Etude of the Branded

Trap Card · Continuous · Branded

Market price

$0.24

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During either player's turn, you can: Immediately after this effect resolves, Synchro Summon 1 Synchro Monster, using monsters you control as material, including a Dragon monster. You can only use this effect of "Etude of the Branded" once per turn. While you control a "Bystial" monster, banish any monsters that would be sent to your opponent's GY as Tributes for their Ritual Summon, or as material for their Fusion, Synchro, or Link Summon.

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Deck usage & meta stats

Across 45,154 decks in the corpus

Decks play it

0.1% of the corpus

#6,303

Most played

Of 14,082 cards played at all

1.19

Copies per deck

87.5% run 1

0.1%

Of competitive decks

Against 0.1% of everything else

In the main deck of 48 decks. Sided in another 17, which is not counted above — completion is scored over main and extra decks only.

Archetypes that play it

Share of that archetype’s own decks

Bystial10.4%
Resonator4.7%
Chaos2.5%
Branded2.3%
Rokket2.1%
Swordsoul1%
Centur-Ion0.5%
No archetype0.3%

Played by year

Share of the decks the corpus holds for that year

20160%
20170%
20180%
20190%
20200%
20210%
20220%
20230.1%
20240.3%
20250.1%
20260.1%