As we’ve previously discussed while playing Master Duel, I am fond of the Branded Despia archetype. I love that fusion, which was once one of the worst ways to summon monsters in Yu-Gi-Oh, has become something not only viable but good.
And now, thanks to the latest release on the platform, they’ve been brought up to the full power level that people who play the TCG enjoy. With the addition of Branded Fusion and a few new boss monsters, we can turn a few cards in hand into a powerful board state.
Welcome to Branded Despia DPE.
My version of the deck runs both the Brave/Adventurer Engine, with Water Enchantress and Rite of Armesir, and the recently nerfed Destroyer Pheonix Enforcer engine. Both of them play relatively nicely with Despia as long as we don’t need to use our normal summon of Springans Kitt or Aluber to fetch out our Branded Fusion.
Part of what makes this deck so appealing is that it is incredibly easy to pilot once you understand the combo chains and how they lead to powerful payoffs like Mirrorjade, Guardian Chimera, Gryphon Rider, and DPE. If we go second, we don’t have many lines of interaction, but if we can go first we can set up the board with a series of powerful negates.
Though we’re not completely powerless if we go second since we still have access to cards like Maxx “C” and Super Polymerization to neutralize powerful boss monsters before we make our plays.
It’s both a fun and powerful deck that’s sadly difficult to build because of all the SRs and URs involved, but not impossible to.
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