Spanish Inquisition

apo 460

I'm struggling to make Reina work, so any feedback is very much welcome.

The main plan is establishing rnd lock with medium while corp is too broke to rez there. If that fails, switching to nerve agent hq lock is a possibility. FAO's work as a kind of instant ice destruction tool and clear the path to centrals nicely. Since siphon is an important part of the economy, I go tag me quite early with plascretes/imps to cover for being tagged.

After some playtests I'm not sure if bishops are worth the slots, but then running deep red only for rooks would also be questionable. What do you think?

6 comments
27 Dec 2013 Axel

Your running Deep Red for only five cards? And Rook is only here for Bishop, that's an overkill. You should consider throwing a Knight or two.

27 Dec 2013 apo

What do you mean by "rook is only here for bishop"? I see them as two different cards that don't combo together in any way - rook for credit denial, bishop for emergency help for fixed strength breakers.

I thought about knights, but I would need at least two to make them count without a way to tutor for them. I guess I'll try to fit them in somehow, you're right - the deck lacks emergency breaking into the remote and knight should address that (making deep red more valid at the same time).

27 Dec 2013 x3r0h0ur

You don't need deep red or caissa, you're better off with grimoire. Check this out:

-3 deep red + 3 grimoire -2 bishop +1 datasucker +1 crypsis -3 forged orders +3 emergency shutdown (maybe, I like being able to parasite) -1 xanadu -1 easy mark +2 deja vu (more siphons!)

Ideal MU: Yog, Mimic, Corroder, crypsis, Djinn, parasite (-1 crypsis +1 parasite or djinn if need be).

27 Dec 2013 Axel

i was thinking about Pawn not Rook. My bad.

I don't like FAO with Reina, it's a a slot and a credit wasted (influence too) as you could do the same by face checking. People tend to play some cheap Ices nowadays, what are the chances of hitting an Archer, Tollbooth or Janus? Armitage is not great, although it's an econ burst when you need it, Daily Cast is clickless and you already spend a lot of click with moving Caissa. I'd prefer including Dirty Laundry, it's easy to run on the Archives or on an unprotected remote, but it suffers the same drawback as Sure Gamble: you must have some credits. Easy mark is a good fit.

28 Dec 2013 apo

@Axel 1. FAOs are there for forced rezzing. Corp does not rez on face check if it suits him - then you drop FAO to force a bad decision as both rez and trash are likely bad for the corp. You can also use FAO as a pure ice destruction tool when corp is low on cash. I feel it performs well. I tried versions without FAO but with pro contacts or with SMC's. Both were weaker in my opinion. 2. Armitage is not great - agreed. However it is fast money and playable with only 1 cred which is important for anarchs - they tend to be so poor. 3. I would hate daily casts in this deck as it makes me even more broke. By the time it pays off, the corp probably will do something nasty. Daily is good as an addition to decks with decent economy in the first place. As for moving caissa with clicks - well it almost never happens. I took your previous advice to include knights (-2 blishop, -1 crypsis, +3 knight) and when i drop rooks and knights they stay put (or get trashed by the corp along with ice). 4. Dirty laundry is a fine card, but nets only 3 creds plus possibly a sucker. I don't see what to cut to include it.

@x3r0h0ur I thought about emergency shutdown version and I might build one for testing (splashing 2 siphons, 2 shutdowns and 1 sneakdoor). Regarding console, instant knighting is too valuable for me to drop deep red. Basically if I have deep red in play I can get to a new remote in 2 clicks - play a knight, run. The deck currently dropped bishops for knights.

28 Dec 2013 apo

Here is the current version of the deck.