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No new cards were released that significantly impact the deck's budget options. At the end of the day you're pretty much just working your way to a full build of branded. Which means looking up whatever the current builds are using and crawling your way there piece by piece. The main thing that will change are the staple cards we use to supplement the strategy. Running hand traps vs. board breakers, and things of that nature. The core of the deck is the same, even in the OCG (which is 1 year ahead of us).

It would depend on how many URs you're missing out of the secret pack still. If you're only missing let's say 2 URs out of the pack, maybe even 3, it's likely no longer worth pulling from that pack. Selection packs will always be the most bang-for-your-buck type of deal. As for Garura vs. 3rd Super Poly/Quem, I would choose Garura. There's no point in making a 3rd Super Poly when you don't even own one of the main targets for it. So that comes first. I would then make Quem over the 3rd Super Poly because Quem's amazing. Then finally get Quem and so on.

Yes and no. Branded Opening went to 1 and Droll is a less impactful hand trap so it got cut. I keep the budget decklist in the description up-to-date. I basically opted for a really consistent version and went with more copies of BIHS/Albion the Shrouded/etc. which will likely never change.

I plan on making a full guide soon. This was just a video I could make very quickly to showcase the bread and butter 1 card combo.

I've played 20 games (45 cards and 60 cards, about 10 each) and the deck bricked 2 times, one on each build. Which is 90% on the nose and pretty solid. Most competitive decks get around that 90% mark.

For this deck no, I played it for a good handful of games, picked the best ones, and then used them for this video. The other replays were all terrible in some form or another (opponents leaving the game very fast, etc.).

The main thing about the cyberdark deck (as a beginner) is being able to make Cyberdark end dragon consistently on turn 1, and the ability to OTK on turn 2 and beyond. I would just review what cyberdarks cycle into what to learn the basic combo line of it. It's generally pretty easy. This link here goes into detail about it, scroll down to the section about "Cyberdark End Turbo": www.masterduelmeta.com/articles/guides/cyberdark-ajl

Without seiger I would either make a anaconda, but don’t activate its effect until after cyberdark end is made, or use the dark charmer instead, then go from there

So to just go down the comments since you left a few: - Scheiren's at her most powerful when she discards Edge Imp Chain, Saronir, or Albion the Shrouded. Her mills are sometimes helpful as you can randomly mill into very many things you want to see. Such as Branded fusion or branded retribution getting milled to the GY "for free" and then the Saronir or Albion you just discarded gets you branded fusion. Her real power comes up turn 3 where you branded fusion Albaz + Her for Lubellion. She'll recycle herself and another card and make a fusion for free. Dragostapelia is a common fusion target for her (Any fusion + 1 dark). - At the time of making this video only 50-60% (I forget the exact number) of Snake-Eyes players on MDM were listed as running Zealantis. What's more I've only seen the card a few times. So it feels like it isn't run a ton. It's usage rate has going up to 80% and I feel that's a result of what I mention in the video. Regardless, it's still a pain to deal with and requires a very specific out-of-engine out card, which was my main point. - And yeah being able to both chain block quite a few cards and check for hand traps has been great. Playing the patchwork engine has really grown on me in the past month. It's still doing quite well.

It's very hard because most of the extra deck cards have independent functions and in branded pure you're unlikely to summon 2 chimeras in a single game and have the 2nd one matter. If I had to pick 1 card to remove, it would likely be the 2nd copy of Mirrorjade. You don't *need* two, it's just strongly preferred.

@@KaiVTuokay. Ill just use the list you gave. Thank you for your contribution.

It's just that easy. Except the 2nd replay where Branded Fusion isn't played.

I'll try turning it down even more in the future. For reference, my OBS is recording desktop audio at was at -6 dB and Master Duel itself is at 42% in my sound mixer on top of being at about 75% in game. So it's a 25% reduction followed by another 58% reduction on the source itself and then another roughly 25% off of that while being recorded. I lowered it to -10 dB and time will tell if it makes a difference. I will say listening back to the video I personally don't have a problem with the audio balance. I agree the game *could* be lower but I wouldn't say I'm inaudible or the game's background music makes it overwhelming.

Yeah it's a little crazy. I actually haven't been playing much this month just because of how irl worked out. Couldn't have been a better time tbh. The fact shs came unhit is insane. Talk about a pushed release.

Maxx C is the best card in the game in general, extremely hard to replace. I would run it over Ash blossom any day. Even just 1 or 2 cards off of it tends to be more powerful than any other hand trap.

@@KaiVTu that's fair. What's your general game plan when you're going second with this deck?

@@dylanarmstrong9328 It really depends on the hand. Generally I'll just try for proper sequencing. And if I can board break with super poly I pretty much always go for it first.

