Notes & Combos

Branded Never Dies

With the newest wave of support Branded is definitely top tier. I believe I won 23/26 duels and the only reasons I lost 3 were a connection error, forgetting to trigger the go 2nd effect of the skill and 1 due to misplaying.

Strengths:

• turn 0 plays thanks to Bystials
• strong survivability
• customizable endboards
• layered interaction

"Weaknesses":

• worse against non light/dark/dragon decks
• Cartesia getting negated turn 1 makes your board much weaker

Spicy combo:

• Skill for Cartesia, Saronir/Magnam and Lubellion
• Lubellion add Saronir/Magnam
• Special Cartesia
• Summon Magnam, into Lubellion for Branded Lost
• Fuse to make Granguignol using Saronir
• Send Albion (Branded Fusion) and Saronir send Retribution
• Add Fusion
• Fusion into Albion using Ogdoabyss (add Mercourier using lost)
• Albion into Lubellion into Mirrorjade
• Ogdoabyss tribute the useless bodies (everything except Mirrorjade)
• During EP: Set Branded Banishment (I like it to rev my Jade after Ogdoabyss)

Closing thoughts:

Pretty strong deck with both versions having pros and cons, but I prefer the Fusion variant over the Synchro slop, because I just can't see Crimson, Quasar and Auxilla anymore. I would probably cut Super Poly and play maybe a Dragoon package as there isn't much to extend here. Shout-out to my boy Ogdoabyss for being the GOAT, as I was really surprised by its performance...