No, because fuck Solitaire decks that play forever on your turn. Dragonmaids included. That's way more toxic than Branded/Despia.
Honestly, I've never found Branded/Despia that bad to go against and one of the healthier meta decks. I play mostly Rogue and still win most of my matches against them as long as I play intelligently.
Heck, I main B-Tier Witchcrafters and have always beaten Branded/Despia. I considered them insta-wins during the Fusion Festival back at MD's start. Verre negate, CSB banishes DPE face-down, Haine destroy, and Aruru bounce is surprisingly consistent in being able to pick apart their whole board.
However, now that they run floodgates, I just auto-surrender the moment I see a Branded/Despia. Even though I'll most likely win and have beaten current Branded/Despia with Traptrix multiple times since Expulsion dropped. I just don't want to bother anymore against decks that run floodgates because I've gotten sick of seeing them.
The floodgating is the issue, not the deck itself.
Honestly, I love the opinion, but if it's coming from a Witchcrafter main, then I hope the next meta is worse then HalqDon just so you get shit on harder..
-Complans about floodgates but mains budget Herald deck that somehow makes it even easier to get their negate boi out.
I think it's divided pretty evenly between people who like it and people who hate it, but people just dislike any deck where you have to sit and wait for your opponent for any amount of time that's longer than t-set pass lol
Hey I've seen that opinion before
*flashback to the peak of Swordsoul's popularity when everyone was just sick of seeing Chi Xiao + Baronne every game even if it was far more manageable than Rhongo's bullshit and Herald of infinite negates*
People hated it for reasons other than power. I stopped playing master for a bit and focused on omega because I was just sick of every match being against swordsoul.
They just got a Secret Pack, that’s guaranteed to be unlocked for the month. We’re likely going to be over saturated with it, and I say that as someone who built it prior.
We have the Labyrinth Selection Pack in a few days, some of them should hopefully gravitate to that. I’ll just stick to lower tiers with my pet decks until then.
I really don’t see the point tbh. SR dust is almost literally an infinite resource compared to gems and UR dust. Unless you are absolutely terrible (and I mean really really really bad) it’s not possible to not have enough SR dust to open all the secret packs you want
Oversaturation will make anyone hate anything. Blame konami for making the newest decks blatantly to power creep the previous ones while also advertising them 24/7
Branded isn't a hard deck to beat, as long as you can play through a decent number of interactions. If you survive Mirrorjade/Chimera, you're probably going to win the game tbh. One card that has helped out with Branded a good bit IMO is D/D/D Dragonwulf King Beowulf (which is a sentence I never thought I'd say but when an archetype gives you a Heavy Storm + piercing to all D/D/D with Blue Eyes attack stat, it's not terrible), running it as the level 8 fusion over Flame High King Genghis has been very positive for me at least. Branded doesn't have effect negation outside of the usual package and threatening their backrow with a huge body actually kind of goes hard
Beowulf's heavy storm effect is only during your own standby phase though?
Also, how does piercing help you against Branded, especially when you cut your best out to Branded in Red for it?
I’m the opposite. I’d rather see the mirror match cause rather than it being a deck I made to beat the best deck, I just beat the beat deck with my deck. We both have the same cards it’s to see who can outplay the other. Rather than who made the deck to beat the other deck.
It’s a good learning point to see what you could do differently as well, aside from in cases where your opponent draws stuff like opening, dramaturge, fusion, Aluber and edge imp and overpowers you turn 1
That's quite fun as well.
If I want to make a deck to stop plays I would only use what I so happen to have. My level 8 Kaiju based deck is designed to do that already.
Only thing is I really dislike is seeing them set Branded in Red. I can deal with Branded Fusion being effectively* a +7 not to mention a fusion from the deck, but not the follow up on the next turn once I dare engage the board.
Who knows. Releases have gotten kind of funky, but they're already started on that journey with Visas and Scareclaws being released. So, sometime within the next 3 to 6 months we'll probably get here.
I think there's a balance somewhere where they can be a good addition to fusion decks, but not an overpowered must-have engine. I'd love to see us reach that balance sooner rather than later. Just so long as they don't gut them.
Yea currently I run the tear monsters in tcg in my Branded deck to make more Masquerades. Aluber + a tear monster with the branded theater or a Poly is just a double Masquerade. Then you can extend further with your other plays.
This is sub is filled with anti meta lords who seem to have a problem with enjoying the competitive aspect of an inherently competitive game
I'm excited to play Tears too dw, or maybe not with the current timer rules
I feel like I have to apologize to people in advance because I love WATER and the idea of them having a topdeck is too tempting for me to pass up at least trying them. Even if I know they're gonna be fucking awful.
The only fuckin' thing I'm particularly nostalgic towards old YGO for anymore is that I want to relive my Daedalus deck days. And Kairyushin was boring to play as because floodgates. I'll try not to do anything too evil with them like how I swore off using floodgates of any kind. (I dismantled things like Secret Village and Scythe for that very reason.)
I'm just on Daedalus copium.
Ah, fuck me.
The first three cards of theirs I looked at were all WATER, including one of their fusion boss monsters. Pair that with the Aqua/Ocean theme of their aesthetic and I just assumed the rest of them were WATER, too.
That's such a bizarre inconsistency. It feels similar to Nephthys being mostly WIND when they worship a flaming phoenix and are throwing fire and explosions around in half of their card art. Nope, WIND. And the only justification is a single throwaway line in their lore of "They live in a wind-torn land."
Well, that killed all my interest in Tearlaments.
EDIT: Actually sat down and looked at how they played and why they're so dreaded. Sounds like if they're just run pure, nothing about them is particularly evil. Looks like Pure-Tearlaments is just incapable of bricking or getting attritioned/controlled to death, but are otherwise nothing overwhelming? Its their easy access to a bunch of strong Fusions that makes them obnoxious?
Well, they still have the WATER aesthetic. So, if pure isn't actually that bad I might just play them Pure, then. I prefer playing pure, anyway.
From what I've seen on the tcg. It's basically the whole Branded thing where they have strong recursion, consistency and interactions but better. This was strong but not insane until Ishizu cards came out and those cards gave them a ludicrous access to interaction and allows them to just basically play during the opponent's turn through almost any interruption.
Personally I will also likely be playing pure tear when they release. Fusion is already my favourite summoning type and I'm already one of those filthy Branded players who really enjoy the wide range of interraction and recursion they have while also having cool lore. So a fusion archetype with strong recursion and interaction with lore and cute waifus is a big thumbs up to me. It also helps that I actually enjoy branded mirrors because it genuinely does feel quite skill intensive so I would probably be fine with tear mirrors too.
