Notes & Combos

All gas or nothing baby, by far the most fun version of the deck for me.

Plays through almost anything aside from a handful of floodgates in the ladder, but almost nobody is playing stun decks at the moment outside of Floo. Since we're not on handtraps we have room for pivot points like hard poly with Albaz to not die to 1 Ash, plussing massively with Allure+Mercourier, or opening with an Ecclesia to break boards. As far as the matchups:

Near 100% winrate in the mirror, if they're Branded and on handtraps they're almost never beating this.

Beats through the Swordsoul Chixiao+Baronne+Blackout board laughably easily, even Protos isn't a huge problem because Quaeritis is a light and you can set up to BiR them next turn anyway in many cases.

Floo is the only problematic regular matchup, it's a go 1st or draw Droplet situation against them. Probably the main reason to ever put HTs in Branded right now, but even then they'll dodge Ashes/Imperm/Maxx C anyway.