Crescent Moon

primeape 143

Quetzal and Darwin deck, that tries to give options for both short and long games. In short games, you attack aggressively with early disruption like, imp, knight, and Q's ability. For longer games you want to rig build and get out the recurring credits for Darwin.

I've played with it in a local tournament, went 3-1, however it's still very much a work in progress. I added a few things for blue sun, the crescentus and then utopia shard instead of plascrete. A few notes on card choices:

  • Duggars vs. Inject: Both seem good, I found I like duggars better here as sometimes a card you really need is at the bottom of your deck, and Duggars puts it within reach. However it comes at cost of 3 inf and 2 other deck slots since I think you need levy and sot to use it this way without extra hand size.
  • No datasuckers, I piloted a noise version of this for a long time, but I was finding increasingly that the suckers were really just a mill so they didn't make it in.
  • Déjà vu vs Clone chip: I used to have inf room for clone chip but with E3 something had to go. I miss the clone chip though.
  • Missing cheap breakers, e.g. Mimic or corroder. I'm thinking of adding in 1 of each, with all the digging you can find them, but really you would just hope you draw them when they would be useful. Tsurugi is so painful to break if you don't have E3 out yet. I tried Cujo, but he is too expensive, not quite the anarch faerie I was hoping for.

I really enjoy playing this deck, I find it makes for tense games a lot of the time, I'm sure there are more ways it could be improved, and am open to ideas or suggestions.

2 comments
21 Nov 2014 Bananifier

It seems like a fun deck to play!

I have a few questions :

  • What happens when you get purged? The corp gets a free scoring window, or do you always keep a knight in hand for that eventuality?
  • When playing with Darwin, Surge really helps. Do you feel like one is enough? I might even do -2 Queen's Gambit +2 Surge to have a full set.
  • How do you feel about using a Joshua with duggar's to have a precious click after using it? It can help a lot to install an Origami last click, but it would need a change in you economy :(
  • What's up with Utopia Shard?
21 Nov 2014 primeape

Thanks! Yes, I enjoy playing it, interesting questions,

  • yes, knight, or surge as you also mentioned are the two responses to a purge. After a purge you get a turn to respond so you can get Darwin back to 4 strength with surge, and you have D4vid for 5 plus. The bigger problem is usually economic scoring windows that get created if I overextend and spend too much money breaking in somewhere with Darwin.
  • Since the purge to create scoring window doesn't seem to happen too often, I cut back on surge, I think the very first build had 3, then I had 2, and when I added crescentus, I had to cut one more card slot and it was surge.
  • Neat idea! Maybe in a Ppvp Quetzal build? Duggars is kind of like a funky Mr. Li the way it's being used in this deck, it's definitely worth exploring ways to keep more of those cards.
  • Utopia shard and imp are how I deal with scorch decks. Try to imp or utopia shard the sea sources or scorches out of their hand. I added utopia shard in place of plascrete since I had 1 inf left over and against astrobiotics you can also use the shard to try and knock biotics or agendas out of their hand.