Notes & Combos

Got to Diamond V with this Deck, I had a 78% winrate from Plat II to Diamond V (11-3). Triple Albaz and Triple Mercourier is a bit unconventional, most decks I see have double albaz and only 1 mercourier, trading those 3 cards for triple maxx C. But I felt like I was never resolving maxx C (they always have an ash or called by) and going all in on gas ended up working out pretty well. With triple albaz you have a decent board breaker normal summon going 2nd, also an option to make lubellion with poly or the frightfur engine, giving you a backup if Branded Fusion gets hit with ash. The other board breakers are super poly (earth golem is great vs the sprite board) and dark ruler no more. The triple allure along with 5 targets that make the allure effectively a plus 3 means we have plenty of gas to go over 40 cards. You could probably get away with throwing in two copies of maxx c on top of these to make it 44 cards. I didn't run into many runick decks, otherwise I might have traded out a proskinion or glory dragon for a second chimaera, but the main strategy against runick decks is to get branded opening in the grave and summon masquerade.

Branded lost is great, being able to get your mercouriers off of your fusion summons gives you more interruptions going first and more gas to break an opponent's board going 2nd. It doesn't protect you from ash but it does protect you from other cards like baronne, which actually came up a few times in my climb.

Overall I'm pretty happy with this deck, but we'll see if I need to make changes on the climb to Diamond 1.