Titan Fast Advance - 1st Place CanCon Store Champs

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Gizmaluke 216

I took this deck to the CanCon Store Champs with good stuff Andy and came away with a win. Went 2-2 with it in Swiss with one loss coming from too much faith in R&D's resilience to Keyhole and the other with neither runner nor corp seeing an agenda for ~12-15 turns. It went 2-0 in the cut against two Şifr Whizzards with final being a rematch of final swiss round runner split.

The deck is pretty heavily teched against Anarch and has done fairly well in those matchups. That's pretty much all I've played it against in this tournament as well as a GNK (4-0 swiss, 0-1 cut) the previous week. Testing on jinteki.net was pretty similar. The core strategy would be the same in a more diverse meta but the ICE suite and some of the operations would change.

The game plan is to get onto the Atlas Train as quickly as possible and ride it home. Fast Advance for the Project Atlas comes from IA Trick of Light with two counters from whatever suits best at the time. Depending on the matchup, sometimes that should be an unrezzed ICE that isn't vulnerable to Parasite. Usually those counters are being farmed and neatly distributed by Anson Rose.

I went with Magnet over Lotus Field because I need to protect ICE with counters and RnD Macrophage which can be tough to deal with for many runners. Put it as the outer ICE when Parasite looks likely and time the rez. Sacrifice it to Spooned if need be.

Could write a lot more but will cut it here for brevity. Happy to answer any questions and hear any ideas. As always, the list is a work in progress.

17 comments
30 Jan 2017 I_AM_G:\ROOT

Our keyhole game was still very close. This deck is solid.

30 Jan 2017 percomis

So do you try to create a remote at all (to score or to protect Anson Rose) or do you just protect centrals and score out of hand?

30 Jan 2017 Gizmaluke

@Mr_Console you had a fun Val build. Wish I got to see more haha.

@percomis an early never advance score is huge as in most FA decks. One of my winning games was turn 1 Ice Wall, Magnet, Project Atlas. Turn 2 safe score. Early Oaktown Renovation is common enough. Once you're on 2 points you have leeway and plenty of low cred burst econ options. Then the remote is typically for Anson and/or counters. TLDR: early game yes, mid game on no.

30 Jan 2017 I_AM_G:\ROOT

@Gizmaluke would you consider swapping GRNDL Refinery for Surat City Grid so when they run the anson server you can move the counters to ice somewhere else?

30 Jan 2017 Gizmaluke

GRNDL Refinery helps dig you out of financial holes. If you have that and Dedication Ceremony in hand you can go from 1 to 12 credits in a turn. It also functions as Val Blackmail bait that nets you 6/14 credits the following turn if it becomes a failed ruse.

Anson Rose functions mostly as an economy card. Advancing anything is costly in clicks and credits. With him you break even on rez and he's FA ready on the following turn. 4 to trash is decent vs everyone but Whizz. If you lose counters on him, that sucks. But hopefully you made the runner pay to get him. Those lost resources mean less central access' for them.

I feel like the switch to Surat City Grid would stress your econ a fair bit in order to shift your strategy to stronger ICE for a late game win - which is not the corps strong spot.

30 Jan 2017 Gizmaluke

@percomis Just re-read my comment to you. Should make it clear that I was fairly sure my opponent was on Dumble Zero due to the previous GNK. As always, move fast and trust your gear checks - but Account Siphon threat would preclude that play against many runner ID's :)

1 Feb 2017 Namepls

I finally decided to bite the bullet and play a 'proper' competitive deck in Dumble Zero at CanCon. Then I played against this. When the first Trick of Light was played I knew Whizz and Faust were going back in the box. Nice deck, always a please to be crushed by Weyland.

1 Feb 2017 Saan

I'm surprised about the agenda spread, specifically the Chronos Project. I would think that in a rush deck most games wouldn't go long enough for it to matter much. That plus the super light economy would make me want to go -1 Chronos -1 Food, +1 Oaktown +1 Corporate Sales Team. That also gets you another influence that you could use for a second Targeted, If you thought it'd be better than the Scarcity.

Thoughts?

1 Feb 2017 Gizmaluke

@Namepls They were fun games. Your Jinteki deck had me sweating bullets! haha

@Saan The agenda suite has been in a bit of flux. Your suggestion is actually what I had in mid-Jan before I was totally blown out by Sifr Whizz and changed ~10 cards. The Chronos was relevant in a Maxx game at the GNK but hasn't seen plays since. I'm not sure I'm seeing enough Dumble or Maxx to warrant its inclusion - despite how nice it felt to FA it from mid-RnD that game haha.

TarMar is super relevant in Crim and Anarch matchups and I do miss the second copy. If the agendas don't change before this next SC I'm considering going -1 JH -1 Scarcity +1 Preemptive +1 TarMar. It would suck to lose the draw but keeping key pieces high probability off top of RnD is what counts.

3 Feb 2017 NoahTheDuke

How much work does [[Changeling]] give you? Seems like the weakest of the ICE.

4 Feb 2017 Leemanbrah

Love this deck, great work!

5 Feb 2017 PaxCecilia

This is astonishingly similar to a deck a local player brings out, key difference being Code Gate vs. Sentry ice. I will have to link him this!

5 Feb 2017 Gizmaluke

@NoahTheDuke I've changed both of them for Veritas for some testing. They were certainly the weakest in the deck. It was nice having Sentry ETR, but I'm enjoying the change so far. I feel like I need them to be low-mid rez cost, zero inf sentries but would be interested to hear your thoughts.

Thanks @Leemanbrah!

@PaxCecilia Great minds I hope haha. Would be keen to see their list too.

6 Feb 2017 Segin

Hey! Congratulations on your win!

I have a few questions though. How do you feel about this deck against Aaron Marron? Or against sifr whizzard builds that run street peddler and clone chips for instant recursion?

6 Feb 2017 Gizmaluke

@Ginseng Thanks :) I feel about the same as any other corp haha. For Aaron Marrón it's hard to put in a hate card that wouldn't dilute the core game plan. By using Targeted Marketing on Account Siphon and putting Crisium Grid on HQ you indirectly counter one of his strongest combinations - reducing him to a draw engine.

Insta-Parasite with Şifr also lacks direct counter play options. Naming Parasite with Targeted Marketing can keep them off it long enough to count. Also, remember that installing Şifr is a huge tempo hit - try to get a few points out behind double ETR ICE fast.

I recorded a couple of games the other night that go through some of these decisions that I'll put up shortly. I'm just a total editing noob.

6 Feb 2017 Segin

Fast response!

Haha thanks for confirming my suspicions. I also tested multiple variations of hate cards, but like all card games, you never seem to get them when it really matters!

I am currently considering triple crisium grid just to make sure I draw it by the time Aaron Marron gets counters hahahaha.

12 Feb 2017 Gizmaluke

Vid of a couple of games can be found at the below link. Few whisky's in so a little error prone and slow but shows how it all fits together. Second match at 28 mins is a more typical game.

List at this point had:

-1 Chronos Project -1 Global Food Initiative -1 Scarcity of Resources -2 Changeling

+1 Oaktown Renovation +1 Corporate Sales Team +1 Targeted Marketing +2 Veritas

Link:

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