Why Do People HATE Branded Despia?
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Branded players have lowkey always been pieces of shit.
From masquerade burn
To summoning Ra's Disciple to lock you
To summoning Gimmick puppet to lock you
The more time that goes on the more I straight up do not like Branded or the people that play it.
Some of the most toxic games that can happen in yu gi oh.
The % of people that play these toxic ways of playing branded have totally ruined Brandeds reputation.
point made
People have always been using engines to play unfair stuff, if that engine uses it best.
I personally don't use any of the above strats bc I feel they greatly lower the ceiling potential, AND I JUST DONT FIND THAT STUFF FUN
But people always gonna use engines to play unfair stuff
I would refer to them as "puppet players" rather than "branded players" bc those people would not play Branded if it didnt have access to unfair tools if built a certain way
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Branded is played how modern Yugioh is meant to be.
@@LikeTheBirb yeah it's just weird tho right? this deck is meant to be the big bang of fusion decks because it goes balls to the wall without ever summoning a single link or xyz or synchro, but really the spice still lies in the main deck in the form of...floodgates. like clearly konami was going for "mirrorjade and friends" but i don't think they thought mirrorjade would be so chummy with gimmick fucker of nightmare
Simple answer: Puppet Lock
Yeah it's just that simple. 😂
Correct
I still believe Branded is rather fair compared to other decks. It can't really afford to run hand traps, loses to most hand interruption,has zero room for Generic extra deck staples, the end board has at best one negate and almost zero protection for its monsters or backrow.
As someone who don't play gimmick puppet, no body ever said me that he hates branded. Some just think that branded fusion or mirrorjade is crazy strong
Honestly, I feel like if you don’t play the gimmick puppet no one really cares but if you do, you’re a terrible person
i can't believe we're still discussing gimmick puppet in branded when chimera is out here fucking with one of the barrier statues now (can we please ban beatrice already?)
@@YeahTheDuckweed Almost like it’s a video discussing branded and not chimera
@@tbates2906 so true bestie
@@YeahTheDuckweed 🤗
Branded is great. I love that they printed it out as a structure deck so anyone could get it.
Most cards that make branded good are fairly pricy. Only now are stuff like Granguignol starting to get reprinted, Quem and the bystials could still use some
The non branded players just hate the fact that this deck can do crazy stuff with it's own engine only but they forget that it's so hard to pilot correctly any minimum missplay get punished hard to put it simply high risk high reward
I honestly think it’s absurd they complain so much about branded fusion, despite the fact they play one-card engine decks that don’t even have locks in them at all.
I dont care if your deck is hard to play, if you Sanctifire lock me im gonna steal your Lunch money
True @@justice8718
@@kotkafer2292ban nightmare done
when the reward is a gimmick puppet lock. it's hard to see why people don't like branded.
What I love the most about Branded players, they hated and shit talked Dragon Link players for the longest time and now you have become the new Dragon Link players 😂 lived long enough to become the villain
Why they hated Dragon Link?🤣
@@nikolagochev9 most of it I think comes from Lenatus being such a garbage card in almost every match up besides dragons and at locals and regionals a lot of salty Branded players would tell me, “if I had lenatus you’d be cooked”. Dragons also had a phenomenal matchup against Branded. Plus Dragons were relevant up until Snake Eyes, that’s 4+ years of relevance and most people including Branded players thought the deck should die.
@@NewtBannner Yeah, I understand now, thanks!
2 reasons.
1. Branded Expulsion
2. Albion the Sanctifire Dragon
Expulsion is banned and Sanctifire is only ever played at one, if they aren't going for the puppet lock then what's the problem? Snake Eyes is way worse by comparison.
@@MrEffectfilms but sanctifire cant be targeted so 90 % of hand traps to try and stop you being locked out of the game are useless
@@ashleymaple16 true but locking is useless against certain strategies like Flo and Labyrinth, neither of which rely on special summoning, and even others like Kashtira and Tearlaments can survive a turn without it. The puppet lock is powerful, don't get me wrong, but I don't think it's as big a problem as people have made it out to be. And if it is a problem then the problem is Nightmare not Sanctifire, sure you could replace it with other monsters like Jowgen but that locks BOTH players from special summoning and Branded NEEDS to be able to special summon to function.
@@MrEffectfilmsPuppet is used on average like 2 times per match. That overshadows everything cool about the deck
@@MrEffectfilms I rather face snake eye than branded
I hate the deck because you cant break their board + plus they have infinite followup. Even if you somehow break their board, if you dont kill them mirrojade is blowing up your field and they start there turn with 6 cards in hand again. It gives u the illusion of being able to play but in reality your just throwing stuff at a wall hoping something sticks And it kinda plays through a ton
But isn't that kinda the point of a grind deck? It loses to OTKs and aggro decks that you can set up branded doesn't have much to stop set up it's just very strong at breaking boards and putting up that wall.
