Spell
ContinuousBranded Disciple
Archetype:
Branded
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When a monster effect activated by your opponent resolves, if that opponent's monster has 0 ATK or DEF, and you control a Level 8 or higher Fiend Fusion Monster, you can negate that activated effect. At the end of the Damage Step, if monsters with 0 ATK battled each other: You can destroy your opponent's battling monster. You can only use each effect of "Branded Disciple" once per turn.
Branded Disciple — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 49 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 47 · Deck: 50 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Removal / Negation · Secondary: Board breaker
Why it scores here
Branded Disciple is a Continuous Spell whose value is conditional interaction: it negates an opponent's monster effect only when that monster has 0 ATK or DEF and you control a Level 8+ Fiend Fusion, and it destroys a battling monster only when 0-ATK monsters fight. Those gates are narrow, and the card does not search, draw, or add board presence, so its score rests on the Removal/Negation weighting of interaction and deck cost. High ATK, popularity, and frequent deck inclusion earned no points; the 64-deck presence supports accessibility and portability only, not raw strength.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 50 | Appears in 64 recent decks at about 1.2 copies each, but there is no searcher or search route in the evidence and starter role/searched-for role are both 0 (observed, inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 20 | Appears in 2 of 2 recorded boards at power index 100, yet combo role is empty and the card is never tagged as starter or payoff, so the board score cannot be attributed to it (observed, inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 30 | No draw, search, or card advantage in the text; its only value is a one-for-one destruction in a narrow case (verified, inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 45 | Two once-per-turn interaction effects with specific conditions: negation of a 0-ATK/DEF monster's effect and destruction of a 0-ATK battler (verified text, inferred strength). |
| Material Utility | 0 | A Spell card cannot be used as material, so it contributes no material value (verified). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | A face-up Continuous Spell is exposed to spell/trap removal and has no redundancy in the text; its two effects can be used on separate turns (verified, inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 60 | Typically run at one copy, with no garnet or self-lock, but it needs a Level 8+ Fiend Fusion on field to negate, which is a mild restriction (verified, inferred). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Removal/Negation + 0.3 Board breaker. Intrinsic ≈ 47, Deck ≈ 50, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Two effects that act on opponent monsters, one of which can negate a monster effect
- Low deck cost: typically one copy, no garnet, no self-lock
- Live across 18 archetypes in the sample, so it is portable between homes
Weaknesses
- Negation needs a 0-ATK/DEF target and a Level 8+ Fiend Fusion on field
- No search, draw, or board presence of its own
- Destruction effect needs 0-ATK monsters to battle each other
Counters / choke points
- Removal of face-up Spell/Trap cards (inferred from Continuous Spell status)
- Opponent monster effects that are not 0 ATK or DEF, which fall outside the negation condition
Best use
Situational negation and conditional removal in Branded-style decks that already run a Level 8+ Fiend Fusion. Decks: Branded. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: negation gated by 0 ATK/DEF target and Level 8+ Fiend Fusion; destruction gated by 0-ATK battle; each effect once per turn; Spell card, not a monster; cannot be material; Appears in 64 of the sampled decks
- Observed: Average 1.19 copies per deck, max 3; Appears in 2 of 2 recorded combos; zero starter, searched, material, or payoff tags
- Inferred: Conditions are narrow enough that the negation is situational rather than reliable; Deck presence reflects generic Branded support rather than intrinsic strength
- Data gaps: no guides supplied no banlist token; assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no usage statistics (StatisticsCard); inclusion inferred from the deck sample only combo combo role is empty, so the card's role in recorded boards is unknown no official rulings supplied for interactions with the Level 8+ Fiend Fusion condition