HOW TO BEAT Branded Despia ...Before They Top 

I think I will get in the habit of putting a counter of some sort on top of my graveyard to remember this. As much as I like yours I tend to forget regardless lol

@@ChocoYGO Well, the thing is, I dont think you can put items on your deck or graveyard. The reason I place the item in my hand is because Im consciously holding on the something and I have to put it down once I get my grave effect. After a while of doing this you wont forget and it helps a lot.

@@machinayrequiem8596 Hmmmm. Maybe I can just use some sort of visual indicator next to the graveyard. Idk why they wouldn't allow a dice on top of the graveyard, not like it's going to effect anything.

@@ChocoYGO I could be wrong. I know you cant out things on top of the deck. My thing is though, if youre missing the cards effect in grave it is because youre not even looking over there so the visual indicator may not even work. Ive tried that. Let me know how it turns out.

@@ChocoYGO The reason you can't do that is because that is considered to be a form of note-taking, which is against the rules in this game.

It’s not as often as you think. I was playing a rated match on db and they were all dried up if you can extend the match long enough

im thinking that maybe something like super poly into something like borreload furious dragon, or beast-eyes pendulum dragon could be pretty good to stop them.

If you're playing a spell caster deck (*cough*me*cough*DarkMagician*cough*) then Secret Village of the Spellcasters is also very effective, however they may have exactly one spell caster monster that could get around this.

And nice haircut

Despia going second? Flip D. Barrier, GG

@@cameraredeye3115 nobody mains d barrier

@@MaliEndz depends on the format. If you was going to a tournament and 70% was running despia/swordsoul then mailing d barrier may prove to be quite lucrative

same 😎

That's cute

Play gamma and 🤞

same

Smart move

May I ask what improvements branded despia give over pure HERO? Afaik there aren't really a lot of one card combo's that can utilize HERO in branded despia, so you need to open A Hero Lives to really get the ball rolling, right?

@@fransblok6707 not exactly. You need to open jester or branded fusion to start your combo, Hero is only a 2nd way to interact with your opponent's board and hand. Vyon and stratos give you more bodies with high attack for the otk, the main hero will be Dark Law, in order to give even more problems to your opponent. DPE is self explanatory!! Vyon search poly for the Guardian Chimera!!!!

@@fransblok6707 I discovered that using hero with Branded and/or despia makes your opponent mess with the handtraps and you always have a second combo 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼

@@carloscruz6380 is it correct that after using branded fusion, there is no way to special summon shadow mist to get the search for mask change, except for a hero lives? That was my main hope, so you can consistently get to dark law while making mirrorjade.

@@fransblok6707 there are 3 ways. The first one is using A Hero Livesz the second one is using Solid Soldier and the third one is using Liquid Soldier having Shadow Mist already in the GY. You can use Foolish B, Branded opening, Super poly, Twin Twister and other cards to send the Shadow Mist form your hand/deck to the GY 💯💯

i run dark magicians so this will work good muhahahhahahaa

I noticed by hey I'm in Charlotte. All the cards I talk about are on the right side corner

dragoon isnt neccessary at all, in fact i think it may be somewhat inferior to the other combo lines the deck provides. as for dpe, you should always try to keep a healthy hand size so celestial will be dead most of the time

Dragoon is inferior to Mirrorjade.

DPE is powerful but you can most likely only access it by drawing fusion destiny since Anaconda is hard to bring out due to restrictions. And forces you to run bricks

@@omarp3066 mirrorjade effect cannot be used in 2 consecutive turns. The deck is good but people are kind of overrating it tbh. It's the easiest deck to super poly. They're full of dark monsters.

@@haroutkayabalian8591 you can reset Mirrorjade with Ad libitum and get the effect again. It’s not a hard once per turn

That’s true. Ash negates adding anyway, not drawing. Chimera Cl1 and tragedy or ad Libitum Cl2 will have already entered a chain block on top of that.

@@JosephSmith-ri5bx drawing is adding. If chimera is the last effect in the chain, you can ash it. This is why ash can negate cards like desires or extrav. But yes, you’re right, only a bad player would not chainblock chimera with tragedy, ad libitum, or dramaturge if the option was there

@@danlay638 if I need the tragedy search more than random draws I will 100% chainblock my tragedy because I'm not gambling for something if I can simply search it

@@danlay638 you can chain block alot with this deck because there are so many triggers for the monsters from fusion summoning.

