Design of Rush - Moscow GNK winner

igrekk 1002

The deck went 2-2 through the day with one very close lose and another very stupid (ABTed Mother of Goddess and tempted to rush behind it). This deck has pretty good match-up vs Papa Smurf and very dependent on good start vs Hate Bear.

Strategy is pretty straightforward. You rush out agendas in a single remote with support of Interns for Caprice or NEXT ice that being trashed.

Why NEXT Design? Well, if you have good start with 3 ICEs it means that you are 6 clicks ahead than ETF. It means a lot.

With 21 ice there is 36% chance to have 3 ICEs at start and 60% after mulligan. So ALWAYS mulligan hand with only one ICE and probably keep good hand with two.

Committee is here to enable FA options, but you shouldn't hesitate to use SfSS just for econ.

I prefer to ALWAYS over-advance Vitruvius and it does a lot of work later and enables ABT.

Yes there is no Jackson and i don't miss him. If at some point you feel that you need one - probably your doing it wrong.

Arcology AI is a tech slot replaced SanSan City Grid in earlier versions. I feel that it is good Win/Win "trap" that forces runner to run or punish hard if he doesn't. Possible replacements: Cyberdex Virus Suite, Domestic Sleepers or Biotic Labor.

2 comments
27 Nov 2016 FightingWalloon

Congratulations. I have a similar list that I've been working with recently. I dropped Jackson, too. The one issue I've had is that without Jackson I am screwed if a runner gets remote lock on. That said, I agree that the deck is trying to run forward as fast as possible. Stopping to do Jackson games is working against the deck's purpose. That said, I'm only about 50% win rate with it.

27 Nov 2016 igrekk

@FightingWalloon Thank you. When runner comes to late game and lock remote I think it's the time where Caprice and Arcology AI shines. Both of them force runs which drian runners credit pool. It's probaply good move to Interns for Arcology AI and advance to force a run or Caprice and install agenda. Or you can use Interns to install another taxing ICE on remote (probably Silver that was trashed) and start feeding agendas from remote counting runner will starve for money and open scoring window.