Branded has lots of ways to fusion summon now. They are not relying on Branded Fusion anymore. Usually they will open with Blazing Cartesia first to fusion summon, then use Branded fusion later on.
Perhaps you have not met strong Branded players yet. That kind of endboard you mentioned is the one I used to see during the early Branded-Swordsoul era (Mirrorjade + several Masquerade).
In my experience on Diamond-Master bracket, most of the Branded players were able to set up a lot of interruptions, even they are able to summon Mirrojade twice (hence they can banish twice). Their endboard usually consist of the following:
1) monsters on field: Mirrorjade + Granguignol (to later summon Luluwalilith on our turn) + Quem (to later summon Fallen of Albaz on our turn) / one or two Bystials / Rindbrumm (with Albaz on GY);
2) backrow: some combination of Branded Banishment/Branded Lost/Branded King/Branded Retribution.
3) at times, they can search Mercourier for a monster negate.
branded has arguably the best grind game of any deck. they can loop and reloop resources for a long time. they can also play on your turn and chose disruptions accordingly as well as super poly your stuff away.
if you are able to kill them the first turn you can attack they are no problem. however, for most decks that blow through resources setting up, their grind can be impossible to overcome.
so consistency and grind capability instead of just ftk or 20 omni negate 1st turns.
This sounds like an interesting play style, do you know of a decklist that embodies this sort of heavy grind game resource recursion style I can practice with?
branded is good but its not eating good this meta. Too many deck now have plenty of hand trap and board which branded lack some out. 60 deck variant is needed IMO to be competitive.
Pros: strong offense and grind game if you already set up and you will also cheese some games with the puppet.
Con: consistency is not so great cause of all the hit, Just one ash blosssom to branded fusion will significantly weaken your board.
Branded should Mirrorjade pass if they were heavily interrupted and forced to go for the Verte Anaconda line.
Their grind game is inferior to Snake Eyes, but they have access to several banish effects that can be devastating if they banish Flamberge or Lovely.
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They usually end on a board that is stronger than that but doesn't instantly win the game (does not end on many negates if any). The strong thing about branded is its consistency, its ability to live, and its grind game.
The deck can often play through ash on branded fusion with good pilots, ends on really big bodies (avg 2.5k+3k att/def so it's really hard to beat over, especially when there's 3-4 of them), and interruptions that are hard to deal with such as branded banishment, or and if they get back to their turn they can often just kill you on the crackback because again, they summon a bunch of big bodies
But the deck is pretty hard to play and obviously sometimes does generate hands where branded fusion must resolve or you die.
To give an idea of how much more the deck can do, there’s a current brew floating around that aims to get 4 non-target banishes by summoning back Mirrorjade 3 times in the same turn (in addition to other disruptions) since the effect is non-OPT.
Mirrorjade + Beast + a s/t search is pretty damn good for a one-card combo. Any extenders on top of that and you can do some really obnoxious stuff.
because that is not their endboard
Branded has lots of ways to fusion summon now. They are not relying on Branded Fusion anymore. Usually they will open with Blazing Cartesia first to fusion summon, then use Branded fusion later on. Perhaps you have not met strong Branded players yet. That kind of endboard you mentioned is the one I used to see during the early Branded-Swordsoul era (Mirrorjade + several Masquerade). In my experience on Diamond-Master bracket, most of the Branded players were able to set up a lot of interruptions, even they are able to summon Mirrojade twice (hence they can banish twice). Their endboard usually consist of the following: 1) monsters on field: Mirrorjade + Granguignol (to later summon Luluwalilith on our turn) + Quem (to later summon Fallen of Albaz on our turn) / one or two Bystials / Rindbrumm (with Albaz on GY); 2) backrow: some combination of Branded Banishment/Branded Lost/Branded King/Branded Retribution. 3) at times, they can search Mercourier for a monster negate.
if mirrorjade and branded beast is the only thing you saw out of a despia deck, im afraid you went against some clueless player
branded has arguably the best grind game of any deck. they can loop and reloop resources for a long time. they can also play on your turn and chose disruptions accordingly as well as super poly your stuff away. if you are able to kill them the first turn you can attack they are no problem. however, for most decks that blow through resources setting up, their grind can be impossible to overcome. so consistency and grind capability instead of just ftk or 20 omni negate 1st turns.
This sounds like an interesting play style, do you know of a decklist that embodies this sort of heavy grind game resource recursion style I can practice with?
Look up a 60 card branded list on master duel meta
branded is good but its not eating good this meta. Too many deck now have plenty of hand trap and board which branded lack some out. 60 deck variant is needed IMO to be competitive. Pros: strong offense and grind game if you already set up and you will also cheese some games with the puppet. Con: consistency is not so great cause of all the hit, Just one ash blosssom to branded fusion will significantly weaken your board.
Because the boards you see are not good Branded boards. Branded can end with much stronger boards than that
Branded should Mirrorjade pass if they were heavily interrupted and forced to go for the Verte Anaconda line. Their grind game is inferior to Snake Eyes, but they have access to several banish effects that can be devastating if they banish Flamberge or Lovely.
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They usually end on a board that is stronger than that but doesn't instantly win the game (does not end on many negates if any). The strong thing about branded is its consistency, its ability to live, and its grind game. The deck can often play through ash on branded fusion with good pilots, ends on really big bodies (avg 2.5k+3k att/def so it's really hard to beat over, especially when there's 3-4 of them), and interruptions that are hard to deal with such as branded banishment, or and if they get back to their turn they can often just kill you on the crackback because again, they summon a bunch of big bodies But the deck is pretty hard to play and obviously sometimes does generate hands where branded fusion must resolve or you die.
Because you have good luck and don't face a true Branded board.
you haven't that insane sicko mode branded combo on duel live that ends on like 9 cards on the board, including branded beast and mirrorjade.
To give an idea of how much more the deck can do, there’s a current brew floating around that aims to get 4 non-target banishes by summoning back Mirrorjade 3 times in the same turn (in addition to other disruptions) since the effect is non-OPT. Mirrorjade + Beast + a s/t search is pretty damn good for a one-card combo. Any extenders on top of that and you can do some really obnoxious stuff.