@@PengWinUA-cam but you literally cant otk it. The only boardbreaker thats "good" vs branded is evenly matched and i lose my battle phase after using it. Branded has so many different types of disruptions, it feels like its designed too well lol. I cant remember winning vs branded going second, unless i have ash for branded fusion and they literally dont have any other plays. What i do like about the deck is it being able to go second with basically just engine, but playing vs branded always feels like a coin toss. Imo branded has been the best deck since forever, only time i wasnt was when ariseheart was around, but thats my hot take
@@eclipse3479 1 ash stops the entire combo on the right target if all you have in hand is aluber and you ash aluber from searching branded fusion the branded player loses right there if you have a good turn 2 if you are going first you just have to set up a good enough board to not get board broken by branded which is hard but intended for the deck.
Edit: I think like most people what really frustrates them is gimmick puppet since it's like a secondary thing a branded player can set up if they can't get a strong board. I think once puppet lock is dealt with the deck will feel better to play against since you just have to stop it's main thing which is making a big board. Puppet lock just allows for a secondary much easier half measure combo should the branded player not be able to set up the a main board.
@@PengWinUA-cam well idealy ash stops their turn, but they somehow always play through it. Cartesia, quem, albion, branded in high spirits whatever it might be. Of course i won games by just ashing them, but most of the time they can still play and end on a crazy board
The follow up is really good but not quite top tier imo. A deck like rescue ace, floo or labrynth can out grind branded, eventually they will run out of ed resources.
I was finally able to play Branded (missing quem) for TCG and off of Master duel but wow, this deck at fulled powered is sooo amazing 😍
Because one branded fusion makes billions of monsters and floodgates people with sanctifier
Snake eyes ash? Circular? Eglen? This isn’t new lol
@@whales312 circular is banned snake eyes ash is at one then branded fusion should be minimum at one
@@alexandergeorgiev74Ash is at 3 in Tcg and probably will stay at 3 due to its ulti print
Also brafu isn t full combo at all😂 it only places a decent mirrorjade and a bystial lubellion.
I mean it s a lot for sure but not even comparable to other shit decks that can summon billion of times starting from the fkin hero decks that always existed
@@kjrosmajuri1225you can puppet lock with 1 branded fusion and 2 discards
As someone who has personally felt the hate of the community towards Branded. I can understand why people hate the deck. I just find it funny that most of the people complaining about Branded are the people who play pretty toxic decks or strategies themselves. What can I say? I truly dislike hypocrites, but I can still see their point. While I do not personally wish for Sanctifire to be banned, as it's the only Fusion that's being played with some decent protection, I have to agree that the puppet lock has to go in some way or shape and SOON (and hopefully permanently). I can just hope that the existence of the Gimmick Puppet FTK will sort of scare the Branded Community away from using the puppet lock for much longer. I truly hope the hate will stop at some point, Branded itself is not that bad once the lock is gone and can be quite fun to play with or play against. It has to come from both ways though. We as the Branded players have to move on from this toxic playstyle and go back to the way of strong interruptions, and the rest of the community has to accept the deck is here to stay (maybe) and learn to adapt to it. Besides, We have Snake-Eyes still reigning supreme here, the puppet FTK is coming as well as the Tachyon FTK, and ofc the Fiendsmith engine coming to the TCG soon. We as a community have much bigger problems ahead of us.
Funny, it almost sounds to me (a Branded player btw from the buttom of my heart) as if Galzo is making advertisement for the Branded deck. Y'know like: "Just imagine it! You just activate branded fusion, send Shadoll Dragon, out their floodgate. Then you just normal summon Fallen of Albaz, discard a card and suck up one of their extra deck monsters of your choice. That's non-targetting, non-destructive removal. Now guess what? Now you already have Mirrorjade. Which SENDS FOR COST something that will probalby search you something in MAIN PHASE THREE. And then you have a SOFT ONCE PER TURN non-targetting banish. That's again non-targetting, non-destructive removal - soft once per turn! And it gets even better: If the opponent somehow got rid of your boss monster, they lose all their monsters at the end of the turn, which they most likely can not prevent from happening, if they can not immidiately negate the effect. And if you had Branded Lost, the opponent can not even react to your fusion summons. In the end phase you recycle everything, set branded in red in order to recycle and interrupt at the same time during the opponents turn. Then you probably go Pot of Greed with Chimera and search with Lost on the opponent's turn. And if you have fusion duplication, you can effectively either go branded fusion during the opponents turn or TWICE during your turn. And the searing Lubellion fusion summons by recycling even your banished monsters! And Shroudion SENDS FOR COST and draws you a card. And to top it all off, you even have an in-archetype boss monsters, that can not be targetted and that completely locks your opponent completely out of the game. And that repeatedly every single turn! And all that for the ridiculously low price of dying to one Ash Blossum or any Bystial - which ideally you just crossout, since you are most likely playing these cards yourself."
