IRS in Space

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This is a slight modification of my GNK winning Gagarin deck which was undefeated on the day. The original decklist had 2 tollbooth instead of 2 wormhole and 2 crisium grid instead of 2 Ash.

The deck is focused on generating scoring and kill windows by forcing the runner to trash your assets or letting you get rich off of them. I usually play it like a midrange Weyland deck, ice up your centrals, get some gear check ice on a remote and try to score an early Oaktown or Public Sympathy, both of which do a good job of maintaining tempo. Pads and Expos are great, they are 9 to trash total and the drip econ is huge for you as the game goes longer. If the runner goes to trash them, there is usually a scoring window or an opportunity to kill them.

The agenda mix is pretty usual in Weyland nowadays. Oaktown Renovation is a great overall card and gives you crazy tempo. The notable thing is no Hostile takeovers since you don’t want any bad pub in a deck like this. Scoring 3 2 point agendas and a Public Sympathy seems to happen enough that the hostiles aren’t necessary to close out the game.

Architect is the MVP of this deck, the runner doesn’t usually expect it out of Weyland and it does work in the early game getting out assets or pulling them out of archives. Archer is there to keep the runner honest and public sympathy is good Archer food. Tour guide is nice as a gear check, but like a lot of the ice in this deck is wrecked by parasite, which is one of the decks weaknesses. Ash is there to give you a few more scoring windows. Without it, I felt like the only way I could win late game was through Scorched Earth or a runner mistake. Unfortunately this deck gets beaten pretty handily by Whizzard or decks running Imp because they don’t get hit by the full force of trashing asset econ.

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