The ULTIMATE Meta Counter? SPICY Branded Despia for Phantom Nightmare!

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[@galzo]

Tragedy missing from list. Should be here! Haha.

[@Altaierror]

That’s quite the tragedy

[@richardtung6379]

Im sure branded doesn’t counter fire king in ocg cuz the r board is arvata with apolousa :(

[@josephschultz2477]

@@richardtung6379well since it’s consistently topping in the ocg i would care to disagree with you

[@kevinc.8885]

3:51 tragedy is not missing

[@imabanana2371]

@@richardtung6379 is that board supposed to be sary

[@yourturn5059]

The fact that after all this time, we can still enjoy full power branded in the tcg is mind-blowing to me! Everyone and their Grandmother's dog predicted Branded Fusion to be hit on the very first banlist after its release! But here we are, nearly 2 years after Albaz strike, still playing 3 offs of one of the most powerful fusion cards ever printed. And as a casual player, I'm loving it!

[@itsvanburen5879]

so happy to see Prosekenion and Ashen. I was recently testing both.

[@shadowtakamiki1]

I remember having discussions about cards like ashen and mysterion. Good to see others sharing the same thoughts about them.

[@Altaierror]

I’ve said it before, this deck is prob the most consistent deck in the format, it’s been around for years now and continues to be a powerful option. At this point, it’s around to keep tabs on overpowered decks

[@saxonhagemann1918]

I played Ashen in the Despia Syncro build, it is sneaky late game finisher as well with the ATK gain

[@Ashura_Morgraine]

Ok so hear me out, I have been playing that fusion despian for a while, but also because I tend to play a single tech card in my main deck as well. If you add 1 Tearlaments Scheiren to the main deck, you can use her on branded fusion for follow up plays after first turn combo. You sent her off branded fusion and you now have both a lubellion and her activating to fusion summon, lubellion can make your regular monsters, but Scheiren can make either dragostapelia or Despian Proskenion, and you get 2 fusions off 1 branded fusion, and strong ones at it.

[@TheAireaidLord]

I'd love to make double masquerade using this strat haha

[@kennysprite]

Ngl i been playing ashen and golden swordsoul together for a while now at my locals, ashen had always been my discard target before quem but now that we have her it just works so well to dump if we have everything we need, and GS can revive her or cartesia if any monster gets banished. Proskenion was a card i used to play a while ago but ended up just running it in my dogmatika deck, but recently ive been missing it in the branded build

[@narongtawatsoinark-5360]

As an OCG branded player and always looking up for TCG ideas. This is a good list and good idea.

[@Mattscardcorner206]

Branded despia has so many directions it can go. Fire Kings isn't really flexible, it just does what it does well

[@Malister23]

No gimmick puppet means that we seriously believe branded is good this format! I love the build the one thing I would change is fit quaeritis somehow to get a free fusion when they out it

[@killingfame1562]

I picked up 3 albaz the ashen a while back cause they were only $0.25 a piece and it seemed like a potentially good tech card in a 60 pile branded despia.

[@darealwhosane]

Majespecter is also a good meta counter most of the main deck monsters already have targeting and destruction protection

[@emmanuelnwankwo5521]

Found 2 new cards for my deck, thanks!

[@justderek3584]

Master duel has a list with ashen running around. It’s been around an about 8 months or so. It’s a deck with 3 of it and focuses on maintaining its presence. I thought it was interesting then and it’s interesting now. I picked up a set about 3 months ago.

[@edmarkabraham8525]

Thank you for these video, its very helpful...

[@Absolute96]

Playing thrust and playing at 50 i would add also one branded banishment, it's a searchable super polymerization

[@revengetwofold]

definitely running this list lol i have everything here already so i'm going back to branded babyyyy

[@lucianor.9090]

Nice Deckprofile! What's about Branded Banishment - seems like Superpoly with an extra Summon from Graveyard?

[@rivshalia4397]

Belle very strong Right now

[@OrginalerKen]

What a interesting Decklist! What do you think about Nadir Servant and Dogmatika Maximus with in the mix? Couldn't it be usefull in certain matchups to limit the opponents ressources?

[@imabanana2371]

too many decks rn have cards that want to be sent to grave so you dont want to risk making the opponent go plus with your nadir

[@OrginalerKen]

@@imabanana2371 thanks, it just would be kind cool to play with the Nadir Package because of Lore Reasons... but yeah I think so too

[@JamBudsVO]

Trying Albaz Ashen and Mysterion in master duel and so far its fine with me!

