Notes & Combos

Branded with links and synchros taken to Master 1 for the sixth season in a row. Now with a tight 40 card build, relying less on handtraps and more on engine to break boards. Bystials and Nibiru punish bad Snake-Eyes players and nobody expects the Baronne/Dis Pater to break boards going 2nd after they see Branded cards so they don't clear your tuners.

Going first aim to end on Verte/Seal and get your Regained+Magnamhut setup. Seal on its own represents triple non-targeting, non-destruction removal so they have to go into battle phase to clear it and your follow-up at that point will almost certainly be enough. Alternatively place Branded Lost and end on Mirrorjade + Mercourier + handtraps if you have no access to Magnamhut/Seal.

Digging for Branded Fusion should only be your last resort/follow-up play, there is no reason for you to play into Ash with this deck when Verte exists. BraFu is actually kind of a brick in this deck because of how often you make Verte.

Finally, I collected some replays of this deck mostly going second, the one against Tearlaments is especially satisfying.