Just hearing about all this makes me drool and makes me want to play it again. (Minus the Gimmick puppet lock. That's boring and toxic. That's where I draw the line. Branded has so much cool stuff, one doesn't have to lock the opponent.)
People hate every deck that can put more than 1 monster on the board loll
people also hate 1 inspector boarder.
That's most decks. I feel like they hate floodgates and combo decks that end on floodgates more
They hate even my little friend purrely ❤
@@galzo solution: everyone play sky striker mirrors until the sun explodes LMFAO
Runick stun
Soooo, no one gonna mention that one card that says “don’t play the game if they fusion summon”???? Lost is another factor to why I despise playing against branded.
😂 you literally can still just ash bf.
@@thunderclapzsolt1735 draw it then
@josef24601 bro, what? Have you ever played master duel? I've seen my opponent use at least 2 hand traps in 98% of my duels. It's usually ash or maxx c. After that, it fluctuates between imperm, nib, called by, and ghost ogre. But usually, it's maxx c and/or ash. And for the record, you could say "draw it, then" about almost every card in the game, so that's an invalid argument. Plus, you can search it, run it at 3, top deck it, draw it off a maxx c, etc. etc.
@@thunderclapzsolt1735 🤦♂️
I used to hate the deck but after trying it out myself, it took some time for me to understand the deck but when I knew what I was doing, it became one of the best decks I’ve played. Mirrorjade, Masqurade, and branded fusion are all fine especially since they haven’t been shown to be a tier 0 problem. Just Ban Sactifire and the deck’s very fair. This is one of my favorite decks of all time and I hope that people will play this deck in a fair way.
I like the branded cards a lot. Their story is really interesting and I wish Konami gave archetypes this kind of treatment more often. This deck helped me get back into the game after not playing since middle school. I ignore the hate because the top decks always get hated on but will admit the gimmick lock is toxic however banning Albion wont fix that. Another card will come along to enable that same play then gimmick puppet nightmare will probably end up banned then.
Its absolutely crazy that you can use Mirrorjade like three times during your opponents turn AND plus with it during their End Phase.
Idk, maybe:
1.- The non-target banish that somehow is able to banish each turn by just recycling itself
2.- the destroy all monsters effect.
3.-multiple play on my opponent’s turn that if you dare to normal summon it might as well become a fusion material.
4.-multiple gy effects that range from add cards, special summons, etc.
5.- multiple ways to lock the opponent.
6.- cant be really punish with a board breaker, they can just regenerate.
And so many others…..
Edit: after seeing the video, goddamn we shared points lol, but yes mirrorjade is so annoying.
All of that is a complete non issue and Mirrorjade itself is a phenomenally designed bossmonster that finally isnt just a negate or has protection. The only unfair thing is the lock
@@kotkafer2292 yes, an Omni negate in exchange for a gy effect, a non target banish removal, and a potential wipe the entire field, this without counting how the cost is literally a gy effect, so you cant even dropplet or dark ruler without a risk
@@erikfigueroa6390 If you cant deal with a Mirrorjade and some grind, im sorry but thats a skill issue most likely. The deck is good no question about it but it aint broken, hell I could Name you a dozen way worse decks that Put up way better end boards
@@kotkafer2292 Sir, we talking about a specific card here. Not a general endboard. And if we only talking about boss monster, I don't think you can name dozen cards here. This card literally has 2 best removal and a Nadir Servant effect. How your skill not see how strong this card?
Title of the video: "Why Do People HATE Branded Despia?"
What I saw: "Reasons why I love Branded"
I just hate how Konami plays favorites with it. It ALWAYS dodges the banlists, and it ALWAYS gets new support, new reprints, and new rarity upgrades. All while so many other decks can barely get a crumb of decent support. Branded gets all the good shit at everyone else’s expense.
For all the high rarity that it has gotten still hasn't got it to win when it counts
I don't play the deck mmyself but I love branded. I like how the deck kept changing and becoming different. I don't enjoy being puppet locked however every branded game where it didn't happen it was one of the most fun I had playing ygo simply because the deck doesn't have solid negates and it give interactive gameplay. We should have more decks like despia idc what anyone says and less of handtrap piles with a small engine (snake-eyes , Tenpai , Voiceless Voice .....)
