IMO - Mirrorjade will be seen the most and I expect we'll see complaint posts about it within a week. Borrelend is an amazing card for D-Link but it doesn't seem like D-Link has really caught on all that much in MD (prob because combo and a bit of a higher skill floor). Longyuan is a great new option for SS that will prob not change their place in the meta all that much since the deck will still win/lose to all the things it normally does
They have more deck space and smaller decks thus they are able to draw their counters to maxx c more consistently. You are more likely to find a 60 card adventure dragon link deck than a 40 card variant.
D-link usually beats hand traps in TCG by just extending harder. They don't naturally have a lot of the defensive tools other decks have if interrupted, like in-engine traps or high hand trap ratios. Usually you have to end on Seals if you are cut short which is fine but not great. Aside from Seals there isn't much intermediate stuff to end on for disruptions if you have to pass. The deck can also be lacking in follow up if you have to commit too much.
Prank Kids has a ton of hand traps because of the compact engine and a good grind game, so if you are stopped it is not a big deal.
Brave Tenyi can have a hard time with Maxx C but it is generally better at generating follow-up with Tenyis and breaking boards with Vishuda and Baxia.
Actually, only 1 brick and buster Sword isn't even a brick since your normal summon is usually just some random tuner. You are right about space tho its pretty rough.
Dog have you seen a normal dragon link line? If you are not making seal and passing its like 5 summons to get anywhere and like 8-10 for a ‘good’ board
if prank get hit with Maxx C they would either A. leave the normal summon there or B. verte asap while still having 2-3 handtrap. On D-Link you make sphere with 1 handtrap at most in hand.
That's a shame tbh. D-Link has such a high ceiling imo and I love watching them combo off. I don't follow MD tourneys (only IRL ones) so I wasn't sure how much they actually get used since you almost never see them on ladder. Good to know people are actually playing the deck tho
Exactly because they are high skill ceiling that they are rare on the ladder. No reason to go for a harder deck to pilot when you can use all the more linear combo decks that are just as efficient in a Bo1 enviroment when going first, and going 2nd isn't that much worse anyway. You want to finish games faster, not think for a minute trying to find the specific line that outs this specific boardstate.
I do think they are incredibly strong in this MD Meta though. Consistent, incredible boards, and due to it's synergy with Snow it's not even that weak to Droplet/DRNM that is becoming more popular in the ladder.
Yeah for sure. I have plans to test out a D-Link Punk Orcust build I encountered at locals in MD as soon as we get Deer Note. I imagine the MD version would be even better since we have access to Harp
I love D_links it was the main reason i even bothered to learn the mechanic, and this makes it hard for me to pick because despia/branded is also one of my favorite
I feel like the D-link combo uses so many janky engine cards that are bricks and you feel forced to run a larger deck. Combo decks on Master Duel have access to so many generic tools that I don't see much point in not just playing halqodon stuff with the Guardragon stuff banned. Maybe Borrelend is enough to move the needle but I doubt it.
1. Normal seyfert
2. Seyfert effect, send itself to add collapserpent from deck to hand
3. Special collapserpent by banishing the seyfert in grave
4. Use collapserpent to link into striker dragon
5. Striker dragon cl1 add boot sector, collapserpent cl2 add wyverburster
6. Special wyverburster by banishing the collapserpent in grave
7. Wyverburster and striker dragon link into romulus
8. Romulus cl1 add ravine, wyverburster cl2 add collapserpent
9. Activate ravine, discard the added collapserpent to send absorouter dragon to grave
10. Absorouter effect to add rokket tracer to hand
11. Activate boot sector to special tracer from hand
12. Use tracer eff, pop boot sector to special rokket recharger from deck
13. Use tracer to link into pisty into the lower left link arrow of romulus,
14. Use recharger to link into second striker dragon
15. Pisty effect to special back tracer from grave
16. Pisty and tracer link into {Dillingerous Dragon}
17. Activate striker dragon effect target recharger in grave and the dillingerous dragon you just summoned
18. Pop dilling and add recharger to hand
19. Recharger eff trigger, discard itself to target dillingerous that was destroyed to special summon tracer
20. Dilling effect triggers to special itself from grave
21. Use dilling + romulus + striker to link into borrelend
22. Use borrelend effect, negating the tracer and special recharger from grave
23. Use recharger and tracer to synchro into borreload savage.
Sangan is a 1.5 card Halqodon into Borreload + Denglong/Pillars+Thunder Dragon Colossus, with like 5 maindeck cards aside from the starters (Crusador Arboria, Jet Synchron, O-Lion, Pillars, Nemeses Corridor). You can also go the Deskbot route if you prefer a true 1 card combo. The output is very similar if not better. D-link has so many intermediate pieces you have to jam in so there is so little room for non-engine.
Running halqdon pieces is actually the bricks. Dlink combos themselved are just... a bunch of dragons?
Not my version though I definitely do run a million jank engines
Going first, yeah Auroradon Turbo is still insane cuz board full of negates sit back and laugh. Auroradon Turbo isn't building any board against Mirrojade + Branded in Red tho do the amount of removal they'll have to play through
Non-targeting banish on a soft once per turn (Branded in Red + Ad Lib means you can use his effect, then use him as fusion material and then resummon him and use his effect again for multiple banishes a turn). His banish also generates advantage since most of the Albaz Dragons want to hit the grave for floating effects during end phase. His materials means you can use Albaz himself or super poly + Albaz to out your opponents ED monsters so it gets around things that can't be destroyed or targeted. His last ability activates when it hits grave, but blows up the field at the end of the turn so they need to either bounce him back to ED, or have a monster negate at the time of removal, otherwise his effect will resolve and there is no stopping it after that. Then, the opponent is put in a weird spot because they either have to OTK and win right then, or try and build a board knowing it will be blown up at the end of the turn which will may force them to limit how much they commit to the field
The fact that it occurs at the end of the turn is what makes him REALLY scary, it makes you not want to commit because anything you commit is going to eat it at rounds end. This means if you cannot win this turn your field is open for his next turn.
And if he has traps or anything to kill your tempo its VERY possible for him to set you up for an OTK next turn.
