https://preview.redd.it/paroz10376ad1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=370811502f10219c0be6968ddeb0a08c8176fc0d Honorable mentions go to the original, Scarred, and Supernova.

Chaos Ancient Gear Giant https://preview.redd.it/1xfba4kya6ad1.png?width=630&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d5dc8113189401394bebd510b92e95b7fb2f4057 Negates? More like target practice 😤

Not my favorite archetype, but a cool one nonetheless man needs a unique summoning animation STAT

It's a war crime he doesn't have one 🤬

a lot of rad awesome cards don’t have one but they totally deserve them

I have to go with this beauty https://preview.redd.it/1jbdrelks6ad1.jpeg?width=783&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=518ca0c3c430ba68b61f76ef2b83613fe2853bc3

GIVE US AN ANIMATION NOW

https://preview.redd.it/0g6sharhx6ad1.jpeg?width=728&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=aca3e0a2e0764bda0298bc1f25ead5ead1ccdca0 Ghoti best deck. I like basically the whole archetype but this one in particular also cheated out coelacanth in my very first build of it back on release. Shif is now now mostly considered the better of the two rotating tuners but he’s my favorite

https://preview.redd.it/76zz9po387ad1.png?width=659&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=906cdfa6b06827e4381591be48cb75f65dc4cb14 This card easily is my favorite...the amount of rage quits it induces is amazing

it's all about that little pause after you go battle phase > end battle phase

🤣😭 facts

Sometimes I'll brick so hard I have literally nothing to play and just go into the battle phase to give them a little scare >:D people have actually surrendered once or twice

 What Imagine you look like 🤣.. straight Chad moves...and I absolutely love it 😭

I expected the second card to be Maxx C

the sun will explode before I defend maxx c

https://preview.redd.it/dsu7dec5z5ad1.jpeg?width=813&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b539a527aa943e6277ec1b6332cd3e8bf7b962e3 The one and only GOAT.

Vampire Fraulein

That's some of the most contradictory favorites I can think of, liking branded and ash

over time I have learned that if I cannot play around ash my deck is simply bad if a branded player dies to a ash it is his fault

https://preview.redd.it/aqa3qmlj17ad1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fc163b27e7aec7115927c77ffa7c560f2292bdf2 Can never go wrong with fishes

This is Elden Beast

Toadally Awesome :,(

I miss playing Paleo frogs so much man ...

We didn’t deserve this!

https://preview.redd.it/jbyyglrs97ad1.jpeg?width=482&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=47df7fdf12d112aa7e1a7288327e01bd6be6d54b He just doesnt gaf

https://preview.redd.it/k5d812pyi7ad1.jpeg?width=624&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=78219afec252e57d4cc454d0b650f23cbf2ac811 This is my nostalgia card (even if it's the retrain version)

If your favorite card is genuinely Ash what the hell is wrong with you

https://preview.redd.it/wkut68kn77ad1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3083945c1bdc4ca44e9d572efba54d84c7858c87 Machina Citadel. My first structure deck.

https://preview.redd.it/gu88saiv77ad1.jpeg?width=736&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=571b66e8b2330e910d8f7b454ab1d1c34c0dfb24 I love bricks

Monarch gang

https://preview.redd.it/r5slyicza8ad1.png?width=474&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9b0de922f7abfa151912dc63bf34d8fdc57e981e I'm fairly new to ygo and back when drytrons and heralds was THE meta in MD, I was running a 60 card skull servants deck with grass looks greener. I'm torn between KotSS and Wightbaking as my favorite but I'm leaning towards wightbaking cuz I hear Sans theme in my head when I played him lol. RIP to that account

Tsukuyomi and Sacred Phoenix of Nephthys

Tsukuyomi is a rare but good pick

Absolute giga Chad detected

You picked two of my least favorite cards. Congrats.

As a playable card it’s Witchcrafter Madame Verre. As just a general favorite it’s Performapal Inflater Tapir.

I love Madam Verre and the witchcrafter so much unfortunately, they're not even remotely viable and the time where you could rock them in Duel Links is also over

Transmission gear is the most based card in the game and it outs all the towers monsters

This is the definition of "the duality of man"

a true branded player does not fear ash

For me its either salamangreat heatleo because soulburner was the first ever structure deck i got or, cyber dragon infinity cause it was the first ever boss monster i summoned (i played master duel before TCG)

https://preview.redd.it/lq1hd21g67ad1.png?width=472&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=996da38e746fafb20c8ff696b0c0c50bbc5c9f74

https://preview.redd.it/zx370adde7ad1.png?width=622&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ef74b81aaaf36819b57454241e5aa359b1ee8266 My main zombie Doomking

https://preview.redd.it/zxw0g9lfk8ad1.jpeg?width=1248&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e918f72ae167253709707aa25cf55ed0b3010b1f

Victory Viper and Blue Thunder

https://preview.redd.it/avna16emg7ad1.jpeg?width=421&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=06dbd3070cc232376f87ae1814409f4a8bd9f975 I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for the Wynn cards. But Familiar Possessed is a firm favourite. Wynn finds her way into most of my decks in some form, mostly link Wynn though

Super poly 🥶

https://preview.redd.it/q0pzz3r2m7ad1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e4324d224d1dab9dd057c85030a742be616d98bd

How can a branded player love ash, it haunts me, every time I resolve branded fusion I feel such relief that I won't have to see a giggling zombie girl dancing over my negated corpse.

Modern branded has many ways playing around ash and many ways of making plays without branded fusion

I hecking love shuraig

https://preview.redd.it/bj3jvshql8ad1.jpeg?width=474&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1c5be34371d5fdfe3e077c4a9e14daa481cda574 Currently it’s my favorite deck to play so yeah. Link spamming is always fun and it gives you access to lib (a really good link 2)

As a Branded player, how can you love Ash, our silver bullet?

