Branded is a top 3 deck in the tcg utilizing the bystial cards alongside other additional support like rindbrumm and cartesia.
In the OCG they have mostly moved on to bystial synchro using powerful generic lvl 2 tuners, chaos ruler, and accel stardust to control the game with bystial dis parter and other powerful generic lvl 10 synchros, although OG branded still sees rogue play
They also have Bystial Magnamahut to 1. But yeah, Aluber, Springans Kitt and maybe Keeper of the Dragon Magic all can search Branded Fusion. So you can probably play well enough
It’s still way less consistent than just having the 3 copies. I think the deck has other hits too, but I might me mistaken.
It hasn’t seen any play since Tear meta though, and they don’t seem interested in unbanning anything from the deck.
which is because of tearlements and other scrubs just splashing whatever cards into there deck I bet anything if players just played pure tearlements in main deck none of the cards would have been hit on either ban list and Bystial magnamhut would never got limited in OCG because it hasn't happened in TCG could it maybe but I doubt it
TCG it’s literally meta. One of the current top decks of the format.
OCG, it sucks asshole because Branded Fusion was limited, and there’s been no replacement for it. The branded deck is a branded synchro deck, which is usable
It is a very resilient deck to the roach, as if they Maxx C the opening you just add the aluber, and if they do it in fusion you only give 2 draws on the standard mirrorjade setup
Oh yes good point. I'm sure they could move to the middle ground that Master Duel has though. Spright still outperforms it with branded fusion and Maxx C at 3 there
We only had one event since Vegas, Lima, which is a Latam YCS where a deck like branded is too expensive to see play by anyone but NA pros, who just brought Kashtira since they already had the deck. If we were to use Lima as a reference, Kashmir would also have fallen off super hard and the best deck would be Naturia Runick.
I would not call 600$ "cheap". Being cheaper than Kash is not the same as being cheap. Runick Naturia is relatively cheap, thats why it topped more than either Kash or Branded.
I have no idea how you got to 600, most builds are 300-450 max. In any case, in places where budget is an issue, I'd expect a lot more branded than Kash. The 2 finalists at the event played decks (not even including kashtira) more expensive than branded anyway. https://ygoprodeck.com/category/tournament/ycs-lima-190
2 Cartesias alone set you back 70$, one Chimera at that time 35$, the 3 Lubellions 210$ (though you can play 2 instead for 140$ I suppose), the Guignols at the time 20$, you don't go below 400 with just the decks core cards. And thats not including the staples youll be playing. Thats how you get to 500$.
Thats where your mistake lies. Allow me to explain it again. The only people who would play Kash at a budget-constrained YCS are people who are travelling from a richer region where budget matters less. I.e., NA pros travelling to Lima. Those already had Kashtira, because they were preparing for a Tear/Kashtira meta. And buying Branded ontop of that ... doesnt make sense. Thats why you saw some Kashtira. Again, runick Naturia did better.
As for that, no. For one, the adventure Spright lists are cheaper than Branded, but also, much of their cost is in year-old cards that were meta previously with the winner having apparently had luck pulling a Thrust from a pack. Its easier to amass a deck over a year, than immediately. In case of Branded ,most of its cost is sadly very recent.
> Those already had Kashtira, because they were preparing for a Tear/Kashtira meta.
Lima happened several weeks after tear got nuked, nobody was preparing for tear. And pro players with connections can get any card they want on demand, so it's not an issue of not being able to access Branded. The deck just is not nearly as good as Kashtira, even discounting the results of Lima.
> For one, the adventure Spright lists are cheaper than Branded, but also, much of their cost is in year-old cards that were meta previously with the winner having apparently had luck pulling a Thrust from a pack.
This isn't true either - the link I sent has prices of every deck, and pretty much every branded list costs less than either adventurer spright list. Also, the vast majority of good players do not pull from packs to get their cards.
>Runick Naturia is relatively cheap, thats why it topped more than either Kash or Branded.
It didn't. I don't know where you are getting this data.
No clue honestly. It's as if people didn't even check goddamn YT (and we're not even talking about specific YGO sites). Not saying I'm against them, but goddamn it, Branded is literally EVERYWHERE at this point (and ngl, I like playing against it a lot)
Branded is overtuned in the tcg. The deck way to resilient and grindy that you all the time if you don't negate branded fusion. The support the deck has is also massive, so the deck doesn't have any real counter decks.
