Sag3 (Prague Regionals Winner)

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juliandark 51

This is a bit janky deck and in 5 rounds of swiss I lost two games with it, but I still managed to win top 8 double elim undefeated (started as 6th).

I like playing shaper in general, but I was already running a cheesy RP corp deck and didn't want to play another PPVP Kate like everyone else and Severin's Stimshop CT failed me at last weeks Bratislava Regionals. I saw a thread at reddit about a Sage deck and decided to make my own only two days before the tournament, so I didn't have that much time to test it (basically none at all) - but somehow, in large part due to luck and decent piloting, it worked.

It certainly isn't a tier 1 deck and it could use some changes, but the breaker suite worked, althou it is a bit expensive to set up and Sage needs some support before it can break a lot of things.

One of the problems is not drawing ProCons early - there is no other draw engine and drawing for a click feels terribly inefficient in Shaper. Some diesels might help in a pinch.

Second, setting up the breaker suite can be a big tempo hit, at the right time Modded would be great, but sadly I felt there aren't enough targets for it and opted for Dirty Laundy instead with a 1of Stimhack.

I also feel the two memstrips are a lot of influence wasted, with tons of other MU options in faction, but I was afraid of Curtain Walls out of Blue Sun with no davids - to get Sage to 10 I "only" need a dino, memstrips and a dyson. A ton of setup still, but it's doable. In the end I didn't meet any BS so the influence migh have been better used elsewhere.

Atman is there to deal with untyped ICE - Excalibur in RP and UCF in butchershop mostly but I only installed him once I think.

Anyway, it was a blast and my first big event that I won after not even a year of playing! Love this game.

6 comments
15 Jun 2015 hsiale

What do you think about -2 Memstrips, +1 D4v1d, +1 Scavenge change?

16 Jun 2015 juliandark

That would work better than trying to get Sage to 10 when dealing with high strength barriers, but it poses some risk when meeting str 4 stuff.

The deck worked great against rush decks, because it deals with most early game ETR ICE just fine - wraparound, quandary, enigma etc with only Sage out at 2. Then if you play memstrips, it jumps to srength 5, which is enough to deal with lotusfields, tollbooths, turings, elis... without memsrips you would need sage on dino to break a lotus field which is problematic at times.

But I would love a d4v1d in the deck, with e3 it's a powerhouse.

17 Jun 2015 BobAloVskI

Is Dinosaurus just for [Sage](/en/card/06117? I can see against NEH you might want Creeper on there. With a MemStrips out and no extra link you would have barrier and code gate breakers at strength five and sentry at strength four. This would cover the ICE typically played by NEH (Wraparound, Eli 1.0, Quandary, Enigma, Lotus Field, Data Raven). It might be more beneficial this way around. This is just something that popped into my head, I haven't really thought too much into it.

17 Jun 2015 BobAloVskI

That was meant to be "Without a MemStrips out...", sorry.

17 Jun 2015 BobAloVskI

Actually, I had it right the first time. I wish there were an edit function, then I could hide my stupidity better.

19 Jun 2015 juliandark

If you expected a sentry heavy deck then sure, using dino to host creeper could be beneficial, but i really havent encountered something like that. What hurt the most was architekt, which is 5 without e3 and dino only makes it 1 cheaper. One game i had to run through double dataraven on rnd, but with at least two link it's better to just let them trace. Ichi can be broken with a click and a credit using e3. What hurts the most are high strength sentry ICE, but I haven't encountered Archer, had to break susanoo only once (creeper CAN break her on its own unlike most other stuff) and I met ichi 2.0 only once and I lost that game horribly because I couldn't trash all those breaker bay rezzed assets.