Faust is the Disease (5-1 Victory Point Store Champs 1st)

So....self-destruct, huh?

This looks so good for this Faust anarch dominated meta! Definitely going to give it a spin.

Based on no experience playing the deck at all - how has self destruct been working for you? My intial reaction was "great", but then I thought maybe it requires too much setup? How do you normally use it?

The only change that occurred to me is maybe including cerebral cast. Brain damage sucks for Faust decks, and if they take the tag you blow up their wyldside.

Like I said, I haven't played it yet so I'm not for a minute suggesting my ideas are good....

How many Self-Destruct flatlines did you get?

@LSK 0, it was a wonderful threat to show people with celebrity gift then put it in my scoring server, scored me 2 or 3 agendas throughout the day, may be better as a junebug or more econ

Surprised a bit not to see Marcus Batty in the deck. Seems like he would fit well. I played a deck similar to this at Worlds in the ANRPC, and a Junebug did in fact give me a win or two, but Self Destruct is definitely an interesting choice.

Subliminal Messaging instead of Fundraiser might also be interesting to play around with.

Whats the timing for rezzing and using self destruct? Can you rez it after a failed caprice psi games?

@tzeentchling tested with batty but without ichi I felt that he didn't fully carry his weight, when political oprative releases I'm going to revisit Batty. I built this without seeing your worlds list which I found this morning, now i'm looking to melange :-)

@Smokestack you can rez and trigger during the same 4.3 window where you rez and use Ash

19 ice in a 44 card deck is interesting, how do you justify that? does it help the self destruct kill? Hive in medtech seems pretty cool though, hopefully not too much e3 in your meta :)

@shmeguy this build was a knee jerk reaction to the meta I experienced at another SC 3 blocks away last weekend 19 pieces of ICE is probably about 2 too many, at the beginning of the day this list only had been tested for about 7 games. Self destruct was more there for style than anything else, and honestly whether youre paying for Hive with e3 or just cards it sucks to break more than once every couple of turns

Overall, it seems like the ICE in this deck is really heavy to rez. You don't really have an economic engine, just events. How did you end up liking it? Obviously you won an SC and all, so it couldn't have gone too badly, but still, I was curious.

Way to go Jamie. Great job countering the meta and kicking ass :)

Do you have thought about Fast Track? Wouldn`t that card help to score when a window opens up?

The problem with fast track is that you've spent a click, so you can't install double advance, meaning your agenda will either have to sit in your hand on the turn you fast track it, or be on the table for two runner turns rather than one

Any thought to 15 ice + Temple? That's surely too few for it to be the same deck, but I've been itching to run Mumba out of Medtech

@matthopkins but then, he can go fetch TFP, which is the best agenda in the game to be "sat in hand"; in addition, it's in a deck that can also pack Caprice on HQ. Tidy.

@matthopkins I have to agree with @peacelord2002 that fast track just Inst strong enough here. And at 44 cards finding an agenda when it's time to score isn't too hard.

@mharris717 15 pieces of ice just isn't enough for this "faustandkillalltheice" meta game were all currently "enjoying"

• 1 interns -1 self destruct -1 fundraiser +3 batty?

Took this to a store champ yesterday and it got me to the top 8. It's really solid. My favorite play was scoring a The Future Perfect without caprice behind a Hive and an Ashigaru against a Faust deck. Couldn't pull out wins in the top 8 because all the Global Food Initiative were right on top. But I'm a big fan and will be sticking with it and seeing what utility cards help.