Grail Camp

JinMos 1

Testing Grail ices, and silver bullet fetching Boot Camps in GRNDL.

5 comments
17 Dec 2014 dtelad11

I'm really interested in testing Grail as well, been throwing a bunch of deck lists and finally going to try it later this week. I like the one-ofs you have here, Daily Business Show, Crisium, and Melange are all great but somewhat situational.

I am a bit baffled that you're going with GRNDL, though - Grail is eating up all of your influence, meaning you cannot play a full suite, and you're missing out on Jackson Howard. I think you could switch this to Building a Better World, get Jackson Howard up to 3, and maybe find room for 3x Beanstalk Loyalties (I suspect you could time the ice down to 18).

17 Dec 2014 JinMos

The problem I mostly had with this deck is closing out the game.

The opening is of course is fantastic with GRNDL with 10 credit start and is further amplified by the fact that I am running grail ices. That really punishes running without getting your full breakers.

But again, closing out the game is much harder than I expected. I practically only have two outs: either Power Shutdown and Will-o-the-Wisp, or bait with assets to make my opponent spend the credits. Neither are solid options unfortunately. I might have to cut few more Grail ices to include Ash.

I expect this to do well in BBW with more influence for sure.

17 Dec 2014 dtelad11

BaBW will also give you that late-game ASH that it seems you need. GRNDL has a really strong early-game, but unless you're going for Scorched Earth, Punitive Counterstrike, or punishing expensive Ice, the starting Bad Pub and the low influence are too much of a liability.

17 Dec 2014 JinMos

Thanks for suggestion. I will build a list and post up when I have a solid one.

17 Dec 2014 dtelad11

Good luck :-)