Card Tips:Branch!

"Branch!":

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• This card can be searched by "Rogue of Endymion", "Watch Cat", "Watch Dog", "The Despair Uranus", and other generic searchers.

• This card is good for a Deck that uses several Fusion Monsters -- e.g. a "HERO" Deck.

• While either two copies of this card, or this card and "Centrifugal Field" are in play, 2 Fusion Materials (which usually means all of them) of each of your Fusion Monsters that get destroyed can be Summoned.

• If there is a plan on using either this card or "Centrifugal Field" but not both, consider the differences in their effects. "Centrifugal Field" only works when the Fusion Monster is destroyed by an effect, while this card also works with destruction in battle. Also...
  • "Branch!" can revive any monster used as Fusion Material for that Fusion Monster. This can revive Fusion Substitute Monsters and monsters that aren't specifically named, which "Centrifugal Field" cannot do.
  • "Centrifugal Field" can revive any Fusion Material written in the destroyed card's text. Unlike the effect of "Branch!", this works even if the Fusion Monster was not Fusion Summoned.

• Getting a monster back is very helpful in cases where that monster can be used in a Fusion Summon to get it out of the way -- e.g. to defy cards such as "Ekibyo Drakmord" or "Nightmare Wheel". When your monster comes back, the opponent's card will be gone.

• With 2 copies of this card, destroying "Ultimate Ancient Gear Golem" with "Ancient Gear Explosive" will Summon the 3 "Ancient Gear" monsters that was fused to Summon it in addition to the damage that "Explosive" deals on its own.

• This card is very helpful for reviving monsters that wouldn't be within reach for most other revival cards. High-class Fusion Materials include:
  • The Dragon Synchro Monster for "Dragon Knight Draco-Equiste". (Be sure to properly Synchro Summon that monster first.)
  • The Warrior monster for "Dragon Knight Draco-Equiste" or "UFOroid Fighter".
  • "Ojama King" for "Ojama Knight".
  • Any of the above is a handy revival if the Fusion Summon is conducted more than once.

• This card works well with "Fusion Recovery", providing that there is more than one copy of the Fusion Monster in your Extra Deck.