Notes & Combos

Just did a 1 week climb from gold (been on ranked hiatus since May) to master 1 playing branded for the first time in ranked (the deck is so expensive couldn't make it the way I wanted to until recently).

The list is mostly based on Abohmod and I learned most of the combo lines from his videos. He is just the best branded player I see in masterduel, but maybe copying him is not the best idea because his brain is too huge so he doesn't need/run as many blowout cards (more evenly/harpie/nib/handtraps etc) whereas the plebs might need those to win some games going 2nd.

I feel like this deck more often than not have some way to win if you can spot the lines, unlike the handtrap war meta decks where what they would do is fairly obvious and it often comes down to whether you stop/get stopped with negates/handtraps/non-engine. The biggest problem though is probably figuring out the lines while managing the timer. That part is the actual hardest thing about this deck that I have no similar problem with for anything other deck tbh.

There are a lot of cards that could be swapped around and I think it just depends on what you are seeing. Some one ofs are also to provide more coverage for cross out/thrust. Ghost Ogre is probably bad and it might be better to just switch to veiler/harpie/another branded lost (I couldn't put 3 lost because I'm poor but Abo did)

For extra deck Dragostapelia could be mud dragon or Yubel Loving Defender if you want to cheese them.

I also think that for branded the small adjustments to this list probably don't matter nearly as much as the skill of the player since this deck is so complicate with very high ceiling so just get good at the combos and matchups, get faster with all the decision making, and watch some Abohmod videos on youtube. Cheers.