Secret Weapon Gagarin

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Crunchums 369

Out-money the runner and then flatline them with SEA Source + Scorched. Chairman Hiro (your biggest secret weapon) lets you kill through IHW and Plascrete. It's like Supermodernism in that you are trying to establish an early game advantage and then snowball your way to victory, but you are rushing for a commanding credit advantage instead of agenda points.

The low ice count is compensated for by every piece of ice being a huge pain for the runner. Everything (except Caduceus) is better Parasited than broken, but they can't Parasite everything. Datapike and Spiderweb are great protection for an early game Oaktown or Capital Investors: nobody wants to ruin themselves economically to get through them.

Miscellaneous notes:

  • Don't be afraid to use SEA Source to trash a resource (usually Kati)
  • Note that Errand Boy draws can trigger DBS
5 comments
27 Oct 2015 CJFM

You're my Hiro, @Crunchums. :)

27 Oct 2015 WayneMcPain

With only one copy of the Chairman, what is your plan if you don't see him and the runner has protection? You don't have enough ice with stopping power to hope to score out. Daily Biz will help find him, but if I'm the runner that will probably be my number one trash target. You don't have much to protect those assets with. You could tutor Chairman with Atlas but that requires you score one first and also reveal your "secret weapon" before hand. If you can't land the kill combo, you are handing the runner 2 points and probably the game soon after. I like the idea, but it seems like your mid to late game suffers and that's where runners are strongest.

27 Oct 2015 WayneMcPain

I feel like the concept of this deck would work much better in Argus Security: Protection Guaranteed. You don't need lots of ice in that deck, you are still taxing the runner even when they score, could help set up the kill easier. The one credit cost to access isn't helping much here. The runner won't care if you have tons of money if you can't do anything with it. He can just run straight through most of your ice (or parasite it) and multiaccess central for the win. You don't have a reliable scoring method so the tax doesn't help there either. But in Argus, you don't mind as much if the runner accesses agendas. That's doing you a favor. What do you think?

27 Oct 2015 Crunchums

@WayneMcPain Not being good at scoring is not a concern; this is a kill deck. I do not think switching to Argus is a good idea. Gagarin means nobody checks your remotes, so it's really easy to score naked Atlases (and TFIN, which is another way of finding Chairman Hiro). It also makes your assets more painful to trash, so don't bother to icing assets other than Capital Investors and Corporate Town (although things like Astrolabe and Whizzard can change that).

22 Nov 2015 DarlingSensei

I've seen this deck in action and I must say it's amazing. It blanks so many cards and archetypes with the way it plays. It is for sure a kill deck at its core but unadvanced atlases and future is now will ratchet up the pressure to run. This only gets better with the next cycle. Well done!