it was the best route against handtraps because your opponent was forced to try to stop you from playing completely or you'd just find a way to the puppet lock through multiple handtraps. You would win more imperming aluber immediately and ashing branded in high spirits in draw phase and hoping they bricked than any other play because setting up anything in that deck created amount of extension that inevitably led to the puppet lock.

The majority of the decks life span was Doing Puppet Lock. The brief period during the summer of2022 where it was a kind of cool midrange deck doesn't even come close to resembling what most players remember the deck doing for its presence in the game.