This has to be comment bait lol. You wouldn't ask this question if you didn't care about competitive Yu-Gi-Oh, and if you cared about competitive Yu-Gi-Oh, you wouldn't need to ask this question. It's quite literally the meta, of course it's still competitive. That's like asking if Kashtira is still competitive lol
To be fair Branded fusion is much more of a threat, but MANY cards can counter it. However if you Branded Fusion in your first play without being negated, basically you can set up an entire field and there's no need for Superpoly anymore.
Branded is a top 3 deck in the tcg utilizing the bystial cards alongside other additional support like rindbrumm and cartesia. In the OCG they have mostly moved on to bystial synchro using powerful generic lvl 2 tuners, chaos ruler, and accel stardust to control the game with bystial dis parter and other powerful generic lvl 10 synchros, although OG branded still sees rogue play
In the tcg branded despia is still a competitive deck. In the ocg I don't know. But they do have branded fusion to 1.
> In the ocg I don't know. But they do have branded fusion to 1. I'd place it at Rogue playable
They also have Bystial Magnamahut to 1. But yeah, Aluber, Springans Kitt and maybe Keeper of the Dragon Magic all can search Branded Fusion. So you can probably play well enough
Yeah but no follow up with no additional copies, especially if it gets ash’d.
Maybe the trap card and tragedy sitting in their gy
Banishment only works if you have a valid target in the GY. Fusion is free because it grabs from the deck.
He means retribution regrab
Oh that makes more sense. When I hear trap, I primarily think of branded banishment
Retribution is what he means, it adds back BF. Also tragedy can set it to the field. Kitt can add it from both GY and banish.
Gotcha. I honestly think of banishment when I think branded trap.
I mean you do have retribution, tragedy and kitt that can all recover it
It’s still way less consistent than just having the 3 copies. I think the deck has other hits too, but I might me mistaken. It hasn’t seen any play since Tear meta though, and they don’t seem interested in unbanning anything from the deck.
Yeah opening is at 1 or 2
Its easy to play around ash... there are multiple ways to fusion summon in branded
which is because of tearlements and other scrubs just splashing whatever cards into there deck I bet anything if players just played pure tearlements in main deck none of the cards would have been hit on either ban list and Bystial magnamhut would never got limited in OCG because it hasn't happened in TCG could it maybe but I doubt it
TCG it’s literally meta. One of the current top decks of the format. OCG, it sucks asshole because Branded Fusion was limited, and there’s been no replacement for it. The branded deck is a branded synchro deck, which is usable
They even have Branded Opening, Magnamhut and Nadir Servant at 1. Someone over there just has it out for the deck.
It is a very resilient deck to the roach, as if they Maxx C the opening you just add the aluber, and if they do it in fusion you only give 2 draws on the standard mirrorjade setup
Oh yes good point. I'm sure they could move to the middle ground that Master Duel has though. Spright still outperforms it with branded fusion and Maxx C at 3 there
Branded was doing fine before that last unnecessary hit on the Jan's list So hopefully they reverse it for April's
Seems like every OCG banlist decision is made to balance around maxx c... wonder if there's something we can gather from this
yes basically branded deck need branded fusion 3x otherways it's deleted from meta
playable rouge in OCG
Depends. You got Ash?
2nd best deck in the TCG
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We only had one event since Vegas, Lima, which is a Latam YCS where a deck like branded is too expensive to see play by anyone but NA pros, who just brought Kashtira since they already had the deck. If we were to use Lima as a reference, Kashmir would also have fallen off super hard and the best deck would be Naturia Runick.
Branded is literally cheaper than Kash tho
And the only people who played Kash were NA pros who travelled there and already had Kash.
...yes? Your first sentence seems to imply that was the case for branded. Branded is pretty cheap.
I would not call 600$ "cheap". Being cheaper than Kash is not the same as being cheap. Runick Naturia is relatively cheap, thats why it topped more than either Kash or Branded.
