Notes & Combos

I ditched this variant a couple months ago as it didn't felt worth playing Branded with BF at 1, not only cuz the weaker follow -up and the BF-Albaz ratio but also because it would consume a lot of your extra.

The follow-up issue can be "fixed" by adding Retribution, which you can access through Shrouded and Saronir.

The extra deck isn't that big of a deal as most matchups this last couple of seasons don't require different options in the extra, you can pretty much beat everything with the same cards.

Besides those, the other issue is still there, which is the amount of bricky cards you have, 2 Albaz (it's pretty bad to play just one), the Branded s/ts and obviously the ThunDras that don't do anything by themselves. The only way to minimize this is minimizing techs, which will make your deck more consistent but will make going 2nd a bit worse when you can't beat them with engine.

Fortunetelly BF works pretty well vs kash by making Stapelia and triggering Dark/Roar in the process, that will either eat a Fenrir effect or if they don't have it you can contest the Arise.

Against Purrely you need to make sure they can't summon Noir, save your Ash, Dark and Bystials to chain block Plump. Besides that you usually have enough of gas to OTK whatever they make. Going first you have Colossus to eat a lot of their hand as they need to invest a couple of cards to out it, Mirrojade is great to prevent lyly to XYZ, so try to save it until they use that effect.

Lab matchup is a bit better as more engine over techs for Purrely means less dead of bad cards in this mu (as long you don't draw the traps).

Azalea and Chaos Angel are good tools going 2nd, which I missed both when I didn't had either, so I took a Lubellion o include both.