Marie Oracle Ken v0.1

Salem 20

Principle

5 comments
22 May 2015 Elstyr

Check out my version of this deck for more inspiration ;-)

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22 May 2015 Salem

@Elstyr : I checked your deck to make mine. I took the ZU.13 Key Master from your deck instead of Gordian Blade. Theophilius Bagbiter in your deck is a good fun dared idea ! I like it but I will never know how to play it.

23 May 2015 rumirumirumirumi

I think you can free up some influence going down to 2 Deja Vus. The likelihood that your breakers get trashed from Oracle May is pretty low vs. the likelihood that you'll get Special Orders instead. Upgrading Zu.13 to Gordian will make your mid-to-late game efficiency much better.

Early Bird is a card you might think about cutting for more Account Siphons. Even with Ken's free run credit you don't have much that synerizes with it (no Doppelganager, no Notoriety or Quest Completed). It's a free click that you can use on a run but that you have to use first click which means you can't get your May money before the run. Lawyer Up is also a card you might want to cut. It's not great for extra draw and you're not going to be getting AS and LU in your hand at the same time often enough to use it to clear tags. If you're worried about the Corp tagging you, you're either better off clearing it normally or running Paper Tripping to clear out Midseason Tags. Feinting for Emergency Shutdown can help save you some money on an HQ run, but I think you'd be better off getting the access than saving money.

Scrubber is an interesting choice, and could definitely help save money in the long term against asset spam. I think this deck is good enough at making money that it becomes a meta-call.

23 May 2015 rumirumirumirumi

Also, in the previous deck there was some conversation about why Express Delivery would fit well with Oracle May. Oracle may isn't strong draw power but rather more efficient draw (spending a click to not only draw bu also gain 2 credits). There are many cases where you want to have more options during the turn or in the next few turns, and clicking to draw after the Oracle May draw isn't very effective use of your clicks. Express Delivery allows you to get more options when you need them without drawing extra cards that you'll wqant to use later but have to trash and without spending influence for card draw. Express Delivery is also very useful to have in an opening hand when you don't have Hostage or Oracle May in your opening hand (something that will happen 39% of the time) so that you can look for these cards faster to get your rig set up. It also has the advantage of letting you skim out breakers and Scrubber instead of risking an Oracle May misfire (that's more important for decks with more non-event cards than yours but still an advantage worth considering). Compared to Laywer Up which takes more time and money and has a lower chance of seeing a specific card you're trying to draw (as opposed to drawing multiple cards) Express Delivery is a better choice in my opinion.

26 May 2015 Salem

@rumirumirumirumi : Thank you for you review.

Your point of view about Express Delivery, Paper Tripping and Lawyer Up convinced me.

I think Account Siphon is always better than Early Bird.

You can check the new version here : Marie) Oracle May v0.2