Avengers of Albaz

Playing style

"Branded" is an archetype of primarily Spell and Trap Cards that support various cards related to "Fallen of Albaz" and Fusion Summoning. It also directly supports the "Despia" and "Bystial" archetypes:

• Despia: "Branded Despia", also known as just "Branded", is a Fusion-based decktype that uses the "Branded" cards as playmakers, with the "Albaz" Fusion Monsters forming the Deck's primary resource loop. Cards in either archetype can search each other out.
• Bystial: The "Bystials" are generally supported by the "Branded" Continuous Spells and Continuous Traps. "The Bystial Lubellion" and "Branded Beast" can place such cards directly from the Deck or GY respectively.

The primary ways of searching "Branded" Spell and Traps are "Aluber the Jester of Despia", "Springans Kitt" and "Albion the Branded Dragon". They can also be 'searched' by sending them to the GY via cards like "Albion the Shrouded Dragon" and "Bystial Saronir", then recovering them with "Branded Retribution" or "Despian Tragedy".

Each of the "Branded" Spells & Traps that debuted in Lightning Overdrive share an effect to Set themselves to the field at the End Phase if it is sent to the GY to activate the effect of "Fallen of Albaz". Similarly, other "Branded" Spells and Traps can recur themselves back to the hand when a Fusion Monster is sent to the GY (eg. "Branded in High Spirits" and "Brightest, Blazing, Branded King").

Finally, "Branded in Central Dogmatika" supports the Ritual-centric portion of "Dogmatika".

Playing style

"Fur Hire" is primarily a Swarm Deck that aims to quickly fill the field with monsters from the hand by using the shared effects of the low-Level monsters "Fur Hire" to Special Summon more monsters "Fur Hire", who can keep the Summoning going. As they do this, the low-Level monsters "Fur Hire" also trigger their unique Trigger Effects to maintain momentum. Since the monsters can only activate their effects once per turn, per name, it is necessary to play a large number and variety of low-Level monsters "Fur Hire". The last Special Summon will usually be a high-Level monster "Fur Hire", activating its Trigger Effect in addition to the protective effects it gives.

To address consistency, the most important monster "Fur Hire" is "Beat, Bladesman Fur Hire", whose Trigger Effect searches a monster "Fur Hire" to ensure the Summons can continue, followed by "Filo, Messenger Fur Hire", whose Trigger Effect revives a monster "Fur Hire" from the GY, granting resource recovery as an extender. Because there needs to be a monster "Fur Hire" on the field in order to start the Summons, the Deck can struggle if their first monster is removed from the field before it can activate its effect; Spell Cards that Special Summon can alleviate the pressure on their Normal Summon, such as "One for One" (for "Filo") or "Reasoning".

The Deck's boss monster is the Link-3 "Folgo, Justice Fur Hire", whose Link Material requirement of 3 monsters with different Types is relatively easy to meet within the archetype "Fur Hire" due to its diverse array of monster Types. Upon its Summon, it Special Summons a monster "Fur Hire" from the Deck with a different Type from the Link Materials used, replenishing some of the advantage used to Summon it, and its other effect draws cards if an opponent's card is destroyed, depending on how many monsters "Fur Hire" the player controls. This works especially well with a "Donpa, Marksman Fur Hire" or "Recon, Scout Fur Hire" on the field who have not yet used their Trigger Effects, since they can activate in response to the Link Summon of "Folgo".

The effects of all low-Level monsters "Fur Hire" can also be activated again during the opponent's turn, making cards that can Special Summon monsters "Fur Hire" during the opponent's turn to trigger them very valuable. These can include the in-archetype "Mayhem Fur Hire" and "Rookie Fur Hire", or out-of-archetype cards such as "Tri-Brigade Airborne Assault". This is especially important with "Donpa" or "Recon" on the field, to interrupt the opponent's plays and draw more cards with "Folgo". Also, as the archetype's swarming capability naturally lends it to Link Summoning, the Deck works well with non-archetypal staples such as the "Knightmare" monsters, "Borrel" monsters, "Accesscode Talker", and "Saryuja Skull Dread".

Because there are several Beast, Beast-Warrior and Winged Beast monsters "Fur Hire", with "Donpa" and "Recon" in particular being Level 2 Beast monsters, the archetype works well with cards and themes that support those Types, such as "Tri-Brigade" and "Melffy". Also, a small Sacred Beast engine can consistently Summon "Folgo" off a 1-card starter.

Due to already running a large number number of monsters, it is also possible to play a pure monster variant Deck. This type of Deck "Fur Hire", can be supplemented with staple monsters such as "Dinowrestler Pankratops", hand traps like the Yo-kai Girls, and a few Spells like "Sekka's Light" or "The Big Cattle Drive".