Hey Galzo, are you gettjng a set if QCR Branded Fusion? Idk if you already got a set but I recently found out QCR Branded Fusion is in Battle of Legends.
It’s a mixture of things I think.
1. Is obviously the floodgates. Branded lost, puppet lock, ra’s disciple. It’s toxic and can easily be done through hand traps including ash blossom. This is the biggest reason branded has a bad reputation.
2. Branded fusion being the first of 1 card combos that gives you a big board. That board then is impossible to break. And naturally gives you a lot follow up in turn 3 which a lot of players hate and makes it feel like a waste of time trying to win. If you hate snake eyes ash then you should also hate branded fusion.
3. THERE IS A LOT OF CARDS. Branded probably has the most varied of card text of any archetype 2nd to only heroes. It’s a lot to remember for the opponent to make sure they can compete. It’s not like Labyrinth or Kashtira where you expect to deal with same card effects over and over. Branded fusion can be like 20 different endboards (technically) it can be Dragoon, it can be mirrorjade + ad lib, it can sanctifire with branded banishment. There’s so much card text to keep track of which can make it frustrating to play against.
4. It’s the most popular archetype, so it is the most fun to hate. A lot of players also pilot the deck very badly or play it to do the puppet lock which can also make the deck fun to hate.
😂
I personally play a keeper build which just makes insane boards but it needs 2 card combos so it either dies to nib or any hand trap in general
YGO players when Branded Fusion is activated: "UGH DAMN! Not this annoying TRASH deck!"
YGO players when handlooped or have their deck banished: "OMG BASED! Cool deck!"
I hate that I can't play branded the way I want it because triple copies of thrust is beyond my budget.
As a synchro branded player I don't think I should be held accountable for the ban of sanctifier simply because other branded players CHOSE to puppet lock instead to be creative and do some cool synchro plays with sanctifire
The main reason I hate branded now is the deck used to be multi non negation interruptions. now it's floodgate turbo. going first? puppet lock. Going 2nd but don't have enough to push for game? Puppet lock.
went from an interactive gameplay loop to a non-interactive gameplay loop.
Evenly used to be the best going 2nd card against the deck but now they can completely bypass it by just guess what. giving you puppet.
Branded is a beautiful deck until it starts summoning things to your opponents field. Everything else the deck does is inherently interactive and interesting.
And Branded Fusion is fine, not sure if thats a hot take or not but Fusion summoning the old fashioned way to constantly go minus and require several specific cards all in your hand at once is so terrible and clunky compared to simply sending materials to the graveyard and link climbing or overlaying two bodies for xyz material. You either have to make the fusion monsters so incredibly busted that theyre basically bannable, or catch up the fusion mechanic so that its actually somewhat consistent to do given the current speed of the game.
I don’t think they should hit anything branded. Fire is still running around full powered pretty much. Runic stun everywhere. Full powered VV and Tenpai. But branded is the problem? Nope. You can’t convince me otherwise. People are just crying.
Come for the branded content. Stay for the Pokémon music
Probably Sanctifire. Good point by sb else, at least for my Yugizoomer persona, that just banning Puppet won't work, because card's Ra's Disciple, or even Iblee, exist. At least there are board breakers that are solid against the Branded endboard, like DRNM. Also, with the sheer number of Branded cards, it is now possible to make it an engine or a small package instead of a full dedicated deck - heck, I have two decks that incorporate a Branded package in archetypes that you would not necessarily think of!
Horus - I run Quem, Cartesia, Albion the Shrouded Dragon, Branded in High Spirits, Aluber
The reasoning is that you can use this package to send off Horus monsters with Spirits, then add Quem to SS Albion from GY or add Cartesia and Fusion into Granguinol and Foolish Imsety without using a Sarcophagus proc. Also Albion is a lvl 8 for Horus Xyz plays, and Quem and Cartesia are also tuners for you to go for lvl 12 Synchros like Luluwalilith.
Centurion - Quem, Albion, w/e Branded Spell (I use either 'Branded in Red' or 'Banishment')
Fixes the deck's issue of relying on Primera as its sole Synchro plays enabler, plus it can improve your endboard by having Quem SS Albion while you have Synchro'd into sth.
People not hate Branded itself that much,what they hate is lock they can do with Sanctifire / Expulsion
I have never been puppet locked permanently. Either I stop the puppet lock from happening or I have a Lv 5-6 monster that allows me to tribute puppet and muscle through. Called by the grave, Bystials, D.D. Crow, Ghost mourner etc etc are good counters to puppet.
