Notes & Combos

The Gimmick Puppet is essentially an FTK in this meta. If you do not end the game it can be constantly recycled every turn. If you shotgun explusion during the draw phase to play around kaijus it's borderline unstoppable. It counters evenly matched, which is the most popular going 2nd card of this meta.

The Tearlament package is honestly pretty underwhelming in this deck. The goal of the deck is not to resolve tear effects, but in this meta it feels more consistent than the Edge Imp package. It also helps bait out shufflers for your more impactful Branded cards.

Explusion is a underrated card even without using the Gimmick lock, Albaz fuse on the oppenants turn or even an Aluber search on their turn has been extremely useful for follow up. Can even use in conjuction with the Gimmick lock for more engine to finish on turn 3.

The deck has enough engine to play through multiple interuptions, but you will run into unbreakable boards going 2nd.

Big thing about explusion is that it can also pull from the banish pile. If you want to play around called by the grave you want to get your explusion targets into the banish pile. Albion, gold sarc, and BiR are all good ways to get your targets into the banish pile. Dumping Retribution can recycle your explusion, and Kitt can also retreive it from the graveyard.

Even without explusion plays, this deck is still branded, and it's still full of gas and can win matchs on it's own.