@@TheFrostHydra random draw(s) and a pop(s).

Fucking around with a zombie deck with cherries. It's not ideal, but it is hilarious

Absolutely. It has amazing synergy

@@ratsolla that's great to know. maybe i will build it in master duel.

Why?You still have a negation tower which can boost his ATK

And you dont even have to play bricks

1. You do have to play 1 brick: the light hex sealed fusion. 2. If you go Albion, then Dragoon then it means your fallen of Albaz is now banished, which means if you want to play branded fusion again you need to run 2 fallen of albaz. That already gets a bit bricky. In the regular build you can get away with just 1 Fallen of Albaz and constantly recycling it to the deck with Lubellion. 3. If you only open branded fusion and you put Dragoon on board, how do you even set up branded in red to play in your opponents turn? You can actually get so much more value by setting up Mirrorjade, which can get you a branded in red to play in the opponents turn. 4. In the mirror match, Mirrorjade is an easy out to dragoon

@@omarp3066 I don't play the deck so I can't give any specifics unfortunately but I've played against a ton of Despia and I've see them make dragoon to prevent handtraps and still go full combo in morrorjade so it is possible,

@@SicilianAmericanDreams yes of course. If you open extenders yes. But if you don’t you can’t

Too many yugitubers got tunneled vision into "branded despia is dragoon turbo" even though it's not that good in that deck. From playtesting, I hated the dragoon build because this deck is very heavy with discarding cards from hand (opening, lubellion), there would be no more cards in hand to be discarded for dragoon in a lot of situations (or if there is any, you want to use it for chimera). Also, going into albion-dragoon leave us with no follow up for the next turn, while going for lubellion-mirrorjade nets a ton of follow ups with even more disruptions than the dragoon line, people forget that mirrorjade isn't HOPT so we can trigger it multiple times in a turn with branded in red + ad libitum

That's the route a lot of yugitubers are focused and their are people in the community who focus on that build

Yeah I have no idea why so many people are scared of dragoon. This isn't 2020 lol

@@hirukashiro5995 exactly this. If you think that dragoon is gonna be meta relevant, play some deck that can abuse red eyes insight and REF, like subterror or eldlich

@@hirukashiro5995 you literally have no reason not to play Dragoon in a deck that can very much abuse him.

Mitt is a one of tho

And can also be answered

@@tyleranderson6861 Kitt is played at 2-3 actually. Also very searchable

@@AngelofDeath333 I'm actually playing two Kitt and two high spirits now. If only the spell had synergy with despia, besides construct

@@chewdoom8415 true we do need a level 8 fairy type fusion monster other then construct

Plus you need the fusion substitute which is one brick

Plus if they kill the mirrorjade it wipes the board in the endphase which is super powerful against most deck

Dragoon is still a good include regardless. It’s not a waste when 1 card gets you 2 fusion monsters. (Albion the branded dragon/ red eyes dark dragoon)

It’s liter using 1 card from hand to make two big pieces that have to be felt with on top of a way to still make mirrorjade.

@@tyleranderson6861 if you choose to make dragoon with aluber you only end on the dragoon and the albion (which is just a body), if you go into the mirrorjade you can have the mirrorjade which is a pop and a boardwipe and a branded in red which is much more disruptions and more gaining you more resources since you can also set 1 fusion spell back on your next turn

Most of the effects of Despia are in the GY yes. But then again, unless you have a deck that can use Shifter without problems, you'll lock yourself.

They can play under it decently, they’re certainly not as affected by it as other decks. Quaeritis, Ad Lib, Tragedy and Dramaturge will tigger if they’re banished. Lubellion and Branded In Red will recycle any banished cards. Unless you’re playing Flunder they most likely can set up a better board than you under Shifter

Us floo players just gonna get a bye every tournament 😂

D. Barrier can still activate in response to an activated card or effect that would Fusion Summon (assuming it's not SS4 like Super Poly or even Ultra Poly) and prevent players from Special Summoning Fusion Monsters for the rest of that turn.

Only if you can set it by going first. Otherwise it will be popped by Chimera.

