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Standard Ban List 23.09 (latest) |
Standard Ban List 23.08 (active) |
Rotation |
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Deck valid after Third Rotation |
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Honor and Profit |
Order and Chaos |
Business First |
Fear the Masses |
Intervention |
Quorum |
Down the White Nile |
The Devil and the Dragon |
Kampala Ascendent |
Reign and Reverie |
System Core 2019 |
Uprising |
Card draw simulator |
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You shall not pass | 0 | 0 | 2 |
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Diogene's Protein deck with some changes for tabletop sim | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Fast Bacterial Sales 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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After many games with "Turtle no more", there was some things I wanted to resolve.
First, it was the econ. I was finding myself racing to get creds, while trying to build a glacier. Second, was the speed. The aim was to go fast, but building a glacier went against it.
After a comment (thank you!) from Krams, I changed the ices from the earlier list (named You shall not pass). It is more taxing and give better results. Explanation later in the post.
My (current) solution is to do what every good glacier deck do, use Jinja City Grid. This give click compression and saves a lot of creds. Also, I now use Corporate Sales Team, giving me 6 agendas (of 9) which bring in econ. Lastly, I also use Improved Protein Source. It synergize well with Saraswati. Yes, it gives 4 creds to the runner, but in exchange, you need only to score 3 agendas (usually).
The rest is per usual. Crisium against DoF and Stargate, Cyberdex for viruses and trigger for the agenda, And a Preemptive as tech versus trashing.
Krams gave me the suggestion that having Barrier ices push the runner to install barrier breakers, costing a click and creds. I tried Vanilla, but since it can be broken by an empty Aumakua, for a deck that kill Aumakua, it was not a good value. Instead, I went for Himitsu-Bako. In theory, it you be also used as a mild form of ice movement. Also, to make the ice more taxing, I slotted Rainbow and Engram Flush. Both have a good strenght to rez ratio, making the runner spend creds on them (or lose cards).
After further testing, I found this deck never need to put Cyberdex Sandbox first at all cost (contrary to my Turtle no more deck). You can just hope to score Improve Protein Source last, as a surprise.
On that note, there is a reason for 2x Preemptive Action. Even with an average agendas ratios, I still find myself struggling to get ices in place on time. For that reason, practice suggest to archive the agenda and retrieve it with Preemptive Action. It is the YOLO strategy, but it will save you grief.
You might notice that I got 6 regions upgrades, which cannot be on the same server. But this is a rare occurence. Most of the time, you should value Jinja more than Crisium.
Like most Saraswati deck, this goes fast. All my games with it finished before turn 15. Unless you are flooded (in which case, use the YOLO strategy mentionned above), you should be able to make a fairly strong scoring server pretty fast.
With this, you should be scoring fast. Runner with long setup will not avail. But beware of lucky runs, 3/4 agendas (that gives a 4 creds bonus to the runner for stealing it) make this pretty risky. It will keep you on the edge of your seat.
This is why we love netrunner!
9 comments |
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29 Sep 2020
Diogene
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30 Sep 2020
Diogene
+3 Obotoka Protocol, -3 Improved Protein Source. It makes the deck much more reliable. IPS is fun and janky, but I loss one too many time because the runner was enabled with it. |
1 Oct 2020
rattkin
What's the point of this being a Sarswati deck? There's almost no synergy at all without IPS. You still put out 2-turn agendas anyway and one click compression doesn't seem to change much here, especially when the opponent knows/learns that there's no traps whatsoever. |
2 Oct 2020
Diogene
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2 Oct 2020
rattkin
I'm looking for a Jinteki trap deck, so that's why taking interest in this Saraswati. But my idea would be completely different. The key power of Saraswati isn't just a one click compression - for agendas that's largely irrelevant (5adv 3 pointer, 2 adv + 3 adv isn't that much different than 3 adv + 2 adv, sure it leave yous one action). It's the ability to setup traps with 3 advances on them within one round. This makes checking them a tougher call for the runner, because now he is facing a potential 6 net dmg from Junebug and 3 brain from Cerebral (putting him below Snare! threshold). |
4 Oct 2020
Diogene
Some though : my first trials for an iceless Jinteki deck was is Saraswati. Alas, while the shell game worked better, it did not work well enough. I've found that Jinteki PE is much better for the iceless trap archetype. |
6 Oct 2020
Krams
I'm glad my small comment sparked so much thought process on the ICE :D Happy tinkering! |
Thanks for Menghini for the suggestion : Replace Mlinzi by Anansi. Since most ices are pretty cheap, it should work fine here. Tell me what you think.