Given Tom is a judge I'd imagine he sees these decks more often at events. I don't think he's dismissing other potential decks, just going by decks that make often.
I spend so many hours reading the results and attempting to find the results. Occassionally miss a few or see a few too late after production. it happens.
Pretending like dragon link with bystials can’t play through most decks is criminal. Even through nib, ash, droll, etc I can still at least make seals and probably get regained on board no matter what happens.
literally gave them an honorable mention, because I couldn't cover them, I saw their results a bit late otherwise I probably wouldve swapped Lab with their spot for a spotlight, but that goes to show how much stuff is going on right now.
The problem With branded is not the deck it’s the players who play it .. a lot of them are thrash . And tbh the ycs events it won was a year ago if you exclude 3v3 events the decks gets worse the better it gets
I’d also throw Gozen Match against VS since if they’re not running any backrow hate or can’t out it with Pantera or Cesar, they’re gonna struggle. Also for Branded, Retaliating C deserves an honorable mention because it’s a decent substitute in case you don’t have ash in your hand
@@ninjadandy9166 not quite. retaliating can stop the gimmick lock from happening, alpha is good (I’ve tried it) but it’s effectively a brick in that scenario. Granted retaliating can also be a brick; it does work against Purrely, SHS, Runick and Spright to name a few.
Branded is still fragile IMO. Can play through a lot more but also dies to very same things it did before. In addition to Bystials, floodgates, bagooska, and more
Its won a few nationals in the past couple months and taken 1st at a few regionals, and that’s without expulsion. You can also set up full board without even needing to resolve branded fusion thanks to quem. I wouldn’t let your guard down against it.
What would probably be the best cards to side against dragon link w/ bystials; I'm having a hard time against the match up whenever they go first. For more context, I wanna play rikka sunavalon on my next locals.
Honorable mention to rikka and Dragon link. I was gunna cover d link, but they came in a little late for me. When going thru results WCQ France was the one that had DLINK performance.
Honestly this format is weird. Vanquish soul is really good because it's counter's are different then the rest of the meta. Yea books are good but doesn't work with link up, imperm is good but tag out can happen and like you said with the ash thing. Yes some things hurt them but it's a slap than cry like ash branded fusion (for now).
Oh just don't open with spells/ traps then the eradicator play won't matter. Look we all want a red reboot, but sometimes we just can't have it. NOR do we have gamma... so yah if they sack that play u eat it with a smile.
VS doing well is gonna set a horrible precedent with these side sets moving forward. Komoney will keep pulling this rarity spread bullsht cause there wasnt any real backlash, we like takin it in the bum apparently
@@tsvetomirsheev3882 I’m not dismissing but probability suggests otherwise I’ve heard accounts of how they won and seen streams etc they play bad most the times
Did we just completely forget that Runick is still a deck? Lab and Branded can not be Tier 1; once they have a big enough target on their back they perform significantly worse.
The only runick deck that makes top cut in most events is a spright varient so he just put it under "spright" metioning runick as well as the other versions, listen before typing ;D
Idk what it is distorting the color of your face, maybe the lighting and shadow from the mic, but it is very distracting in the video. Just wanted to mention it makes your face look orange and white at times
I mean you get puppet locked in the draw phase…there’s nothing you can do. Ohh, and I’m laughing at belle, crow, and any Bystial that tries to stop it while I have merc in hand. When duality gets here it’ll make it all the more easier 😊
@@devindavis7303 now try to stop a person properly using a bystial during the end phases and then u negate then they use it again on their own turn and they can very easily bystial the puppet before u get access to merc
Only the 5 players from UK nationals which keep topping with it have ever read those cards. You could try reading the cards that might help then watch game play. Go on the groups and see what it loses too you want to beat a deck wrong mind set learn to play it so you can understand it's weakness. Why do so few good players take it to events . It's a pet deck for most which is solid no doubt but it has weakness you have to put in the work to understand them etc. Watch dueling book replays of game play
@@josepharmstrong6852 Yeah, obviously you should play a deck if you want to truly learn it’s weaknesses, but as you said it isn’t popular, so I’d rather just learn where to interrupt than learn to play a deck that I will rarely encounter.
*Vader breathez heavy* yall DO kno this iz ah battle trap format right??? No 1 iz expectin mirror forcez magical cylinderz or even threatenin roarz right now... just sayin... *Vader breathez heavy*
Yeah bro nice mirror force, the runick deck will love popping that, or not even triggering it bc they don’t have a fucking battle phase. Or nice threatening roar!! You skipped my battle phase I wasn’t even getting bro
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Given Tom is a judge I'd imagine he sees these decks more often at events. I don't think he's dismissing other potential decks, just going by decks that make often.
I spend so many hours reading the results and attempting to find the results. Occassionally miss a few or see a few too late after production. it happens.
