Branded Despia Master Duel Guide: Playing and Beating It

[@vbun4662]

I gotta say these explainers are really well constructed. They flow in a logical way, you don't pile on too much at once and you know exactly when to double back and explain things in more detail.

[@LamesAMA]

Thank you so much! I work a lot on the structure of the script specifically so the explanations all follow pretty logically and are understandable to someone who's never read a Despia card before.

[@GIOBLANCO1]

Look, he said to pick lubellion for the mirrorjade summon. DO NOT do that. Use Albion. It’s better in the deck cuz mirror jade targets it for its banishment during the opponents turn granting you a free spell, AND getting you your icclesia back if you used her for the Albion summon with the branded fusion activation to start the combo. Also, if you pull branded banishment or branded expulsion it’s GG if you have RA’s disciple as the light target. Just know that they would need 2 negates just to stop you from OTK them, the setup is still doable, you just can’t stun lock them.

[@LamesAMA]

@@GIOBLANCO1 If you take the line where you use Albion, you don't get to send Tragedy to add Ab Libitum, which represents a major point of interaction on the opponent's turn. and you're missing some of the best plays the deck can make.

[@GIOBLANCO1]

@@LamesAMA OOOH!!!! I was wondering why it usually took two turns for me to get double masquerade on the board! Im a theory crafter in training and just got into the game in may, idk why I bravely interjected my 2 cents lol that’s actually super helpful, I take it all back, this deck is super adaptive, gona find a card to drop to add ad lib back in

[@LamesAMA]

@@GIOBLANCO1 What I go over in this vid is the standard build that saw the most success across all formats, including paper ones before the deck hit Master Duel. If you're theory crafting, I highly recommend learning the ins and outs of the standard build. It becomes WAY easier to tweak and adjust things ones you know how all the gears turn as opposed to doing it from scratch. By no means stick to it once you're comfortable with it though, this deck is seemingly built for infinite customization.

[@luminous3558]

I am loving the handtrapless build. Albion the shrouded dragon has been a huge surprise for me since it gets either an albaz or branded sword in grave and then just replaces itself. They can ash branded fusion all they want if I am sitting on 7+ cards in hand that include 2 ways to hard fuse. Also quite relaxing to just not have to interact with opponent on turn 1 going 2nd.

[@LamesAMA]

I haven't done much testing with main deck Albion, but he caught on pretty hard in TCG. Might try him and the Mercurier build.

[@NeostormXLMAX]

yeah i agree, hand traps make this deck a LOT worse, especially since there has not been a single deck similar to drytron this meta, not many negates this meta, despia doesn't really work well with hand traps its a lot better running board breakers like dark ruler no more or even kaijus, or just forcing your opponent to waste negates and gain advantage through raw power.

[@GelloDood]

Very helpful. I made a Despia Darklord deck when they first dropped in MD and fell in love with the deck. I love fusion archetypes and this is at the top of the list. It's nice that you explained how to counter it as well. Great vid.

[@scottclark5352]

I also run a despia Darklord deck with a few experimentations with archlord krystia and Artefact scythe( being a fairy type)reviving it back from grave with first Darklord during opponents turn

[@shadowshot317]

Easily the best Yu-Gi-Oh video I’ve seen. As an OG player IRL from original release coming into the current state it’s a complete mess. Still like OG better since it was possible to lose before playing a card but this video is very helpful. Most videos just throw out information assuming people know the new rules. And what things like “flood gates” are. Learning slowly but I appreciate you taking the time to dumb it down as much as possible. Subbed

[@scarysean57]

Im currently building a BD deck and this video has helped immensely. Great way of explaining as well!

[@LuxuFoo]

As someone who's fairly new to playing yugioh... THANK YOU. You're explanation is logical and simplistic. Man I appreciate the way you structured this video so much. Instant sub.

[@DatCrossGuy]

Awesome vid! Probably the best video on branded despia out

[@lumi2642]

The level of comprehension in this video is so clear and helpful, specially with a visual representation per card and highlighting the part of the text that is being referenced to. Excellent quality content here. And the section on "How to beat it" is good for both ends of the duel, now I know what I'm susceptible to while also knowing how to hurt the deck in a mirror match or using any other. Thank you so much

[@HimDead1228]

That Infinite Azure in the background. I love it

[@serialpixel]

Will you get back to making videos? You're so good at it

[@justviewing8387]

I saw and heard the infinite azure stage and knew this was going to be the best explained thing in my entire life, easy sub my guy much love

[@gamezharks]

Most underrated yugituber working rn fr.

