Card Spotlight: Branded Expulsion

For the people who are saying you can Belle Branded Expulsion, if you target 2 banished monsters, believe it or not, they are right that you cannot. Yes, normally Belle can negate an effect that would attempt to interact with the graveyard in any of the ways listed, even if the player would not. However, to activate Belle you must either know that an effect will be interacting with the graveyard, or not know if an effect that can interact with the graveyard will be. Belle is unable to negate an effect that can interact with the graveyard, but it is known that it will not.

With the effects of Water Enchantress and Lubellion, it is not known until resolution whether the effect will be interacting with the graveyard or not. Irregardless of whether there are applicable cards in the graveyard on activation, it is possible that on resolution there will be, and as such the effect could end up meeting Belle's criteria.

In the case of Branded Expulsion, it targets on activation. While a card from the graveyard can be targeted, if both of the targets are from banished, it is known that the effect will not be interacting with the graveyard. As what the effect will be doing is known, and it does not meet the criteria of Belle, Belle cannot be activated. This is the difference between effects like Branded Expulsion, and those like Water Enchantress and Lubellion.

This article is objectively wrong. Light attribute monsters are superior because you can end with albion, mirrorjade, and set expulsion off a single aluber and another dark monster in hand, which is an overwhelming percentage of the time. Here is the full line:

1. NS aluber, add brafu

2. Activate brafu, send ra and albaz for albion

3. Activate albion, banish [dark monster in hand or GY] and albaz for lubellion

4. Activate lubellion, discard for cost and shuffle back lubellion and albaz for mirrorjade

5. Activate mirrorjade, sending albion to banish aluber from field

6. EP set expulsion

Now next turn you can tribute the face-up albion to SS ra and aluber, granting you an immediate search and an end phase search with albion. Plus, your mirrorjade will remain on board, albeit its banish effect can't be used during your opponent's turn.

This was all done with opening:

-Aluber / Branded opening, and any dark monster (including patchwork, foolish burial, etc). Bonus points if you also open tragedy or Branded fusion for even more pluses.

You open a dark monster an overwhelming percentage of the time, making the albion line feasible and superior to the lubellion- only line.

Let see how meme react to this wombo combo.

But what if my opponent is playing gimmick puppet? /jk

E-con going to go so hard this season

The solution is easy guys, just keep your Ash for Brandon fusion

easy guys just go use eldlich deck with torrential tribute and various other things

Dark holes also can do the same job plus your can get benefit to destroy opponent monster as well. Ya dark hole is not a popular choice but it is another way to counter the lock. Other than that your can play meme card like shien's spy to give back ido to your opponent or creature swap. It is meme card, but it is hilarious if shien's spy counter the lock for no reason, let your opponent take their own medicine.

Creature swap can stop this nonsense right?

just use dark hole to counter this, thank you in advance

In addition to Droplet, Forbidden Chalice is a solid budget alternative to negate Ido, Kristya, or any Barrier Statue your opponent gives you. It may not be as potent as Dark Hole, but it's a better card to draw into when you go first.

I highly disagree with some conclusions taken by the article's writer. I think that the best attribute to run is LIGHT, and not DARK: Albion can banish monsters to Fusion Summon, allowing you to banish your Floodgate monster and a Despia in order to play around cards like D.D. Crow, while with Lubellion you can't do that, you will always lose to a direct or indirect counter to Branded Expulsion, because the monster will stay in your GY no matter what (at least until Bystials will be added to the game). The Albion on the field is important because if you fuse it away and then use MJ's effect, you can secure your search even if the opponent has Crow; tributing it off Expulsion is amazing since gives you another +1 in the End Phase. With this being said, I think Scythe is overall the best floodgate you can play: it's the safest option since synergizes well with stuff like Branded Banishment, Red and Super Poly, which can be chained to counter Imperm, even Droplet. Cards like Ra's Disciple and Ido ALWAYS lose to Droplet, which is a 39% odd to be drawn by playing 3 going second; a setup like Scythe + Banishment requires the opponent to draw Droplet AND a Trap card to be beaten, which is way more unlikely and almost an unbeatable endboard.

If I am not mistaken, D/D orthros is also a good card to lock the opponent from special summoning (except fiend monsters)

December will be rank up Diamond of madness for the utilization of Branded Lockdown.

ITS OVERRATED. it feels incredibly underwhelming to do that play if you dont have second branded fushion or something in hand. its good only if you have godlike followup hand for next turn and its fragile any negate youre done with no resorces cause you dont use tragedy for fuse. if you can do that play and have followup its better to just set masqerades and mirrorjade, chimera. if you do that play you burning 4 cards 1 called by grave you done. even if theres no called by you sitting on topdecks himself. Its just give shiftes deck into something new changes some matchup advantages.

Those are absurdly expensive outs. When the costs are... 2 n/r cards on the other side. Its more expensive to play the game than preventing the opponent from doing so. I hate this game.

No mine in TCG, Only Maxx c in OCG, Why does MD always have to have the shittiest of things, **** **** **** **** **** ... not /s

"Ideally you will target two banished monsters, to grant immunity to the likes of D.D. Crow, Ghost Belle & Haunted Mansion". Wrong, Ghost Belle can still negate Expulsion even though you only target banished monsters. It's the same case with how Belle can negate Lubellion/Water Enchantress.