What i took from this is play going second because the same cards hit every deck
Pretending like dragon link with bystials can’t play through most decks is criminal. Even through nib, ash, droll, etc I can still at least make seals and probably get regained on board no matter what happens.
literally gave them an honorable mention, because I couldn't cover them, I saw their results a bit late otherwise I probably wouldve swapped Lab with their spot for a spotlight, but that goes to show how much stuff is going on right now.
@@MSTTV I also commented whilst watching and probably wouldn’t have defended them SO hard if I had finished BEFORE commenting. Much love dude
dlink gets shafted by Kashtira probably worse than the other top decks at the moment
@LamboJ20 that just means we build for Kash. we already beat everything else
@@alexanderbatterbee8369 any deck can build for Kash, dlink still has a bad matchup vs it.
The problem With branded is not the deck it’s the players who play it .. a lot of them are thrash . And tbh the ycs events it won was a year ago if you exclude 3v3 events the decks gets worse the better it gets
Agreed this was true for salad it happens when a structure deck comes out newer or bad players have access and then they play that
Labrynth has the same problem as branded, it does lose to ash and belle. people are playing those for branded and so lab gets hit in the crossfire.
Sometimes ash isn't a death sentence like branded cuz you have trap interruptions
@@darkstarmkv in ikea its a lot less likely
@@darkstarmkv honestly if branded sees cartesia or fusion deployment then it plays better into ash than IKEA lab
Honestly at this point I’m playing those cards to beat lab, them being good against Branded is just the bonus. Lab is scary
Branded Best Deck!!! (Throws desk across the room) rawr 🦖
I’d also throw Gozen Match against VS since if they’re not running any backrow hate or can’t out it with Pantera or Cesar, they’re gonna struggle.
Also for Branded, Retaliating C deserves an honorable mention because it’s a decent substitute in case you don’t have ash in your hand
If you lock them a under Razen and they don’t a caeser in hand, it’s really rough for them
Alpha is a better branded out then retaliating c
I would put more cards in, but I'm basing it on: what the players chose to main deck / side deck.
@@MSTTV Touche. I was basing those choices while playing VS.
@@ninjadandy9166 not quite. retaliating can stop the gimmick lock from happening, alpha is good (I’ve tried it) but it’s effectively a brick in that scenario.
Granted retaliating can also be a brick; it does work against Purrely, SHS, Runick and Spright to name a few.
Branded I seen winning some Regionals but otherwise only like.... Top 32 or 64 at best for others?
Branded is still fragile IMO. Can play through a lot more but also dies to very same things it did before. In addition to Bystials, floodgates, bagooska, and more
Its won a few nationals in the past couple months and taken 1st at a few regionals, and that’s without expulsion. You can also set up full board without even needing to resolve branded fusion thanks to quem. I wouldn’t let your guard down against it.
Tom said we gotta learn the framedata for VS... love that analogy haha
nice i always like these types of videos great job !
Rikka definitely missing here. One deck that’s always making top cut and a lot of people don’t know how to play against
It was under honerable mentions, chatting before reading typical beta yugioh players ;D
Rikka is very well respected trust me. I had no time to cover because i was already like 70% into production mode.
Rikka is like dragon link at this point it will always top events and new dragon/plant support is always coming out
Vanquished sould are the new flunder. It does everything it did but better. Plays on my turn like its theirs.
Not quite tear played on both turns it wasn't like floowandereeze
What would probably be the best cards to side against dragon link w/ bystials; I'm having a hard time against the match up whenever they go first. For more context, I wanna play rikka sunavalon on my next locals.
lancea is the first to come to mind
Good work, Tom. I miss playing against you.
Ah yes Tom with the knowledge, so I can stay ready. :D
Starting to think Tom box has a thing against dragon link. Hardly mentions them ever.
Honorable mention to rikka and Dragon link. I was gunna cover d link, but they came in a little late for me.
When going thru results WCQ France was the one that had DLINK performance.
Typical yugioh players, chatting before reading, maybe watch the vid before spamming comments ;D
Do you think that Swordsoul survives the next banlist ?
yea
What do you think of
Eye 👁️ of truth against VS
Keeping their hand revealed so they won’t be able to activate in MP ??
Just play dark hole they get cooked by that
Its the perfect troll card for them
Between presentations xyz reborn, and storm dragons return ariseheart should be protected
Tombox what do you think about rivalry for VS tech?
Yes, it's really good unless they have the initial yah out or fenrir to start
Are the prices usd on the site or cad?
So what about ritual dogmatika? Would it be viable as a counter?
Problem is Vanquish Soul and Labrynth don't really care about what that deck does.
