The best Branded hand ever (also description rant)

I'm sorry to whoever was playing against me lol
Recorded in Duelist Cup 2024, my laptop is so weak it took so long to get to the actual play, and the whole thing throughout was laggy so I apologize in advance.

I got to Puppet lock twice with this lol, I forgot about Branded In Red's restriction (misplay), so there was another turn for my opponent (and another Puppet lock lol).

Combo lines are simple, you start with Branded Fusion make Albion to Mirrorjade and The Bystial Lubellion line, and then Nadir Servant for Puppet lock, just the 2 best one-card combos of this deck. TheShapesOfSnatches just also made a video about some new Branded combos, which opened my eyes so much, you should go check it out:    • SECRET Branded Combos You Probably DON'T K...  

I used to run Ido, the Supreme Magical Force (iirc) as the lock (you can see the first Master Duel video in my channel:    • Nadir Servant 1 card combo - Ido lock (Bra...  ), but after a duel where it got destroyed by my Mirrorjade, it activated its second MANDATORY effect to special summoned itself back to my field and destroyed every other monster, basically locking myself out (karma), so I went with the famous and effective option - Gimmick Puppet Nightmare (although I'm concious about not running any lock at all because it's not healthy for the game).

The overall Duelist Cup event was fun, I was pilotting my favourite deck while listening to my favourite music (the whole Lamp discography, I love them so much), but I had the worst luck with starting hands in Duelist Cup lol, everytime I go first, I draw every single 1 of bricks in my deck - Nightmare, Ad Libitum (I had an exact duel where this happened) or handtraps for going second (when going first), even after I switched to the 40-card version, so this was the best hand I have had up until now (coincidentally the best hand Branded could produce).

I also played a mirror match where my opponent used Branded In White to play through my Ash Blossom, which was so clever that I gave him the win (I was dumb and never used my Ash Blossom). And another match I got was with Labrynth, where they ran Blazing Mirror Force and caught me off-guard, and costed me the whole duel.

And speaking of music, I just discovered Lamp a few weeks (maybe a month-ish) ago, but they have already become my favorite band ever, their whole discography, especially the Yume album (   • Lamp「Yume」【ゆめ】(2014)  , is just so good (I love Yume specifically because I feel the pure and unfiltered joy radiating from the whole thing). And when my playlist switched to Classical Music after Gensou, it somehow feels fitting lol (I play the piano so I know quite well about Classical Music stuff), and Classical Music is also the inspiration for my channel name: Bach-ou-venn (Bach, Chopin, Beethoven, the ou is for Gould and double "n" is for Glenn in Glenn Gould).

I like (sarcastically) how when uploading my video, it got 17 views, and I’m quite happy about it, but after a while it went down to 2 views. Youtube view counting system (or whatever the thing is) is so shady, I never know how it works.

This video is gonna have a whole lotta tags about things I like so please ignore this part.
#masterduel #brandeddespia #lamp #bach #chopin #glenngould #beethoven