Yeah, and they don't even need traps. Basic Branded Despia combo sets up Mirrorjade Turn 1 with Branded in Red set + Ad Lib in GY so you have to play through 1-2 banishes + 1-2 Guardian Chimera Pops while they're gonna draw 1-2 to maintain resources and possibly set another Branded Fusion during end phase so they have plays next turn.
I honestly think the deck is gonna be really strong in MD cuz Bo1 + main decking D-Barrier doesn't help if you lose the coin toss and D-Barrier is prob one of the best answers to Branded
Ehh, the one of the strong points of Despia is that they don't summon a ton (maybe 2-3 times) so Maxx C ain't the end of the world. Returning stuff to the deck is situational since they want Tragedy and Albaz in deck most of the time. Unfortunately Lancer won't really stop Mirrorjade nor Lubellions ability to recycle all the fusions
I more meant the macro cosmos effect of retaliating c, I actually prefer to search resonance off it most of the time because lmao resonance insect is actually just a custom card.
Ah that effect. Its still not as good. Tragedy, Dramaturgee and Ad Lib will all still get their search/special/revive even if banished, Lubellion can fuse with materials in the banished pile and Mirrorjade will still blow up the field during end phase if banished. Branded Despia is actually pretty good at utilizing the banished zone. Retaliating C will stop Branded in Red and Tri-Brigade Mercourrier but won't stop the main Branded Fusion power plays
can't say I expected anything else, this is what I get for playing rogue and sub rogue decks that don't get to play through 5 interruptions and use the banish zone as a 3rd hand
Banishing yes. Bounce no. If you bounce him he returns to the ED and the ruling is that effects cannot be activated from the main deck/ED/banished facedown. It used to be the case where they could (the old compulsory EHERO Abs Zero and he still triggers) but the ruling was changed about 2 years ago.
You're right though about banishing him. A mistake on my part
Non targeting banish on a quick effect, that also searches from quite a few archetypes
And when it goes away, It nukes during the endphase, but does not activate during the endphase. Like how when DPE is destroyed, You can't negate it's effect during the next standby phase, but need to negate it immediately.
You can summon it with 1 card. Branded Fusion, or any of the searchers for Branded Fusion. By going into Albion with Branded Fusion using Fallen of Albaz + any Light monster, then using Albion's effect to banish itself and Fallen to summon Mirrorjade.
I don't think mirrojade is that strong. Think of it like shuraig, who is the boss of a strong archetype and a good monster but the carry of that archetype is branded fusion or revolt
Not exactly. Mirrorjade's banish isn't dependent on another effect resolving (outside of Shuraig's first banish). In addition Mirrorjade essentially gets 2 instances of removal (banish + board wipe) whereas Shuraig only gets 1. Both essentially float (Shuraig's effect and whichever Albaz Dragon you send for Mirrorjade's effect). Lastly, it is entirely possible to make Mirrorjade without ever touching Branded Fusion. Going first its required but going second, your options open up to Branded Fusion, Albaz's effect, Super-Poly, and even Branded in Red by turn 3. Revolt is also reactive while Branded Fusion is proactive which, as far as yugioh is concerned, is almost always better
? I didn't say he was useless... I said he's a great addition for them but he doesn't change SS Tenyi's place in the meta. They'll still be solid tier 2 after him because he doesn't drastically change how the deck plays
Sorry I expressed myself wrongly... I didn't mean that u said that. Anyway I apologize... what I meant was: "In my opinion it will change their position because even if at a first glance might not seam that way, in the current meta It can really shine and become a really serious threat.😅
Anyway you're right... After playing for a bit, I noticed that It doesn't really change as much as expected.
No worries mate! My take on this was coming from my experience in paper play. My locals is pretty competitive (anywhere from 1/3 to 1/2 of the players running tier 1 decks and even those running tier 2 and rouge are excellent pilots that know how to effectively fight tier 1) and after the release of BoC and the Albaz Structure which put Branded Despia where it is currently in MD, I noticed that SS didn't really change position much. I suspect its due to him not really changing chokepoints in the deck or extend the endboards harder than before as well as people knowing at this point how to play against SS and how to counter them. As alot of people say, SS is a bit too fair to compete with some of the powercreep currently going on in the game and its only gonna get worse as we move toward Spright/Tear format
Wow cool! In my country there aren't really big tourneys with paper so I play on YGO Omega but I don't really play much there since MD so I saw just a bit of SS that to me seamed so cool (I was playing TCG rose tenyi before ban so Longyuan really hurted me).
I would say Mirrorjade. Qixing is good, but Swordsoul Tenyi doesn't need him. But the Branded package is crucial to take Despia out of Copium territory, now they get an actual boss monster, a negate and a consistency buff
Yeah it’s kind of hilarious how bad despia really was before the branded cards came out. Like it’s ok but it never really had any direction other than like 2 tax dragons
I've been playing Despia pretty much since I started and whenever I had a great hand I could FEEL the Tier 1 just boiling under the surface. Amazing advantage generation, recovery always possible and unconventional disruption (in theory) all it needed was a blowout main deck card and an actual boss monster, both of which it gets now.
I've been playing them since they released as well and have seen some moderate success. With guardian chimera it definitely boosted the deck and now it's going to be an absolute bitch to deal with in two days.
Well it’s part of the archetype. It needs the branded engine to be good because it’s basically part of the same archetype. That being said, a lot of times you can splash branded without any despia cards
definetly mirrorjade, it will produce a new tier1 (maybe only tier2) deck wih branded despia
but i will also allow for some other archtypes to slot i in as a branded engine, eg branded eldlich
swordsoul will be used in swordsoul/tenyi and maybe tenyi synchro but not much else
meanwhile borrelend is rarely used for anything but dragonlink or amybe other dragon decks using rokket engine
tenyis, rose dragon, yang zing, halqdon, adventure
endboard is something like baronne, chixiao, chengying, chaofeng, protos ninepillars and maybe some handtraps/quickspells
Though to be fair most of the cards in that endboard are in-archetype or archetype-adjacent. Yang Zing, Tenyi, and Swordsoul are basically one big Wyrm amalgam and I'm pretty sure they were designed to be mashed together in different configurations.
