Notes & Combos

The climb to DLv. Max was pretty easy all things considered, rank 19 held me a bit back cause opponents would either highroll like crazy or would be on stun, which Branded in general can struggle to out certain floodgates since backrow removal is limited (you can very easily play past some like tcboo for example though)

There are things I'd like to experiment more, such as 2 quem or cartesia, especially because quem is an insane card for the deck but so far a second copy of either hasn't really come up. There are some very specific scenarios with awkwards hands where I'd draw quem which means you can't special summon her with titaniklad, but you can still use luluwalilith to special from hand.

Some people have been cutting branded in red and ad libitum was also never necessary post bystials, but personally I really like the option since if you set up ad libitum and cartesia in gy, you can potentially get up to 3 banishes with mirrorjade on your opponent's turn, along with the usual setup (branded banishment can be similar and it's what I set if I don't have a despia or an albaz in gy but I prefer the option to summon chimera as disruption)

Nadir servant as a way to play past ash blossom has also been very nice, it produces a surprisingly powerful board while also acting as a great extender. Even going second it can be pretty decent, since it can help you set up a board for turn 3 depending on how many interruptions your opponent had to use.

For the ED, Lulu may be swapped for quaeritis, I mostly use her as a nadir target but summoning her with granguignol did come up once. Sanctifire has been fantastic, it helps a lot on some matchups while also being good disruption that only gives one draw under maxx c instead of the 2 that they typically get if you make Mirrorjade. Sprind did come up sometimes against decks like Kash where albaz can be a bit awkward if they have fenrir out.