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This is an updated version of the Blue Sun Government Takeover deck I've been working on for the last few months, and which took 1st place after 6 rounds of swiss in the Uroboros cup in Birmingham.
It went 5-1 on the day, with wins against Hayley, Kate, Valencia, Reina and Andromeda, and one very close loss to Kate in the final round.
The recent changes I've made include:
Daily Business Show : It works really well by helping find your kill pieces and economy faster (runners often leave it there to avoid the 4 credit tax and successful run threat),
Adonis Campaign : Works really well in Blue Sun as you can bounce it and use it endlesly. and it gives the deck more money to keep up with the robust runner economies.
Executive Boot Camp : Helps search for Adonis, Jackson, DBS; whatever you need, and can help shutdown Blackmail in Valencia.
Snatch and Grab : Useful to kill Kati Jones and Professional Contacts which are seeing a lot of play these days, but it's a bit of a meta call so you could swap it for a 2nd EBC or a Crisium Grid, whatever you like.
Changeling : A strength 4 sentry can be very useful in certain situations, especially versus Kate where it'll often force an install of Atman at 4, which is pretty much useless against every other piece of ice in the deck. At worst it's still a strength 4 barrier which isn't bad!
That's all the main changes, the deck is a beast and even if you're experienced in playing against it it can still put you into unwinnable situations. I've been playing a variation of this deck for months competitively in Ireland and it's performed extremely strongly, despite pretty much everyone I play against knowing exactly what it does. It's placed 2nd in the Dublin Store Champs, won a GNK and come 4th at the Irish Regionals, and now won the Uroboros cup. I think it's a very strong build that has made a number of improvements over the original list and I'm really happy with it!
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1 Jun 2015
shanodin
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1 Jun 2015
Shulmey
Both myself and a friend ran decks EXTREMELY similar to this one on Saturday at the Rochester regional. We were first and third seed after swiss. Unfortunately, we had woken up at 4:30AM to drive there, so by the time elims rolled around, we were both making misplays all over the place. Snatch and Grab is genius and would have made my day MUCH easier I think. It never even entered my mind. The one include I had that I would almost call my MVC was 2 Capital Investors. I put it behind a tollbooth or curtain wall (or both), and then the runner either has to pay a ton to get in a trash it, or you can just stock up on credits. I started using it in place of Adonis, which freed up 2 influence, and I've been pretty happy with it. |
1 Jun 2015
ThisIsAz
Boom! Love the deck Nicole and your continued dedication to playing, refining and destroying faces with it! Good work on the win and consider this totally stolen for some OCTGN fun! :) Az |
1 Jun 2015
JimmyDeemo
Grats on the win. Was the Government Takeover ever a liability? Did you find that Daily Business Show was enough to filter it if needed?
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1 Jun 2015
NicoleyMoley
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1 Jun 2015
FarCryFromHuman
Two silly things: Turntable: I'm pretty sure this can't dodge the Punitive Counterstrike kill. You can swap it for a smaller agenda, but the agenda you actually stole is still worth 6. Also you are leaving " for 3" in the hands of the corp until you can steal another agenda and re-swap it for the win. I hope some of these plays happen in some game, somewhere, some day. Film Critic: Totally shuts down all Punitive plays, but also just straight up takes Government Takeover with no fuss. I don't think it will be heavily played, but this deck will want to kill that card with fire. Or Corporate Town. |
1 Jun 2015
NicoleyMoley
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2 Jun 2015
Kopiok
Have you tried Taurus? I've got it in mine and I have had really good success with it in destroying Plascretes. I have a remarkably similar list to you (and have also changed it up based on the discussions here!), but I slotted in 3x Snare! in the place of 1x Tollbooth (replaced with Wormhole) and the 2x DBS and 1x Adonis. This is a recent change and I'm curious on your thoughts? |
2 Jun 2015
NicoleyMoley
I also tried the deck with Snare!s but I found they were too high variance to be worthwhile and never accomplished much for me. The DBS and Adonis have improved the consistency of the deck dramatically, and having 2x Tollbooth is great as it's a significant tax for all runners and can't be Femme'd in Blue Sun. |
2 Jun 2015
Kopiok
I think that maybe I haven't been putting enough emphases on economy cards outside of Hedge/Restructure/Oversight, so I am going to try out the Capital Investors setup that |
2 Jun 2015
NicoleyMoley
My meta is very PPVP Kate heavy too, but I've found that once your deck is tooled properly to keep up with her the match up becomes much more even. I understand the logic behind Snare! but I find unless it hits at the exact right time where you're ahead economically and have your SEA/Scorch combo in hand it does nothing other than drain you of 4 credits, which is why I ended up taking them out. Definitely try playing with some extra economy, Adonis works really well because it's clickless allowing you to bounce ice and reposition with your clicks but I can see Capital Investors being good too. DBS can help you find your economy much faster too while Kate is still searching for her PADs and events. I don't know that I'd swap a Cleaners for a High Risk because I've found the early Cleaners much more useful for guaranteeing a kill around Plascrete and I've Had Worse, but if it works for you that's cool! Best of luck with play testing :) |
2 Jun 2015
Shulmey
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2 Jun 2015
Rabscuttlet
I was very pleased to take a game off this deck at Uroboros - I think the Makers Eye had to hit one of the 4 agendas / 20 (??) to get me second place as a timed win wouldn't have! Fun deck and I'm going to take it to OCTGN now - many congrats for taking down the tournament :) |
3 Jun 2015
NicoleyMoley
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7 Jun 2015
tomdidiot
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I'm sure I'm missing something obvious but how does Executive Boot Camp help against Blackmail?