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Seems fine if you want a 43rd card.

Some combination of diviner targets, second dyno mondo, the extra branded cards, ty-phon and chaos angel. Changes depend on whether you open diviner or branded fusion.

Bystials definitely seem better now that the format has developped a bit more. If you are scared of branded, more direct hate is good. Dbarrier/belles/bystials in the side helps. Also the IP + Sage board is very good into that deck. Ritual saruvais does nothing, so turning the bodies into ip + guardian + lo is a lot better use of the board. Branded with often be able to play through your board, your job is just to make sure you can play through theirs on the pass back and deal with followup. Ty-phon is also very good in the matchup.

Seems okay if you can find the room for it in the extra.

ghost belle is a mandatory to run this format, either main or side, cosmics as well in order to shut off the field spells (fire king island or divine temple) and set backrows.

Side decks can change depending on local metas or meta trends. Cosmic or Belle are both cards I considered, but opted for other cards for some combination of a bunch of reasons. Rindbrumm is something I had considered, I just think crow itself is bad card so I opted not to play that package.

​@@SantoliYugiohWere you siding out both branded and diviner package going second? If so, against what match-ups?

@@MartimMora Branded fusion came out against any deck that needs max hand traps (mainly fire). Diviner stayed in at 3 in every matchup.

In this format I'll just guardian negate the Lightning Storm. If they have another breaker or talents then it's unlucky. Fortunately, hand traps are very common over breakers this format, so that concern shouldn't happen too much.

Thanks that makes sense@@SantoliYugioh

He says in the video that he takes out the branded cards and the pots for the 6 handtraps

Branded fusion and pots out for 6 hand traps going second versus fire. Versus other non-combo decks, I generally just swap around tech cards without touching engine and just playing the best tech cards for any given matchup.

I'm not a huge fan of exo in hand trap formats (especially with nib being everywhere). It is definitely a playable deck but voiceless is better at the moment.

I have to make decisions somewhere on where to cut off the branded fusion targets in extra deck. It has come up in testing I believe once where I needed the extra fusion, but I just valued all the other cards coming up more.

@@SantoliYugioh cool! Thank you for the answer

If you play a hand trap heavy matchup, you do not want pots in your deck. You are not happy opening a pot going second because it isn't a hand trap. If you a breaker heavy matchup, you want the pots in your deck. You are happy to open pot going second because you can dig for a dark ruler or LS. The branded cards are generally good in similar matchups as the breakers (floo, kash, mirror) where you just want to overwhelm the opponent.

I don't like the nadir package. I want more ways to Lo which branded fusion gets but nadir does not. It also means you get destroyed by droll, where branded fusion lets you combo through it.

​@@SantoliYugiohYeah,i tested your version shortly after commenting and i have noticed the difference,I can't use winda to win games but i really didn't need her after all....One more question Some people (including Din Kha bui) say that voiceless is branded's easiest matchup,do you agree?

I plan on making a combo video within the next two weeks for the deck.

@@SantoliYugioh I see a combo Video with Jowgen the Spiritualist for going first in this deck. What you think about

One for one is reasonable, I probably wouldn't cut prep for it though. I like max prep, and the inclusion of one for one can be done without cutting it. I'd probably lean more towards one for one in a pure build instead of the branded version since fusion can send lo anyways. The second question is a bit wide ended; in general I want to have a gameplay going in against the expected meta decks. Side patterns are branded fusion and pots out for 6 hand traps going second versus fire decks. Other decks keep branded fusion in and just swap the weaker hand traps for desired breakers for each individual matchup.

I like 4 rituals. It helps when cracking boards as it allows to have an addition body to float into. It doesn't come up much but has come up enough times for me to warrant it. The IP + Sauravis board does get punished by ash, but they would have used it on your turn already. So you only really get punished by double ash. Even then, I won't always go for this board. If I have a bunch of tech cards and don't need the slightly stronger board, I'll just end on standard dyna mondo into guardian lo trap. If I have a weaker hand with respect to tech cards, and I need to get the most out of my engine, I will end on the sauravis IP board. It's an in game decision on whether you think your hand is too weak and need to open yourself up to additional lose cons in exchange for a generally stronger board.

@@SantoliYugioh thanks you for the clarification

The jowgen stuff seems win more. I find it is very rare I get more board broken (at least in a hand trap heavy format). I also don't like having yet another subpar draw in the deck in the form of Jowgen.

Jowgen is ass

I don't really like the idea of playing another sub par draw in the form of jowgen. Siding it might be reasonable, but I rarely found myself losing just going for mirrorjade plus board.

I don't think its amazing with all the hand traps running around. I'd probably side the impulse, standard RACE lineup in main then just have hand traps. Haven't looked at the deck in a bit but the lists shouldnt look too different than before. Also books in the side to help turb resolve.

Ogre just covers better the fire decks (wish they expected to play more then any other deck) and cosmis is not good wen you hand trap your op… like what would you cosmic

@@btg009 yes but against which card do I use Ogre?

@@SlayerDR7 both field spells, Ip, Appo

I think ogre while someone less predicatable is better versus both fire and the mirror than ghost belle. I didn't play cosmic because I only try to hand trap fire with no breakers, and Lightning storm is better in the other matchups.

Bounced a few flamberge when they tried to have that on field as followup after getting trapped. Also removed a princess from field to keep it out of the grave once I baited its effect.

The matchups I wanted LS for are not matchups I want cosmic for. I don't want to 1 for 1 versus floo/kash/VV backrow. I want to just remove all of them. Cosmic is better versus fire king, but I just take the hand trap approach and decide not to have them for this matchup.

I don't like super poly. I think hand traps are the most effective cards versus the fire decks. Even in the event that I liked super poly as a tech card, I wouldn't cut the branded package for it. Branded fusion is an engine card that helps play through hand traps. Super poly doesn't help with hand traps.

Definitely a consideration I had but just chose underworld goddess over it. Apollo would probably be my 16th extra deck card.

I liked belle when witch wasn't being maxxed. Belleing wanted for them to still open witch feels awful. Ogre is kinda weird, but a few things it hits are: Divine temple (pairs well with nib), fire king island (if they send sanctuary and they do sometimes), IP, Apollo, flamberge to put something in S/T zone (so they can't special IP out on your turn and flamberge is off the field so less followup).

I've considered it but I have decided against it. It's unfortunate it gives hiita plays, but if you use it aggressively especially paired with another hand trap, I think it is still one of the better hand traps.

I also like ash paired with the nib because you can force them to play into the nib

I don't play into nib game 1 unless I have the guardian omni negate still live. If I don't, I play more conservative (unless I have spell to float when they nib). Post game 1, they shouldn't have nib in their deck so I generally don't respect it.

I think your end board isn't getting broken much with just mirrorjade over jowgen. So I don't see the value in the additional brick.

42

There is always a chance I play it in the future; this tier 0 format was not the event for it unforunately.

Yes, it helps with siding patterns and consistency feels fine.

Yes, it helps with siding patterns and consistency feels fine even at 42.