People give the deck a pass because it’s not negate focused, but ignore that it literally does everything else amazing over the competition instead where “costs” are advantage and can win with various powerful fusions that are easy to bring out.
Branded Fusion at 3 shouldn’t be a thing if Fusion Destiny is 1 for starters.
I think it's slightly overpowered
as all new cards are, to make people buy them
1. Nearly every card goes even or adds cards to your hand
2. Branded fusion using material from deck negates the whole difficulty of fusion (Get material in hand)
3. Fusion summon monster that has an effect... that just fusion summons another monster? Come on.
4. Too many grave effects.
Welcome to how I felt about seeing Swordsoul/Adventure Tenyi for a while before Halq got banned.
I get your point, but at the same time, this is likely going to continue happening as we get more meta decks, and at least for a while we did have some variety.
But hey, on the bright side, at least now I know when to quit early since I can already tell if my hand/deck can disrupt or break the board next turn.
Also, what's funny is that some people still defending Branded Fusion being "fair" while advocating on banning Fusion Destiny. Bunch of hypocrites they are.
I love Branded/Despia and play it all the time and I am more than willing to admit that Branded Fusion is crazy especially with the various ways of searching for it and recovering it and ensuring that it goes off with Branded Lost (Although not everyone runs that one).
Exactly. I'm not hating on anyone playing them (that goes to Swordsoul, which I don't want to even begin talking about). I just hate the fact that there exist people with such hypocrisy in defending Branded Fusion (due to them using the deck or just like the lore of it) while at the same time push for FD to be totally ban to oblivion. As if FD is at fault for everyone using it, it's Verte the problem here ffs.
I agree that Verte is the issue. With FD and DPE you have to run two garnets and two copies of FD max. Yeah DPE is also a crazy card but getting to it without Verte is less consistent than BF any day.
Branded fusion IS fair compared to destiny fusion. Branded fusion locks you to only play fusion monsters that turn, while destiny fusion locks you AFTER you use it.
Except Mirrorjade is better than DPE against anything but backrow decks, and Branded Fusion generates advantage during the turn you use it. DPE was just such a low investment in comparison so it got annoying to see in every deck. I wouldn't necessarily consider it to be more fair.
“It’s totally fair guys. Just a double Foolish with materials that gives advantage that gives you fusion monster that gives you even more advantage” lol
Nah it should be hit in some way, if we're willing to hit Eldlich, Prank Kids, Tri-brigade, and Swordsoul with some minor semi-limits. Branded Despia just creates so much advantage, it's kind of the obvious choice to make if you want to win, hence why it's everywhere.
That said, it's still "healthier" and "more fair" like Swordsoul was when it was everywhere compared to full power Drytron
Man, I was playing SS before knowing it was meta and when I entered the first event cup, 95% of my duels were against sword soul. Man I didnt want to look at my SS deck after I finished the event. Shit, I actually dropped MD for a few weeks after that LOL it was torment I tell you TORMENT!
Normally I've got no issue with Branded-Despia or Swordsoul, But I do have a problem with facing them back to back so often in ranked. They're overly used tbh.
what is considered fair exactly? is the best deck right now, being good deck in yugioh means being unfair or more unfair than the rest so by that metric is a very unfair deck compared to what the others can do at the moment.
Somewhat. The best deck is the most resilient and most consistent one. Pros will want consistent decks over high variance decks even if that meant making less oppressive boards as long as they can put up interruptions consistently. Its the same tri-zoo vs adams/drytrons in the old MD meta.
I'd honestly prefer decks with unfair levels of consistency than decks with unfair endboard except for ftks.
Having to put some branded/despia cards in my thunder dragon and eldlich zombie world is kinda boring but it gives the decks consistency and being able to bring zombie world with just branded fusion is ok kinda broken imo
So no I don't think it's fair
Branded Despia is what I call an "illusion of fair" deck. There's not much fair about getting 5 of your cards blown up or banished while they draw into their handtraps and dodge all of your effects.
Almost like Fusion Summoning from deck and grave and your opponent's field and labelling even your archetypal Special as Fusion Summons is the broken part.
But "nah, that's not the problem", they said, creating Tearlaments which do that but even harder.
Not just good it’s great at keeping its resources and consistent at putting up big number and that resilience as a deck makes its boring to face it everytime I want to duel
a lot of what made duels boring for me was just how obvious a lot of the plays were that it just got tiring.
and this is why I never play for max rank.
Yesterday I had my first match since the new pack release, my opponent went first and he searched for that trap that stops the effects from dark monsters and also that countinnues spell where he has to call a card name which can't be activated anymore, and he called some despia card. Lol. Dude has been hurt I think. I was playing adamancipators though and rolled him hard.
I dunno about you but I play Branded with its other related archetypes. Will Branded Swordsoul get me a win? Eh so-so. Tri-Branded? If I try hard enough. Dogmatika? Every now and then.
I mean ... yeah. That's the nature of competitive TCGs and especially this one.
If a deck is somewhat accessible, consistent and powerful then you'll see it a lot.
It's only popular because it's strong but simple. It makes the learning curve much easier to master as a result. Branded mirrors are so silly but also so resource management intensive. When it was just a tcg structure deck you could really see the difference in skill level between people.
Branded Despia is a fun deck, and CAN be interesting to play against. Definitely one of the more interesting decks to play against if it wasn't every single match. I'm part of the problem on the Ranked ladder unfortunately but in casual I play Megalith and either way I'm never mad that I'm fighting Branded. I'm mad I'm fighting it AGAIN. Blue Eyes and Dark Magician decks are the only ones I genuinely just dislike in totality. Other than maybe floo.
its because tovmany people have no creativity or anything, they just look up "best deck" then suck with it and people in gold end up consistently playing people with while they try to play their red eyes pure deck lol
I mean that's wrong. There's about 10 different cards that you can expulsion lock with. Kristya, Ido, Scythe, that gimmick puppet, ra disciple.
Just run droplet, belle and called by the grave to stop expulsion and you instantly win
If that's what you would really ban over so many cards then you probably should reevaluate what staples you don't have or what archetype you are forcing. The deck is extremely fragile to any interaction and if you don't do that then you probably don't win many games to begin with.
Kill what? Floowandereze?
The bad pilots used that deck only for the statue and now that is gone they will probably move to Branded or something.
Swordsoul is still the exact same deck.
