New branded trap can lock you out of summoning

[Hexi]

Using the new branded trap card, you can now completely lock your opponent out of summoning. You can summon Ido the Supreme Magical Force branded explosion to your opponents side of the field preventing them from summoning any monsters.

You can do this off of a single aluber or with branded fusion + any monster.
Normal summon aluber, search branded fusion, summon lubellion sending ido and albaz, activate lubellion summon mirrorjade, activate mirrorjade send albion to banish your monster, end step albion set explosion. During your opponent's draw phase, activate explosion and summon aluber to your field and ido to your opponents.

To counter this strat, use any normal means to stop branded fusion/aluber, if you get ido on your side of the field use forbidden droplet or something like dark hole to get rid of it.

https://www.masterduelmeta.com/articles/news/november-2022/expulsion

[ChaosBahamut]

Anyone who whined about Floo + Barrier Statue and uses this strat is a hypocritical c&@#.

End of story.

[Knud den Store 🧙‍♂]

You heard him lads, time to side in Creature Swap.

[【𝙎𝙥𝙚𝙠】🧉]

Set rotation but with monsters

[aben WHY (VC Off)]

Black hole is such a good punish for this card, your opponent will suffer the consequence of their action because this card reborn itself.

[Orochi Samurai]

As I said on another thread, the Branded Expulsion line is an extremely weak one, for a lot of reasons.

[【𝙎𝙥𝙚𝙠】🧉]

Originally posted by aben WHY (VC Off):

Black hole is such a good punish for this card, your opponent will suffer the consequence of their action because this card reborn itself.

Branded Opening: Suffer what?

[【𝙎𝙥𝙚𝙠】🧉]

Originally posted by gameing:

Originally posted by 【𝙎𝙥𝙚𝙠】🎄:

Branded Opening: Suffer what?

branded opening only protects fusion monsters.

No ♥♥♥♥ sherlock

[aben WHY (VC Off)]

Originally posted by 【𝙎𝙥𝙚𝙠】🎄:

Originally posted by aben WHY (VC Off):

Black hole is such a good punish for this card, your opponent will suffer the consequence of their action because this card reborn itself.

Branded Opening: Suffer what?

They'll need 2 opening for this tho. One for black hole, one for Ido's effect to self raigaki when it's special summon back to their board on their turn.

[Roleplayer]

1 Floodgate banned, a new 1 comes in but even worse cause Branded is a meta deck so it'll be everywhere.

[Cinnamoon_dragon]

What makes this new card worse than the Barrier Statue is that it is summoned to your side of the field. So you can't get rid of it with a Kaiju or a removal spell. I have no doubt it will be illegal in the next patch. But the truth is, even without that, you lose most of the time when you go second and didn’t draw hand traps, just another deck that makes fieldlock a little better than others.

[Orochi Samurai]

Ghost Mourner, Ghost Belle, Called By the Grave, D.D. Crow, Forbidden Droplets, Forbidden Chalice.

All of the above cards prevent this play entirely.

[HeraldOfOpera]

Originally posted by Orochi Samurai:

Ghost Mourner, Ghost Belle, Called By the Grave, D.D. Crow, Forbidden Droplets, Forbidden Chalice.

All of the above cards prevent this play entirely.

And of course any deck that can run Dimension Shifter can also use that. Heck, if they have anything at or above 2200 ATK in Attack Position you can just crash Ido and make your plays in Main Phase 2. Bonus points if you add Evenly Matched to this play.

[MancakeBR]

Originally posted by HeraldOfOpera:

Originally posted by Orochi Samurai:

Ghost Mourner, Ghost Belle, Called By the Grave, D.D. Crow, Forbidden Droplets, Forbidden Chalice.

All of the above cards prevent this play entirely.

And of course any deck that can run Dimension Shifter can also use that. Heck, if they have anything at or above 2200 ATK in Attack Position you can just crash Ido and make your plays in Main Phase 2. Bonus points if you add Evenly Matched to this play.

Not even close.

Branded Expulsion CAN Special Summon Ido while it is Banished to the opponent's field.

Because it is a trap you're not crashing Ido as your opponent will play it in defense position onto your field, which also makes your Evenly Matched useless.

[Darigaaz]

https://www.masterduelmeta.com/cards/Gimmick%20Puppet%20Nightmare
Far better then Ido. Cant be punished and cant be removed the effect till end of turn

[Orochi Samurai]

Originally posted by MancakeBR:

Originally posted by HeraldOfOpera:

And of course any deck that can run Dimension Shifter can also use that. Heck, if they have anything at or above 2200 ATK in Attack Position you can just crash Ido and make your plays in Main Phase 2. Bonus points if you add Evenly Matched to this play.

Not even close.

Branded Expulsion CAN Special Summon Ido while it is Banished to the opponent's field.

Because it is a trap you're not crashing Ido as your opponent will play it in defense position onto your field, which also makes your Evenly Matched useless.

Your Opponent would have to use a second Expulsion in order to summon the banished Ido, because Expulsion targets, if Ido is banished from the GY in response to Expulsions activation (eg Called By the Grave), the summon will NOT go through as the trap loses its original target and the banished Ido is now considered to be a different card than the one that was in the GY.