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How'd you like them Chimeras?

(Also, what's up with the polish name?)

en.wikipedia.org this might be it @PeekaySK

@jawohl I'm familiar with the novel, just curious about the associative train of thought that led Matt to name the deck after it :)

As your only (timed) loss of the night, I can attest to this deck's nastiness. I meant to ask, what guarding the HI that night? I could have sworn it was a hoskai grid. I should have run it to find out, but you were keeping me on my toes and I really didn't want to take a damage just to find it would take me even more damage to dismantle it. Plus I wanted to hang onto my inside jobs.

Finally, did you ever fire off the Ronin?

One more question: Did you ever use the Closed Accounts? Your only method of tagging is 1x Snare, so are you hinging on people floating tags post-siphon?

@PeekaySK The best use for Chimera is to protect Sundew in the early game. Runners rarely care to trade two clicks on their turn (risking whatever central server nastiness you have set up) to force you to repeatedly rez it, and it will hose any Runner deck not running AI breakers in the early game.

Let's see, the deck title is derived from a few coincidentally related things because I didn't have any clever Song of Ice and Fire titles for this deck. I was looking to derive something from db0's Untrashable title and Invincible was one of the first words to come to mind when thinking of synonyms. Invincible itself made me think of the Polish novel, whom's storyline somewhat ties into the identity for this deck: Basically, it revolves around the crew of a space ship investigating a planet where they find mechanical animal life that is self-replicating that they can't fight due to its complete (some may say perfect) integration into the planet's ecosystem. Finally, there was a Polish metal band titled Division by Zero, so the Polish title ties back as another homage to the original creator of this deck archetype (though he himself is not from Poland).

@RustyKettle It was an Ash guarding the HI in that game. Figured if you were going to trash it, I could make it cost at least two net damage and a few extra credits to do so. Probably a smart move by you to avoid it with the Inside Jobs in hand, seeing as how you lost one to net damage later and snagged the win with the other one.

I have not yet fired off Ronin (ironically, I would have been able to kill you with it following your Fetal score to break the 2-2 tie if you had not bounced it with Leela), I'm considering dropping it for another piece of ice, another ambush asset, or to bring back Hokusai Grid.

Closed Accounts is there primarily to deal with folks that tag themselves. Since I rarely have any ETR ice on HQ, it's necessary for dealing with most Criminal decks. I never used it at the tournament (though I would have used it on you, had we not hit time the turn you Siphoned me, hah), but I won a game on OCTGN the day prior by nailing a Runner with it after he Siphoned me.

@CrimsonWraith I most likely would have been more careful with the siphon if it wasn't a hail mary turn due to the time. Running tagme with that Leela deck is asking for death. I was low on cards and a scorch would have meant game, but a scored agenda would have meant game as well so I might as well hedge my bets, make you poor while making myself rich, and run on whatever you had advanced.

I would replace the Ronin with another snare, and maybe even try to fit a third one in there. I really like that it recycles itself with HI on the board unless the runner wants to take a fourth damage. When experimenting with HI, you can make a runner go from hitting 1-2 snares per game to hitting 3-4 if they refuse to trash them.

I'm so glad I was able to use a font with a very broad language support =)

I'm going to try that deck with -3 Shock!, +1 Hostile Infrastructure, +2 Snare!.

Let me know what you think with that adjustment. My latest version has swapped PADs for Mental Health Clinics, and dropped Ronin for a second Snare.

Having played this a good few times now, I've dropped the closed accounts for a reversed accounts; it's more useful more frequently and synergises well with the deck concept.

I find the shocks aren't as useful as snares. The weak point of the deck is early, as this is when a lack of ICE tends to lead towards agenda loss. Having snares slow the runner down at this point is incredibly useful. I took out the ronin and a shock to add two more snares. I'm not sure how much I like losing the ronin though... I;m still tempted to take out the last shock and add the ronin back in instead.

Having played this a good few times now, I've dropped the closed accounts for a reversed accounts; it's more useful more frequently and synergises well with the deck concept.

I find the shocks aren't as useful as snares. The weak point of the deck is early, as this is when a lack of ICE tends to lead towards agenda loss. Having snares slow the runner down at this point is incredibly useful. I took out the ronin and a shock to add two more snares. I'm not sure how much I like losing the ronin though... I;m still tempted to take out the last shock and add the ronin back in instead.

@frost-duty From my experience, the correct number of Shocks in a deck is always either three or zero. Anything in between just means they're not useful for the thing you need them for (like, Noise frequent Archives check protection) and they become too inconsistent to bother with.

@peekaySK I agree, seems like a sensible philosophy.

Overall I feel like they aren't quite worth it in this particular deck setup, and that other cards (especially snares) are just going to prove more valuable.