Notes & Combos

Back on a difficult deck after playing floo. Branded is a weird deck, I had a bunch of +4 winning and losing streaks. The deck does not consistently put enough disruptions on the board to stop decks in this meta. R-Ace and Fire King are insane and have a lot of follow-ups if you remove a couple of their monsters. That is why I played this deck the cringe way, trying to lock with Gimmick Puppet and sometimes Ra's disciple (can be sent from the deck to make Albion, its lock works great against every deck except Fire King if they have access to the field spell). Superpoly is still an insane card even in a less favorable meta. I always thought Masquerade was a gimmick, but he puts serious pressure on the opponent and can close out games in spots, but more importantly it is there because it requires a despia as a material and that helps in many situations (Quaeritis is better, but I did not want to craft it).

I mentioned that the deck does not have enough disrputions for this current meta and that is true unless you have Quem on the board + Albaz in the GY added to your standard board. That changes a lot but unfortunately there is no hyper consistent way to add Quem or Cartesia to your end board because the deck already has an extremely important normal summon in Alubar or Kitt.

Fun deck but a difficult climb.