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Cyrcle 5

I chose this deck for it's unusual play patterns, and fun amounts of pressure.

this is a fast advance deck that very unapologetic about it.

Main play patterns include: - double install faceup, knowing the runner can only steal one reasonably, and score the other - force action with Azef Protocol - Ice the Phat, not the agenda - fast advance with Slash and burn, then either shuffle with Doctor, or plain reinstall the Slash faceup with Powers that be.

In practice, I got a few to many agendas sniped out, and runners are really good at respecting kill windows. As long as you're even, you're ahead, but if you're behind, you're really behind. This generally manifests as an early RnD touch of an agenda.

I believe my poor performance might also be caused by a lack of experience with the deck. I suspect it's basically mandatory to install any agenda in HQ faceup as soon as possible, which I was being a bit defensive about (I'm way more used to turtling with old style HB stuff).

I might revisit this in the future. I liked the feeling of trying to constantly get away with murder (regardless of if it takes the form of points or damage – sometimes Both ), but i'm unsure if consistency can be achieved through play alone with this one.

4 comments
9 Jul 2025 Mancini

BANGUN! BANGUN! Consider adding a third Measured Response and swapping out your barriers for 3x Kessleroid. Also, why Azef Protocol? It might be better to switch to more 1-pointers like Divested Trust so that the ID triggers more often. I also don't think you need the Seamless Launch since most of your agendas can be never-advanced by default.

9 Jul 2025 Cyrcle

@Mancini BANGUN! Thanks for the feedback, especially since it's your "You've heard of asset spam" list that got me interested in the ID!

I could totally see 3rd measured, card is excellent.

I would love to hear your thoughts on why Kessleroid, My impression is that Akhet plays like Kessleroid, the advance text is relevant because we faceup never advance, and the modality of going to 5 strength is also relevant.

I did test Divested Trust, but had two issues: higher agenda density means less slots for other stuff, and I wouldn't really know what to cut, while ensuring key asset safety. I'm also under the impression that Divested trust works better if we don't care about points; and we do here.

I don't really buy the idea of triggering the ID more often, I don't think that's how we win with this deck; we win by forcing runner action with forks. And we want the forks to be worth points or the runner ignores them. And then we go tempo negative scoring half as many points as we could.

That's also why I like Azef here: aside from the 3/2 statline, it forces them to be in kill range. Obvisously this is mafgnified in the presence of Phât.

I would agree that seamless is mid here, we could probably find better use for the inf

9 Jul 2025 Mancini

I prefer Kessleroid because it can't be trashed, so it's immune to a bunch of runner bullshit. Also it's cheap and I don't care about ice. Have you thought about -1 Seamless Launch, +1 Top-Down Solutions?

9 Jul 2025 Cyrcle

Kessleroid: I'm unsure I fully understand: if we don't care about ICE (which I mostly agree), then why do we care if it gets trashed at all?

I'll have to give top-down a try, it seems like it could fit nicely in this deck. I'm also thinking of Daniela Jorge, or some other way to lock R&D a bit more.