Branded Test Hands: The Fundamentals of Playing Out Your Hand

Hey there, one thing to add on the first combo is that if you actually have cartesia and deployment, you should summon albaz, special cartesia, then fire off opening. This way if you get ashed on branded fusion, you still have ways to get to mirrorjade (my usual go to is make gran, send rindbrum, on opp's turn use rindbrum, fuse wtih their board, get mirrorade. That is basically 2 disruptions just from that, also since a monster left the extra deck, you can use gran to summon quaertis or lulu depending of the match-up)

man those explanations were top notch! You clearly know the deck quite well, it definitely helped me out. Branded is also my favorite, I love the complexity of the lines of play. keep it up!

Very informative for new players! I appreciate how you break down attention to card wording and explanation (:

I really appreciate the explanation in these videos. It gives me insight on why certain cards are being played during chains or revealing alternatives depending game state. I know it's annoying to the content creator or sometimes the viewer to announce what each card does but reminding people what cards do helps memorize them since sometimes people read cards either don't understand them or just straight up don't read. It all helps understanding each cards purpose and not just straight away do the combo without an explanation like 97% of all these combo tutorial videos. In which case defeats the purpose of understanding a combo or the deck and how to fully utilize them.

Awesome video, I'm a new player picking the deck up and hearing the through process is SO helpful! Subbed for sure.

Zelda music went so hard

Had a Hiatus when Tear was at full power, stepped back into the game and updated my Branded deck, will be watching this video alot as you've been the most helpful with Branded IMO. Liked and Subrlscribed :)

VERY nice video!! A lot of cool combos that are not obvious if you are not playing the deck. One note I want to make about the 3rd test hand, when you activate the Branded Fusion, you could summon Rindbrum, activate Mirrorjade dumping the Albion yo GY (cost), negate Mirrorjade effect with Rindbrum. This leads to the same board but you have rindbrum instead than Bystial Lubellion, which have more interactions (you'll have less resources without the Branded Lost but +1 negate +1 pop with Rindbrum).

I played a budget build of branded (no quem, cartesia, lubellion) for a while. Now that the reprints are coming I can finally afford the full power deck and these videos are super helpful learning the deck :D

Keep up the good work! I just built this on master duel and it has been a nightmare to learn. I want to start playing in person again.

Thank you for not talking fast and going at a basic pace!!!! 🙏

The first minute of this vid is so on point. 10/10.

If you already used mirrojade, is better to fusion mirrojade and cartesia, so you can use queen effect to simmon mirrojade and have another banish

Appreciate the explanations! Definitely need more vids like these cause its always so nerve racking with branded test hands. For combo 1, you could have also pitched imperm instead of cartesia for a fusion material into sanctifire + gimmick lock!

Nice video, On the first hand, up until the mirrorjade, you could chain cartesia to lubellion. Then fuse cartesia and lubellion to get granguignol and them lubellion resolves fusing itself and albaz away for mirrorjade. This way you use lubellion twice.

I play the Puppet personally but not as my main plan, mostly as a "Yeah why not" option, Nadir is one card I also love, it forces me to think about what to do without my ED and it makes for some very intricate plays; the other two cards I cannot afford and don't really want, I tried them but I don't enjoy using those staples, having Branded in a more pure way just makes me happier and have more fun, especially experimenting with the Despia field spell which can be a Branded Fusion Fusion its own if you have already materials in hand or field

I love it. I simple love the video. Yohs should do more line with santicfire and other fusions

That's a smacker hand. I got back into it a few moths ago after, I dunno 10 years of NOT playing. Branded was the first deck I made, hypernova came out, I made kash, played it a handful of times. Branded/despia or branded/chimera is just so nice.

in the first test hand, i would have sent the cartesia for opening. i reccomend valuing the actual trap effect of retribution, and since u went for the albion line, the moment you activate jade the retribution becomes live. its a rare form of actual negation, which this deck doesnt have a lot of

Thanks a lot Man!!!