[@CountSpartula]

As an amusing note on Titaniklad: When I started Master Duel, which was a return to Yugioh after a decade, and I had stumbled into the Branded Despia archetype (Which itself stems from my declaration to theme my deck around dragons entirely) Titaniklad was, and still kinda is, one of my mainstays. Namely as a beater. My deck is...kinda bizarre, and it involved having a Dogmatika Nexus as a sort of way to get one last use out of me, or my opponent's, fusion monsters. But what it primarily got used for, was as Titaniklad fodder which jacked its ATK up to 4000 and proved a fairly solid beater to haphazardly whack the opponent over the head with. It's been solid for capitalizing on an opening or overwhelming high ATK monsters that Mirrorjade can't get rid of.

[@RigMaster_]

Thank you so much for teaching me how to use this deck. As a returning player with no knowledge of the current meta I found this very helpful. I hope you post more videos again soon!

[@zenkaishah]

Started playing MD bcuz of mirrorjade artwork looks awesome, n now this deck has become my most fav. 4days playing and still learning, thanks for this helpful guide.

[@QuantumPupusa]

Gotta love the UMVC3 background music at the end.

[@zellcarter]

thank you for showing what works well against this deck much appreciated as I am still very new to dueling.

[@sezanhossain7866]

Love this, I can actually play this complicated deck now. Thank you for your help and keep up the good work!

[@isaac3252]

I just came back to masterduel after a long break and this was the most helpful video i found on understanding this archetype. nice work

[@hiimroo3120]

I find albaz very useful in the mirror match. You can make quaeritis when they interact with you, then when they send quaeritis off the field you use it’s effect to summon albaz which then fuses with their boss monster

[@Fortebx497]

What I like about Branded is that it can be splash into any deck I think. As of right now I've been using it with my Shaddolls and loving it.

[@BanXxX69]

Great video!❤️🤘🏽 I can finally follow one of the complicated combos and will now try to do a more complicated decks for the first time!💪🏽☺️

[@bonadoni762]

I just came across your video recently due to the frustration of facing Branded Despia quite frequently and losing the majority of the matches XD THANK YOU very much for this video! Now at least I know which Branded cards I should focus on next time and what cards I should put in my deck. Seems like Ash Blossom is a must XD You’ve earned yourself a new subscriber! Hopefully you will upload more videos like this in the future (especially if there is a jew meta coming out in MD). I personally love the ‘how to counter section’ the most.

[@pskidmore1986]

Thanks so much for this! The "How to beat" section is really useful!

[@Coolest_Name]

the main hand trap that stops branded fusion is ash blossom which still leaves us locked into fusion monsters. i dont think mentioning that we could link if branded fusion resolves makes much sense, still super informative video!

[@andreasecker9993]

Oh boy - thx god - i found you again. When swordsoul Was released i saw your SS-video and Never found you since today again. I love your videos - pls do more frequent stuff (maybe older good engines). Follow incoming

[@midnight2017]

great video i love the way you broke everything down

[@robisco69]

Man you're the best! Thanks for the guide looking forward for more! ❤️

[@vincetugg25]

Love this video format I love how you explain the cards and combos got a new subscriber from me

[@Wizeguy02]

Great vid as always! Also loving the phos pfp

[@Trunks47r786]

Hell yeah Tekken music in the background. Infinite azure peaks

[@imnotapathy]

As you play this deck can you update us on new ideas and what’s been working for you? Loved this video and new to modern yugioh and I love this deck so much

[@skeletonwar4445]

I'm actually running 3 Shrouded Albion because he's the free-est +1 ever and he's also a send for Branded Fusion to make Titaniklad a 4100 unaffected beater.

[@FallenStarPunk]

Doing Ra’s work! Thanks for the info! Can’t wait for some good games

[@MOTFGAMES]

Love these videos, please keep making more!

[@SYMgenshin]

Thanks for the upload man!

[@ChadMcFresh]

You can also flip mirror Jade face down and back up to use it's banish effect sooner.

[@mohammedbechirkhaddouma5042]

OK this man here needs a lot of love

[@safrprojects]

Oh haha Death Thespian I get it Proscenium, Quem Quaeritis, it's theatre puns all the way down

[@chocolatinerevolutionnaire3730]

i find that running fleur de lys and ecclesia+incredible ecclesia is pretty neat, incredible ecclesia synergise very well with mirrojade, while base ecclesia can be obtained easily by using titaniklad as the fusion sacrifice off mirrorjade, linking to some value returning from turn to turn ( incredible ecclesia is also very good at bringing albaz, wich is a super poly in itself, can be qui te handy )

[@cooper6134]

Really good explanation of the deck and how to counter! Love to learn how to beat BD by someone who knows it as well as you do.