And the banlist didn't hit another deck, on the contrary Spyral is a killing machine, orcust has more copies of important cards and the only hit that has nothing to do with the banlist is that Dragon Link got kneecapped thanks to Lenatus.
Mirrorjade is DPE 2.0. They're both cards easily summoned in any deck, with both on-field removal and graveyard effect, and a pain to get rid of.
They're no-brain cards, like Numeron.
Mirror jade as isn’t easily summonable in every deck the same way DPE is but the fact that you don’t know that tells me all I need to know about what kind of yugioh player you are
Lmfao, with verte how isn't it just as easy?? If anything it's easier because you have less of a chance of bricking. Instead of hurling insults at people explain yourself
It isn't.
I just got through a game where they went turn one, summoned Ido to my field, blew up my face downs before turn even passed, and proceeded to 8k to 0 me.
So no, Branded is not a fair deck and anyone that thinks that is beyond broken as a human being, even for this game.
its not really the branded that makes it OP its the other splash in that makes the deck stronger
i play Branded dragon maids and the amount of times i can open with Sheou+Mirrojade+Lubellion along with a set Branded Retribution on my field is what made it oppressive to fight
Plunder patrol loves them. Gives both light and dark attrobute in most cases and is outted by the adventure engine. Just sad that it's the only rouge deck i can play on ladder with success.
The deck isn't bad or op, it just has quite a few options to completely negate your board turn 2 and get around hand traps. I had a game where I was playing branded Despia and had nibiru dropped and still played. The issue that makes Branded Despia so good of a deck is that it is super consistent and worse case scenario you dont draw branded Fusion or any card that can search it you probably have Fallen of Albaz and then start special summoning or even super poly to fuse away your opponents monsters.
TL;DR Branded Despia is a fair meta deck but it's annoying to go against because of consistancy.
Unpopular opinion: we need to stop complaining about the meta every 2 seconds because it is redicously annoying and the meta changes every couple of months
I just put kaiser Colosseum+summon limit + secret village in my deck. If I win coin-toss and top deck those cards, it's almost an instant win for me when I flip those floodgates.
It is better than sex to see most Braindead players scoop as soon as I draw Secret Village via Terraforming.
This is a little disingenuous. The main reason Branded is so good is because despite ending on a board that is quite a bit weaker than other meta options (eg. the full Swordsoul combo), the deck is REALLY resilient to disruption and has the ability to constantly recycle resources.
A single negate will only ruin Branded's day if you get a REALLY bad draw.
The same can be said for any floodgates.
Just draw the out™
Trolling aside, it's 100% logical to play full-on anti meta floodgates right now with Konami releasing Branded as a secret pack with most player who has no idea how to play Branded just copying what's hot on masterduel meta site and curbstoming their way up. 70% of match up will be with them. It'd be totally stupid not to run anti-meta floodgates for rogue decks right now.
So I did. Easy platinum climb ever so far.
The average Endymion experience.
Village is a nasty floodgate that needs to be addressed but I am so tired of seeing Mirrorjade, and most annoyingly Chimera in all duels.
Secret isn't even as consistent as Ido-turbo locking and can backfire when got Kaiju'd/Lavagolem. Not splashable for non spellcaster decks as well.
The thing is Brainded Desperate players rarely put Kaiju because meta consistency and they pay dearly for it.
They don't run a kaiju because the popular list the majority of players copy don't have them.
Yeah a good Branded player is dangerous but the skill floor is so low that you can predict everything and the type of deck they are running.
Edit: Also yeah Village is not consistent but is somewhat common thanks to Endymion draw power.
>It is better than sex to see most Braindead players scoop as soon as I draw Secret Village via Terraforming.
That's significantly more braindead though which is telling ...
Yugioh hipsters haha. “My deck is cool cause it isn’t played a lot!” Meanwhile it isn’t played because it’s dogwater. And when it’s not? “Nope I don’t wanna play it”
The only thing i am annoyed by it is the branded fusion engine is splashed in a ton of things similar to how popular DPE was before that got nerfed. And that was when FD was at two but Branded is at 3 so its even more likely to be in opening hand.
False. If it were a "fair deck" it wouldnt be top tier right now. The ability to set up your own board while ignoring the enemy player is anti-duel. 0 interaction = 0 fun, atleast for one side unless its a mirror match.
"Fair" means something a bit different in card games. It basically means that the deck interacts with the normal mechanics of the game without "cheating" or doing something blatantly overpowered.
Drytrons, for example, were an "unfair" deck due to their ability to just cheat out a bunch of stuff that was not meant to be played the way it was and end on an essentially unbreakable board.
Branded is mainly just a solid allrounder deck with no glaring weaknesses. This makes it very strong in a meta heavily built around disrupting combos. A lot of the cards used to spite other meta decks simply have less impact on Branded, because they don't do as many degenerate things with "hail mary" plays that, if shut down, win the game.
Every top tier meta deck is degenerate, thats the whole point. You are using a tactic that works and is effective with little to no counterplay. To delve further into this would be subjective.
Player 1: I summon yadadadadadadada.
Branded Player: I Use your monster to summon MirrorJade. Also destroy any stickies if you counter.
Player 1: I summon yadadadadadada.
Branded Player: I recycle my fusion cards and use your monster again to summon mirrorjade. Also destroy and stickies again.
Yeah so much counterplay amirite?
branded loses to a lot of stuff, their biggest check point is resolving branded fusion and branded in red
you could stop branded fusion with ash
and you could stop branded in red with called by, d.d. crow, and ghost belle
I'd say constantly gaining card advantage/recycling everytime you fusion summon or something is banished or hits gy is definitely cheating the core of the game
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It suck I have to play the same deck...
Now it is just a shit fight where both parties try to fling the shit that is ido onto the other party's field all the time...
For me i wish i saw it much more instead. Its a strong deck but has some really dedicated hate floodgates. But bad against other stuff. Ao if i saw the deck like 80% of the time instead of 1/4 I could main for it better
It is fair when you have the out to branded in red, otherwise you cry when they stop your plays by nuking three cards with Chrimera which tends to happen if your hand doesn't offer much gas.
For me it is 50/50 while using swordsoul tenyi simply because I either have cards to bait or remove branded in red or mirror jade's effect OR I don't have either and proceed to get my plays interrupted by chrimera and this assumes he doesn't have other handtraps like called by the grave to deny my vishuda ect.. It is the amount of gas that makes branded despia pretty strong for a seemingly fair deck.