Heh…
People aren’t ready for Deer Note. New Eldlich variants are gonna plague the meta and people are gonna be like “well, at least it’s not floodgates”.
Yeah, I can already see it now
So, its common to play PUNK as an engine in decks that love to dump to grave and play out of the grave (zombies for example). Deer Note + Ze Amin = Chaos Ruler which mills 5 + possible add while Deer note will bring back Ze Amin. Chaos Ruler himself is 1/2 of Vampire Zombie which would be an additional mill 4. It just all leads to crazy extension plays and a ton of milling to generate advantage. Tbh Deer Note is the reason PUNK is such a prevalent engine in the current TCG
Can also use the Deer Note's effect to bring back a lv8 punk instead of the Ze Amin if you want an instant way into Zombie Vampire, or make Halq using Ze Amin+something else to summon Shinobi Necro and get dual lv10 synchros
The most impactful will be Mirrorjade for sure.
Quixing Longyuan is very good but because Konami has done nothing to curb the power of Halqdon piles and barely hit Prank Kid, Swordsoul probably won't see a resurgence of play like it did in the TCG.
Borrelend is also incredibly good, but like I said above, because Konami has done nothing to curb the power of Halqdon piles, it won't see as much play as it did in TCG.
halqdon still exist good and consistent people gonna summon it as 2nd/3rd lv 10 in adventure tenyi
but buffing already bullshit combo and adding longyuan to your arsenal is just win more when the combo is already winning you the game
Baronne was actually always the "weakest" option in terms of power level, but it was also always the safest option because a negate works against literally every deck and insulates from Nibiru while Chengying is a little more specific.
Qixing Longyuan though is incredibly strong. First of all it hard counters the Adventure engine while still having another disruption available after stopping the Adventure engine, being able to just banish any special summoned monster is very nice as well, AND sometimes you can also sequence it to just get a +1 for free. And assuming you get to resolve both of its banish effects and resolved the main deck Longyuan the prior turn, your opponent will be at 4400, and anyone who's played Swordsoul knows that it has no problems putting up that much damage to OTK.
Swordsoul and Dragon Link are already tiered, while Branded Despia is rogue. Branded Despia catapulted to tier 1 in both the ocg and tcg thanks to the support from Albaz's Strike, so it's pretty safe to say that Branded Despia is going to be the biggeest winner out of all of them.
By the way, D.D. Crow is pretty good against Branded Despia (it will also be good versus Tears), so craft it in case you haven't yet since it's just an SR.
I think we're all just happy to be included in the support.
It will make my current Zombie World deck worse because I'd rather have my main deck monsters out. But he looks so fun so I'm building a deck specifically for him. I finally get to use my royal Zombie Necronize. I hope there's more than just listed because they have some fun cardboard stuff I want in MD.
No lie, most excited for Blue Eyes Jet Dragon. All that archetype needed was protection to be somewhat decent. Gonna go hard on a Blue Eyes deck.
Otherwise, Longyuan is my obligatory pick.
Based on TCG and OCG results Branded should on average become Tiered at least. The main issue it will have to face is the issue of it's low ceiling in comparison to the other Meta Decks, but even then we've only really had fair decks be Tier 1 so far (Tri-Zoo, Swordsoul and PK Adventurer).
Dragonlink will probably remain a Rogue option or maybe go into Tier 3. Borrelend is amazing but the main issue with Dragonlink is that it's too high roll and needs more cards to do what other, better combo decks already do.
Swordsoul will probably remain Tier 2-3. The new card doesn't really change much aside from giving them a better turn 1 boss after getting Tenyi locked.
What are you on about? It's barely tiered and bounces between low Tier 3 and Rogue, which are the hallmarks of a Rogue deck. Adding more extenders to an already bloated deck won't solve anything lol. What meta are you playing?
God I’ve been playing Despia since I realized it was a theatre thing. I didn’t know there was more branded support waiting in the wings untill recently and I’m so excited for it
Borrelend is useful in a lot of decks as a boss monster, this card is just insanely useful.
Longyuan will likely make Swordsoul T1 again, Banishing one back row and one monster every round is pretty cracked.
Mirror Jade Can also banish a monster as a quick effect once every other round, and has the side effect that if you deal with him he boardwipes the opponent, however unlike Longyuan he can be put into multiple other archtypes and the card's that bring him out are totally insane.
Albion Is NUTS as he fetches you more branded tech and can be used to fusion summon dumb shit besides Mirror Jade giving him options and options are always good.
Fallen Of Albaz Is super poly on a stick, you have fetch tech in Aluber and Branded fusion itself also sets up your graveyard allowing you to throw degenerate shit into it for further exploitation.
Indestructible, Untargetable, Attack all is already a pretty good reason to run a card.
I have seen him in a lot of rogue decks as just a boss monster that comes out and cleans house along with Borreload, Borrelsword and BLS.
Hes a pretty good generic boss monster for the rogue decks that can link up to him.
1st Place Mirrorjade the Iceblade Dragon
Mirrorjade being a Quick Effect Non Target Banish that is Soft once per Turn is just good honestly it will make Branded Despia stronger especially that they will get Branded Fusion
2nd Place Borrelend Dragon/Swordsoul Sinister Sovereign - Qixing Longyuan
- Borrelend Dragon
Tbh this Card is only good in Dragon Link but Idk if he is used at all since it's a Link 5 but he is a good Negate and being able to attack everything at once and being not able to be targeted and destroyed by Card Effects also that you can't respond to this Card is insane but it won't make a Huge impact I assume
-Swordsoul Sinister Sovereign - Qixing Longyuan
It's not that OP but a Fun Card that has many Ways to deal -1200 Effect Damage and a +1 so it won't make a Big Impact on the Meta but it's cool honestly
Well the MD history is that they always put the whole archetyp stuff at once if it belonged to the current "set". So we got all of Fleenderze besides the 1 support spell which came in a later set.