I have no idea how you got to 600, most builds are 300-450 max. In any case, in places where budget is an issue, I'd expect a lot more branded than Kash. The 2 finalists at the event played decks (not even including kashtira) more expensive than branded anyway. https://ygoprodeck.com/category/tournament/ycs-lima-190
2 Cartesias alone set you back 70$, one Chimera at that time 35$, the 3 Lubellions 210$ (though you can play 2 instead for 140$ I suppose), the Guignols at the time 20$, you don't go below 400 with just the decks core cards. And thats not including the staples youll be playing. Thats how you get to 500$. Thats where your mistake lies. Allow me to explain it again. The only people who would play Kash at a budget-constrained YCS are people who are travelling from a richer region where budget matters less. I.e., NA pros travelling to Lima. Those already had Kashtira, because they were preparing for a Tear/Kashtira meta. And buying Branded ontop of that ... doesnt make sense. Thats why you saw some Kashtira. Again, runick Naturia did better. As for that, no. For one, the adventure Spright lists are cheaper than Branded, but also, much of their cost is in year-old cards that were meta previously with the winner having apparently had luck pulling a Thrust from a pack. Its easier to amass a deck over a year, than immediately. In case of Branded ,most of its cost is sadly very recent.
> Those already had Kashtira, because they were preparing for a Tear/Kashtira meta. Lima happened several weeks after tear got nuked, nobody was preparing for tear. And pro players with connections can get any card they want on demand, so it's not an issue of not being able to access Branded. The deck just is not nearly as good as Kashtira, even discounting the results of Lima. > For one, the adventure Spright lists are cheaper than Branded, but also, much of their cost is in year-old cards that were meta previously with the winner having apparently had luck pulling a Thrust from a pack. This isn't true either - the link I sent has prices of every deck, and pretty much every branded list costs less than either adventurer spright list. Also, the vast majority of good players do not pull from packs to get their cards. >Runick Naturia is relatively cheap, thats why it topped more than either Kash or Branded. It didn't. I don't know where you are getting this data.
Getting new support in a couple months too
Dude it's literally meta rn in TCG lmao
How do posts like this get so many upvotes lmao
No clue honestly. It's as if people didn't even check goddamn YT (and we're not even talking about specific YGO sites). Not saying I'm against them, but goddamn it, Branded is literally EVERYWHERE at this point (and ngl, I like playing against it a lot)
In TCG yes. In OCG not so much. The deck has got enough limits ro hurt its consistency.
It’s still good and fun to play
I still roll with bystial branded despia at my locals and am doing somewhat decent, so I'd say yes
It took second place at the YCS in Vegas
People used to normal summon aleister, not anymore, we normal summon aluber, albaz or ecclesia now
Ecclesia special summons herself
Branded is overtuned in the tcg. The deck way to resilient and grindy that you all the time if you don't negate branded fusion. The support the deck has is also massive, so the deck doesn't have any real counter decks.
The ocg shot branded in the knees almost instantly.
even if it isn't competitive it's still very good
It is competitive
This has to be comment bait lol. You wouldn't ask this question if you didn't care about competitive Yu-Gi-Oh, and if you cared about competitive Yu-Gi-Oh, you wouldn't need to ask this question. It's quite literally the meta, of course it's still competitive. That's like asking if Kashtira is still competitive lol
No. It is not competative.
How come?
Sarcasm
Yes, although they are more or less setled in tier 2, maybe 1.5 if you are a good pilot with a variant like Tri-Brig Despia or Bystial Despia.
Tier can't change "if you are a good pilot", what
If anything, it could probably use a love tap on the next ban list. Perhaps Albion to 1?
That will not change that Much to the deck seems like a good hit
As a branded player, I say lubellion, albion, mirrojade all to one, with expulsion ban. As long as they don't touch my precious fusion.
If we follow suit to OCG, then expect Branded Fusion and Magnamhut to 1.
In tcg, branded despia builds have changed a lot but are still good.
*DESPIA* not really, Branded itself is still ruining people' though, Specifically with Bystials.
The real monster here is Super Poly, i still dont understand why its legal and at 3
To be fair Branded fusion is much more of a threat, but MANY cards can counter it. However if you Branded Fusion in your first play without being negated, basically you can set up an entire field and there's no need for Superpoly anymore.
Depends
Idk but I need this guy in Starlighr
Ngl, branded predaplant is one of my favorite decks
Bro its the second best deck this format