Foundry Advance v1.3 - Math n' Stuff 12/7/14 Tournament

I was about to build a foundry FA deck with pups and popups when I saw this. Guess I'll be stealing it instead. Congrats on the strong finish.

this deck is seriously weak v. noise. just played several games with it, and there is no way to keep agendas out of archives. easy wins for noise every time; mill and then crypsis for 1 run for the game

I understand that Archived/Reclamation can be used to scoop agendas out of archives, and I did this once to score a Gila Hands, but you're not gonna be able to keep up with Noise's mill with your recursion. You can ICE Archives all you want, but he's gonna get in eventually

This + nothing but Ichi 2.0 in here stops Noise for a long time (terrific targets for parasites), and Ichi itself will be clicked through or broken /w D4v1d.

How about -1 Daily Business Show -1 Executive Boot Camp +2 Jackson Howard. I guess all the archived memories and stuff can spare you getting 3rd jackson.

This deck needs Jackson for answers to Indexing into The Maker's Eye and also archive answers. You can't ever safely pitch anything.

Since you are the The Foundry: Refining the Process, you don't really need Jackson to stop Indexing runs, as you can either trigger The Foundry: Refining the Process ability or you can use an Executive Boot Camp.

Is Executive Boot Camp really that useful here? There is not that much else to tutor ( more EBC's or daily shows) and 3 of ice cannot benefit from it ( not many but factor).

The strength of Executive Boot Camp is that it allows you to trigger The Foundry: Refining the Process ability on your turn as well as when the runner hits a piece of ice on their turn. Allowing you to create taxing cheap ice servers very quickly.

@pandapersona Nice job at the tournament, jerk ;) Beat me out by 2 prestige. Foundry is super solid.

@sruman - @pandapersona and I have been testing the deck for a week or so, and the main thing that Executive Boot Camp offers you is the rez ability. Finding another asset is cool, but rezzing ICE on your turn to trigger Foundry, to power up Peak Efficiency is crazy good. The idea is that you're not surprising your opponent with ICE, you're surprising them by how fast you set up and how much money Peak makes you.

I keep telling him to add in 1 jackson at least, so maybe going to 2 of each is the right play.

As another thought -- what about bi-frost array instead of 1 Gila? That ability to put 3 more tokens on an efficiency committee seems solid.

I tried Bifrost Array for a while, but I f Lund I never needed another Efficiency Committee, I'd rather just have another economy source. In addition, Gila Hands Arcology has no benefit based on when you score it, so you don't lose anything when you score it first.

As another idea on agendas, how about a Chronos Project to help in the match-up with Noise. If you can land that about mid-game, it would really cripple part of Noises strategy -- cache, D4v1d, and parasite recursion (not that David is that useful in this matchup).
FYI, hope it's clear but I'm interested in this deck variant as an alternate to my approach to Foundry FA that is more mid-to-late game than this one ( more money via adonis/eve, bigger ice, san-san, biotic depedant for 3/2 scoring). So comments more about finding the best version as opposed to nit-picking.

I've played @pandapersona with this deck a number of times. It's surprising how fast it is. Executive Boot Camp is key to this decks success, in so much as I will focus on trashing it as soon as I see it. Otherwise, the deck quickly snowballs. Furthermore, when I do manage to get in to trash it, it's usually triggered to tutor a fresh one. It's frustrating and effective.