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Inspired by someone I just played on OCTGN (if that someone comes across this, please comment so I can give you credit!)

This deck eschews the gimmicks of OAI for sustainable economy via recurred Adonis. Still unsure about the entire ice suite but the stars here are Archer, Caduceus, and Datapike.

  1. I'd like to run Lotus Field, but what to cut?
  2. Is Interns necessary? They really kill an opening hand....
  3. The single SanSan does wonders if you can get it secured. If not, Interns it later.
  4. Is 1 Tollbooth enough?
  5. Punitive?
  6. Scorched is turned on only by Shadow. Also if the Runner spots one they will probably expect SEA. Is 1 Scorched enough?
  7. Thoughts on the ICE suite?
  8. To Restructure or not.... may be overkill after all the Agenda money. I didn't see a single Restructure played against me so those may be unnecessary.

A triple-ICE opening hand is The Dream.

I will reciprocate all comments! Thank you.

4 comments
25 Oct 2014 Softman25

I really like the use of Datapike and Enigma, big fan.

I'd consider swapping out one Scorch maybe for another The Root. You don't have a huge amount of ICE, but enough things to do generally that you would benefit from Weyland's engineering based genius.

And yeah, Restructure if you can get it going is insane, which you pretty clearly can.

Considering you don't have all that many (Archer excluded of course) prime targets for Priority Requisition, if you want to glacier a little perhaps Eden Fragment would be up your alley. I dunno, just a thought.

25 Oct 2014 Pinkwarrior

Getting the influence for lotus seems easy enough drop 2 andonis for 2 root after all your weyland you don't need to spend influence on money. The harder question is what ICE do you drop for lotus i feel your heavy on sentrys so that's probally the place to look first think id drop 1 archer 3 seems excessive despite that fact you can fuel them with 1 points and probably 1 datapike for a lotus.

I personally would drop chimera but thats me just not been a fan of that card.

I would recommend either dropping scorch all together or adding a way to tag in your turn, because as it stand your only tagging method is shadow and really all they will do is either break the ICE or remove the tag so it won't stick.

26 Oct 2014 moistloaf

@Softman25Definitely have considered Eden Fragment. I want the 1 PriReq though (mostly for that second Tollbooth), so it's a decision between Hades and Eden. I think I want the Hades just to help versus Noise. More testing may prove PriReq unnecessary, in which case Eden would definitely go right in.

@PinkwarriorThis deck definitely depends on Adonis after my few games with it. The 3 Archers are mostly so I can definitely get 1 by early game, and ideally at least 2 throughout the entire game. After playing some games I don't see the need for Lotus Field, yet. You may have a point with Scorch. It's not going to win me many games, but the threat of it and the potential for easy wins when they don't respect it may make it worth it. More testing is needed!

Chimera is great at defending Adonis early game. I don't need to ICE Adonis with anything else. Granted it does cost me 2 every turn. I am going to try swapping them for simple Ice Walls, or even Quandary.

Thanks for all the input so far!

29 Oct 2014 moistloaf

First edit: -1 PriReq +1 Eden Fragment -2 Scorched Earth +2 Will o' the Wisp -2 Shadow +2 Hive