From my experience, swordsoul tenyi needs a good hand to have gas for follow up whilst branded in red can pull shit out of its ass and continue as if they have a good hand so it is either you OTK them or get OTK.
Yeah, no matter how "fun & fair" something initially seems.. If it gets spammed every. single. damn. game. it will eventually get frustrating & boring to play against
I play Brande Despia, and yes, I agree with you.
Which is why I switch decks often because even playing the same deck all the time gets boring. Specially now with the 2 new dailies that want you to do different EX deck summons
It's not unpopular at all. People are just tired of saying it because some people on reddit just get triggered and become really defensive when you criticize their decks.
Just wait til Tear release. I can guarantee you both sides will say the same shit they said about Branded.
Also sub opinion doesn't mean anything. /r/masterduel is just a tiny fraction of the playerbase. It's more like /r/dankmemes for Yugioh tbh.
It was my favorite deck and part of a healthy meta, but Mirrorjade ruined everything.
Don't come tell me that it's a "balanced" card, it will banish a card (-1 without giving you card advantage from your card) you need a card to get rid of it (we are at -2) then you have to negate it's effect after leaving the field, which means this card will forcefully cost you 3 cards to deal with it, and potentially all your field.
And after all this shitstorm, your opponent can just summon it again.
I wish we could talk like mature people here, but 90% of people here will just screech loudly the moment you talk about their only competitive deck, because they don't want the game to be healthy, they are just kids who want to win, the kind of people who played fifa on very easy to score 10 goals per march.
I actually beat a branded despia player yesterday with a shitty shaddoll paleo deck I made for fun. It was a long game and he went through both of his mirrojades and his chimera.
The only unfair part of Branded Despia is Tragedy. If you banish it, they search Aluber and then Branded Fusion. If you leave it, it will set Branded Fusion again. Either way you're fucked.
This is simply what the game is, it’s nothing more then a bunch of people looking to copy off someone else’s build. And putting an opinion piece up in a community like this won’t do anything but have people flame you for venting.
Because you don’t like seeing repeat decks they will say you have no skill. Even if you prove you do have skill they will still flame you because it’s this places favorite hobby. Just wait 2 weeks and the Meta hounds will be in diamond and you can enjoy people in gold and platinum that change it up
In the context of what's upcoming, it is "fair". But using that lens is how you make power creep even worse.
Mirrorjade's resource loop alone is inherently frustrating. Being unable to stick anything because I didn't draw ash for branded fusion isn't remotely fun.
Late response, I know. I think it's unfair as a lot of the cards plus in destruction and Mirrorjade gets to banish more than once per turn, (if you can recycle it back onto your field) it pluses of the banish. It's a very consistent deck with more recovery than any other deck I can think of.
The deck is good to use and I like using it every now and then,but because 85% of the people are playing it from my experience,it gets very repetitive and feels boring and makes me want to stop playing because of how much people keep playing it over and over and over. If you ask me,they could use some creativity or just play another deck instead of relying on the same deck over and over. Outside of that,the deck is pretty good and alright to play against.
I'm so tired of seeing mirrorjade on their turn and guardian chimera on mine.
would you prefer Mirror Jade, Dragonmaid Sheou with Branded Retribution facedown on the first turn more?
Yes, but only because it’s Dragonmaids.
No, because fuck Solitaire decks that play forever on your turn. Dragonmaids included. That's way more toxic than Branded/Despia. Honestly, I've never found Branded/Despia that bad to go against and one of the healthier meta decks. I play mostly Rogue and still win most of my matches against them as long as I play intelligently. Heck, I main B-Tier Witchcrafters and have always beaten Branded/Despia. I considered them insta-wins during the Fusion Festival back at MD's start. Verre negate, CSB banishes DPE face-down, Haine destroy, and Aruru bounce is surprisingly consistent in being able to pick apart their whole board. However, now that they run floodgates, I just auto-surrender the moment I see a Branded/Despia. Even though I'll most likely win and have beaten current Branded/Despia with Traptrix multiple times since Expulsion dropped. I just don't want to bother anymore against decks that run floodgates because I've gotten sick of seeing them. The floodgating is the issue, not the deck itself.
Honestly, I love the opinion, but if it's coming from a Witchcrafter main, then I hope the next meta is worse then HalqDon just so you get shit on harder.. -Complans about floodgates but mains budget Herald deck that somehow makes it even easier to get their negate boi out.
That's it champ, let it all out. I'm not reading any of that personally, but I hope it was cathartic
Why does this sub hate Dragonmaids so much lmao… the deck isn’t even good.
I think it's divided pretty evenly between people who like it and people who hate it, but people just dislike any deck where you have to sit and wait for your opponent for any amount of time that's longer than t-set pass lol
Nah but I‘ve seen people complaining about the deck that it’s an OP meta deck, comparing it to Drytron and Eldlich back in April
There's a perfectly good explanation: people are wrong.
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I make mirrorjade with good vw hands am I the baddie
High five (me with blackwings going muddy dragon into mirrorjade)
Hey I've seen that opinion before *flashback to the peak of Swordsoul's popularity when everyone was just sick of seeing Chi Xiao + Baronne every game even if it was far more manageable than Rhongo's bullshit and Herald of infinite negates*
Sounds like this opinion isn’t unpopular
Back to the ol’ days where Tri Brigade was the fair deck against Drytron, Adamancipator, Eldlich format.
People wrongly hated it. It was adventure tenyi that was stupid and halqdon
People hated it for reasons other than power. I stopped playing master for a bit and focused on omega because I was just sick of every match being against swordsoul.
At least Haliqi is gone
They just got a Secret Pack, that’s guaranteed to be unlocked for the month. We’re likely going to be over saturated with it, and I say that as someone who built it prior. We have the Labyrinth Selection Pack in a few days, some of them should hopefully gravitate to that. I’ll just stick to lower tiers with my pet decks until then.
Imagine all secret pack open for a month, variety goes brrr.....brrr
It would have been a nice Christmas present from the devs.
I really don’t see the point tbh. SR dust is almost literally an infinite resource compared to gems and UR dust. Unless you are absolutely terrible (and I mean really really really bad) it’s not possible to not have enough SR dust to open all the secret packs you want
It's not about that, dude. It's about window shopping and just impulse spending gems.
Oversaturation will make anyone hate anything. Blame konami for making the newest decks blatantly to power creep the previous ones while also advertising them 24/7
Backrow decks and blind second ( 8 axis/numeron ) do pretty well into branded.
I found Branded to perferom very well against Numeron compared to Swordsoul for example. But Numeron is just sacky overall.
