Branded used to be a cool fair deck

[DeathArcanaXIII]

With the new support is just another tearlament bs with infinite resourse, just press the yellow button and goes brr

[Exvalcore]

Wrong!!! This deck is beyond fair even more so with the ending of expulsion which sucks.
I've people in silver rank beating me half the time breaking 2x masquerade fields with ease.

Branded setups a stronger turn one board & can use they other players monsters to fuse with, it doesn't deal well with/break up backrow it can't link/sych/xyz very well & your pretty much at the mercy of every negate card in existence because once you stop it aka branded your left with also no way to pop off.

Now if yourself talking about splashing branded fusion into a random deck then it's about as fair as adventure engine/DPE & all those, if drawn it's great just for mirrorjade alone like DPE.

[Papa Shekels]

Just wait until they get the rest of their support. Brightest, blazing, branded king is a 10 cent common in the TCG but might very well be a UR in master duel since it can just shut down an entire board. Their newer fusions also basically just play out of the graveyard so destroying them doesn't even remove any interactions half the time. They also have so many extenders at this point that even ashing their branded fusion doesn't necessarily stop a combo anymore. The only silver lining is that they won't be going into dragoon since that's banned in MD...for now

[DeathArcanaXIII]

Originally posted by Papa Shekels:

Just wait until they get the rest of their support. Brightest, blazing, branded king is a 10 cent common in the TCG but might very well be a UR in master duel since it can just shut down an entire board. Their newer fusions also basically just play out of the graveyard so destroying them doesn't even remove any interactions half the time. They also have so many extenders at this point that even ashing their branded fusion doesn't necessarily stop a combo anymore. The only silver lining is that they won't be going into dragoon since that's banned in MD...for now

Yeah, honestlu YGO is going to ♥♥♥♥ since the release of Spright, which i don't think is that insane, but after Spright release with was powercreep followed by powercreep, Tearlaments STILL the best deck even with Ishizu cards at 1, it shocks me how many people said Tear was fine without Ishizu trying to justify RNG on the mills as fair, when all monsters of the deck are 1 card = full combo, now Branded is walkign the same ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ path, grave hate with Bystials that are huge bodies while being removal and search without having to commit to a normal summon or any restrictions.

Legit thinking about quitting the game on MD and IRL too, the powercreep went so hard that anything that isn't Tear/Kashtira/Branded is unplayable trash...

[TormentedSalad]

Originally posted by Exvalcore:

Wrong!!! This deck is beyond fair even more so with the ending of expulsion which sucks.
I've people in silver rank beating me half the time breaking 2x masquerade fields with ease.

Branded setups a stronger turn one board & can use they other players monsters to fuse with, it doesn't deal well with/break up backrow it can't link/sych/xyz very well & your pretty much at the mercy of every negate card in existence because once you stop it aka branded your left with also no way to pop off.

Now if yourself talking about splashing branded fusion into a random deck then it's about as fair as adventure engine/DPE & all those, if drawn it's great just for mirrorjade alone like DPE.

Stop relying on masq to win games soley because someone cant out them fast enough and you will win more games I promise you lean into the new cards if you've been playing the deck since release then it will be easy I pretty much dropped it on release and picked it up on a suggestion since I still had the cards and I already understand im able to very quickly react to whats going on super poly is outright busted my monsters hardly matter as they'll either be back dont matter or float into something.

[MerlinCross]

"Branded used to be fair"

Tell me you don't play branded without telling me you don't play branded. They've never been fair.

They just died if you Negated their Fusion.

[Silyon]

First off, Go first and set this card [www.masterduelmeta.com]. Also kills Tear. Enjoy the instant-scoops if they can't get into Phoenix or have a Feather Duster. You're welcome.

Second, Branded is very easy to screw up if you don't sequence your summons properly, which hardly anyone I've seen playing it does. It most certianly isn't a mindless button-smash deck, and if that's how you're playing it you're losing 8 games out of 10.

[Zaebore]

If were talking about branded being a fair deck take out Branded Fusion. I'll let you keep Branded In Red even though it's the second culprit in disguise after Branded Fusion but I've grown to not dislike it as much as I do with branded fusion. Other than that I have no beef with Branded but Tearlaments on the other hand is my number one target for an unfair deck.

[Exvalcore]

Yall idiots, fair to what is the question to be asked, to Runick, or Eldlich other annoying backrow decks they blow my back out, every deck have their bad match ups, combo decks do it too. I'm not going to say branded is unfair because you have a bad match up against it, aka like I don't care if every dragon link player cries when albaz hits the field & their dragons disappear or if I can render numerons/other beatsticks atk power to zero, or I run over your big monster with starving venom dragon or fuse using your field.