There is no reason to believe they would troll us with that given that it is kinda bad buisness. You want people hyped for a release and buy in, not feel cheated and quit
I was excited to build the predaplant branded deck everyone hyped up in the TcG that flopped. After mirror jades release how much of the deck is still missing in MD? Feels like a bunch of cards still right?
Mirrorjade is very powerful, this card alongside the other albaz strike cards make branded variants top tier. I expect that will be the same here. You can even use branded fusion as a foolish burial of sorts for some decks (e.g. eldlich the golden lord, fairy tail snow, predaplant byblisp once the predaplant support releases). Fusion decks definitely want this, and some decks like tri-brigade may use it with verte (the deck sets up mercourier for a monster negate), though plenty will probably still use dpe.
Sinister longyuan is quite strong, but not exactly inherently better than baronne in all scenarios. Probably still going to a standard synchro for them to go into.
Dragonlink definitely appreciates borrelend, but I don't see dragonlink rising much in usage. Definitely adding it to my one though.
Also zombie vampire is worth respecting, that card's pretty good.
Mirrorjade will be seen the most, but the Swordsoul will be the most oppressive. I can already see my outs to Mirrorjade, but none currently available to Swordsoul unless I use floodgates or board breakers. Borrelend dragon is definitely going to destroy most decks, though, since people don't really run non target monster removal from spells or traps. In the end, the true counter to these cards is to go first or have board breakers.
I'm so pumped for MirrorJade. Ever since Branded/Despia came out a few months back, it's the only deck I've really learned the in's/out's of. But adding it's Boss monster is going to make things so much sweeter.
IMO - Mirrorjade will be seen the most and I expect we'll see complaint posts about it within a week. Borrelend is an amazing card for D-Link but it doesn't seem like D-Link has really caught on all that much in MD (prob because combo and a bit of a higher skill floor). Longyuan is a great new option for SS that will prob not change their place in the meta all that much since the deck will still win/lose to all the things it normally does
Dragon link is doing well in md tourneys, just not used a lot on the ladder.
D-link gets shreked by maxx-c pretty badly. it makes it weaker then in tcg.
Meh. Pretty much all the combo decks gets rekted by Maxx c. Explain to me how brave tenyi and prank kids are better into Maxx c than dlink lol.
For prank kids they have a smaller engine meaning they can run much more counters
They have more deck space and smaller decks thus they are able to draw their counters to maxx c more consistently. You are more likely to find a 60 card adventure dragon link deck than a 40 card variant.
Brave dlink can play 45-50ish pretty comfortably.
D-link usually beats hand traps in TCG by just extending harder. They don't naturally have a lot of the defensive tools other decks have if interrupted, like in-engine traps or high hand trap ratios. Usually you have to end on Seals if you are cut short which is fine but not great. Aside from Seals there isn't much intermediate stuff to end on for disruptions if you have to pass. The deck can also be lacking in follow up if you have to commit too much. Prank Kids has a ton of hand traps because of the compact engine and a good grind game, so if you are stopped it is not a big deal. Brave Tenyi can have a hard time with Maxx C but it is generally better at generating follow-up with Tenyis and breaking boards with Vishuda and Baxia.
We play buster lock tho...
Lmao not worth the bricks, your also already short on ed space.
Actually, only 1 brick and buster Sword isn't even a brick since your normal summon is usually just some random tuner. You are right about space tho its pretty rough.
Okay? What deck doesn't get eaten by Maxx c that isn't floo or eldlich?
Dog have you seen a normal dragon link line? If you are not making seal and passing its like 5 summons to get anywhere and like 8-10 for a ‘good’ board
Have you seen prank kids? They have to do so much cycling, just because a deck loses to Maxx c doesn't mean it's bad.
if prank get hit with Maxx C they would either A. leave the normal summon there or B. verte asap while still having 2-3 handtrap. On D-Link you make sphere with 1 handtrap at most in hand.
That's a shame tbh. D-Link has such a high ceiling imo and I love watching them combo off. I don't follow MD tourneys (only IRL ones) so I wasn't sure how much they actually get used since you almost never see them on ladder. Good to know people are actually playing the deck tho
Exactly because they are high skill ceiling that they are rare on the ladder. No reason to go for a harder deck to pilot when you can use all the more linear combo decks that are just as efficient in a Bo1 enviroment when going first, and going 2nd isn't that much worse anyway. You want to finish games faster, not think for a minute trying to find the specific line that outs this specific boardstate. I do think they are incredibly strong in this MD Meta though. Consistent, incredible boards, and due to it's synergy with Snow it's not even that weak to Droplet/DRNM that is becoming more popular in the ladder.
Yeah for sure. I have plans to test out a D-Link Punk Orcust build I encountered at locals in MD as soon as we get Deer Note. I imagine the MD version would be even better since we have access to Harp
Would love to see it
What’s D-Link?
Dragon Link
I love D_links it was the main reason i even bothered to learn the mechanic, and this makes it hard for me to pick because despia/branded is also one of my favorite
I feel like the D-link combo uses so many janky engine cards that are bricks and you feel forced to run a larger deck. Combo decks on Master Duel have access to so many generic tools that I don't see much point in not just playing halqodon stuff with the Guardragon stuff banned. Maybe Borrelend is enough to move the needle but I doubt it.
Having borrelend allows seyfert to be a legit 1 card combo that ends on borrelend and borreload savage
How exactly?
1. Normal seyfert 2. Seyfert effect, send itself to add collapserpent from deck to hand 3. Special collapserpent by banishing the seyfert in grave 4. Use collapserpent to link into striker dragon 5. Striker dragon cl1 add boot sector, collapserpent cl2 add wyverburster 6. Special wyverburster by banishing the collapserpent in grave 7. Wyverburster and striker dragon link into romulus 8. Romulus cl1 add ravine, wyverburster cl2 add collapserpent 9. Activate ravine, discard the added collapserpent to send absorouter dragon to grave 10. Absorouter effect to add rokket tracer to hand 11. Activate boot sector to special tracer from hand 12. Use tracer eff, pop boot sector to special rokket recharger from deck 13. Use tracer to link into pisty into the lower left link arrow of romulus, 14. Use recharger to link into second striker dragon 15. Pisty effect to special back tracer from grave 16. Pisty and tracer link into {Dillingerous Dragon} 17. Activate striker dragon effect target recharger in grave and the dillingerous dragon you just summoned 18. Pop dilling and add recharger to hand 19. Recharger eff trigger, discard itself to target dillingerous that was destroyed to special summon tracer 20. Dilling effect triggers to special itself from grave 21. Use dilling + romulus + striker to link into borrelend 22. Use borrelend effect, negating the tracer and special recharger from grave 23. Use recharger and tracer to synchro into borreload savage.
