archetype usage stats, so the list is an accessible standard build

Weaknesses

• Fallen-name starter density is about 43% going-first, which leaves a real brick rate
• Three archetype families in one engine add conflicts and reduce purity
• Only one Branded Fusion, a Limited card, so the starter line has no redundancy
• No sideboard, so post-side adaptation is not available

Critical choke points

• Branded Fusion (1 copy) or Super Polymerization as the Fusion enabler
• The Fallen-name starter, which is needed for almost every boss line
• Negation-based interaction that depends on hand traps being in hand at the right moment

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal under master-duel size rules (40 main, 15 extra, 0 side) and copy limits; Limited/Semi-Limited copy counts match legal copies; Core inclusion 100% for Fallen of Albaz, Branded Fusion and Mirrorjade in archetype stats; Card text for Fallen-name starters, hand traps and Fusion bosses
• Observed: Archetype usage stats: 14 of 25 core cards present in this list
• Inferred: Fallen-name starter probability about 0.43 going-first and 0.49 going-second; Brick and recovery rates from text and probabilities; Going-first and going-second power estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link or matchup data); Median output (no combo data)
• 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/starter/OTK rates) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied deck title is null in the export; deck identified by id and archetype only Master Duel has no sideboard in this export (Side Deck size 0), so D12 has no post-side performance evidence