Just because you can't out a big board & stop fusing you don't get to say... but it unfair. it's not, I had 3 types of mirrorforces in one duel wreak my board turn after turn & I barely won somehow, everything has bad match ups.

[Kane526]

Branded really isn't unfair. It can't handle disruption well and absolutely needs Branded Fusion 90% of the time to function. It's only a Tier 3 Meta Deck and gets ♥♥♥♥ on by Tear and Spright. Is it good? Ya, it's really good. But I've played it enough to know that if you can't get off the ground, you lose. It truly is an All or Nothing Deck.

[Kane526]

Also, you can't just yellow button your way to victory with Branded now. The thing has a legit spreadsheet.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1buiJYPGopSNcf6VXU1NFYfnlkV7johnOQDYTTsa8jic/edit?pli=1#gid=1556369353

[JKArtorias]

Originally posted by Kane526:

Branded really isn't unfair. It can't handle disruption well and absolutely needs Branded Fusion 90% of the time to function. It's only a Tier 3 Meta Deck and gets ♥♥♥♥ on by Tear and Spright. Is it good? Ya, it's really good. But I've played it enough to know that if you can't get off the ground, you lose. It truly is an All or Nothing Deck.

By that logic if you Mirrorjade Sprights normal summon starter they need funnily enough Spright Starter to continue. Meaning it can't handle disruptions as well either.

It's not an all or nothing deck, not even a little bit. An all or nothing deck is a deck with no back up if there normal gets ♥♥♥♥♥♥.

[Kane526]

Originally posted by JKArtorias:

Originally posted by Kane526:

Branded really isn't unfair. It can't handle disruption well and absolutely needs Branded Fusion 90% of the time to function. It's only a Tier 3 Meta Deck and gets ♥♥♥♥ on by Tear and Spright. Is it good? Ya, it's really good. But I've played it enough to know that if you can't get off the ground, you lose. It truly is an All or Nothing Deck.

By that logic if you Mirrorjade Sprights normal summon starter they need funnily enough Spright Starter to continue. Meaning it can't handle disruptions as well either.

It's not an all or nothing deck, not even a little bit. An all or nothing deck is a deck with no back up if there normal gets ♥♥♥♥♥♥.

You do realize that unless you have Cartesia access you can't play through a disruption right? And even if you do unless you also have albaz + lost or albaz + mercourier the best you can do is Granguinol/Masquerade Pass. And don't even get me started on what happens when your opponent has 2 disruptions. And if they have Maxx C your best bet is Rindbrumm pass unless you want to give your opponent 7 cards. Technically if you have just Albaz and Cartesia you can make Mirrorjade, but JUST Mirrorjade. You have to banish a Albion to make it that way too.

[JKArtorias]

Originally posted by Kane526:

Originally posted by JKArtorias:

By that logic if you Mirrorjade Sprights normal summon starter they need funnily enough Spright Starter to continue. Meaning it can't handle disruptions as well either.

It's not an all or nothing deck, not even a little bit. An all or nothing deck is a deck with no back up if there normal gets ♥♥♥♥♥♥.

You do realize that unless you have Cartesia access you can't play through a disruption right? And even if you do unless you also have albaz + lost or albaz + mercourier the best you can do is Granguinol/Masquerade Pass. And don't even get me started on what happens when your opponent has 2 disruptions. And if they have Maxx C your best bet is Rindbrumm pass unless you want to give your opponent 7 cards.

Any deck that special summons loses to Maxx C. That has nothing to do with Branded. It's the broken card. Yes having specific hands allows you to play through more disruption. That is part of the game.

[Kane526]

Originally posted by JKArtorias:

Originally posted by Kane526:

You do realize that unless you have Cartesia access you can't play through a disruption right? And even if you do unless you also have albaz + lost or albaz + mercourier the best you can do is Granguinol/Masquerade Pass. And don't even get me started on what happens when your opponent has 2 disruptions. And if they have Maxx C your best bet is Rindbrumm pass unless you want to give your opponent 7 cards.

Any deck that special summons loses to Maxx C. That has nothing to do with Branded. It's the broken card. Yes having specific hands allows you to play through more disruption. That is part of the game.

Ya, thats exactly my point. But its easier with Spright and Tear than it is with Branded. Spright just needs twos and Tear just needs literally any of their millers. Branded needs Branded Fusion Access to make it's plays and typically only get one chance unless they have 3 other specific cards in hand to play through the disruption.

[Kane526]

You people act like im trying to say Branded isn't a super strong deck. It's crazy strong. But calling it unfair is just not correct. It's kind of like a glass cannon. If it goes off you're donezo most of the time, but if you slap it hard enough it dies. You can slap down Tear 3 or 4 times a turn and they still got things to try. All they need is one mill. If Spright gets a level 2 on board, which is extremely likely, they can pop off unless youre holding on to 3 handtraps.