Pure Despia Deck List & Card Guide

Play for the long game in Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel with this powerful Pure Despia Control Deck. We've got the full deck list breakdown, combos, and more!

Despia Deck Lists
Despia Darklord	Despian Predaplant
Pure Despia	Budget Despia
Branded Despia	－

Pure Despia Deck List

Main Deck: 40 cards
x1	x3	x3	x3	x3
x3	x3	x1	x1	x1
x1	x3	x3	x1	x3
x1	x3	x3	-	-
Extra Deck: 15 cards
x2	x2	x1	x1	x2
x3	x1	x1	x1	x1

Pure Despia Deck Breakdown

Pure Despia Deck Cost

300	240	540	570

Pure Despia Deck Guide: How to Play

This deck isn't designed for OTKs or FTKs. It's designed to play the long game, giving you access to a lot of monsters to Fusion Summon your Level 8 Fusion Monsters eventually winning you the game.

And if you're in dire need of heavy hitting monsters, you always have the Number 97: Draglubion that can Special Summon Number 100: Numeron Dragon with Number 38: Hope Harbinger Dragon Titanic Galaxy attached to it as material, effectively giving you a 9000ATK monster.

Plus, with the use of Fallen of Albaz, you can quickly perform a Fusion Summon at the cost of any card in your hand using Fallen of Albaz and a monster on your opponent's field.

Basic Combo

Required Cards
Step	Description
①	Branded Opening → Send Despian Tragedy to GY & Special Summon Aluber the Jester of Despia, activating it's effect to add Despia, Theater of the Branded to the hand
②	Activate Despian Tragedy Effect → Search for Dramaturge of Despia and add to Hand.
③	Set Despia, Theater of the Branded and activate its effect → Fusion Summon Despian Quaeritis using Aluber the Jester of Despia on the field and Dramaturge of Despia in the hand → Activate Dramaturge of Despia's effect, changing the ATK of all monsters currently on the field except Level 8 Fusion Monsters to 0.
④	Activate Dramaturge of Despia in GY → Special Summon to Field.
⑤	Xyz Summon Number 97: Draglubion using Despian Quaeritis and Dramaturge of Despia
⑥	Detach 1 Material from Number 97: Draglubion → Special Summon Number 100: Numeron Dragon and attach **Number 38: Hope Harbinger Dragon Titanic Galaxy" to it.
⑦	Detach 1 Material from Number 100: Numeron Dragon → Attack your Opponent

This is technically a OTK combo starting with just a Branded Opening and Despian Tragedy in your hand.

But stopping at Step 4, having both the Despian Quaeritis and Dramaturge of Despia on the field can offer you more flexibility, while giving you two interruptions.

With Dramaturge of Despia you can effectively use it similar to how you'd use an Infinite Impermanence negating the effects of one Effect Monster on the field for the rest of the turn.

If your Despian Quaeritis leaves the field, you can add another Despia Monster to your hand, giving you another material to Fusion Summon another copy next turn. Additionally, If it's destroyed by battle, or leaves the field due to a card effect, you can activate the Aluber the Jester of Despia in the GY to Special Summon itself onto the field giving you more options moving forward.

Pure Despia Counters: How to Beat

Deck Counters

Control Decks

The key to beating Despia Decks is to limit and disrupt the flow of summons.

Going with a deck similar to the Drytron Fairy Control Deck that can control the flow of the Duel may turn things to your favor!

Drytron Fairy Deck List and Card Guide

Best Cards to Tech Against Pure Despia

	Contact "C"
	Contact "C" pretty much locks your opponent's Despia Deck by stopping them from Fusion Summoning, unless they use it as Fusion Material.
	PSY-Framegear Gamma
	A hand trap that can be used to negate the effects of your opponent's Despia Deck especially when used against cards like Aluber the Jester of Despia which is often the start of Despia Combos.
	Prohibition
	Naming cards like Despia, Theater of the Branded or Fallen of Albaz can quickly stop your opponent from Fusion Summoning.
	Effect Veiler
	Another hand trap like PSY-Framegear Gamma that can be used against cards like Aluber the Jester of Despia.
	Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring
	This card can be quickly used to cancel specific effects that are at the core of Despia decks by discarding this card.

Limit Summons

This Despia Deck relies on Fusion Summoning strong monsters quickly to deal big damages early in the game.

Using a combination of spells and traps to stop those summons from happening will quickly put the duel in your favor.

Pure Despia Related Packs

Packs
Ruler's Mask	Number Recall
Nebula Cyclone	Master Pack

You can get most if not all the key cards for this deck from the Ruler's Mask Selection Pack, while the Xyz Monsters can be found in both the Number Recall and Nebula Cyclone Secret Packs.

And all these cards are available via the Master Pack as well.

