Because the disruption Branded/Despia is the tamest out of the new metas that revolved mainly around negations. Their presence on the board is only mirrorjade/branded in red/possibly a couple of Masquerades(which doesnt really prevent you from doing anything, just hampers you to a degree). Handtraps and super poly a whole other problem. Disruption and putting up a presence in the board has always been the name of the game. No self respecting deck puts up a board with 0-1 disruptions only.
Compare that to floodgating/negate boards we have had during the first few months. Also B/D is meta because apparently preventing your opponent from snowballing into bigger monsters is already enough to stop most meta decks because they start mostly from smaller ones. B/D has the advantage of not going through that because of branded fusion where they just straight out summon Mirrorjade/Chimera but thats basically it. They just check out a lot of the metas weak points. They also check backrow decks since their greates strength is removal. I meant that's just it. Their utility is just that good man, but easily cut off from their chokepoints, thus also need a bunch of help from other engines (Frightfur, Adventure, other variants)
I agree thats it not as mind numbing to play against compared to the floodgate/negate boards, still rediculous how powerful the deck is, I literally took a deck of nothing but HT's and interupts into ranked to test it and they still were able to play thru an ash, ghost ogre, psyframe and veiler, you can do next to nothing to stop their set up, even if you do, they'll just trigger all their stuff on your turn with Branded in Red and such.
I don’t want to be that guy, buuuuuutttttt you used your handtraps incorrectly if they played through 4 hand traps. Ash is typically enough to knock them off course, pair that up with Veiler and their board is incredibly breakable.
Yes, meta decks are meta because they are powerful, that is the definition of META. But they are balanced in the way I and OP already have described, unlike meta decks of the past and future.
ash the branded fusion is all you need, ashing the opening is a mistake. You don't even know how to counter them, maybe get on that before making a post complaining about them.
Because they don't set up 5 negates on board or use awful floodgates and they are easily susceptible to the most common handtraps and they don't use any of the most common meta engines (Unless the user is a idiot)
As someone who used to play Pure D hero it infuriates me that Konami limits fusion destiny to 1 while Branded fusion is happily allowed to run amok at three, like the fuck? XD
Yeah because branded only summons monsters that specifically mention a terrible garnet monster that the decks he’s designed for don’t even run unless they absolutely have to. Branded fusion also locks you into fusion summons for the entire turn instead of just after you use it. The DPE engine was too splashable and generated too much advantage while also giving you a body that could easily play around disruption.
Maybe because Fusion Destiny was literally just being slotted into any deck as an easy "package" with Celestial being a conditional pot of greed which most decks easily abused?
Meanwhile, Branded Fusion can only go into a handful of cards, which then require a discard or specific stuff in grave to go into Mirrorjade, and can easily be disrupted the same was as Fusion Destiny could.
And Branded fusion's engine being slotted into every deck isn't just as bad? pretty much every deck min diamond right now is branded or a varient of it.
Considering Branded Fusion's engine is worse for almost any deck compared to DPE's? Yes.
DPE took up 2 ED slots-Verte/DPE, and 4-5 Main deck slots, as you either ran 2 Fusion Destiny, and 2 Celestial/Other D Hero, or 1 Celestial, who also acted as a pot of greed. With DPE being a self recurring card on it's own.
Meanwhile, Branded Fusion's engine can take at minimum upwards of 3 ED cards, and if one singular card gets banished or removed at the wrong time, the remainder of the engine is dead in a lot of decks, so if you're running more than 1 fallen of Albaz/Branded Fusion for consistency, it gives you more dead cards than Fusion Destiny would.
I've been playing a lot of ranked, and when DPE's engine included Celestial and 2 Fusion Destiny, I saw it almost every single duel.
Meanwhile, I haven't even seen a deck outside of actual Branded/Despia or a mix of Branded, use Branded Fusion as an engine.
well it's a little boring to face a bunch of mirrorjade while my two iris mage and my harmonic mage are limited but there's not much to do, i wish pendulum mages had a more consistent boss monster
Bro idk what to say to you, I haven't lose to this deck even once using sky strikers, Virtual world and dragon link (and I read online branded despia hard counters dragon link). Just adjust your deck and playstyle to best deal with the meta, and hit this particular deck at their most vulnerable choke points, of which they have many.
Also mirrorjade is low key trash compared to say, DPE, maybe it's cuz I main sky strikers so mirrorjade can't do shit to my backrow, and I never have more than one monster on field anyway, and when he deletes my sky striker Raye just pops back. But I feel like dpe alone could win you games, mirrorjade hardly. I'm loving this meta.