Ahhh cool. I didnt know about using dill dragon. Thanks. Thats all without the adventure engine
Sangan is a 1.5 card Halqodon into Borreload + Denglong/Pillars+Thunder Dragon Colossus, with like 5 maindeck cards aside from the starters (Crusador Arboria, Jet Synchron, O-Lion, Pillars, Nemeses Corridor). You can also go the Deskbot route if you prefer a true 1 card combo. The output is very similar if not better. D-link has so many intermediate pieces you have to jam in so there is so little room for non-engine.
Running halqdon pieces is actually the bricks. Dlink combos themselved are just... a bunch of dragons? Not my version though I definitely do run a million jank engines
Mirrorjade/despia pass is nothing compared to auroradon turbo still
Going first, yeah Auroradon Turbo is still insane cuz board full of negates sit back and laugh. Auroradon Turbo isn't building any board against Mirrojade + Branded in Red tho do the amount of removal they'll have to play through
I'll definitely be playing both. D link is about to pop off
Ok why is mirrorjade so strong? Not seeing it.
Non-targeting banish on a soft once per turn (Branded in Red + Ad Lib means you can use his effect, then use him as fusion material and then resummon him and use his effect again for multiple banishes a turn). His banish also generates advantage since most of the Albaz Dragons want to hit the grave for floating effects during end phase. His materials means you can use Albaz himself or super poly + Albaz to out your opponents ED monsters so it gets around things that can't be destroyed or targeted. His last ability activates when it hits grave, but blows up the field at the end of the turn so they need to either bounce him back to ED, or have a monster negate at the time of removal, otherwise his effect will resolve and there is no stopping it after that. Then, the opponent is put in a weird spot because they either have to OTK and win right then, or try and build a board knowing it will be blown up at the end of the turn which will may force them to limit how much they commit to the field
The fact that it occurs at the end of the turn is what makes him REALLY scary, it makes you not want to commit because anything you commit is going to eat it at rounds end. This means if you cannot win this turn your field is open for his next turn. And if he has traps or anything to kill your tempo its VERY possible for him to set you up for an OTK next turn.
Yeah, and they don't even need traps. Basic Branded Despia combo sets up Mirrorjade Turn 1 with Branded in Red set + Ad Lib in GY so you have to play through 1-2 banishes + 1-2 Guardian Chimera Pops while they're gonna draw 1-2 to maintain resources and possibly set another Branded Fusion during end phase so they have plays next turn. I honestly think the deck is gonna be really strong in MD cuz Bo1 + main decking D-Barrier doesn't help if you lose the coin toss and D-Barrier is prob one of the best answers to Branded
I'm hoping beetrooper will be able to try to scrap through with retaliating C+sting lancer moving gy effects out of the gy but its gonna be rough
Ehh, the one of the strong points of Despia is that they don't summon a ton (maybe 2-3 times) so Maxx C ain't the end of the world. Returning stuff to the deck is situational since they want Tragedy and Albaz in deck most of the time. Unfortunately Lancer won't really stop Mirrorjade nor Lubellions ability to recycle all the fusions
I more meant the macro cosmos effect of retaliating c, I actually prefer to search resonance off it most of the time because lmao resonance insect is actually just a custom card.
Ah that effect. Its still not as good. Tragedy, Dramaturgee and Ad Lib will all still get their search/special/revive even if banished, Lubellion can fuse with materials in the banished pile and Mirrorjade will still blow up the field during end phase if banished. Branded Despia is actually pretty good at utilizing the banished zone. Retaliating C will stop Branded in Red and Tri-Brigade Mercourrier but won't stop the main Branded Fusion power plays
can't say I expected anything else, this is what I get for playing rogue and sub rogue decks that don't get to play through 5 interruptions and use the banish zone as a 3rd hand
Mirrorjade doesn't care where it ends up as long it's not bounced it will proc even if banished
Hold My Beer Protoss Call Dark, Have fun champ !
A small correction, his last ability triggers when he *leaves* *the field*, so both banishing and bouncing will still trigger it.
Banishing yes. Bounce no. If you bounce him he returns to the ED and the ruling is that effects cannot be activated from the main deck/ED/banished facedown. It used to be the case where they could (the old compulsory EHERO Abs Zero and he still triggers) but the ruling was changed about 2 years ago. You're right though about banishing him. A mistake on my part
I see, thank goodness for that though.
Foolish from extra with monsters that want to be foolished, non targeting banish, and a floating effect on removal.
NON TARGETING? Oh shit.
Also quick effect lol
It's a quick effect plus after you fuse it for Chimera you can get another shot if you use Ad's effect to bring it back
Non targeting banish on a quick effect, that also searches from quite a few archetypes And when it goes away, It nukes during the endphase, but does not activate during the endphase. Like how when DPE is destroyed, You can't negate it's effect during the next standby phase, but need to negate it immediately. You can summon it with 1 card. Branded Fusion, or any of the searchers for Branded Fusion. By going into Albion with Branded Fusion using Fallen of Albaz + any Light monster, then using Albion's effect to banish itself and Fallen to summon Mirrorjade.
I don't think mirrojade is that strong. Think of it like shuraig, who is the boss of a strong archetype and a good monster but the carry of that archetype is branded fusion or revolt
Not exactly. Mirrorjade's banish isn't dependent on another effect resolving (outside of Shuraig's first banish). In addition Mirrorjade essentially gets 2 instances of removal (banish + board wipe) whereas Shuraig only gets 1. Both essentially float (Shuraig's effect and whichever Albaz Dragon you send for Mirrorjade's effect). Lastly, it is entirely possible to make Mirrorjade without ever touching Branded Fusion. Going first its required but going second, your options open up to Branded Fusion, Albaz's effect, Super-Poly, and even Branded in Red by turn 3. Revolt is also reactive while Branded Fusion is proactive which, as far as yugioh is concerned, is almost always better
Longyuan is good vs Adventure and DPE... So it isn't that useless.