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List of All Covered Decks

Aggro Decks

List of All Aggro Decks
D/D/D Aggro	Code Talker / Prank Kids	Zoodiac
Blue-Eyes	Virtual World	SPYRAL Control
Toon Kingdom	Red-Eyes	Blue-Eyes
Zoodiac	Prank-Kids	Zoodiac Tri-Brigade
Pure Tri-Brigade	Ancient Gear	Dragonmaid
Tri-Brigade Lyrilusc (Bird Up)	Dinosaur	Raidraptor
HERO	Dragon Link	Despia
Magikey	Adamancipator	Black Luster Soldier
Pendulum Magician	Stardust Dragon	Tenyi Swordsoul
Cyberdark	@Ignister	Cyber Dragon
The Winged Dragon of Ra	Despian Predaplant	Despia Darklord
Odd-Eyes Performapal	Numeron FTK	Six Samurai
ABC	Trickstar Windwitch	Blackwings
Fluffal	Cupid Pitch Turbo	Lunalight
Vampire	Ultra Athletes	Thunder Dragon
Z-ARC Pendulum Magician	Adventurer Rose Dragon Tenyi	Adventurer P.U.N.K.
Suship	Pure D/D/D	Numeron Egyptian Gods
Galaxy Eyes OTK	Borrelend Dragon Link	Vaylantz
Beetrooper	Icejade Ra	Therion ABC
Libromancer	Mathmech	Spright Evil☆Twin
Spright Tri-Brigade	Ishizu Chaos	Slifer Arcana Knights
Gaia OTK	Vernusylph	Ancient Warriors
Ghoti	Springans	8-Axis Gizmek Orochi
Danger! Dark World	Mikanko	Scareclaw Kashtira
Zombie World P.U.N.K.	Hungry Burger Nouvelles	Obelisk the Tormentor
Mannadium	Gate Guardian	Gold Pride P.U.N.K.
Superheavy Samurai	Nemleria	Dragon Rulers
Snake-Eye	T.G. Diabellstar	Skull Servant
Kaiju	Resonators	Earthbound
Malefic	Kozmo	Armored Xyz Shark
Unchained	Battlin' Boxer	Chimera Illusion

Control Decks

List of All Control Decks
Invoked Shaddoll	Eldlich Control	Drytron Fairy
True Draco	Dark Magician	Traptrix
Phantom Knights	Madolche	Relinquished
P.U.N.K.	DPE Scythe	Evil★Twin
Paleozoic Frog	Salamangreat	Gravekeepers
Monarch	Tellarknight	Agent
Exosisters	Darklord	Plunder Patrol
Rikka	Floowandereeze	Adventurer Phantom Knights
Dinomoprhia	Tri-Brigade Gladiator Beast	Adventurer Witchcrafter
Dark Magician Gravekeeper	Branded Tri-Brigade	Branded Despia
Zombie Vampire	Blue-Eyes Jet Dragon	Spellbook
Branded Cyber Dragon	Branded Zombies	Pure Scareclaw
Dinomorphia	Runick	Labrynth
Harpies	Buster Blader	Umi Control
Endymion	Nekroz	Spright
Spright Runick	Ishizu Runick	Branded Ishizu
Crystal Beasts	Orcust	Altergeist
Witchcrafter	Subterror Krawler	Mayakashi
Ishizu Tearlaments	Evilswarm	Melffy Spright
Bystial Branded	Dogmatika Bystial	Naturia Runick
Generaiders	Kashtira	Purrely
Ninja	Rescue-ACE	Gishki Spright
Prediction Princess	Vanquish Soul	Jinzo
Egyptian God	Ojama Control	Aromage
Ghostrick	Kuriboh	Anti-Meta Stun
Runick Spright Fur Hire

Burn Decks

List of All Burn Decks
Red-Eyes Burn	Timelord Burn	Chain Burn
D.D. Dynamite	Igknight OTK	Cubic
Dinosaur Bishbaalkin FTK	Volcanic Snake-Eyes	Transaction Rollback Burn

Alt-Win Decks

List of All Alternate Win Decks
Crooked Cook Exodia	Flower Cardian Exodia	Treasure Panda Exodia
Suicide	Defense OTK

All Budget Decks

List of All Budget Deck Guides
Budget Shark Xyz	Budget Eldlich	Budget Hippo Turbo
Budget Despia	Budget F.A. Metalfoes	Budget Blue-Eyes White Dragon
Budget Chain Burn	Budget Majespecter	Budget Yosenju
Budget Flower Cardian	Budget True Draco	Budget Amorphage
Budget Ishizu Tearlaments

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Lists of Best Cards for Deck Building
Best Staple Cards		Best Searchers		Best Hand Traps
Best Board Wipes		Best Negates		Best Fusion Monsters
Best Synchro Monsters		Best Xyz Monsters		Best Link Monsters
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