Despia branded already won a Regional lol

Just a hater. Won locals with it already and the opponents played pretty good meta decks (adventure etc)

Against summoning Guardian Chimera. They use branded in red to add despia monster from GY for fusion summoning. Banishing it can preventing them summoning Chimera and Pop your cards.

20 seconds in to the video Me: well my comment didn't age Well

Literally the title of the video

@@MSTTV i was referring to you saying i can imagine what the comments are going to be ^^

Imperm, ash, veiler, ghost belle

@@chewdoom8415 u didn't even watch the video.... They hav so much bait for ash or use brave engine to protect their plays....

@@yugiwinninglex @alex neo I see Tom did not even mention comedy, so that is something people need to be aware of. I see that you did say that they can dodge veiler, so that's my fault for looking over that. If we are going to say that everyone knows one thing about the deck then we could say the same applies to any other bit of information, and that's certainly not true given the existence of videos like this. I still say it is an exaggeration to say that not many handtraps effect them. It is good when you open good, but you have a lot of cards you don't want to see and you can end up opening without your branded engine or even a hand where your aluber cannot be used because of brave, in which case you are very vulnerable. I am one of the people who is thr first to tell someone they are underestimating the deck severely but it is nowhere near op, at least not this build. That's the only point I was trying to make.

@@chewdoom8415 Hahaha it sounds like u didn't. So it is fine if ppl play against u while ur using despia while if ppl play against other smart players who use tragedy veiler and imper don't work that well. Also evry1 knows imper works lol it a nuff said. And they can dodge veiler lol.

D barrier

D.D crow to Benten says hi.

D.D crow to benten.... dude, d.d. crow the ritual spell. and this video isn't even about hand trapping drytron, it's about hand trapping branded despia. I think you missed the joke, let me explain it for you: Drytron doesn't play hand traps

@@HaruKodama /whoosh me because it went over my head, too.

@@SunnyHF-nf4bc lol, all good, I figured only people that really play the deck would get it

Well if you limit summer, it's gunna get real cold real fast. But if you winter limit, you can enjoy the summer for longer.

@@MSTTV can dyna fossil stop fallen albaz effect to fusion summon with an opponent's monster even fossil dyna?

problem is that it will be hard to go into accesscode + extra deck space is already pretty limited

Extra deck space is already limited. The best card in your deck restricts you from links. Running links to counter one trap card at the cost of 20-30% of your extra deck is a bit suboptimal. But hey, do what works for you :)

I run links in mine. Linkuriboh/Anima, and anaconda. The link 1 is tragedy, link, set branded in red if I open poorly. It atleast gives me something. Anaconda is mainly for later in the game to cheese a superpoly after turning something to dark. Wouldn't mind finding room for the dark charmer though

@@warriorofgod2700 I run verte + dharc, no link 1 for tragedy because the deck has a lot of starters already and you’d have to open in red + tragedy which i only run 2 of each

@@warriorofgod2700 I run 14 fusions and the one dark charmer. I find dark charmer is just too good not to run

That's true, but I do not know how often that would be with dragoon. You miss out on dumping a despia or albaz when you make dragoon. It will be much easier to revive when they get exile though

This will rarely, if ever, happens in a real duel. You won't have enough fusion materials in hand for chimera with the dragoon line since you can't dump tragedy with branded fusion Edit: tragedy is your main way to search for ad libitum

@@hirukashiro5995 Chimera is overrated as fuck. Sure, chain block shenanigans, but it still takes way too many resources to make.

@@Grayewick Resouces should not even be a problem if it is used with the right cards. Even if you only get one draw, a tragedy gives you an add.

Pure version

What about cursed sealed of the forbidden spell?

the moment scythe gets the hammer this deck is going to be at the top for surr

I can see why though. Too many ppl were tunneled vision into dragoon go brr, even though the dragoon line isn't even optimal. This made the deck seems a lot weaker

This is like dragoon vs dpe argument all over again. Before trying it in a practical environment, a lot of ppl think dpe is meh lol. They didn't know how to abuse dpe in a practical real duel at that time, hence dragoon looked stronger

@@hirukashiro5995 the deck can literally bring out both Dragoon and DPE, and there's no reason not to play both of them.

D barrier gg

On the Aluber, Chimera, Lubellion, I'm presuming?

@@isaacreeves9263 Aluber.

That's some serious luck if you played a bunch of duels where one veiler was all that you needed

ah yes just draw the unsearchable out