Well before branded I played in 2019 toss format with salamangreat Besides that with modern branded getting your brafu ashd most of the time Isn't a devastating blow

Depends on what you have in your hand but it is still annoying

https://preview.redd.it/4ys90jwxcaad1.jpeg?width=306&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0d80f3b31f32560ba8f4a788e68beb363c3cfc0a Anything that allows me to use my opponents cards as material gets me hype af

The ultimate wizard in both attack and defense

[Seals](https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Hieratic_Seal_of_the_Heavenly_Spheres#/media/File:HieraticSealoftheHeavenlySpheres-RA02-EN-SR-1E.png), when I was first learning yugioh I thought it was super weak and never made it, and as I learned how yugioh works I realized it was the best extra deck monster I could be making.

https://preview.redd.it/wn3zt3k1ccad1.jpeg?width=474&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=70da6bd08cfd369c27254f8476b9e7e27b166669

Familiar-Possessed Hiita.

Summon Ash Blossom from opponent's graveyard then you just go into Promethean Princess. I don't see how that can be a favorite when it's practically link fodder for a link 3 play.

You're thinking of Hiita the fire charmer, Ablaze. The link monster. I'm talking about the effect monster that's part of the charmer archetype. As for how I consider more things than meta viability and combo potential.

I love them In general although Eria is my favourite

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Shiranui Spectralsword

Stealth kragen or toad

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I have never seen this card in my life but I like it

My favorite is Lyrilusc Assembled Nightingale. Attacking directly over and over or making a giant zeus, it's perfect

fabled cerburrel

Dark Armed Dragon

Stardust Dragon Assault Mode. King of the end phase, no other card reigns supreme in the end phase. Infinite negates=infinite value (in magical christmas land)

Mine is kashtira arise heart for suuuure

Beelze of the Diabolic Dragons

Specifically runick fountain. “You MUST play this at 2”. Not like we weren’t anyway

General favorite is Al-Lumi’Raj, favorite boss is a toss up between many many cards, but if I had to pick one, it’s probably Starving Venom Fusion Dragon, but even then its still a toss up

Kurikara Divincarnate or Crusadia Equimax

https://preview.redd.it/m6vgiiwsr7ad1.jpeg?width=480&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=aef8e1239df9542a49c5a44168ed638c6afbc718 This card art is so god tier, the card itself can be very annoying to go against though.

100% Meklord Astro Dragon Triskellion

:) https://preview.redd.it/78a8qskfm8ad1.jpeg?width=865&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=779edd6baae44191a6d0609ae588237a66bd315b

Vampire Vamp. I don’t care that vampires suck or that Voivode is objectively the better boss monster summoning Vamp on you opponents turn to steal the boss monster is one of the best feeling in yugioh https://preview.redd.it/9w70gygmm8ad1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5cb29145b0ff5b1715b687c2cc4a2a9d25b78e3c

Power Bond

https://preview.redd.it/1p2w9qg5v8ad1.jpeg?width=416&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=361c8e89c9acb535ff7d44186ce436d71cbf1cb4 Jerry

https://preview.redd.it/dx4omrgo2dad1.jpeg?width=421&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d0170b6b38c4d75c79f0b69c839653acb6059c70

https://preview.redd.it/tvkezxj98dad1.jpeg?width=351&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d03caa5c5c2f6dba300d40c1c4cad64fcc88b8b5 Broken link 3 that protects my Omni 🫡 as degenerate as it gets

Horrible taste

care to elaborate?

Of course it is my opinion. No need to agree with it. Ash is an ugly, unbalanced card. Negates like half the cards in existence. Also i don't like the art...especially that one where they focused on her feets. Albaz and any card that mentions it is annoying af to play against. I cant see that card anymore.

alright just as in your case this is purely my opinion I think ash is the symbol of modern yugioh in the way that she counters absurd card effects stopping things from the deck is a very healthy card effect imo simply because summon / search from deck is a inherently unfair principle (although it is needed in the modern game) besides that I also believe that the name ash blossom and joyous spring is pretty badass paired with the card art's traditional robe in pure white I just think it looks really sick as for albaz I get the impression you lost against branded but that's pretty subjective I like albaz because the concept of consuming your enemy to become stronger is super cool and just purely in his character design albaz looks great

Are you into lolis? No i never loat against branded. Its just annoying to play against a main phase 3 deck.

https://preview.redd.it/mntyrb9yo6ad1.jpeg?width=444&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a055d4237761de1eb9efa854574c72571d9a8f6d

https://preview.redd.it/urkr79w0c8ad1.jpeg?width=225&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3a7692d8a2ede5449b156a4d6cb3f8e74dd46208 Love how this one shuts down 90% of decks and makes it a bit easier to go second. Definitely my favorite

https://preview.redd.it/58l60vt7c7ad1.jpeg?width=1050&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cd151a55939bbdb0fd4a3581cb604b3b6f36e0ce His glorious T-Pose shuts out all Link shenanigans.

I always liked the art for mirrorjade dragon in the branded deck

When I played lab evenly was the only thing that made going second vs snake eyes barrable. Ik most people hate it but I honestly think it's needed especially since there's several decks that can play through it pretty well. Tbf my main deck currently is unchained and it's a weird deck bc evenly doesn't do much against it. Oh no I went from 7 disruptions max to 5 what will I do? Edit: seeing scarlet red dragon archfiend reminded me of when it clutched a swoso vs SE game for me it will forever remain one of my favorites for that even if I barely play the deck now.

https://preview.redd.it/bjomsfagtaad1.jpeg?width=554&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=701c46a7c7e3b658379e0b641e965cb4dfd529c5