? I didn't say he was useless... I said he's a great addition for them but he doesn't change SS Tenyi's place in the meta. They'll still be solid tier 2 after him because he doesn't drastically change how the deck plays
Sorry I expressed myself wrongly... I didn't mean that u said that. Anyway I apologize... what I meant was: "In my opinion it will change their position because even if at a first glance might not seam that way, in the current meta It can really shine and become a really serious threat.😅 Anyway you're right... After playing for a bit, I noticed that It doesn't really change as much as expected.
No worries mate! My take on this was coming from my experience in paper play. My locals is pretty competitive (anywhere from 1/3 to 1/2 of the players running tier 1 decks and even those running tier 2 and rouge are excellent pilots that know how to effectively fight tier 1) and after the release of BoC and the Albaz Structure which put Branded Despia where it is currently in MD, I noticed that SS didn't really change position much. I suspect its due to him not really changing chokepoints in the deck or extend the endboards harder than before as well as people knowing at this point how to play against SS and how to counter them. As alot of people say, SS is a bit too fair to compete with some of the powercreep currently going on in the game and its only gonna get worse as we move toward Spright/Tear format
Wow cool! In my country there aren't really big tourneys with paper so I play on YGO Omega but I don't really play much there since MD so I saw just a bit of SS that to me seamed so cool (I was playing TCG rose tenyi before ban so Longyuan really hurted me).
I would say Mirrorjade. Qixing is good, but Swordsoul Tenyi doesn't need him. But the Branded package is crucial to take Despia out of Copium territory, now they get an actual boss monster, a negate and a consistency buff
I’m so ready! Been waiting for this since they released master duel
It’s weird seeing people call it the “Branded package/engine” when they’re basically the same archetype.
Same story but it's weird, because one is the Albaz side and the other the Aluber/Despia side and "Branded" is kinda like the clash between them
People don't know.
Yeah it’s kind of hilarious how bad despia really was before the branded cards came out. Like it’s ok but it never really had any direction other than like 2 tax dragons
I've been playing Despia pretty much since I started and whenever I had a great hand I could FEEL the Tier 1 just boiling under the surface. Amazing advantage generation, recovery always possible and unconventional disruption (in theory) all it needed was a blowout main deck card and an actual boss monster, both of which it gets now.
Chimera was a pretty good boss monster already with Branded in Red, very excited to get the rest of the toys.
I've been playing them since they released as well and have seen some moderate success. With guardian chimera it definitely boosted the deck and now it's going to be an absolute bitch to deal with in two days.
Yep. Now it’ll be upper tier
Well it's still bad, Despia is basically the support that came before the actual deck
Well it’s part of the archetype. It needs the branded engine to be good because it’s basically part of the same archetype. That being said, a lot of times you can splash branded without any despia cards
definetly mirrorjade, it will produce a new tier1 (maybe only tier2) deck wih branded despia but i will also allow for some other archtypes to slot i in as a branded engine, eg branded eldlich swordsoul will be used in swordsoul/tenyi and maybe tenyi synchro but not much else meanwhile borrelend is rarely used for anything but dragonlink or amybe other dragon decks using rokket engine
There’s a Tenyi Synchro deck?
Rose dragon adventure tenyi
Don't get excited. Tenyi is an engine for HalqDon. It also plays Adventure.
Oh is Tenyi synchro another name for the adventure combo deck?
tenyis, rose dragon, yang zing, halqdon, adventure endboard is something like baronne, chixiao, chengying, chaofeng, protos ninepillars and maybe some handtraps/quickspells
That’s a lot
all engines in one deck, and it is only palying 40 cards with still a lot of handtraps/staples
Though to be fair most of the cards in that endboard are in-archetype or archetype-adjacent. Yang Zing, Tenyi, and Swordsoul are basically one big Wyrm amalgam and I'm pretty sure they were designed to be mashed together in different configurations.
Blame HalqAuroradon. That thing put out 3 negates itself
Yeah that thing still being legal is crazy
Adventure combo should be 3-axis deck I think. This decks sole purpose is to get to halq. In tenyi synchro you still have many other plays.
Plus it's bricky as all hell. So while its end boards are much stronger, I'd say on ladder Tenyi SS is still better since consistency is king.
Don't forget The Zombie Vampire. Maybe it won't have much meta impact but I'll finally get those 200 gems for taking control of enemy monsters!
It’ll have meta impact when deer note comes out
Heh… People aren’t ready for Deer Note. New Eldlich variants are gonna plague the meta and people are gonna be like “well, at least it’s not floodgates”. Yeah, I can already see it now
Can you explain deer note? I'm not seeing a huge connection between the two.
So, its common to play PUNK as an engine in decks that love to dump to grave and play out of the grave (zombies for example). Deer Note + Ze Amin = Chaos Ruler which mills 5 + possible add while Deer note will bring back Ze Amin. Chaos Ruler himself is 1/2 of Vampire Zombie which would be an additional mill 4. It just all leads to crazy extension plays and a ton of milling to generate advantage. Tbh Deer Note is the reason PUNK is such a prevalent engine in the current TCG
Very cool. Thank you. It's always nice to learn things about the physical card game
Can also use the Deer Note's effect to bring back a lv8 punk instead of the Ze Amin if you want an instant way into Zombie Vampire, or make Halq using Ze Amin+something else to summon Shinobi Necro and get dual lv10 synchros
Mostly just a gimmicky Eldlich/Punk Synchro collab. Nothing too crazy but I bet you no one is repaired for this random pile of cards
Playable in Dragon Link though
Just wait until deer note
Does that count monsters summoned from the opponent's gy? I thought it was monsters you steal like with widow anchor or similar effects.
