Blue Sun: Glacier Scorch (Universe Games Store Champ, 1st Pl

Thanks for posting and the write-up.
From seeing what people were playing at Store championship on Saturday and on OCTGN the last few days, cutlery has become very popular so the 16 ice might leave you ice light on a crucial server (R&D or scoring remote that's knight-able with an agenda). Did you play any games against the current wave of feedback / keyhole / AS builds. Octgn may not be fully reflective of metas but it's an indication and in 7 corp games, I've played against a Whizzard version, Reina version, and 3 Maxx versions. Just curious how the deck did.

@sruman I only played 2 Anarchs the entire day, Noise, and a MaxX deck that I dont think was running any cutlery but was running the Eater/Keyhole/Wanton package. The deck performed well against it. I think the bog box was so new that many hadn't fully tested with it yet. But your right as the big box gets played more and the cutlery gets more popular it could be an issue for this deck. Though you could probably remove a couple assets and possibly the extra Ash to fit more ice in. Thanks for the feedback.

Nice deck! How do you feel about Checkpoint in this deck?

@RonZacapa Thanks. Checkpoint is going to hurt. Femme obviously has issues with the high strength sentries. Depending on the Corp's financial situation it may be better to let the trace fire and pay it off. It will definitely be a huge target for the Femme ability.

@Fictional I was thinking, - 1 Ash, -1 shattered remains, +2 swordsman (or 1 swordsman and something else) and remove 1 datapike for a Checkpoint (code gate for a code gate). But I'm just thinking out loud.

How often does Shattered remains hit?

Do you care about femme as BS? Not really right?

@RonZacapa Your right that shattered remains does not hit very often but it has won me the game on a couple of occasions. I think checkpoint is a good ice in general but I am not a fan of the illicit ice as much in Blue Sun. I don't really want to be bouncing them around very much and taking all the bad pub. The addition of a swordsman actually sounds good at least while eater remains popular.

Yeah, Femme doesn't matter, sorry was thinking about another deck.

Oh right of course. I wasn't thinking about the fact you have to take the BP every time :'). Silly me. I'm also not convinced now.

With Weyland being in O&C, I guess plascretes will go up again, so removing shattered remains might not be the best idea.

I have found that illicit ice is not a problem to bounce in Blue Sun: Powering the Future as long as you have at least two Elizabeth Mills in the deck. I like to be able to bounce Grim around.

And what about adding Crisiums?

@RonZacapa I wish deck space wasn't so tight that I could find room for all the tools I want like crisium. Right now I think the only reasonable cards you could remove are 1 ash or 1 EBC to make room for other tools.

Shattered remains is definitely a great trap for scorch weyland but I fear in the (wave of) anarch mathups it might be lessened significantly. So far in the maxx / reina / whizzard / valencia versions of main keyhole/eater/siphon strategy I haven't seen a plascrete but instead, reliance on 3 ive-had-worse in the deck. Plus they're running almost no hardware (maybe a console that isn't very integral to their strategy) and few resources outside of the same old things.
Clearly a cleaners + sea-sc-sc will rip through an ive-had-worse. But if they hoard two and sit on 4 cards .... Maybe the 8/10 card hit still worth it, but does lessen chances of scorch win overall.

@sruman That's a great point that I hadn't thought of about shattered remains. Now you've got me thinking about changing this deck slot.

Hey there, I've been playing Blue Sun for a little while now and was just curious about some of your ICE selections. Why Datapike over Enigma? What do you think about Hive vs Fire Wall? Do you just 100% focus on economy early game to make up for the generally higher cost ICE (no Ice Wall for example)? And Changeling, I'm assuming you advance it to make an ETR Sentry? Sorry for peppering you but you obviously know your stuff.

I go with hive and datapike because they tax the runners more allowing to more easily score out of a remote in the early to mid game. I think both enigma and datapike are good and either could be used. Yes early game is usually focused on setting up my own board state. Although I will rush agendas early if I see a scoring window.

Changeling is in the deck as a fourth hive and an optional sentry etr which this deck lacks.

I choose hive over fire wall because it can't be broken by David which I think is very popular right now. But if your are trying to tax David tokens then fire wall could work well.

Have you tried running 1x Ash and 1x Archived Memories? I find I love the flexibility of Archived in BS.

@Thike No I haven't tried that yet. That is a good idea, I will have to test that out. Thanks.