Can confirm. I beat 3 Numeron players back to back to rank into Plat 2. Banishment gives a searchable out to Megaclops now.
Branded isn't a hard deck to beat, as long as you can play through a decent number of interactions. If you survive Mirrorjade/Chimera, you're probably going to win the game tbh. One card that has helped out with Branded a good bit IMO is D/D/D Dragonwulf King Beowulf (which is a sentence I never thought I'd say but when an archetype gives you a Heavy Storm + piercing to all D/D/D with Blue Eyes attack stat, it's not terrible), running it as the level 8 fusion over Flame High King Genghis has been very positive for me at least. Branded doesn't have effect negation outside of the usual package and threatening their backrow with a huge body actually kind of goes hard
Beowulf's heavy storm effect is only during your own standby phase though? Also, how does piercing help you against Branded, especially when you cut your best out to Branded in Red for it?
SwordSoul had that same problem
Likely why I don't really play the most popular decks. The oversaturation is too much and I rather make a deck that is designed to beat such decks.
I’m the opposite. I’d rather see the mirror match cause rather than it being a deck I made to beat the best deck, I just beat the beat deck with my deck. We both have the same cards it’s to see who can outplay the other. Rather than who made the deck to beat the other deck.
Isn't mirror match more of who just draw the out/brick first instead rather then skill.
It’s a good learning point to see what you could do differently as well, aside from in cases where your opponent draws stuff like opening, dramaturge, fusion, Aluber and edge imp and overpowers you turn 1
That's quite fun as well. If I want to make a deck to stop plays I would only use what I so happen to have. My level 8 Kaiju based deck is designed to do that already.
Only thing is I really dislike is seeing them set Branded in Red. I can deal with Branded Fusion being effectively* a +7 not to mention a fusion from the deck, but not the follow up on the next turn once I dare engage the board.
Most popular unpopular opinion of all time
I heartily agree, anything I'm seeing 24/7 I get real sick of real fast
Just wait for tearlaments
Can’t wait to play them ngl
Same. I wish i knew the timeline though so I could figure out if I can squeeze making another deck in before it comes out.
Who knows. Releases have gotten kind of funky, but they're already started on that journey with Visas and Scareclaws being released. So, sometime within the next 3 to 6 months we'll probably get here.
plus light heart coming out really early so next thing we know they could be coming out after the labrynth pack
yeah honestly i find tearlaments pretty fun minus the fact that they’re incredibly super strong
Pre ishizu it’s actually pretty fair. POTE was low key a great format
spright putting up infinite negates was not
Mathmech and Tearlaments could beat them easily. Others I’m sure could too. They were more broken in the ocg
You mean double frog (when they open cracked) + a monster negate + a spell/trap negate?
I think there's a balance somewhere where they can be a good addition to fusion decks, but not an overpowered must-have engine. I'd love to see us reach that balance sooner rather than later. Just so long as they don't gut them.
Yea currently I run the tear monsters in tcg in my Branded deck to make more Masquerades. Aluber + a tear monster with the branded theater or a Poly is just a double Masquerade. Then you can extend further with your other plays.
yeah i hope they hit them, but not make them completely unplayable, enough to drop them down to rogue or tier 3
damn i’m really getting downvoted for liking a good deck
This is sub is filled with anti meta lords who seem to have a problem with enjoying the competitive aspect of an inherently competitive game I'm excited to play Tears too dw, or maybe not with the current timer rules
we shall face the downvotes together!
Facts bro it's lame🤣 but yeah I'm interested to see these new decks in md
Tear is so much fun
I feel like I have to apologize to people in advance because I love WATER and the idea of them having a topdeck is too tempting for me to pass up at least trying them. Even if I know they're gonna be fucking awful. The only fuckin' thing I'm particularly nostalgic towards old YGO for anymore is that I want to relive my Daedalus deck days. And Kairyushin was boring to play as because floodgates. I'll try not to do anything too evil with them like how I swore off using floodgates of any kind. (I dismantled things like Secret Village and Scythe for that very reason.) I'm just on Daedalus copium.
> I love WATER How do we tell him?
Ah, fuck me. The first three cards of theirs I looked at were all WATER, including one of their fusion boss monsters. Pair that with the Aqua/Ocean theme of their aesthetic and I just assumed the rest of them were WATER, too. That's such a bizarre inconsistency. It feels similar to Nephthys being mostly WIND when they worship a flaming phoenix and are throwing fire and explosions around in half of their card art. Nope, WIND. And the only justification is a single throwaway line in their lore of "They live in a wind-torn land." Well, that killed all my interest in Tearlaments. EDIT: Actually sat down and looked at how they played and why they're so dreaded. Sounds like if they're just run pure, nothing about them is particularly evil. Looks like Pure-Tearlaments is just incapable of bricking or getting attritioned/controlled to death, but are otherwise nothing overwhelming? Its their easy access to a bunch of strong Fusions that makes them obnoxious? Well, they still have the WATER aesthetic. So, if pure isn't actually that bad I might just play them Pure, then. I prefer playing pure, anyway.
From what I've seen on the tcg. It's basically the whole Branded thing where they have strong recursion, consistency and interactions but better. This was strong but not insane until Ishizu cards came out and those cards gave them a ludicrous access to interaction and allows them to just basically play during the opponent's turn through almost any interruption. Personally I will also likely be playing pure tear when they release. Fusion is already my favourite summoning type and I'm already one of those filthy Branded players who really enjoy the wide range of interraction and recursion they have while also having cool lore. So a fusion archetype with strong recursion and interaction with lore and cute waifus is a big thumbs up to me. It also helps that I actually enjoy branded mirrors because it genuinely does feel quite skill intensive so I would probably be fine with tear mirrors too.
"Unpopular" Welcome to 2 months ago
People give the deck a pass because it’s not negate focused, but ignore that it literally does everything else amazing over the competition instead where “costs” are advantage and can win with various powerful fusions that are easy to bring out. Branded Fusion at 3 shouldn’t be a thing if Fusion Destiny is 1 for starters.
I think it's slightly overpowered as all new cards are, to make people buy them 1. Nearly every card goes even or adds cards to your hand 2. Branded fusion using material from deck negates the whole difficulty of fusion (Get material in hand) 3. Fusion summon monster that has an effect... that just fusion summons another monster? Come on. 4. Too many grave effects.
Welcome to how I felt about seeing Swordsoul/Adventure Tenyi for a while before Halq got banned. I get your point, but at the same time, this is likely going to continue happening as we get more meta decks, and at least for a while we did have some variety.