No love for Fur Hire Runick Spright??❤
Sprights literally have the Most variations.... so love to all sprights
Raid raptor is cap you have going 1st and going 2nd kash and going 2nd kash is probably the best right now
An here I am on some hot trash Numleria Maju just to spice it up and lay some beast down
My Numleria brother (or sister)!
numeron aint ded
@K41N308 have you been living under a rock for the past couple months? Lol I said Numleria not numeron
@@Reflecter16 brother, brother!
Honestly this format is weird. Vanquish soul is really good because it's counter's are different then the rest of the meta. Yea books are good but doesn't work with link up, imperm is good but tag out can happen and like you said with the ash thing. Yes some things hurt them but it's a slap than cry like ash branded fusion (for now).
You didnt cover how to deal with eradicator with Lab.
Oh just don't open with spells/ traps then the eradicator play won't matter.
Look we all want a red reboot, but sometimes we just can't have it. NOR do we have gamma... so yah if they sack that play u eat it with a smile.
VS doing well is gonna set a horrible precedent with these side sets moving forward. Komoney will keep pulling this rarity spread bullsht cause there wasnt any real backlash, we like takin it in the bum apparently
So no more droll ?
In europe branded won 3 nationals its one of the strongest deck in the meta. Even stronger than labrynth.
Regional size events . Some as low as 80 people .. that’s a locals
@@deanoxd968 dont dismiss them cause they are smaller. Most players that do go them are actual quality unlike a lot of the american players
@@tsvetomirsheev3882 I’m not dismissing but probability suggests otherwise I’ve heard accounts of how they won and seen streams etc they play bad most the times
@@deanoxd968 lets not start on stream chets man, I think we've seen enough videos of that from both sides lul
Stream tourneys are a mistake
@@tsvetomirsheev3882 I agree I see a chet and I just stop watching
branded won WCQ philadelphia
Did we just completely forget that Runick is still a deck? Lab and Branded can not be Tier 1; once they have a big enough target on their back they perform significantly worse.
Runick and Spright are the same deck. Runick variants that don't play Spright are bad.
@@henryjones8636 that doesn't make sense. By that logic, do all good Spright decks have to run Runick? Thus making them separate decks.
@@jordanaranas-sturgill4925 what good spright deck is there that isn’t runick?
The only runick deck that makes top cut in most events is a spright varient so he just put it under "spright" metioning runick as well as the other versions, listen before typing ;D
We did not, but I had to take the top 5.... And runick technically was there in runick live twin spright....
What is DPE
Destroyer Phoenix Enforcer
Idk what it is distorting the color of your face, maybe the lighting and shadow from the mic, but it is very distracting in the video. Just wanted to mention it makes your face look orange and white at times
Rikka!
Its put as a honerable mention. ;D
Branded over dragon link? aight I'm out
we'll see after this weekend. I wanna see if i can keep up with all the events out there.
@@MSTTV fair enough
I mean you get puppet locked in the draw phase…there’s nothing you can do. Ohh, and I’m laughing at belle, crow, and any Bystial that tries to stop it while I have merc in hand. When duality gets here it’ll make it all the more easier 😊
@@devindavis7303 now try to stop a person properly using a bystial during the end phases and then u negate then they use it again on their own turn and they can very easily bystial the puppet before u get access to merc
@ anybody, how do you beat sunavalon rikka?
Only the 5 players from UK nationals which keep topping with it have ever read those cards. You could try reading the cards that might help then watch game play. Go on the groups and see what it loses too you want to beat a deck wrong mind set learn to play it so you can understand it's weakness. Why do so few good players take it to events . It's a pet deck for most which is solid no doubt but it has weakness you have to put in the work to understand them etc. Watch dueling book replays of game play
@@josepharmstrong6852 Yeah, obviously you should play a deck if you want to truly learn it’s weaknesses, but as you said it isn’t popular, so I’d rather just learn where to interrupt than learn to play a deck that I will rarely encounter.
How can you out chaos angel besided using kaiju?
would only unaffected by activated monster effects. spells/traps work
Use a monster effect which doesn't activate that can remove it. Mirrorjade destroy the opponents monsters effect. If on branded
@@josepharmstrong6852doesn't mirror jade activate?
@@serious_g it does but if angel is made after mirrorjades effect was activated it still dies
balls
Branded won Israel nationals
*Vader breathez heavy* yall DO kno this iz ah battle trap format right??? No 1 iz expectin mirror forcez magical cylinderz or even threatenin roarz right now... just sayin... *Vader breathez heavy*
I would say, you have to set those going first, and if your already going first there are better options to set up usually
Yeah bro nice mirror force, the runick deck will love popping that, or not even triggering it bc they don’t have a fucking battle phase. Or nice threatening roar!! You skipped my battle phase I wasn’t even getting bro
Tom always talk so much but says nothing