Liiga Smilshkalne Tribal

Humanoids 180

This is an incredibly fun and very good deck I've been playing for several weeks right now. It's proved to be very consistent and good, beating multiple noises, valencias and prepaid kates. It also placed 2nd in 'Kenyan Nationals'. The theme runs strong in this one and there are multiple paths to victory. You don't really need any money as scoring agendas is very cheap and scoring Astroscript already results in gaining 1 credit. Must be noted that this is not the final version, I am testing a deck with -1 Fenris +1 Lab dog because blowing up Desperados and R&D interfaces and, obviously, Power Taps is very worth it.

16 comments
26 Oct 2015 gumonshoe

I lost to this the other day on jinteki.net. I would have rage quit, but its so beautiful.

The biotic is so clutch.

26 Oct 2015 Humanoids

I went undefeated with this deck during the Nationals, losing only in the finals to an Exile which assembled his combo early on and wrecked my servers. I can only warn you, don't play this deck if your meta is full of Exiles. @gumonshoe I'd have cut Biotic for something else but couldn't find a worthy replacement. It also helps you when scoring that NAPD Contract out of hand on a SanSan City Grid.

26 Oct 2015 RJayz

@Humanoids: Have you considered Caprice Nisei? There's no way any Runner can afford to pay through that fearsome ICE package multiple times, and you can easily afford the PSI games.

26 Oct 2015 GrantZilla1979

I love Komainu out of faction.

26 Oct 2015 pleaix

what the ef is going on here o.O

26 Oct 2015 Kelfecil

I want to understand this, but I will definitely need some explaining if that is to happen. What's the general plan here?

26 Oct 2015 mendax

Playing this deck is like a waltz - so much going on but it all comes together nicely.

27 Oct 2015 jumping_down

@Kelfecil this deck is like a curveball, you can't beat it because you don't know how to play against it. Incredibly fun to play with and against, excellent work on the deck @Humanoids

27 Oct 2015 Krams

I don't get it. How do you pay for rezzing those ICE? 4 is not exactly a cheapp ICE. How do you pay for SanSan or Biotic? I don't see any eco except the standard 3-of Hedge Fund and Sweeps Week.

How do you punish tags if your ICE are tagging the runner? Except for Quantum of course, but is that enough?

How do you lay the ICE? Are you stacking them like a glacier? I guess you'll have to, because you don't have anything to go horizontal behind them...

I really want to try out the deck and see for myself, but I just would be as baffled as the runner. I know the "trick" of laying out a quantum behind a single Raven, but other than that I don't get what I'm supposed to do playing this deck.

27 Oct 2015 Humanoids

@Kelfecil @Krams You put annoying ice on centrals, like Gutenberg, Komainu, Data Raven, Lab Dog, Pop-Up, Pup. In your scoring remote you have stopping ice, like Goddess, Fenris, Enigma, Uroboros but on top of them you put nasty ice, like Grim, Komainu, Archangel. You do click for credits a lot but that's kind of how it works. Also, your centrals are somewhat safe. On tag punishment - this deck obviously scores QPMs if the runner is tagged but it also can seem like it's a kill deck or psychographics deck if they haven't seen all of your cards.

27 Oct 2015 AsteriskCGY

Hell a single Psychographics would probably do wonders.

27 Oct 2015 AsteriskCGY

Also feel like this can function well in Haarpsichord.

28 Oct 2015 mendax

This deck has to be played out of NEH because there's so many assets to synergise with the ID.

28 Oct 2015 Humanoids

Also, sometimes if you need to draw, you jam your leftover ICE in new servers to draw new cards. A favourite move of mine is intalling Komainu, then saying "Oh, crap!", then waiting for the opponent to offer opportunity to take it back, then saying that it's fine. They'll run that server next turn. Guaranteed!

30 Oct 2015 ANRguybrush

They'll run that server next turn.

why would they? Sec testing?

31 Oct 2015 Humanoids

To gain valuable information. That must've been an important piece of ice you just placed down, maybe even revealing information on your influence spread.