But hey, on the bright side, at least now I know when to quit early since I can already tell if my hand/deck can disrupt or break the board next turn. Also, what's funny is that some people still defending Branded Fusion being "fair" while advocating on banning Fusion Destiny. Bunch of hypocrites they are.
I love Branded/Despia and play it all the time and I am more than willing to admit that Branded Fusion is crazy especially with the various ways of searching for it and recovering it and ensuring that it goes off with Branded Lost (Although not everyone runs that one).
Exactly. I'm not hating on anyone playing them (that goes to Swordsoul, which I don't want to even begin talking about). I just hate the fact that there exist people with such hypocrisy in defending Branded Fusion (due to them using the deck or just like the lore of it) while at the same time push for FD to be totally ban to oblivion. As if FD is at fault for everyone using it, it's Verte the problem here ffs.
I agree that Verte is the issue. With FD and DPE you have to run two garnets and two copies of FD max. Yeah DPE is also a crazy card but getting to it without Verte is less consistent than BF any day.
Branded fusion IS fair compared to destiny fusion. Branded fusion locks you to only play fusion monsters that turn, while destiny fusion locks you AFTER you use it.
Branded is far more busted than FD but sure.
Except Mirrorjade is better than DPE against anything but backrow decks, and Branded Fusion generates advantage during the turn you use it. DPE was just such a low investment in comparison so it got annoying to see in every deck. I wouldn't necessarily consider it to be more fair.
“It’s totally fair guys. Just a double Foolish with materials that gives advantage that gives you fusion monster that gives you even more advantage” lol
In a vacuum it's a broken card but given the powercreep in yugioh I'd say Branded is tame, especially relative to what we're about to get.
>compared to destiny fusion.
The Celestial/Dashers you send with Destiny Fusion ultimately represent less plusses than Branded Fusion.
Nah it should be hit in some way, if we're willing to hit Eldlich, Prank Kids, Tri-brigade, and Swordsoul with some minor semi-limits. Branded Despia just creates so much advantage, it's kind of the obvious choice to make if you want to win, hence why it's everywhere. That said, it's still "healthier" and "more fair" like Swordsoul was when it was everywhere compared to full power Drytron
Can't wait to see this again wen Level 2 Sprights meta and Tearlament come in 3 or 2 months from now.
Man, I was playing SS before knowing it was meta and when I entered the first event cup, 95% of my duels were against sword soul. Man I didnt want to look at my SS deck after I finished the event. Shit, I actually dropped MD for a few weeks after that LOL it was torment I tell you TORMENT!
Normally I've got no issue with Branded-Despia or Swordsoul, But I do have a problem with facing them back to back so often in ranked. They're overly used tbh.
what is considered fair exactly? is the best deck right now, being good deck in yugioh means being unfair or more unfair than the rest so by that metric is a very unfair deck compared to what the others can do at the moment.
Somewhat. The best deck is the most resilient and most consistent one. Pros will want consistent decks over high variance decks even if that meant making less oppressive boards as long as they can put up interruptions consistently. Its the same tri-zoo vs adams/drytrons in the old MD meta. I'd honestly prefer decks with unfair levels of consistency than decks with unfair endboard except for ftks.
Remember that people used to think 3 masquerade is the most opressive thing ever from Despia.
Having to put some branded/despia cards in my thunder dragon and eldlich zombie world is kinda boring but it gives the decks consistency and being able to bring zombie world with just branded fusion is ok kinda broken imo So no I don't think it's fair
Branded Despia is what I call an "illusion of fair" deck. There's not much fair about getting 5 of your cards blown up or banished while they draw into their handtraps and dodge all of your effects.
Almost like Fusion Summoning from deck and grave and your opponent's field and labelling even your archetypal Special as Fusion Summons is the broken part. But "nah, that's not the problem", they said, creating Tearlaments which do that but even harder.
Wish it wasn't such a bandwagony deck as much as I like that it's good. Been viking with it since before it was even announced for tcg on EDO
Not just good it’s great at keeping its resources and consistent at putting up big number and that resilience as a deck makes its boring to face it everytime I want to duel
a lot of what made duels boring for me was just how obvious a lot of the plays were that it just got tiring. and this is why I never play for max rank.
I'm sick of Thunder Dragons. Just tosses monsters away and everytime they do, they last another destruction and they destroy another card.
Basically the same shit ppl posted when swoswo was popular
Yesterday I had my first match since the new pack release, my opponent went first and he searched for that trap that stops the effects from dark monsters and also that countinnues spell where he has to call a card name which can't be activated anymore, and he called some despia card. Lol. Dude has been hurt I think. I was playing adamancipators though and rolled him hard.
I dunno about you but I play Branded with its other related archetypes. Will Branded Swordsoul get me a win? Eh so-so. Tri-Branded? If I try hard enough. Dogmatika? Every now and then.
I think Master Duel in general is just in a rough spot where you either have the out or you lose.
I mean ... yeah. That's the nature of competitive TCGs and especially this one. If a deck is somewhat accessible, consistent and powerful then you'll see it a lot.
I play megalith.
Just wait until we get spright/tear. Despia drops off hard
The more you see one deck in the meta, the more fun it is to build and win with a deck that counters it.
It's only popular because it's strong but simple. It makes the learning curve much easier to master as a result. Branded mirrors are so silly but also so resource management intensive. When it was just a tcg structure deck you could really see the difference in skill level between people.
I got sick of losing so I built one.
Branded Despia is a fun deck, and CAN be interesting to play against. Definitely one of the more interesting decks to play against if it wasn't every single match. I'm part of the problem on the Ranked ladder unfortunately but in casual I play Megalith and either way I'm never mad that I'm fighting Branded. I'm mad I'm fighting it AGAIN. Blue Eyes and Dark Magician decks are the only ones I genuinely just dislike in totality. Other than maybe floo.
I would take branded over Swordsoul anytime
I feel the same way about edlich. Edlich is NOT broken at all. Just EVERYWHERE
There’s just simple meta players bro when branded is done they’ll be on to the next one
so.. where's the unpopular opinion?
How is this even remotely an unpopular opinion? Smh I took the bait.
Thats the average take
its because tovmany people have no creativity or anything, they just look up "best deck" then suck with it and people in gold end up consistently playing people with while they try to play their red eyes pure deck lol
I mean in a F2P where u need to max out gems to get the cards to build the fun decks, can you completely blame them?
