Shadows of the Sun

The ice is nastier. The Oversight AI is real. The Scorch is a mercy. Advance and score your agendas in plain sight - right where the runner can see them, but to reach them may as well be to climb a mountain.

Shadows of the Sun still operates on the Crisium Grid + Off The Grid combo (your remote sits in the shadows of the Blue Sun). OTG is the Weyland principle I've been trying to make work since the card first came out, and now with First Contact, we have the pieces we need to make it happen.

This version of Blue Sun has teeth, and it relies on OAI as raw fuel for its economic engine. Pop it on your costly pieces of ice-- Curtain Wall, Janus, Tollbooth if you have to though that isn't preferable -- and call them back to get free money. Fly your two Data Ravens to whichever server needs protecting, but plan on keeping at least one over HQ if you have a Crisium Grid installed. That's because once you build up your taxing fortress servers, just one simple Closed Accounts is all it takes to shut the runner out. Score the Eden Fragment and this deck becomes laughably good.

Plan on having a heavily stacked HQ because once Crisium Grid gets online behind an ice fortress there, accessing the remote in which you've loaded Off The Grid becomes an absolute bear. Trashing OTG will require two successful runs on HQ with an additional tax of 5c to trash the Crisium on the first run. That means with even one Data Raven and a Crisium on HQ they can't make the runs to clear Off The Grid and access your remote without clearing the two tags they rack up. Then you either dropped a Closed Accounts to lock them out of your servers on future runs, or they need to hope you don't have the double Scorched in hand.

I've debated either swapping the Tollbooth for a third Data Raven, or actually dropping the Closed Accounts for another Lotus Field + another Wall of Thorns, but I think for now this is how the deck will stay.

I'd love to hear your thoughts.