I may have slightly misspoke (I was tired haha) but because cyber twin dragon is a level 8 fusion monster it qualifies for various branded effects because they ask for 8 or higher fusions. Rampage on the other hand is just a 5 so it does not.

So to explain a bit. Ad Libitum is functionally a soft brick. It doesn't help you see any of your other cards, and in most scenarios if it is in your opening hand it is simply an extender or you just straight up don't use it at all and hold it for the following turn. Now that we have Quem who can reborn MJ for us alongside Sanctifire who can also do the same, Ad libitum really has just gone downhill in terms of value. It's still a good card and I won't knock anyone for playing it and it's worth toying around with, but I no longer think it's a mandatory auto-include like it once was now that Quem is in the game. Branded Banishment being cut is just a simple meta shift moment. I go over it in the video but it's the same reason I cut the bystial count down to the bare minimum. Now and going forward light and dark attribute monsters are going to be getting less and less common. When reviewing the SHS "Standard endboard" in the video, literally none of their endboard monsters care about banishment. And none of the cards they make on turn 2 against branded would care either. Because you have to keep in mind they see you set banishment from Albion. Unless you set it from hand (in which case it was also a soft brick). And finally it's just for overall card count. 2 cards that aren't doing a ton are pretty easy trims. Now about the Quem to Cartesia ratio. The reason you want 2 Cartesias is so that the lines in which Cartesia is getting dumped to GY and shuffled around here and there are a lot more comfortable. There are also scenarios in which you will end up with 2 Cartesia in the GY during the end phase and unlike normal where you have to ignore her End Phase effect, you can now add her to your hand as a free card to discard from an effect like fallen of albaz. Finally if Cartesia gets messed with in any way and ends up banished, outside of branded sword getting her back into rotation is terrible. You generally have to give up your lubellion's fusion grind game for it which to me is significant. Overall running 2 Cartesia is just far more comfy. You can run 1 but I think 2 is safer. Just like how you can run 2 Albaz but 3 is safer. I'm willing to go up in card count by 1 no problem for the sake of not wanting to be shot in the foot 1 out of 10 games.

@KaiVTu Good explanation man thanks.

Yeah but branded doesn't really care about droll and it's extremely easy to play around. I am far more interested in not giving the opposing player draws. Many of the branded cards dump things into the graveyard and then you can recur those things from graveyard into your hand. Such as Retribution + Branded Fusion both getting dumped to GY and adding Brafu to hand.

3x thrust isn't mandatory but it is so good that it feels wrong not to play it. Furthermore, if you play one into a loaded SHS board they'll likely just omni-negate it because of the reason you just said. So just adding 1x DRNM for the sake of pullling off of Thrust isn't a solution.

@@KaiVTu What scares me more about SHS is a Spell Canceller in the end board... ofc you can crash on it but still not that easy to deal with

@@kauenp4567 I mean yeah. It's just another floodgate/stun card. My hopes is they can't even get there in the first place. That's why I cut deck size down as much as possible away from 60 cards. Now that I'm at 44 it's a much nicer place to be seeing at least 1 hand trap per game.

I'm waiting for the new season and SHS to be out which will be the new "big deal". Right now it's playing just like regular branded and sometimes droll goes nuclear.

So the reason I don't run Ash Blossom is to prevent bricking as much as possible. Branded likes to have a lot of cards that play off of one another. The more engine you have in hand, the more possibility you have to play through disruption; if not several of them. It's also a math game of "how many disruptions can you make?" 1 branded engine card can get you to 2 disruptions. But Ash Blossom kind of always trades 1 for 1. And yes, you cannot super poly into Guardian Chimera. Guardian Chimera stipulates 1 or 2 monsters from your hand must be used in it's summoning. While Super Poly stipulates it can only use monsters on the field. So you need to use a more typical polymerization effect that uses hand and field. Such as poly itself, branded in white, branded in red, and so on. Finally, remember that Guardian Chimera's pop and draw effect is very specific. You must have the targets to pop in order to draw and you must fuse using a spell effect. So Cartesia does not work.

Fallen of Albaz is one of our best board breakers because he's so playable. Many of the fusions throw him onto the board at end of turn for free and he makes super poly exponentially more dangerous.

@@KaiVTu he can get negate or destroy on the field. So super ploy is better because neither player can respond to the card activation.

​@@andreperry7995Super poly is really good when your opponent has a bunch of negates, but if you get branded lost on the field it doesn't matter as they wouldn't be able to stop Albaz anyway. Albaz is also easier to search as if you don't draw thrust or super poly, you're not using super poly period.

Yes and no. Quaeritis is better in situations in which you are fusing with despias more. So if you're running branded banishment or things of that nature, Quaeritis can edge out Lulu. Both are good cards though.