[@fortune6805]

Ahhh mysterion!! I use it in my dark magician deck its amazing

[@mirceadolineanu9715]

I've been playtesting vs fk with a friend, and branded is insane: - any fire king monter can turn into rindbrum(also making their xyz awkwardto summon) - guardian chimera can pop both the island and the sanctuary so they don't get to protect the island - super poly is nice against fk - mirrorjade banish on garunix can stop their grind game to a halt - mirrorjade board wipe also pretty good vs theme, since they don't have a way to bounce him - the xyz can be countered by branded opening gy eff And many other things.

[@zydren2703]

If Sancturary and Island would both be destroyed at the same time, you can still apply the protection effect to Island, but Santuary will still be destroyed

[@AndrewUdal]

Yea a good fire king player will play through that all. A: Rindbrum is annoying but can be dealt with so not that bad B: Sanctuary still protects C: super nice against fire king but snake-eyes stuff just continues through D: mirrojade banish garunix does stop the grind game.. if you only play 1 (which is why you MANDATORY have to play 2, but TCG players will eventually figure it out) E: Mirrojade board wipe will trigger fire king cards so more a disservice than a benefit F: fire king snake-eye doesn’t need the XYZ to win the game, some lists aren’t even playing it.

[@mirceadolineanu9715]

@@AndrewUdal A: any card in the game can be dealt with somehow. But being annoying and not drawing some easy out could easily be enough to win games. B: yeah, I didn't know that, but I looked it up now. C: Doesn't continue through if you choose the right time to do it. Also, since I forgot to mention, the snake-eye variant hard loses to droll, which in turn will be in every main deck, and branded plays through droll without problems (let's not discuss ash; for some reason people still thing that branded loses to ash, so they side that in insteaed of board breakers, and I always beat them without resolving branded fusion). D: You can use mirrorjade more than once (quem, ad lib, making a second copy). E: Since mirrorjade board wipe resolves in end phase, it is often the case that they already did their once-per-turn stuff. Either way, a board wipe is a board wipe, fk is not really as sticky as unchained. F: I agree. But Branded Opening stops your opponent from poping your fusions with Promethean Princess/Kirin too. Rindbrumm is also op vs Princess.

[@AndrewUdal]

@@mirceadolineanu9715 fair points, let me be more specific: A: Flamberge outs Rindbrum without needing to go into extra deck C: we can hold original sinful spoils snake-eyes till you super poly and then just play fire king side since you’ll have to eventually do it or we otk C 1/2: In like 10 test hands I hand like 1-2 hands that lost to droll, the deck with snake-eyes 100% doesn’t lose to droll. It only loses to droll if you deck build wrong or sequence cards incorrectly, but a single snake-eye ash plays through droll, so does populus, and sanctuary, and island, and wanted, and diabellstar. There’s like 16 starters that play through droll and end on 4+ disruption or otk. You need more than just droll to stop the deck. D: True, but the chances of fk not opening a hand trap is low, and it’s not exactly easy to pull a double mirrojade off, I’ve played branded for years and unless your hand is cracked you don’t always see a way to bringing it back. For example, Quem can be removed before it gets a chance to bring back mirrojade, ad lib doesn’t come up enough without a good hand since you’d rather add quem. E: True, but again, flamberge can just put to Spell/trap zone so not exactly that big of a threat.

[@exodiadosamba4113]

What about a more fairy focused branded build using herald of orange light in a 40-42 slim build?

[@danielm4949]

You have leveled up here on KZbin as far as presentation goes. In no way am I saying in the past you were bad, but your confidence, communication skills, and personality are mega evolving!!!

[@galzo]

I appreciate it!

[@JusticeMustDie]

I havent switched any deck from Branded since its release. Only added in Bystial. It's still consistently good.

[@PyckledNyk]

I was trying to make a Fire King deck but I quickly gave up on that when I saw the prices of the Diabellstar engine. Then I decided to go into Branded because I like the consistency and the different lines of play. I think people are getting so hype for FKs that they’re forgetting the other meta decks, and I think Branded Despia is one of those that’s still strong due to not being nerfed by the ban list (yet). All I need are some singles here and there and I’ll be ready for locals!