But that was only because I HAD THE OUT. If I didn't have the out then it's an obvious turn skip, and/or GG, unless I am playing Floo.
With that stated, Santifire needs to be banned or Erratad so you can target it. Cause banning Puppet will only mean that Branded will just use Jaogen or other degen floodgate monster.
Sanctifier has to go sadly. So many players completely ruin games with the puppet garbage and actively hurt the image of one of the coolest decks ever. It really sucks because it's such an awesome card, especially in MD and OCG where it's the best play under Maxx C. I wish it could just get errata'd to negate the effects of any monster it summons that doesn't mention Fallen of Albaz. That would literally solve everything.
i hate to admit that; yes sanctifire limits future card design. :( and yet i love the card-artwork so much
the problem isnt branded, its access to cheese locks that turn the community
I’m going to miss being able to play around Evenly and Super Poly with Sanctifire. I wish Puppet was the correct hit, but I don’t think it’ll last.
It's definitely Branded Fusion. I remember playing Despia Darklord a month or two before Albaz Strike even came out (BODE format) and someone on one of the online sims called me a meta sheep. Branded Fusion wasn't even out. Despia was doing absolutely nothing in the meta. That card at the time just absolutely destroyed people's minds before it was even legal.
Cyberstorm access also introduced quem, not just sanctifire
Branded has been eating up reprint slots for years now
I enjoy splashing in Branded in other decks rather than going all in on Despia. Facing said decks is also pretty cool because Masquerade isn't burning me to death or getting locked out of the game through Ra or Puppet.
I think more people would like playing against the deck if it did more than locking players out of playing the game or burning them to death. Maybe even root for the deck to win vs meta picks. Branded Despia's resource loop is still an insane snowball that few decks can match imo.
I dislike the current version of the deck sure. I think Sanctfire could have been more disruptive rather than being tied to floodgates.
P.S.: Mirrorjade is a fking awesome boss monster.
1. People got bored of facing it, expecting the deck to have its relevance but phasing out just like its main rival in Swordsoul. Yet here we are.
2. Mirrorjade on its own can win most rogue decks. The added synergy with Super Poly (no response) as well as lost (again no response) can make it frustrating to play against.
3. Playing the Branded Fusion minigame. Do they have it? Let me keep my Ash and allow Shrouded, Fusion Deployment, and Opening. Hit opening to prevent BraFu getting into rotation for Duplication? Hard punished by drawn BraFu.
These are fine imo, and just the icing on the cake. Because even with the above, a Branded game will be very interactive despite the potential of going for too long.
4. Masquerade. F** Masquerade. I've played the deck so much I can predict the opponent's hand, and while I turbo-ed through the deck, I can see when the opponent is slowplaying, and Branded is notorious for slowplaying. On the same caliber of VS (I onced timed an opponent's Prosperity at 2 minutes and 46 seconds to resolve and the play ended up being Razen, add borger, make link 1, set 4, with Razen being the add so it was a no brainer), and definitely even more slowplaying than Floo.
5. Expulsion/Sanctifire. And I don't make the excuse "it's the optimal way" because the optimal way would be to play another deck. It's a choice to cheese and you deserve D-Barrier every game 2 and 3. Sanctifire was such a cool design to fully utilize Albaz if only it negated so locks/loops could be performed. Such a shame card took a nap while checking the effect (btw has anyone resolved the 2nd effect? I haven't done it once, and I have over 300 games with Branded)
I don’t thinkt the boss monster is thr issue. I think its a symptom of the broken game's key issue. Monitary interest. The banlist being a prime example. Instead of banning cards that are problematic in a format, they choose to keep the community from using any other alternative to high price chase cards. Even in this archetype, some of the cards will be chase cards due to rarity bumping and short printing alternatives to the branded plays. If I could play any other deck but branded in locals, I would. There would be a healtier format if the banlist actually targeted problem cards (think 1 card combo pieces, lockdowns and stun cards that cannot be countered, or no hard once per turn cards). This format shows me that these problems with the archtypes are in part Konami's interest to pump up their game pricing artifically through control of the third market via banlist and shortprinting alternatives
I also think people hate the deck because they see the puppet lock and think the deck is easy to play, but when they actually pilot the deck see how difficult the deck is and it annoys them ( I have a friend that falls in this 😂)
Branded is awesome. Art work is 🔥 the fact it's so versatile is great, if they leaned into the other extra deck mechanics a bit more it'd be a little more versatile. Konami should be aiming to make all their archetypes like branded powerful but not over powered. With stay-ability
Everyone okay with Branded until the lock thingy come. That's why I never use it. I really hate floodgate type deck since early Yu-Gi-Oh : limit level area B, messenger of peace, gravity bind, khrisya, vanity ruler, vanity emptiness, dimensional fissure, macro cosmos.
