ZATO's Construction Company
PreNic 338
Hi, you are entering the jank zone.
Since I have started playing I was always in love with the idea of a mono-sentry deck, for example like this one.
I am also a fan of rig shooting even if we live in times where there is plenty of recursion on the runner's side, so it is probably a bad idea.
Anyhow, I just play for fun and to experiment decks, so this is what I have been testing for a while.
Mono Sentry deck with Descentincluded as an early EtR ICE that can reshuffle agendas if required. Swordsman is here because of AI is really bad for rigshooting. The rest of the ICEs have all the possibility of trashing a program and they can be trashed for ZATO to shoot the killer of the runner.
You usually want to have Stavka on the outside on the remote with ZATO in the root. You trash Stavka to shoot the killer and then you have Rototurret or Ballista behind to EtR.
In case you have SDS Drone Deployment on your remote, ZATO can also prevent the runner from stealing it since you can trash one program per ICE (as a desperate move :D).
Public Trail and Retribution will help to get rid of killers. Public Trail alone is also useful to trash Tsakhia "Bankhar" Gantulga or other nasty resources.
- Why not The Outfit: Family Owned and Operated instead of Weyland Consortium: Built to Last? Because I like running a 40 cards deck and even with BtL you are printing money (thanks Charlotte).
- Isn't the deck suffering Pinhole Threading a lot? Yes, but this is some funny jank.
- No Rashida? My heart is for Charlotte
- No Spin Doctor? I was playing it but the whole deck is quite redundant in terms of cards, so most of the time I only feel the need to reshuffle agendas and I feel Descent is enough for that (plus, it is a code gate).
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10 Sep 2024
DumbleJum
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12 Sep 2024
Kharack
As a firm glacier "I want you out and I want you out semi-permanently" I love this idea. I do hate that ZATO is remote only but with so many runners shifting to stuff like revolver taxing sentries is hilarious. Have you considered putting in some border controls? Putting in a border control or two to slap on archives to blow up a pinhole would be quite funny. My other question would be why not archer in the deck? You've got hostiles and archer would be very punishing on centrals if they decide to ignore the remote to dodge the ZATO. |
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14 Sep 2024
PreNic
I was not considering Border Control because I wanted to go with mono-sentry as much as possible. For sure Pinhole is quite a pain and Border Control could help. Anyway, you should also consider that they could still run R&D or HQ with the Pinhole, so I don't think it would solve the issue completely. I did not want Archer here because the scoring pattern is often a couple of Hostile, a SDS and a Regulatory. While Archer can be annoying, Trebuchet is still expensive if broken in a fair way, and I prefer to avoid losing an agenda. It is very difficult to keep the runner outside your servers forever, I see the rigshooting as a tempo hit and then I don't want to lose tempo as well by giving up an agenda. |
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20 Sep 2024
Kharack
That's fair, if they run R&D or HQ that's a more expensive pinhole which hopefully makes them eventually get hit but it's fair. Having played it more I can understand the lack of archer a bit more, I got a fair number of games with 3 takeovers and 2 regulators, though I did get a bit too BP happy in one game and even a trebuchet was getting on the cheap side (lots of derezzing my ice that game, quite rude or the runner) |
WOW this card is so creative fnaf 1