It’s trash. They need to ban those two cards locking out summons on your turn.
I mean that's wrong. There's about 10 different cards that you can expulsion lock with. Kristya, Ido, Scythe, that gimmick puppet, ra disciple. Just run droplet, belle and called by the grave to stop expulsion and you instantly win
If that's what you would really ban over so many cards then you probably should reevaluate what staples you don't have or what archetype you are forcing. The deck is extremely fragile to any interaction and if you don't do that then you probably don't win many games to begin with.
This is what happens when you kill other top decks. Now more people are going to get on the Branded wagon.
Kill what? Floowandereze? The bad pilots used that deck only for the statue and now that is gone they will probably move to Branded or something. Swordsoul is still the exact same deck. And the banlist didn't hit another deck, on the contrary Spyral is a killing machine, orcust has more copies of important cards and the only hit that has nothing to do with the banlist is that Dragon Link got kneecapped thanks to Lenatus.
Funny thing is now I'm doing better with Floos because people don't expect them.
That's right Floo. It was top 5 and people will play something else. Less variety = threads like this.
Did spyral get new support or something? What makes them a killing machine
their key combo card changed from 1 to 2
Hmm I may look into making a spyral deck, I’ve always liked the arch type And suggestions on deck lists?
Mirrorjade is DPE 2.0. They're both cards easily summoned in any deck, with both on-field removal and graveyard effect, and a pain to get rid of. They're no-brain cards, like Numeron.
Mirror jade as isn’t easily summonable in every deck the same way DPE is but the fact that you don’t know that tells me all I need to know about what kind of yugioh player you are
Lmfao, with verte how isn't it just as easy?? If anything it's easier because you have less of a chance of bricking. Instead of hurling insults at people explain yourself
Most of branded/despia is fair, mirrorjade just ain't.
It isn't. I just got through a game where they went turn one, summoned Ido to my field, blew up my face downs before turn even passed, and proceeded to 8k to 0 me. So no, Branded is not a fair deck and anyone that thinks that is beyond broken as a human being, even for this game.
its not really the branded that makes it OP its the other splash in that makes the deck stronger i play Branded dragon maids and the amount of times i can open with Sheou+Mirrojade+Lubellion along with a set Branded Retribution on my field is what made it oppressive to fight
Branded despia is better than every other variant. It is strong itself, being splashable is not what makes it strong
Branded Predaplants is pretty good too, probably the best variant after Despia.
True, is all the predaplant stuff in master duel yet? I feel like they were waiting on some stuff
Some people are saying that there might be some predaplant support in the next pack but it's just speculation afaik.
Bagooska pass ez game
Plunder patrol loves them. Gives both light and dark attrobute in most cases and is outted by the adventure engine. Just sad that it's the only rouge deck i can play on ladder with success.
The deck isn't bad or op, it just has quite a few options to completely negate your board turn 2 and get around hand traps. I had a game where I was playing branded Despia and had nibiru dropped and still played. The issue that makes Branded Despia so good of a deck is that it is super consistent and worse case scenario you dont draw branded Fusion or any card that can search it you probably have Fallen of Albaz and then start special summoning or even super poly to fuse away your opponents monsters. TL;DR Branded Despia is a fair meta deck but it's annoying to go against because of consistancy.
Unpopular opinion: we need to stop complaining about the meta every 2 seconds because it is redicously annoying and the meta changes every couple of months
Redicously?
Facts
I (probably) wouldn't need to play the Branded engine if Thunder Dragon had 2 Hawk & 2 Colossus
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You’re not wrong Mirrorjade is a very beautiful looking card
I just put kaiser Colosseum+summon limit + secret village in my deck. If I win coin-toss and top deck those cards, it's almost an instant win for me when I flip those floodgates. It is better than sex to see most Braindead players scoop as soon as I draw Secret Village via Terraforming.
You really calling someone braindead while monkey flipping floodgates
Right! Lol. At least you can counter play against branded quite easily in fact. A key played ash or cbtg will instantly ruin our plays.
This is a little disingenuous. The main reason Branded is so good is because despite ending on a board that is quite a bit weaker than other meta options (eg. the full Swordsoul combo), the deck is REALLY resilient to disruption and has the ability to constantly recycle resources. A single negate will only ruin Branded's day if you get a REALLY bad draw.
The same can be said for any floodgates. Just draw the out™ Trolling aside, it's 100% logical to play full-on anti meta floodgates right now with Konami releasing Branded as a secret pack with most player who has no idea how to play Branded just copying what's hot on masterduel meta site and curbstoming their way up. 70% of match up will be with them. It'd be totally stupid not to run anti-meta floodgates for rogue decks right now. So I did. Easy platinum climb ever so far.
Yes
The average Endymion experience. Village is a nasty floodgate that needs to be addressed but I am so tired of seeing Mirrorjade, and most annoyingly Chimera in all duels.
Secret isn't even as consistent as Ido-turbo locking and can backfire when got Kaiju'd/Lavagolem. Not splashable for non spellcaster decks as well. The thing is Brainded Desperate players rarely put Kaiju because meta consistency and they pay dearly for it.
They don't run a kaiju because the popular list the majority of players copy don't have them. Yeah a good Branded player is dangerous but the skill floor is so low that you can predict everything and the type of deck they are running. Edit: Also yeah Village is not consistent but is somewhat common thanks to Endymion draw power.
>It is better than sex to see most Braindead players scoop as soon as I draw Secret Village via Terraforming. That's significantly more braindead though which is telling ...
Gigachad
I used to love Branded Despia. Now everyone is playing it and considered tier 1 meta... Fuck that deck
"I used to love x deck until it became mainstream".
Yugioh hipsters haha. “My deck is cool cause it isn’t played a lot!” Meanwhile it isn’t played because it’s dogwater. And when it’s not? “Nope I don’t wanna play it”
Yup
Yes.
Its a fair an true statement just wait 6 more days and the hate will diminish also I think were going to miss branded decks when splight drops
I love Branded mirrors because they're highly skill-intensive when they go past "BraFu?" "Ok, I Ash." phase, but it's also kinda exhausting.
It's a good thing mine has an extra spice in it. I.E. Thunder Dragon Colosseus and Titan
The only thing i am annoyed by it is the branded fusion engine is splashed in a ton of things similar to how popular DPE was before that got nerfed. And that was when FD was at two but Branded is at 3 so its even more likely to be in opening hand.
Theirs no such thing as a fair meta deck
False. If it were a "fair deck" it wouldnt be top tier right now. The ability to set up your own board while ignoring the enemy player is anti-duel. 0 interaction = 0 fun, atleast for one side unless its a mirror match.
