Oracle Bone Script β

Update:

Modifications made after some tests over jnet.

• -3 High-Stakes Job, +3 Möbius
• -2 Keros Mcintyre, +2 On the Lam

HSJ was proving extremely hard to land. The play cost may be 6 credits, which is already incredibly steep, but its effective cost is almost twice that. You need to have enough to break through the unrezzed ice in the wall, if there are any, which in itself can be an expensive proposition. Mobius is less cost-intensive, and less conditional. If Eater can break through R&D once, it can very likely do it twice. And the double-hit synergizes exceptionally elsewhere too.

Keros Mcintyre for On the Lam is more of a meta call. Mcintyre doesn't come online consistently enough to interact with the derez options; OTL is a one-stop shop answer for the various flavors of CI, and for every HHN deck that tries to suppress you.

Original deck notes:

Inscribe your hopes and dreams upon the tortoise's shell, and watch it burn in the oracle's pyre. Fate makes mockery of wishes and ambitions -- of fools and kings alike.

Yet another attempt to take advantage of the recent UFAQ ruling that Aumakua and Eater actually do synergize. To summarize: Aumakua only cares that you entered the Access phase, and Eater uniquely does so even without accessing cards. This also means that Aumakua can dive into an empty Archives to load up on virus counters -- a change in its interpretation that's driven up the value of an already powerful card.

Of course, you'll need more Eater synergy than that. Successful-run triggers are a powerful thing to abuse. Alongside Aumakua, here's what you get even if you don't access cards:

• Dirty Laundry and High-Stakes Job money
• Emergency Shutdown and Maxwell James triggers
• The Turning Wheel power counters
• Exploit trigger
• Rip Deal recursion

A singleton copy of Rip Deal with Same Old Thing backing ought to be sufficient to keep the cards flowing, especially with a stacked-up Turning Wheel. Thanks to Doppelgänger, loading up both Aumakua and TTW should go a lot faster than it would've gone with other decks too -- a point of despair if your opponent is, say, Gagarin Asset Spam.

Eventually, they will be forced to Purge the turtle. But can they really afford to lose three clicks against Leela? Would that really be wise?