$10 Structure Starter: Albaz [Domain Format]

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This is a beginner-friendly Domain Format list built upon a $11.99 purchase of the Structure Deck: Albaz Strike. It consists of a $10 upgrade of cards purchased from sites like TCGplayer. 

Deckmaster: Keeper of Dragon Magic 
Domain Restrictions: DARK // DRAGON 
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Disclaimer: Keeper of Dragon Magic does not encompass the LIGHT // SPELLCASTER domain, which locks us out of powerful Branded engines like Dogmatika and Cartesia 

To create this upgrade, please remove these 15 cards from the SD: Albaz (in the sidedeck): 

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Next, you will want to buy and add these 45 cards to the deck: 

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Additional Resources can be found here:
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Domain Format General Rules:

• Singleton Format: Every card restricted to 1 copy per deck.
• 60-card Format: Each Main Deck must contain exactly 60 cards.
• 4-player Pods: Each player competes individually in an all-out battle against three opponents.
• Deckmaster Restrictions: Each player chooses a "Deckmaster" which dictates the allowed types and attributes for their deck.
• Deckmaster Contract: A Deckmaster can be summoned from a designated "Deckmaster Zone" using normal summoning rules. After switching zones, Deckmasters may return to the "Deckmaster Zone," where they start the game.

Refer here for additional rules and exceptions:

https://www.domainformat.com/rules 

Broad Categories

This simple strategy has cards that fall into two simple categories:

• Recursion
• Fusion

What do we want our Deckmaster to do? Keeper of Dragon Magic 
- Main Normal Summon
- Search Branded Fusion and Instant Fusion 
- Pull monsters like Dark Magician out of the GY to be used as Fusion Material (Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon)

Keeper of Dragon Magic provides a reliable access to any of our Fusion spells. The resolution of Branded Fusion is powerful by easily accessing our endboard piece of Mirrorjade the Iceblade Dragon through fusion summoning Lubellion the Searing Dragon. 

Instant Fusion accesses Predaplant Ambulomelides which provides fast access to Predaplant Darlingtonia Cobra to extend our endboard further. Typically, this allows us to attempt to extend past disruption and add a Predaplant Dragostapelia to the endboard.  

Dark Magician is a card that be easily sent to the GY through Branded Fusion and is one half of a Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon. Dragoon is a powerful piece that is hard to remove and a useful beatstick.

What do we want our recursion to do? 
- Branded Regained gives us draw power and interaction with the banished pilr
- Branded Retribution recycles our Fusion monsters to be summoned again

Branded is a deck that can easily access many many cards. In order to ensure we do not run out of choices, recursion and recovery is an important aspect of the deck. Fortunetly, Branded Regained is one of the most absurd grindgame tools ever made. Branded Regained ability to recycle a LIGHT or DARK monster can be manually triggered through the cost of our cards like Black Dragon Collapserpent, Despian Tragedy, Chaos Dragon Levianeer in order to put choice cards back for reuse. 

When recycling, you want to put back cards that can be easily reused. Good choices include the fusions, especially Albion the Branded Dragon and Lubellion the Searing Dragon

What do we want our Fusions to do? 
- Control the Board
- Access our deck

Albaz fusions are well known for having GY effects in addition to their on-board effects. The most important of these GY effects is the effect of Albion the Branded Dragon to set a Branded spell/trap. In most cases, you would want to set Branded Banishment or Branded in Red in order to fusion summon a monster on your opponent's turn, whether that be Guardian Chimera or Masquerade the Blazing Dragon. 

The most powerful effect in our Extra Deck is Mirrorjade the Iceblade Dragon which not only sets up our other Fusion's GY effects, also non-target banishes a card on the field. Note that this effect is a soft-opt, so it can be used again if Mirrorjade the Iceblade Dragon is resummoned or revived. 

The core piece to all of these monsters is Fallen of Albaz himself. While Branded Fusion does provide easy access to Fallen of Albaz, it may be the case where we will want to manually summon these monsters. This is where our Deckmaster Keeper of Dragon Magic comes in handy to ensure we have access to Albaz even when it is in the GY. It is for this reason that we are running many Fusion effects in addition to The Bystial Aluber and Albaz the Ashen which treat themselves as "Fallen of Albaz" while in the GY.

Another mini-combo that can be done in the End Phase is with either Sprind the Irondash Dragon GY effect or Decisive Battle of Golgonda to summon Springans Kitt in order to add Branded in Red, immediatly activating it to Fusion Summon another endpiece Fusion monster.

Other Considerations: 

This is a rather simple decklist with minmal modifications, however Branded decks in the TCG are much more complex with many paths in part due to the addition of Blazing Cartesia, the Virtuous and Guiding Quem, the Virtuous which can easily access Granguignol the Dusk Dragon or Synchro plays. It can be considered to modify this upgrade in order to obtain a Domain wide enough to encompass these strategies. However, I will not consider them in this section. 

Monsters: Shaddoll Dragon + El Shaddoll Winda , Thousand-Eyes Restrict , Magikuriboh , Guardragon Pisty , Tearlaments Havnis , Fantastical Dragon Phantazmay , Skull Meister , Mahaama the Fairy Dragon , Heavenly Zephyr - Miradora , The Bystial Lubellion 

Spells/Traps: Shaddoll Fusion, Ultra Polymerization , Pot of Avarice , Allure of Darkness , Nadir Servant , Fusion Conscription , Frightfur Patchwork , Ebon Sun , Spell Absorption , Soul Absorption , Crossout Designator , Book of Eclipse , Predaprime Fusion , Trap Tracks , New Frontier 

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