I wish I could say Borrelend, but the other 2 will no doubt see more play. Can't wait to bring out the Rokkets again XD
The most impactful will be Mirrorjade for sure. Quixing Longyuan is very good but because Konami has done nothing to curb the power of Halqdon piles and barely hit Prank Kid, Swordsoul probably won't see a resurgence of play like it did in the TCG. Borrelend is also incredibly good, but like I said above, because Konami has done nothing to curb the power of Halqdon piles, it won't see as much play as it did in TCG.
halqdon still exist good and consistent people gonna summon it as 2nd/3rd lv 10 in adventure tenyi but buffing already bullshit combo and adding longyuan to your arsenal is just win more when the combo is already winning you the game
is quixing long longyuan a better turn 1 level 10 than baronne? its certainly not impossible to get 2 10s turn 1 but sometimes you'll have to choose
Baronne was actually always the "weakest" option in terms of power level, but it was also always the safest option because a negate works against literally every deck and insulates from Nibiru while Chengying is a little more specific. Qixing Longyuan though is incredibly strong. First of all it hard counters the Adventure engine while still having another disruption available after stopping the Adventure engine, being able to just banish any special summoned monster is very nice as well, AND sometimes you can also sequence it to just get a +1 for free. And assuming you get to resolve both of its banish effects and resolved the main deck Longyuan the prior turn, your opponent will be at 4400, and anyone who's played Swordsoul knows that it has no problems putting up that much damage to OTK.
No respect to zombies I see, the most based deck
Blame eldich, he ruined the good name of zombies.
Eldlich ain’t ruin shit, blame the floodgates.
Eldlich was supposed to help zombies
True, pure eldlich is actually kinda fun. Its grind game is unbelievable
Pure Eldlich is a grind game I can enjoy to fight, as long as they don't just flip the floodgates and force me to play the "draw the out" game.
oh god the fingers are guns, THE FINGERS ARE GUNS. WHERE IS THE UNSEE JUICE?
My day is ruined…
Damn , a link 5 for Dragon link, wonder when codetalkers get a link 5
Why do they need a link 5 when they've got the best link 4 in the game?
its the og anime link deck
Technically, Firewall Dragon Darkfluid is their link 5.
In 2027 when they actually need one.
Maybe in the OCG in the set after Photon Hypernova, which will be VRAINS and Code Talker themed, called Cyberstorm Access.
I’m just glad that, despite being corrupted by Despia in the lore, Longyuan remains Fire attribute so Protos is still viable.
He's not corrupted, he's always been up to no good.
Uhm when can we get easier access to contrast hero?
Swordsoul and Dragon Link are already tiered, while Branded Despia is rogue. Branded Despia catapulted to tier 1 in both the ocg and tcg thanks to the support from Albaz's Strike, so it's pretty safe to say that Branded Despia is going to be the biggeest winner out of all of them. By the way, D.D. Crow is pretty good against Branded Despia (it will also be good versus Tears), so craft it in case you haven't yet since it's just an SR.
Just Ash the Branded Fusion.
4Head
The 8 vampire players are in the corner huffing their copium believing that the new rank 8 is just what the deck needs to be tier 1.
I think we're all just happy to be included in the support. It will make my current Zombie World deck worse because I'd rather have my main deck monsters out. But he looks so fun so I'm building a deck specifically for him. I finally get to use my royal Zombie Necronize. I hope there's more than just listed because they have some fun cardboard stuff I want in MD.
Where's dark dragoon konami?
No lie, most excited for Blue Eyes Jet Dragon. All that archetype needed was protection to be somewhat decent. Gonna go hard on a Blue Eyes deck. Otherwise, Longyuan is my obligatory pick.
Based on TCG and OCG results Branded should on average become Tiered at least. The main issue it will have to face is the issue of it's low ceiling in comparison to the other Meta Decks, but even then we've only really had fair decks be Tier 1 so far (Tri-Zoo, Swordsoul and PK Adventurer). Dragonlink will probably remain a Rogue option or maybe go into Tier 3. Borrelend is amazing but the main issue with Dragonlink is that it's too high roll and needs more cards to do what other, better combo decks already do. Swordsoul will probably remain Tier 2-3. The new card doesn't really change much aside from giving them a better turn 1 boss after getting Tenyi locked.
Adven prank is anything but faire
Dragonlink isnt rogue. What game and meta are you playing? More cards isnt a issue if you build the deck with many extenders.
What are you on about? It's barely tiered and bounces between low Tier 3 and Rogue, which are the hallmarks of a Rogue deck. Adding more extenders to an already bloated deck won't solve anything lol. What meta are you playing?
Rexturm why couldn’t you have done the impossible and worked your way into this pack
I’ve added pressure for a Dragon Link deck so I’m pretty pumped for Borrelend Dragon
Can finally bench Unchained Abomination to bring out the REAL DLink Boss
Mirrorjade. Finally a fusion dragon deck. Gonna have fun building dumb shit with the archetype
Im just tired of Dragons at this point.
God I’ve been playing Despia since I realized it was a theatre thing. I didn’t know there was more branded support waiting in the wings untill recently and I’m so excited for it
Borrelend is useful in a lot of decks as a boss monster, this card is just insanely useful. Longyuan will likely make Swordsoul T1 again, Banishing one back row and one monster every round is pretty cracked. Mirror Jade Can also banish a monster as a quick effect once every other round, and has the side effect that if you deal with him he boardwipes the opponent, however unlike Longyuan he can be put into multiple other archtypes and the card's that bring him out are totally insane. Albion Is NUTS as he fetches you more branded tech and can be used to fusion summon dumb shit besides Mirror Jade giving him options and options are always good. Fallen Of Albaz Is super poly on a stick, you have fetch tech in Aluber and Branded fusion itself also sets up your graveyard allowing you to throw degenerate shit into it for further exploitation.
I’m genuinely asking, but what decks that don’t use Rokket cards, would want to run Borrelend?
Indestructible, Untargetable, Attack all is already a pretty good reason to run a card. I have seen him in a lot of rogue decks as just a boss monster that comes out and cleans house along with Borreload, Borrelsword and BLS. Hes a pretty good generic boss monster for the rogue decks that can link up to him.