If he help you winning the match you NEED TO PLAY IT !! ... Stop crying and saying that skilled player dont play puppet, becouse if you say that you are just stupid.
Every player play the stronger version in the own deck unfair or not.
My branded brothers it’s time to rise before they start banning everything
I honestly wouldnt mind branded despia nearly as much if it wasnt for expulsion/sanctifire. I think the deck itself is cool and is a cool engine for other decks as well.
Its a well designed competitive deck outside of those 2 cards, and its one of the most pilot-dependent decks available as there is a good amount of creativity
As a new Branded Master Duel player and struggling against Snake Eye Fire King, I’m tempted to use Gimmick Puppet but I really don’t want to, just wanna get better at this crazy-awesome deck so I can beat the just-plain-crazy deck that is SEFK (though perhaps ban Zealantis? I’d win at all if it weren’t for that card lol)
Same, just picked up branded a few months back and I’m playing without puppet. Also idk if you’re playing Granguignol or not, but Quaeritis gives the deck an easy out to Zelantis. Actually found out that tip from this channel!
@@nativeninja94 oh sweet, hadn’t heard that, thanks for that! I assume it’s his reduce-attack-power-effect (though his second one of summoning an Albaz could work I bet)?
@@b.kenobi9063 yep, 2nd effect actually! I’m no judge so forgive me if I butcher the exact terminology here lol. Basically when Quaeritis is summoned from Grang effect, it doesn’t count as properly summoned from ED, so Zealantis can’t bring it back. This triggers Q’s effect, summoning Albaz from deck; Albaz uses its effect to fuse with Zeal and make Mirrorjade, and it’s pretty much game over from there!
@@nativeninja94 sweet, thanks for this! Now I got hope against em 😁😎 (and note to self, summon him off of Grang to make it work)
@@nativeninja94 You worded it correctly. :)
Also, as someoone whose played the deck for 2years, I use puppet and I don't really care how people feel about it- I'll use it until its banned, when its banned, I'll keep playing the deck, like I have for all of its ups and downs.
I used to fear branded but it hasn't been a problem since I started carrying dim barriers in my pockets.
I think a reason why people hate the deck is due to it being out for so long, and never getting hit main deck wise.
Can't say it's the main reason for all the competitive/somewhat player's, but from a friend of mine pov he argues why is it that a deck that's been out for 4 year's now, and it hasn't been hit once in any meaningful way, yet it can beat a 1000$ deck.
Another thing I think upsets a lot of people is how Konami babies the deck more than others, and possibly due to more lore coming out sometime soon, they feel it will never get hit and that it's unfair that other decks get hit but it
If sanctifire goes, i feel people will try running thrust & Give and take. where they will get puppet in grave, and use thrust to set the trap. Then on opponents draw phase, (if they don't have the out) special puppet on opponent's field.
More setup and less consistant but still a possiblitiy. Both puppet and sanctifire would need to go.
that's fine if they want to run all those bricks in their main deck. They are taking a risk to psuedo FTK their opponent. Not to mention that without Sanctifire you can't just protect all your plays from being interacted with during the Fusion Summon window via Branded Lost.
I wouldn't lose any sleep if Puppet also gets banned, but Sanctifire needs to go.
Yeah no. Thrust into give and take is a giant meme that isnt viable in the slightest and requires too many bricks and unsearchable cards to actually pull off. Sanctifire is the only problem
uhhhhhh no one is going to do that it's not worth it
Branded and their main phase 3, all the end phase effects that make the deck op, but the deck is not that unfair compared to R-ACE, Purrely, Snek, Tearlaments, Kashtira, Spright and Runick at their full power.
Puppet lock probably only reason to hate
Is sanctifire actually good in any other way if not for that card or things like Ra’s disciple?
Literally had a guy at my locals complaining and saying he doesn't like me/want to my friend just because I play play branded. I'm a good guy I like to think it's just my deck, i dont play toxic... except gimmick. I didn't gimmick him though. I asked him if i did something wrong he said "no, i just dont want to be your friend..." i had played with this guy in the past but that day for some reason he just didn't like me. Because of branded.
Not a person you'd really want to be friends with if they get that mad at something so trivial tbh.
I get the puppet lock is unfair, but how is it different than decks ending on a ton of negates or stuff like tenpai that cannot be interacted with? Is it just the illusion of being able to play through the latter?
