Notes & Combos

You may be wondering what the **** branded fusion is doing in punk, well let me explain, for ages I have been trying to find a 1c punk line that can increase the deck's ceiling without losing access to sharakusai and a level 8 on the endboard while also not adding a metric ton of bricks and I've always came up short. In one fell swoop verte comes in to address every one of these issues and more! Shoutout to @lynx9262 for stumbling upon this synergy and sharing it with us, following regular 1c punk combo where you'd end on sharak drive madame, you simply link off drive and madame for verte, sending branded fusion for mirrorjade, just like that you've successfully added another 2 interruptions(mj banish and rindbrum send revive albaz) to the standard punk endboard at the mere cost of 2k life and 1 brick. That's right, a singular brick! In this deck branded fusion in the hand can actually be another combo piece since you can simply activate it to summon sanctifire and still do partial punk combos with rising carp being a fusion. Now this may be the main use for verte but the usefuness doesn't end there, the simple existence of verte as a plab B with huge surprise factor affords the deck all new ways to combo with previously dead hands and through previously turn ending handtraps and disruptions. For example, now any hand containing 2 of the non starter punk monsters like wagon and madame can actually end on something significact since you can go: normal wagon, add session, link into almiraj, activate session summon madame, search gabu draw and make verte. Another example, nibiru. Previously most opponents would nib on carp resolution since it can deny the most advantage possible and it's the first available opportunity to nib, normally here we'd just deer revive wagon search session and pray we have something to extend past that or cry about it but here nothing stops us from simply using the nib token for link spider and say it with me now, MAKE VERTE! Another great way verte helps us is by enabling droll to be an incredible maxx c counter, dragite sharak pass was serviceable in the past but not nearly as good as sharak mirrorjade. Lastly, couple deck considerations: snow which can be sent for sanct but I felt it wasn't worth the brick and wheeleder to slightly increase consistency but I didn't feel like I really needed it over just more handtraps. Punk enjoyers owe it to themselves to try this while we wait for goblins.(ps this also works with gold pride!)