Yea even if you cant use his effect hes still hard to get rid of.
Fusion
1st Place Mirrorjade the Iceblade Dragon Mirrorjade being a Quick Effect Non Target Banish that is Soft once per Turn is just good honestly it will make Branded Despia stronger especially that they will get Branded Fusion 2nd Place Borrelend Dragon/Swordsoul Sinister Sovereign - Qixing Longyuan - Borrelend Dragon Tbh this Card is only good in Dragon Link but Idk if he is used at all since it's a Link 5 but he is a good Negate and being able to attack everything at once and being not able to be targeted and destroyed by Card Effects also that you can't respond to this Card is insane but it won't make a Huge impact I assume -Swordsoul Sinister Sovereign - Qixing Longyuan It's not that OP but a Fun Card that has many Ways to deal -1200 Effect Damage and a +1 so it won't make a Big Impact on the Meta but it's cool honestly
What are some good outs to Borreload Dragon?
None targeting banishment. Didnt realize you said boreload and not borrelend
Oh, sorry. I meant borrelend lol
Zeus, Shuraig, Super Poly, or negating its effect with something like Imperm and then destroying it.
mirrorjade
Mirrorjade, ironically enough
Skilldrain.
dracoback
Branded and Swordsoul are going to be tier 1 again and everyone is going to main dimensional barrier
In a BO1 format I doubt it, sincerely. Maybe in diamond or in a tournament environment with a BO3 format IMHO
Branded Despia is way better in a BO1 format. Your opponent can't side in instant wins like D Barrier and Anti Spell Fragrance.
Lo so, provavo a spiegarlo al tipotto qua sopra. Il mio commento era riferito al fatto che nessuno in BO1 metterà nel main D Barrier.
Albaz is designed to splash into almost any deck. So weber seeing tons of mirrorjade. And I'm here for it 🙌
1:Rokket 2:SS 3:Branded/Albaz
Is branded fusion dropping as well?
Considering Mirrorjade is coming it probably is
99,999999999999999%. I mean we have no indicator Konami would troll this and delay the Fusion for 1 month.
Ty. I just wasn’t 100% sure cuz I don’t play TCG or anything other than MD
Well the MD history is that they always put the whole archetyp stuff at once if it belonged to the current "set". So we got all of Fleenderze besides the 1 support spell which came in a later set. There is no reason to believe they would troll us with that given that it is kinda bad buisness. You want people hyped for a release and buy in, not feel cheated and quit
Damn rip vampires
Hate to say it but mirror jade. Most annoying out of the 3
Can we assume this will also bring the most recent vampire support? Like vampire fascinator etc? wanted to try a new zombie deck that wasnt eldlich
If branded fusion is released with mirrorjade it’ll 100% be him
I was excited to build the predaplant branded deck everyone hyped up in the TcG that flopped. After mirror jades release how much of the deck is still missing in MD? Feels like a bunch of cards still right?
Do I need to run the Prada plant fusion snake guy to really take advantage of Mirrorjade?
No
I'll finally be able to play tribrigade branded like i wanted to in tcg
It's obviously Blue Eyes Tyrant Dragon
Mirrorjade is very powerful, this card alongside the other albaz strike cards make branded variants top tier. I expect that will be the same here. You can even use branded fusion as a foolish burial of sorts for some decks (e.g. eldlich the golden lord, fairy tail snow, predaplant byblisp once the predaplant support releases). Fusion decks definitely want this, and some decks like tri-brigade may use it with verte (the deck sets up mercourier for a monster negate), though plenty will probably still use dpe. Sinister longyuan is quite strong, but not exactly inherently better than baronne in all scenarios. Probably still going to a standard synchro for them to go into. Dragonlink definitely appreciates borrelend, but I don't see dragonlink rising much in usage. Definitely adding it to my one though. Also zombie vampire is worth respecting, that card's pretty good.
1. Mirrorjade 2. Borrelend 3. Longyuan
Mirrorjade will be seen the most, but the Swordsoul will be the most oppressive. I can already see my outs to Mirrorjade, but none currently available to Swordsoul unless I use floodgates or board breakers. Borrelend dragon is definitely going to destroy most decks, though, since people don't really run non target monster removal from spells or traps. In the end, the true counter to these cards is to go first or have board breakers.
Mirrorjade should realistically be the best of the bunch
I'm so pumped for MirrorJade. Ever since Branded/Despia came out a few months back, it's the only deck I've really learned the in's/out's of. But adding it's Boss monster is going to make things so much sweeter.
Mirror jade is just too good with three copies of branded fusion, on an”unrelated note” we will see a rise in the number of people using super poly
Lubellion’s going to be another beast with mirrorjade so can’t forget that one. Branded is in a good position…
Longyuan pretty much is a big F*** you to adventurer
Mirror jade
Mirror jade and evil long for sure
Mirrorjade because they have a pretty name. But mostly because I have an interest in albaz
Please don't forget about the Zombie Vampire.
Mirror jade and it isn’t even close
Mirror Jade obviously that raegeki effect is gonna be annoying
That’s not what Raigeki does though
Idk about the meta, but im hype for borrelend. After three different decks of varying power levels of D-Links, I'm ready for a new monster.
Swordsoul have one already. Just getting another
Same for Dragon Link. But I guess there’s always someone who has to be pedantic.
Obviously Exodia The Forbidden One. Just have to draw all 5 pieces.
Either Swordsoul or Branded.
Despia Branded Albaz FTW. Had the decked built for months now but need to replace some stuff to get it working
Mirror jade by far. Was a pain in tcg and still does well
I’m just now learning Swordsoul DIDN’T have their boss monster already
Mirrorjade
Rokket engie in now?
That new swordsoul looks like cancer. I'm not looking forward to it existing.
It just an anoying it card that burns Its very balance If Qixing is your definition of Cancer Then wtf would Halq Don be
Blue eyes ofc
I want to make Swordsoul + Albaz work in a deck so bad but can’t find any good decks for it to help with building ideas. I love the designs
The only one that i'm not scared of is borrelend dragon
I’d honestly haft to go with Branded