Yes it is i guess, being able too try too Play into a Board is better then Just loosing to one Card on the spot😂
there is just more you can do even against negate boards. Also the only meta relevant deck that actually puts up a lot of negates rn is rikka and people hate that deck too. as long as a deck doesnt put out 5 omnis there are options to breaking the board. against a correctly made puppet lock you can pretty much only droplet
@@imvipox9776 even when genex pops off, all you have to do is have the heart of the cards and top deck drnm. and before you ask, yes i'm an mbt viewer
@@imvipox9776And Rikka isnt even really that relevant lol
@@YeahTheDuckweed or you literally have 1 imperm
I never played Gimmick Lock when I was on Pure Despia, I just don't see the point on locking your opponent essentially completely out the game when there's supposed to be a back and forth between you and the opponent, since playing Chimera it's felt a lot more fair, yes they have the hand rip or Diabelze, but it doesn't feel as oppressive as regular Branded
I wouldn't want them to ban santifire Id rather they ban gimmick puppet
Just to remind everyone that the entirity of visas lore was released while albaz lore didnt even reach the climax. Hard to connect with the new guy if i still wanna see if the old guy wins or not
I would understand the hate towards BF is there weren't as many 1 card combo starters running around. Snake-Eye is just the worst example of those but Yugioh is full of them currently. I don't see why BF stands out there. Sure it creates follow-up ... so does every combo piece in Snake-Eyes.
Sanctifire is another thing and turn-skip tactics simply feel shit. Josh had a great argument about it though. Branded with all the follow-up effects is one of if not the strongest deck when it comes to grind game. Still in the current meta Branded can't compete unless you play hard into puppet. That's simply the reality. Branded has won 1 major event with UK nats. That's it for this year. Sure some regionals but no YCS or major nats event. That's sadly the reality about it.
Banning Sanctifire would only make sense if you adress SE harshly, just as well as Calamity and don't introduce new crazy engines like it ... oh wait Fiendsmith is coming out in just a few weeks, no?
Because the branded players takes 40 min of activating all effects before ending the resolve
I think if Santifire is banned, Branded players will look for another way to do the Gimmick Puppet combo. They should just ban Gimmick Puppet and the problem will be solved.
I like the deck because it has many interactions that aren’t just 5 negates
I think people don’t like it cause it has hard counters pretty much any meta strategy 90% of the time
@galzo Do you think puppet locking prompted Konami to release Gimmick support?
I understand people who say that the puppet lock ist real unfair and that's true. But if you hate branded for the deck it is, then it sounds more like a skill issue on your side.
Because the Deck itself isn't to hard to handle + it locks itself in one Extra Deck Mechanic and 1-2 Handtraps at the right moment totally break the deck. So i dont see why people are so mad about it.
Take es example the Kashtira Format, getting constantly shifterd while the Bossmonster attaches everything and banishes stuff, while all your zones a locked and half ur Deck/ED is banished facedown. Sounds like a funny and interactive game.
Or the Tear Format where your opponent is milling half his Deck and got like 5-6 interruptions + shadoll Winda. Shufflers ready to break your GY set up. Good Format.
And you remember Floowandereeze?
Everyone says this deck is completely fair without the locks and I agree.
I would even say it is one of the best decks ever created, because it is easy to access, but has soo many combos and options to adaot to the current game state so only skilled players can play it to it's full potential
I understand that it is hard to win against branded going scnd if your handtraps can't stop your opponent from playing the game.
Puppet is a shit card that shound't exist, but that aside there is no other deck that fair.
The engine is really strong but there is just that engine.
If every deck is a bit more like branded (without puppet)... ygo would be a much better game. Two engines that can't otk through a Board, that can't use generic monster negates, that can't turn any negated monsters into a full board with link summons...
A lot of engine options to get different builds and a diverse variaty of utility options. A strong engine Board going first but even strong going scnd into engine boards.
A lot of hardcounters against that deck and if you can stop them, there are nearly no more interrupts.
The reason that branded games are shitty one sided games is that the best way to win against it is to lock it completly out of the game or just get the otk. The problem isn't branded, the other decks are problematic. Branded mirrors without puppet are just very skillful and a good way to get better at that game.
If there were more decks like branded and less floodgates there would be more skillfull games that lasts more turns and that aren't decided by comparing the starting five
Puppet in a vacuum is fine because it's meant to lock yourself. It's just we have a bunch of effects now that gift your opponent monsters for some reason that's making these cards toxic. It's kind of silly because Branded has 2 of these cards, one of which banned already.
its not hating branded players its turning up to a match to have your opponent say you cant play
2:10 who is that in the background?
I love Branded. The only thing i dont like about the deck is so hard to choose a ratio for the deck. If you can go combo , it is so good . However, if you got Ash or some how brick just because those freaking one of keep getting into your hand, well its suk so much.