[@Timme]

I played Branded first and recently wanted to make a Fire King deck. Now I have like a half finished FK deck because I didn't know the cards would turn out so expensive. Maybe I'll make a budget Tri Brigade version out of it

[@frankunodostres473]

bro saw the new ashened archetype and decided to jump on the hype train and play albaz the ashen(ed) :D

[@remylordski]

Iv been saying ashen is a beast

[@Starkiller2725]

Really looking forward for one more reprint of the damned Thrust.

[@leifbauer646]

What you think about put out the edge imp engine because is playing more in to droll ?

[@austenvelasquez9475]

Branded doesn’t lose to droll as long as you have branded fusion. Missing an add with lost and not having chimera on your turn isn’t a huge problem. Just adapt for droll and BF is still best card ❤️

[@Nyloxmc]

By that logic, cut Albion

[@codybrazeal2885]

Trying my hand at making a deck like this in master duel , but I’m master duel, but most of not almost all of the main cards are limited.

[@iloveghost5645]

Branded will never die if they make more lore still waiting for the final true Albion form

[@chrissabdulmasih7703]

I like a 1 quem and a 40 to 44 card deck list of branded despia 😅

[@kacpikachu5951]

Same. In my experience anything above 45 starts to get really awkward, especially with side decking.

[@IlMondoDiLola]

can you post best branded despia build?

[@victors-9711]

Been playing branded since dawn of majesty and I’ll never drop this deck

[@joseurieldiazdeleon]

BRANDED BEST DECK!

[@thekittenfreakify]

The power of Maxx c

[@nael_luna]

My man, I just built your last branded list, don't make me change it again😭

[@CarterCards]

Pls start doing your combos in your video please

[@MP-ds1ro]

Make a Video on how to Beat this pls 😂

[@unamusedwaffle]

I actually just moved Mysterion into my bulk from my box of Branded cards, so time to move it back!

[@jamesshort4241]

I hate the build. But somehow i can see it winning though 😂

[@saxonhagemann1918]

How do we deal with Lab, I’m so tired of that deck

[@josephschultz2477]

In all honesty this version is more than satisfactory for lab. The biggest counter to us is big welcome bounce mirrorjade (since mirrorjade is the biggest counter to lab) and with ashen and mud this stops that

[@NintendoSquared]

Ahhhh, here i go again

[@montgomeryharr30]

What happened to your eye? Are you ok?

[@Asian.milfhunter-69]

Dragooner is a auto win against fire kings

[@ItSpooling_]

And race and lab

[@houaxiong985]

Lol i play 2 ashen, prevent targeting

[@mr.ethechromeleonpaladin8898]

It continues to confuse me as to why the ocg is so scared of full powered branded, im fairly certain that there are far more consistent decks that can beat it

[@venelinstoyanov]

I thought cause i paly branded i just throw in 3 spirits of yubel in my deck and the super poly target and go brrrr

[@gerwood777]

Combine it with neos kluger to summon yubel with fusion deployment. I think that combo could work pretty well

[@venelinstoyanov]

@@gerwood777 imma just remove mud dragon and dragostepelia and put those 2 yeah thats actually great idea

[@matthewmann8399]

So just saying kirin is a non target destruction eff I'm pretty sure so yh

[@erazero7308]

ty-phon doesn't target

[@godlike5791]

what in fire kings target? i see you keep emphasizing on targetting.

[@galzo]

Watch the video?

[@godlike5791]

@@galzo so the issue is not fire kings but the wanted engine?

[@josephschultz2477]

@@godlike5791if you look at topping lists in the ocg (which will more than likely transfer over to tcg) the deck is better categorized as a snake eye deck with a small fire king engine.

[@KTakesKing]

You called me a madman for playing Ashen in our discord discussion, how the tables have turned 😆

[@unamusedwaffle]

Bro you gotta give us more time to see this, watch the video, and then check twitch. I missed you by 23 minutes! :(

[@DavidRodriguez-vz7mv]

Hear me out , multi role in branded ? 👀

[@welchigaming7309]

Damn, no tragedy?

[@J-ay-B-ee]

He plays one copy

[@richard8670]

do we really need the 800th identical branded deck profile? this guy just likes to listen to himself speak

[@galzo]

You can go watch another channel.

[@justusneubeck]

Bro take care of your eyes.