Lol I was thinking the same thing

Thank you!

For cards like Borrelend, Expurrely Noir, etc. try to bait them to activate their effects and then remove them with Kurikara! I know that won't always be the case but if you can somehow bring out TFD you'll be protected from targeting effects and then attempt to wall them until you get the cards to out their board. Remember that you can use Mirrorjade to banish Borrelend or set Albaz to remove Borrelend by summoning Alba-Lenatus👍

Slowly but surely!

You do have to watch out for Kashtira Scareclaw + Fenrir since Fenrir can still banish you by getting TFD negated with Scareclaw. Learned it the hard way LOL

1. Labrynth will be a tough matchup, as well as the random Floow player. They don't summon much and don't activate effects for you to take advantage of during your turn (not as reliably at least), so Kurikara etc won't be as useful. You pretty much need to have a really great hand against them. Stun decks are also a bad matchup since backrow removal is very minimal in this deck list. 2. It can go first of course, I do have plenty of Branded Darklord videos on the channel to give you a reference. The strategy is to make TFD to revive Kristya for an untargetable special summon lock, or to play the grind game with the Branded side of the deck. If your opponent wins the coin flip but lets you go first then that's what you'll aim for. If you can't do the kristya lock then that's when you have to decide what would be best, whether its to simply pass turn (assuming that they're on Mikanko or similar) or risk it and attempt to make a board.

Might be worth testing I think, haven't tried it out since it came out

don't play with my emotions

I'm not sure if there's a "definitive" darklord deck since the meta changes the deck list all the time. This deck list will get me to Master V at least if that means anything to you

@@ՓՓՓ I mean I have made it to master 5 with the Adaman deck before they band block dragon but I have already made purrely galaxy kashtira and darklord but I can only use 1 at a time to get back to master 5 but I'm on galaxy right now but will use darklord as my second,I see you was a top duelist so I was checking different options,but thanks my guy keep the contact coming because the meta changes all the time for noreason lol🤦🏽

@@antwonrichardson9324 Unless new cards get announced for us, Branded Darklord is the variant to play if you want to use Darklords in ranked. So as long as you have general board breakers, branded cards, and Darklord cards then you should be good to go. You can make it into Master rank for sure, but of course it’s not going to be as smooth as like with the latest meta decks etc

The closest thing to that is my first videos on the channel, but even then there's still a lot of UR. It's a "fun deck" but you'll definitely need to spend the resources to make something worthwhile.

Kurikara for sure, Arise-Heart has a mandatory effect to activate + Noir with sleepy memory will activate to draw so you can tribute them. Nib will work on Kash but you'll rarely see it effectively help you against Purrely.

In ranked I’m usually in Diamond or Master so I run into meta decks all the time and that’s where kurikara shines. Kashtira ariseheart has a mandatory effect to activate so if I have kurikara in hand then I know I can out it immediately. You can swap out kurikara for evenly matched if you want it to be used in more matchups though

Slowly saving up SR/UR over time, I dismantle anything I can’t use to speed that up. I’ll be making a video on that topic

@@ՓՓՓ Thank you! I'll look forward to it bro

It’s what I first tested before ending up with the list in the video, but feel free to swap kurikara out for them if you prefer it instead

@@ՓՓՓ I like Kurikura in the deck. You think if I use 2 it'll be alright or 3 would be better?

@@Elansworldinc Depends on how often you want it to be in your opening hand. If you consistently want to open with it then have 3, otherwise your plan is to use it every once in a while by drawing into it with maxx c etc.

Thank you!@@ՓՓՓ

Not yet, haven’t been able to pull it

Yep you can use gold sarc, I've run that in the past. Mercourier/Lost seems like a package better suited for Branded Despia/Bystial, when I last used it in Branded Darklord it gave me a consistency issue so I personally wouldnt recommend it. As for TTT to steal an XYZ to make your Arise-Heart or Zeus, just know that branded opening/fusion wont be usable that turn due to its fusion restriction. So IMO I would avoid that play for Branded Darklord at least, not too sure how good that would be in regular Darklord Despia since that variant is little less restrictive

@@ՓՓՓ ah you're right. I didn't consider the fusion lock. Thanks for the reply. You've earned my sub

definitely a good card, I just haven't been able to pull it to try it myself.

That’s what I tested first and then removed it. The deck list at the end is what I’m testing at the moment

@@ՓՓՓOk got it!

I'm guessing they didn't know that Kash Scareclaw + Fenrir can out TFD and just resorted to ExHappiness to negate my targeting protection, not too sure tbh since I dont play Kash.

It’s definitely annoying for a lot of people, especially when they don’t want to play meta decks ☹️

The First Darklord is untargetable so they need to get rid of it from other ways. Expurrely Happiness negated it in the first duel so then it was targetable

fenrir cant banish darklord but lovely labrynth can pop it, how come?

@@apatheisticbastard Labrynth has card effects that simply say "destroy a card", which means they don't have to target to do that. Non-targeting effects come in different ways like "send a card to the GY" too (Zeus).

​@@ՓՓՓsometimes it still confused me, but thanks for the explanation. you're the best tfd pilot btw