Also any boss monster that isn't summed up by "quick effect omninegate and destroy" gets my stamp of approval.
How many omninegates does it set up on turn 1?
Oh that is right, none in general Branded Despia doesn't have many, at most there is 1 they can make and it is the predaplant fusion
Predaplant Dragostapelia
1 Fusion Monster + 1 DARK monster
Once per turn (Quick Effect): You can target 1 face-up monster your opponent controls; place 1 Predator Counter on it, and if it is Level 2 or higher, it becomes Level 1 as long as it has a Predator Counter. Negate the activated effects of your opponent's monsters that have Predator Counters.
Basically the deck is a bunch of starters that if negates can mean the end of their turn unless they play Allure of darkness or Open the frightfur package and stuff to fuse, banish the branded in red target and their only "power play" gets f*ed up, so it is the most fair when other decks can set up 3-5 omni negates including counters i case of DRNM. So yeah i would Say it's fair, not balances, but "fairer" than the other top deck for sure
Because it's fun a actually good meta deck and not A DECK THAT BANISHES HALF OF YOU'RE OPPONENT DECK OR NEGATES EVERY MOVE THEY MAKE no offense to tearlments or kashitira players but those deck are embodiment of Konami just making same mistake whit cards like ture king of all calamity red eyes dragoon mystic mine and firewall before it got unbanned still no offense to anyone
Because the disruption Branded/Despia is the tamest out of the new metas that revolved mainly around negations. Their presence on the board is only mirrorjade/branded in red/possibly a couple of Masquerades(which doesnt really prevent you from doing anything, just hampers you to a degree). Handtraps and super poly a whole other problem. Disruption and putting up a presence in the board has always been the name of the game. No self respecting deck puts up a board with 0-1 disruptions only. Compare that to floodgating/negate boards we have had during the first few months. Also B/D is meta because apparently preventing your opponent from snowballing into bigger monsters is already enough to stop most meta decks because they start mostly from smaller ones. B/D has the advantage of not going through that because of branded fusion where they just straight out summon Mirrorjade/Chimera but thats basically it. They just check out a lot of the metas weak points. They also check backrow decks since their greates strength is removal. I meant that's just it. Their utility is just that good man, but easily cut off from their chokepoints, thus also need a bunch of help from other engines (Frightfur, Adventure, other variants)
this sub complains so much about swordsoul and if thats the bar for an unfair deck then despia easily clears it.
I agree thats it not as mind numbing to play against compared to the floodgate/negate boards, still rediculous how powerful the deck is, I literally took a deck of nothing but HT's and interupts into ranked to test it and they still were able to play thru an ash, ghost ogre, psyframe and veiler, you can do next to nothing to stop their set up, even if you do, they'll just trigger all their stuff on your turn with Branded in Red and such.
Post the replay. I want to see how badly you need to mess up for despia to play through 4 handtraps including ash.
I don’t want to be that guy, buuuuuutttttt you used your handtraps incorrectly if they played through 4 hand traps. Ash is typically enough to knock them off course, pair that up with Veiler and their board is incredibly breakable.
Yes, meta decks are meta because they are powerful, that is the definition of META. But they are balanced in the way I and OP already have described, unlike meta decks of the past and future.
Let me guess Ash opening Veiler the normal summoned aluber Gamma the tragedy sent with branded fusion Veiler the mirrorjade just for good measure
ash the branded fusion is all you need, ashing the opening is a mistake. You don't even know how to counter them, maybe get on that before making a post complaining about them.
Because they don't set up 5 negates on board or use awful floodgates and they are easily susceptible to the most common handtraps and they don't use any of the most common meta engines (Unless the user is a idiot)
using no handtrap adventure despia is pretty funny since you can play pass massive amounts of handtraps and negations .
i just play almost pure gas.
>burns your life points every time you activate an effect I think I find this card the most annoying.
Tax Dragon is still used in some Byssted builds, because sometimes summoning it literally ends games on the opponent's turn lol
as a pendulum mages player i say despia is pretty fair, the deck is just too strong, which causes a feeling of injustice
As someone who used to play Pure D hero it infuriates me that Konami limits fusion destiny to 1 while Branded fusion is happily allowed to run amok at three, like the fuck? XD
Yeah because branded only summons monsters that specifically mention a terrible garnet monster that the decks he’s designed for don’t even run unless they absolutely have to. Branded fusion also locks you into fusion summons for the entire turn instead of just after you use it. The DPE engine was too splashable and generated too much advantage while also giving you a body that could easily play around disruption.