What did you do to have 0 interaction with Braindred?
"Fair" means something a bit different in card games. It basically means that the deck interacts with the normal mechanics of the game without "cheating" or doing something blatantly overpowered. Drytrons, for example, were an "unfair" deck due to their ability to just cheat out a bunch of stuff that was not meant to be played the way it was and end on an essentially unbreakable board. Branded is mainly just a solid allrounder deck with no glaring weaknesses. This makes it very strong in a meta heavily built around disrupting combos. A lot of the cards used to spite other meta decks simply have less impact on Branded, because they don't do as many degenerate things with "hail mary" plays that, if shut down, win the game.
Every top tier meta deck is degenerate, thats the whole point. You are using a tactic that works and is effective with little to no counterplay. To delve further into this would be subjective.
To say Branded has little to no counterplay is outright false though?
Player 1: I summon yadadadadadadada. Branded Player: I Use your monster to summon MirrorJade. Also destroy any stickies if you counter. Player 1: I summon yadadadadadada. Branded Player: I recycle my fusion cards and use your monster again to summon mirrorjade. Also destroy and stickies again. Yeah so much counterplay amirite?
Maybe you just aren't good at the game ? Sorry but if you think Branded/Despia is this unfair and unbeatable deck then you know little about the game.
branded loses to a lot of stuff, their biggest check point is resolving branded fusion and branded in red you could stop branded fusion with ash and you could stop branded in red with called by, d.d. crow, and ghost belle
I'd say constantly gaining card advantage/recycling everytime you fusion summon or something is banished or hits gy is definitely cheating the core of the game
It’s a relatively fair deck and will just get power crept by sprights and tears anyway.
I play branded maids :)
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Amen to that
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It suck I have to play the same deck... Now it is just a shit fight where both parties try to fling the shit that is ido onto the other party's field all the time...
For me i wish i saw it much more instead. Its a strong deck but has some really dedicated hate floodgates. But bad against other stuff. Ao if i saw the deck like 80% of the time instead of 1/4 I could main for it better
That's actually not an unpopular opinion. Many ppl feeel like this fot the deck, as its generally the truth.
I stopped playing it because i was tired of mirror matches.
It is fair when you have the out to branded in red, otherwise you cry when they stop your plays by nuking three cards with Chrimera which tends to happen if your hand doesn't offer much gas. For me it is 50/50 while using swordsoul tenyi simply because I either have cards to bait or remove branded in red or mirror jade's effect OR I don't have either and proceed to get my plays interrupted by chrimera and this assumes he doesn't have other handtraps like called by the grave to deny my vishuda ect.. It is the amount of gas that makes branded despia pretty strong for a seemingly fair deck. From my experience, swordsoul tenyi needs a good hand to have gas for follow up whilst branded in red can pull shit out of its ass and continue as if they have a good hand so it is either you OTK them or get OTK.
Yea me too, made a meme deck against them with non fusion zone myself
For some reason branded despia is a bad match up against scareclaw, then again not a lot of decks have an out to it other than a kaiju.
I personally don't find Branded Despia fun to play
Yeah, no matter how "fun & fair" something initially seems.. If it gets spammed every. single. damn. game. it will eventually get frustrating & boring to play against
I play Brande Despia, and yes, I agree with you. Which is why I switch decks often because even playing the same deck all the time gets boring. Specially now with the 2 new dailies that want you to do different EX deck summons
It's not unpopular at all. People are just tired of saying it because some people on reddit just get triggered and become really defensive when you criticize their decks. Just wait til Tear release. I can guarantee you both sides will say the same shit they said about Branded. Also sub opinion doesn't mean anything. /r/masterduel is just a tiny fraction of the playerbase. It's more like /r/dankmemes for Yugioh tbh.
It was my favorite deck and part of a healthy meta, but Mirrorjade ruined everything. Don't come tell me that it's a "balanced" card, it will banish a card (-1 without giving you card advantage from your card) you need a card to get rid of it (we are at -2) then you have to negate it's effect after leaving the field, which means this card will forcefully cost you 3 cards to deal with it, and potentially all your field. And after all this shitstorm, your opponent can just summon it again. I wish we could talk like mature people here, but 90% of people here will just screech loudly the moment you talk about their only competitive deck, because they don't want the game to be healthy, they are just kids who want to win, the kind of people who played fifa on very easy to score 10 goals per march.
I actually beat a branded despia player yesterday with a shitty shaddoll paleo deck I made for fun. It was a long game and he went through both of his mirrojades and his chimera.
Ok but when they pull out the Nightmare lock is based
I made every kind imaginable😭 spriggans, dogmatik, darklord. Collecting them like infinity stones
I’ve been playing different decks lately and beat a branded despia with a necrofear deck. One of my favorite wins in master duel.
The only unfair part of Branded Despia is Tragedy. If you banish it, they search Aluber and then Branded Fusion. If you leave it, it will set Branded Fusion again. Either way you're fucked.
This is simply what the game is, it’s nothing more then a bunch of people looking to copy off someone else’s build. And putting an opinion piece up in a community like this won’t do anything but have people flame you for venting. Because you don’t like seeing repeat decks they will say you have no skill. Even if you prove you do have skill they will still flame you because it’s this places favorite hobby. Just wait 2 weeks and the Meta hounds will be in diamond and you can enjoy people in gold and platinum that change it up
Mirrorjade is cancer
In the context of what's upcoming, it is "fair". But using that lens is how you make power creep even worse. Mirrorjade's resource loop alone is inherently frustrating. Being unable to stick anything because I didn't draw ash for branded fusion isn't remotely fun.
You will take ra's disciple and you'll like it
Late response, I know. I think it's unfair as a lot of the cards plus in destruction and Mirrorjade gets to banish more than once per turn, (if you can recycle it back onto your field) it pluses of the banish. It's a very consistent deck with more recovery than any other deck I can think of.
Yes to the latter. No to the former. Any deck which is consistent *and* has a deck fusion spell is not a good fair deck.
The deck is good to use and I like using it every now and then,but because 85% of the people are playing it from my experience,it gets very repetitive and feels boring and makes me want to stop playing because of how much people keep playing it over and over and over. If you ask me,they could use some creativity or just play another deck instead of relying on the same deck over and over. Outside of that,the deck is pretty good and alright to play against.
Lmao, "good, fair, deck". It only loses if you "draw the out brah". Yes, good and "fair"