[@MrAlexjmercer]

I just found your channel. Really nice way to explain Archetype as well as counter. I start to understand this deck much better now thank you (I just start learning this deck and this video helps a lot)

[@arkeyy9533]

Ogre has its niche, but doesnt really prevent their play. On T1 when they use Mirrorjade send Albion, you can ogre it to prevent raigeki on your endboard next turn. Still doesnt stop their plays and I would only use it on going 2nd deck like striker/zoodiac who has 18 HT. Even then, other HT better and for strikers, they dont really care about mirror jade raigeki effect since they can just get hayate/kagari get destroyed by Raigeki and raye to Shizuku. For Zoodiac its pretty nice since jade lingering effect kills Zoodiac board unless they have megaclop.

[@gamezharks]

If you DO choose to run zombie world it also enables draconecro the netherworld dragon as an always live super poly target that hits 2 monsters.

[@Ragnarok540]

One thing to add about Branded Lost before you put in your deck, it does not stop Ash since Ash negates the effect and not the activation. Not sure why is a UR in master duel.

[@DarkusFireBlaze3582]

I'm really lacking in resources right now due to missing out on Duelist's Cup, but I really want to build this with Thunder Dragons. Probably the first real meta deck I'll build on MD since Sky Striker.

[@jamesbrincefield9879]

I played against Branded Tri-Brigade today and it was kinda terrifying how much interaction they had. It feels stronger than the regular Tri-Zoo by a long shot. Zeus is good and everything but when so many decks are playing Ghost Ogre to out Fateful or Floo I feel like it’s definitely not as oppressive as it used to be. I don’t know what their turn would have been if I had opened any negates or if every hand can product the type of board I played against but it seemed pretty crazy. Im considering updating mine but Im not looking forward to crafting 3x UR Rescue Cats after all the other URs I’ve had to craft over the past couple days 🤢

[@mannyvaldez9889]

I subbed just for that fact you clearly explain how to counter archetypes

[@lapintueur4799]

I played true draco with the card "lose one turn" against a despia player once. Lose one turn won the duel by itself but its not for all decks. (lose one turn: continuous trap; put special summoned effect monsters in defense and cancel their effect the turn they are summoned)

[@TheDeathstar2000]

I have been playing "Branded Despia Shaddoll" on Nexus and "Shaddoll Despia" in Master Duel for months, love the creativity this archetype allows for. Once I'm done opening the selction box I'm surely going to craft Buster Blader to replicate my TCG build

[@Quilla_Kocha]

very professional! thank you

[@AhmedAli-jx9ie]

we need more videos like this why did you stop making content

[@bayleaf2383]

“Maxx c ends their turn with no interaction” idk, if you maxx c me on branded fusion, I’ll probably let you get one more card if it means I get mirrorjade + chimera turn after

[@HasturrX]

Gracias Homie 🤙🏾

[@johnnyhall9154]

Been using Branded Thunder Dragon, actually quite fun

[@jollystore9868]

This is insightful

[@HarioGu]

Very informative

[@Tony4You]

Aluber the buber of duber

[@aaronhyland1529]

thank u it helped me so much

[@insomniac6136]

Just as an fyi, at 15:34, Chengying is a wyrm and not a warrior ;) Loved the vid, helped me a ton

[@MrAlexjmercer]

I play swordsoul and I get confused by that . Yes, Still nice guide

[@LamesAMA]

Thanks for that, huge L. I cut it from the video.

[@randallwebb569]

Could you please do a Drytron video! Or a suggestion video?

[@christopherrobbins2600]

I was hoping you'd go more into Darklord Despia

[@theUeki49]

Think I'm gonna try to make branded skullservants work

[@rotsaastorrotsa]

Great video

[@Crowbar1225]

If I were to make these as actual characters with superpowers based off of their card effects, how would I make it work?

[@jacebase]

I'm trying this deck for the first time. What are some trap cards I should run?

[@hellothere700]

*Don’t*

[@eyal28282]

I want to note a mistake you and I make. You banish Mirrorjade, not Aluber Aluber has a GY effect that is very useful to stop annoying cards. Edit: This doesn't work, my bad. Branded in Red will banish aluber if mirrorjade won't

[@royales]

anyone know what software/website he used for the explaination (not master duel)

[@nguyentandung42]

Hey I really want you to do a video on marincess, they are the most dominant deck rn in master duel alt ladder and i want to know their combo choke point so i can beat them

[@iTzJuniorOT]

You can only use one effect of aluber once per turn

[@NintennoCollector]

How does the limit to Enchantress to one from two affect the adventure variant?

