How to face Verdant Leaf

[burningironbutterfly]

I tried looking online for what difficulty I need to pick to face Verdant Leaf because of its difficulty, but I cant find which selection allows me to face it.

[A bear]

You can either sell a joker to make all your cards work again, or if you are feeling strong, ignore the debuff and just rely on jokers and planet levels to carry you.

[Mel Gibson]

Have you read somewhere that some boss blinds only appear at specific difficulties/stakes? Because I don't think that is the case, I think they all appear in any stake.
Note, though, that Verdant Leaf is one of those final boss blinds, so it only appears at ante 8.

[Tommy]

Like bear says, Leaf is easily countered by just selling a Joker. Usually when I get to Ante 8, I've got at least 1 joker I know I can shave off without much hassle, usually one of the economy jokers. Or, once you get to 8 and see Leaf, buy a crap joker from one of the shops and sell it off at Leaf

[Ronald Brain]

All bosses appear on all Stakes, same applies to Finisher Blind boss.

There are a few ways to counter Verdant Leaf:
-Focus your build on Joker and Planet. Card enhancement / editions are vulnerable to bosses that debuff suit / face cards, and of course Verdant Leaf.
-Take Director's Cut / Retcon if you can, so you can reroll out of VL if necessary.
-Chicot and Luchador can disable boss blind, but you need a spare Joker slot for them.
-Look for an early Negative tag and hope it's not Eternal (Black Stake+). Even if you don't need it, having a spare Joker is always beneficial (increase Temprance value, increase Abstract / Swashbuckler value), and if you stumble into Verdant Leaf, sell it.