The problem is sanctifire and Branded Lost
The fact that you can’t play on your own turn because of that is obnoxious
I don't hate branded at all tbh. The only thing I want to see gone from branded is Albion, and that's it; I think it was highlighted how dumb it is at Indianapolis, when both branded players (Pak and that other guy) were racing to puppet lock each other all 3 rounds... It's funny for awhile, but I think it's been around long enough. It's a shame, because I get Albion is supposed to create some interesting board states, but we all know yugioh players can't be trusted when it comes to giving their opponents something... If it comes to iblee, that angel destiny hero monster, ect.
As far as the rest of branded though, I really don't mind it. Mirror jade is pretty annoying for sure, but I like a challenge in trying to deal with it. The otherday I was able to be at a branded player with my swordsoul/tenyi deck, so it's fine tbh.
Is the branded fusion for me I just hate that card
what is your take on banning puppet vs. banning santifire.
Won't the strategy be not as good as soon as puppet with the lingering effect is gone?
Puppet getting banned does nothing because they can simply pivot to another card that restricts your opponent
@@kotkafer2292 name a good replacement that is sendable with granguignol
@@kotkafer2292 somehow my reply vanished ... then one more time :D
I know there are other targets but puppet is the only one that you can access "for free" with Grangiognol and at the sime time applies a lingering effect on your opponent.
Every other target is so much worse that I somehow doubt we would see it being viable.
The resources you put into the lock are only worth it because puppet is a complete, unavoidable shutdown to your opponent.
See Branded Fusion i really hope Konami give some love to Red Eyes Fusion too,this card alone make Red Eyes deck better and worst in same time
Bro nooooo don’t call for the can of sanctifier
I been getting hated on for the past year for playing branded
With fiendsmith any deck can puppet lock😃
The lore is fire
Its a budget deck that can compete so of course its hated
Expulsion was way more toxic than Sanctifire. Sanctifire only allows you to summon from the graveyard, so it's vulnerable to things like bystials. Expulsion is graveyard or banished, so bystials don't do shit and the only out is to hard draw or top deck a called by the grave.
Branded cards aren't the only ones that can summon to the opponent's side of the field from the graveyard. There's very old cards like give and take which do the same thing and can be used as a Thrust target.
except that good players will summon Sanctifire with Lost face-up so your opponent will not be to interact with it and he himself cannot be targeted by card effects so Impermanence, Veiler and Ghost Mourner are useless against it
And in case you don't know, that trap is banned in Master Duel and TCG.
I dont hate it. I do love the branded despia really, but i see why people hate it, but even if sanctifire get hit, i will still play it without it.
Nah, is just the puppet lock. No one really cares outside of that.
Without sanctifire dragon the deck is interesting
People who hate Branded are the same people who love putting up multiple omni-negates/disruptions and playing other high tier decks such as Snake-Eyes Diabellstar, so don't take them seriously.
might have missed it but surprised you didnt mention branded loss. branded would be far less annoying and if you could actually respond to their fusion summons and interact with their more important plays. Hoping you draw ash or ash by itself doesnt stop a good branded player with a decent hand. And even if you take puppet lock away from branded the deck's follow up is frustrating. they can spend their entire hand and get like 3 cards back on end phase. I'd honestly settle for just taking branded loss and puppet lock away from them.
You talking about the "Lost", Branded have "Loss" and "Lost", the "Loss" is the bad one.
i played branded when it first came out
Let's go Branded! (Which is to say fuck Branded Despia)
I used to be a branded main. It got me into modern Yugioh and I played that deck for over a year straight.
But the deck just became lame as shit once the puppet lock took off. I’m sorry, I don’t want to play a deck that makes everyone else in the room groan, including me when I hear that someone else is on Branded.
just don’t play puppet? the deck is completely functional if you substitute it w ad lib.
The deck does so much than just puppet lock
Yeah, no card is required. But if you don’t play a deck in the most optimal way possible, you aren’t taking the competitive game seriously, which means you are setting yourself up for failure, which means there’s no point in being competitive.
No one hates branded. Its just Sanctifier.
Only thing about branded i dont like about it is the branded lost card the no reaction part is probaly the most unfair of them alle for the rest its pretty imtersesting deck
They can all cry about it.
I love playing against branded, I hate getting puppet locked. That’s about it
Hey broham, I'm sitting on a qcr misprinted masquerade dragon halfqcr and half not
I feel the hate for branded is not towards the deck itself but more for the players
I love puppet locking my opponent😍
If they hate Branded wait until they find out about Kashtira or Snake eyes 😂