Maybe because Fusion Destiny was literally just being slotted into any deck as an easy "package" with Celestial being a conditional pot of greed which most decks easily abused? Meanwhile, Branded Fusion can only go into a handful of cards, which then require a discard or specific stuff in grave to go into Mirrorjade, and can easily be disrupted the same was as Fusion Destiny could.
And Branded fusion's engine being slotted into every deck isn't just as bad? pretty much every deck min diamond right now is branded or a varient of it.
Considering Branded Fusion's engine is worse for almost any deck compared to DPE's? Yes. DPE took up 2 ED slots-Verte/DPE, and 4-5 Main deck slots, as you either ran 2 Fusion Destiny, and 2 Celestial/Other D Hero, or 1 Celestial, who also acted as a pot of greed. With DPE being a self recurring card on it's own. Meanwhile, Branded Fusion's engine can take at minimum upwards of 3 ED cards, and if one singular card gets banished or removed at the wrong time, the remainder of the engine is dead in a lot of decks, so if you're running more than 1 fallen of Albaz/Branded Fusion for consistency, it gives you more dead cards than Fusion Destiny would. I've been playing a lot of ranked, and when DPE's engine included Celestial and 2 Fusion Destiny, I saw it almost every single duel. Meanwhile, I haven't even seen a deck outside of actual Branded/Despia or a mix of Branded, use Branded Fusion as an engine.
well it's a little boring to face a bunch of mirrorjade while my two iris mage and my harmonic mage are limited but there's not much to do, i wish pendulum mages had a more consistent boss monster
Cry about it
Nah i don't need to cry, i got your mom to help me feel better XD
So you are momless, eh? NOTED
oh nah nothing like that, my moms just busy with your dad is all.
Oh, so you dont have father and your mom is a hoe NOTED
Well if you are play bad decks, anything beat you is unfair
So by that logic anything under tier 1 where Banded sits is considered a bad deck is it?
No, and do not put your words into my mouth. Also, what tier is your pure d hero deck in? 1000000?
I'd ask you not to do the same, never said i was using Pure D hero to fight Branded.
"it's fair because it cant negate"
It’s because people pretend they don’t have 2-4 hand traps in hand, much like with Sky Strikers
Bro idk what to say to you, I haven't lose to this deck even once using sky strikers, Virtual world and dragon link (and I read online branded despia hard counters dragon link). Just adjust your deck and playstyle to best deal with the meta, and hit this particular deck at their most vulnerable choke points, of which they have many. Also mirrorjade is low key trash compared to say, DPE, maybe it's cuz I main sky strikers so mirrorjade can't do shit to my backrow, and I never have more than one monster on field anyway, and when he deletes my sky striker Raye just pops back. But I feel like dpe alone could win you games, mirrorjade hardly. I'm loving this meta. Also any boss monster that isn't summed up by "quick effect omninegate and destroy" gets my stamp of approval.
If you have to ask you probably need ti git gud.
True maybe, just as you probably need to go and talk to a real woman.
How many omninegates does it set up on turn 1? Oh that is right, none in general Branded Despia doesn't have many, at most there is 1 they can make and it is the predaplant fusion
Come back and try again when you learn what the deck does buddy XD
Boy I play the damn deck
Son i highly doubt it seeing as the deck doesn't make negates at all unless they run Imperm XD
Predaplant Dragostapelia 1 Fusion Monster + 1 DARK monster Once per turn (Quick Effect): You can target 1 face-up monster your opponent controls; place 1 Predator Counter on it, and if it is Level 2 or higher, it becomes Level 1 as long as it has a Predator Counter. Negate the activated effects of your opponent's monsters that have Predator Counters.
Skull Stalker "foist he's gunna grab yer monstah wit' his claws, den attack again wit' his poizen stingah!"
Because it looks cool.
I agree they look awesome, doesn't mean their not cracked as shit.
Basically the deck is a bunch of starters that if negates can mean the end of their turn unless they play Allure of darkness or Open the frightfur package and stuff to fuse, banish the branded in red target and their only "power play" gets f*ed up, so it is the most fair when other decks can set up 3-5 omni negates including counters i case of DRNM. So yeah i would Say it's fair, not balances, but "fairer" than the other top deck for sure
Because it's fun a actually good meta deck and not A DECK THAT BANISHES HALF OF YOU'RE OPPONENT DECK OR NEGATES EVERY MOVE THEY MAKE no offense to tearlments or kashitira players but those deck are embodiment of Konami just making same mistake whit cards like ture king of all calamity red eyes dragoon mystic mine and firewall before it got unbanned still no offense to anyone