[@sezanhossain7866]

Can we please have one for Tearlaments? :)

[@DarylPedro16]

@10:03 branded lost doesnt protect branded fusion from ash

[@LamesAMA]

This is what I get for talking about cards I never used. Made proper cuts in the video to take out those parts.

[@luminous3558]

Yeah it only prevents the negation of activations and ash negates effects. Thanks konami

[@paulskiye6930]

Time to main deck 3x rah sphere mode.

[@LamesAMA]

I actually should've mentioned this, Sphere Mode/Golem are good against Adventure Despia. They're not great into pure Despia though.

[@GoriCHAD]

Since we get to search 2 Branded spell cards, which one do we prioritize if we have Branded Fusion already? Red or Lost?

[@LamesAMA]

I think I say in the video prioritize Lost, but looking back I don't think that's true. Red is a safe pick if you have some kind of followup with Poly or Branded Opening, but Lost gives you more advantage and more protection for the Lubellion. Very hard to call in general, depends on the hand/situation a little too much.

[@GoriCHAD]

@@LamesAMA I see, thanks for answering. The deck pretty tricky to play even though the combo is short and straightforward because there are too many options including not using Mirrorjade's banish until the opponent's turn or even prioritizing Lost to get Mercourier for more disruption.

[@SilentHorusKnight]

Am I hearing Tekken music in the background? Infinite Azure, to be specific :D

[@literallygrass1328]

Whats an alubear?

[@giulio3921]

do you reccomend no fusion area to counter albaz?

[@LamesAMA]

No, it's very niche. If you face any good deck that doesn't use fusion summoning, you're bricking yourself.

[@endeav0r_49]

"midrange" dude branded despia is literally top three most expensive decks to build rn how is that midrange it has 20 UR

[@LamesAMA]

Midrange is a playstyle in card games, somewhere between control and aggro/combo.

[@endeav0r_49]

@@LamesAMA ohhh got it then

[@izzydarkhart4144]

Also, try not to lean too much on branded fusion as it will be countered the majority of the time. I always set up expecting it will be ashed, if it goes threw you win the but it if does not that is perfect because now you can't ash my actual play (also people tend to sit on there ash till you play branded fusion, so they do not ash majority of your other plays out of fear you might play branded fusion next). I know this video is older and branded has like 20 other plays besides Branded fusion now and rarely even need to rely on it. Hell they even have synchros plays now that are stronger then there fusion plays.

[@thedemonpit]

When you throw everyone off by being a lore accurate albaz deck so your cycle is infinite.

[@AlphaSquadZero]

I have learned nothing about what to negate with my omnis when playing against this deck.

[@shingrandfather]

fuck what is the background music starting from 7:10 i know this song it’s on the tip of my tongue it’s background music for some game but i just can’t name it it’s liking me

[@LamesAMA]

It's from Street Fighter V. It's from the Season 3 trailer and I think it's the main menu music now.

[@ksiliana]

If they have theater with aluber and mirrorjade on they field you need both backrow removal and lightning or raigeki to clear it. And please, never super poly when they have theater. It's all good in theory but you have to actually show how these scenarios work because people just believe anything.

[@LamesAMA]

Theater is not represented in any successful Despia builds. Even in the worst case scenario of them having Theater and you are forced to use Aluber as material, you still have a Dracostapelia that threatens whatever the Theater floats into.

[@FallenStarPunk]

If Nibby is useless, what about vs. Adventure Package unless you negate Rider

[@abui6914]

mirrorjade can easily remove adventure token

[@LamesAMA]

It's sometimes bad vs Adv Despia. if they have rite+branded fusion, they only hit 4 summons. Best case scenario you trade for Gryphon.

[@nicodemvs3015]

So is Fairy Tail Snow a must? Is it just a nice texh card?

[@LamesAMA]

You must have some kind of light target to send for Albion off Branded Fusion, I think Snow is the best one. You can run something like Veilers or Nib. They don't get value from the Graveyard, but they're better in hand and still make sure you can make Albion if you need to.

[@luminous3558]

Its not your standard play but any deck that can run snow should absolutely be on it(if you have the UR materials). Snow is completely absurd when it comes to giving you interruption and protection from a ton of targeted negation.

[@MrAlexjmercer]

I play test with Snow a little bit and because your cards get effect when banish anyway. Snow is literally free-real estate

[@theboy1625]

Currently runnjng three snow

[@JNoel-zx8xb]

Umm Chengying is a Wyrm. Not Warrior.

