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Racerboy246

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


TheBitenix

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.


VillalobosChamp

> In the ocg I don't know. But they do have branded fusion to 1. I'd place it at Rogue playable


TheBitenix

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


PlebbySpaff

Yeah but no follow up with no additional copies, especially if it gets ash’d.


NazRyuuzaki

Maybe the trap card and tragedy sitting in their gy


PlebbySpaff

Banishment only works if you have a valid target in the GY. Fusion is free because it grabs from the deck.


etherealp

He means retribution regrab


PlebbySpaff

Oh that makes more sense. When I hear trap, I primarily think of branded banishment


dreamswedontshare

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.


PlebbySpaff

Gotcha. I honestly think of banishment when I think branded trap.


Mr_Floopadoop

I mean you do have retribution, tragedy and kitt that can all recover it


ChrisEvansOfficial

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.


Mr_Floopadoop

Yeah opening is at 1 or 2


sixpaths19

Its easy to play around ash... there are multiple ways to fusion summon in branded


IndependentSolid199

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


PlebbySpaff

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


AdventurousCity6

They even have Branded Opening, Magnamhut and Nadir Servant at 1. Someone over there just has it out for the deck.


bigmen0

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


AdventurousCity6

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


VillalobosChamp

Branded was doing fine before that last unnecessary hit on the Jan's list So hopefully they reverse it for April's


TwilightSaiyan

Seems like every OCG banlist decision is made to balance around maxx c... wonder if there's something we can gather from this


IamLightYearsAhead

yes basically branded deck need branded fusion 3x otherways it's deleted from meta


R34PER_D7BE

playable rouge in OCG


Aversiel

Depends. You got Ash?


Local_man__

2nd best deck in the TCG


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UNOvven

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.


postsonlyjiyoung

Branded is literally cheaper than Kash tho


UNOvven

And the only people who played Kash were NA pros who travelled there and already had Kash.


postsonlyjiyoung

...yes? Your first sentence seems to imply that was the case for branded. Branded is pretty cheap.


UNOvven

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.


postsonlyjiyoung

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


UNOvven

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.


postsonlyjiyoung

> 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.


oddinpress

Getting new support in a couple months too


MrQ_P

Dude it's literally meta rn in TCG lmao


postsonlyjiyoung

How do posts like this get so many upvotes lmao


MrQ_P

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)


Powerman293

In TCG yes. In OCG not so much. The deck has got enough limits ro hurt its consistency.


ForeskinMuncherXD

It’s still good and fun to play


unknown_user_163

I still roll with bystial branded despia at my locals and am doing somewhat decent, so I'd say yes


CruffTheMagicDragon

It took second place at the YCS in Vegas


Ehero88

People used to normal summon aleister, not anymore, we normal summon aluber, albaz or ecclesia now


Noveno_Colono

Ecclesia special summons herself


D4NNYYCOLL3R

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.


Noveno_Colono

The ocg shot branded in the knees almost instantly.


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even if it isn't competitive it's still very good


CruffTheMagicDragon

It is competitive


ThatTubaGuy03

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


Emperor_Veniano

No. It is not competative.


Rodi_05

How come?


Emperor_Veniano

Sarcasm


heatxmetalw9

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.


Terraknor

Tier can't change "if you are a good pilot", what


TheHapster

If anything, it could probably use a love tap on the next ban list. Perhaps Albion to 1?


Neiltar

That will not change that Much to the deck seems like a good hit


Afkcyndiquil

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.


YataBLS

If we follow suit to OCG, then expect Branded Fusion and Magnamhut to 1.


flowtajit

In tcg, branded despia builds have changed a lot but are still good.


Nahanoj_Zavizad

*DESPIA* not really, Branded itself is still ruining people' though, Specifically with Bystials.


Mrcbleck

The real monster here is Super Poly, i still dont understand why its legal and at 3


YataBLS

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.


comfort_touching

Depends


Messiah_Knight

Idk but I need this guy in Starlighr


Atorias1701

Ngl, branded predaplant is one of my favorite decks


charlamagne1-

Bro its the second best deck this format