[@LamesAMA]

Cutting the video rn to account for this. Huge L on my part.

[@BigBootyBatman]

@@LamesAMA respect for being so open about your accountability

[@JNoel-zx8xb]

@@LamesAMA Great video nonetheless, especially for people like me who stopped tcg during xyz era.

[@LamesAMA]

Thats also when I stopped playing! I made these videos for people like me that found it hard to get a grasp on the game when they came back.

[@JNoel-zx8xb]

​@@LamesAMA Yeah! Great format on the video too! If you had the cards themselves in Master Duel, I think making a part 2 or including it at the end where you upload replays and commentate your plays and thoughts over them, like especially against current meta decks on what you were expecting your opponents was gonna do. I know MD can be expensive so only do it if you happen to have the cards. Many content creators upload no commentary/learning replay videos not realizing there are plenty of people that came from Duel Links or a returner from IRL that don't know wth is happening LOL. For example; atm, I'm seeing many people feel lost after their Aluber or Branded Fusion gets ashed, struggling to play through. And that's a common interaction. Again, I very much appreciated your video.

[@aidenlin2817]

Guilti-Gearfried is useless against adventure Tenyi. Chenying is not a warrior, he is a wyrm.

[@tyranitararmaldo]

Every 2nd game is against this deck, and I hate it. The deck I have been using, seems like it went from specifically tailored to beat the old deck, to auto-losing verses this one. Mirrorjade the iceblade mirror iceblade mirror ice whatever is just horrible. It just actively punishes opponents for outing it no matter what they did to get rid of it, and seems like it was specifically written to hurt kaijus as much as possible. My boss monsters are immune to targeting and have a semi-float on destruction, so mirroriceblademirroricejademirrorbladeice just bypasses all of it.

[@itzoptimal9726]

Always ash the branded fusion mirror jade is rough unless I got a negate but thankfully all the Master duel people don’t know how to play it yet d.d crow hands out violations

[@Appropriatenamenumbervalid]

As a branded player i am very happy that noone is using dd crow

[@itzoptimal9726]

@@Appropriatenamenumbervalid well I am >:)

[@Appropriatenamenumbervalid]

@@itzoptimal9726 😭😭

[@itzoptimal9726]

@@Appropriatenamenumbervalid just draw the out who’s stopping you also I’ve seen people dd crow the fallen of Albaz or pop the lubellion they just don’t know

[@Appropriatenamenumbervalid]

@@itzoptimal9726 bruh

[@angelogrotti]

Branded Lost doesn’t protect Branded Fusion

[@wubwubdododo5656]

Uhm, what? Branded Lost doesn't protect Branded in Red in any way.

[@cwalser544]

Too bad you can't use the Branded in Red combo on your opponents turn to avoid the attack onto MirrorJade by summoning another one, BECAUSE in Master Duel, the game auto identifies that MirrorJade is already on the battle field and therefore cannot be targeted in the Extra Deck for future fusion summoning. Only in the TCG does that little trick work. And only by verbal debate 🤣🤣🤣🤣😆

[@diegomiranda8905]

I thought I had the most annoying deck, I haven't even played 1 swordsoul but I'm getting dicked around by the stupid mirror jade banning my shit and masquerade bringing me to near 0

[@emrebayram7417]

SourPls

[@anicon07]

really disagree with the comedy there, should run a third copy of albaz because that's the purpose of playing the patchwork engine. if your branded fusion gets stopped, poly will fus albaz and another dark/light to bring out mirjade. allure and mercourier are also crucial in this deck to get massive plus in card advantage.

[@rokmare]

Branded lost makes comedy irrelevant so tragedy is the correct choice

[@NightAngel783]

Cmon dawg ur ruining my game letting these people know how to shut me down

[@Honest_Mids_Masher]

You do realize that now despia is a tier 1 deck. What did you think was gonna happen? Someone was gonna do it anyways eventually.

[@karl3168]

lol open ash or lose the game classic healthy and balanced yugioh I guess i'll wait until branded fusion is banned

[@LamesAMA]

The advice given in the video is for generic cards that every deck is likely to run. If your deck isn't drawing your hand traps, you're drawing combo extenders or other playmakers that let you to play through an opponent's board or interrupt their plays. Despia is also an incredibly fair 'best' deck, if a deck can never win a game where Branded Fusion resolves, there is probably a severe problem in deckbuilding.

[@kinyon2555]

I’m so sick of this deck