One Hand Gang

Gygrazok 215

Won about 75% of the games with this deck in my last 3 GNK tournaments in Italy.

Gang sign and spoilers force the corp to rush agendas, which you can hopefully steal from remotes with faust + ddos. If they have jackson and discard agendas in order to avoid the steal with gang sign you can usually win by installing and popping a hades shard at the right time.

This deck wrecks butchershop, since most of the times you can just trash their kill operations (either with imp or with kim's ability). Still need to test it in data and destiny meta.

7 comments
23 Nov 2015 SlayerCNV

Italy? Which Champs?

23 Nov 2015 Bigguyforyou518

The biggest foil to remote sniping decks (besides fast advance) is upgrade defenses like Ash 2X3ZB9CY and Caprice Nisei. Have these given you any trouble, or does Gang Sign just automatically mop up anyone that's setting up that carefully?

23 Nov 2015 Bigguyforyou518

Also the Global Food Initiative meta is huge right now (and I can't see it going away anytime soon), usually allowing the corp to win in 3 scores and forcing the runner to take 4 when you're running all 2-pointers. If they can get out a 2-pointer before you're all set up, that means your whole "on-score" suite will fire at most twice, but quite possibly only once, and I'm not sure the effect is going to allow you to catch up.

23 Nov 2015 dormio

TIL Ed Kim only has one hand.

24 Nov 2015 Gygrazok

@SlayerCNV Ciao Suka! Ho portato questo mazzo all'ultimo torneo a Padova (dove sono arrivato primo, perdendo solo 1 game contro Mao (Pietro Galiazzo)), mentre ai due precedenti (Bologna e Genova) ho portato un mazzo molto simile (ad esempio avevo Grimoire al posto di Turntable e yog al posto di un faust mi pare), ma ha performato un po' meno bene.

@Bigguyforyou518 Indeed caprice and ash are two big troubles (but they are troublesome versus most decks), but if you have a DDoS and they have just a couple of ice protecting the remote usually you can run twice o three times saving a lot of credits, therefore increasing the chances of accessing. About GFI: data and destiny still wasn't legal, so I didn't play against it, but I reckon that it's a huge card. Gang sign triggers on average 2 times per game, but if you can swap an agenda thanks to turntable it is worth it, expecially if you manage to swap a 3/2 for a 5/3 or a GFI (or a 2/1 for an astroscript with token).

24 Nov 2015 Saikron

Nerve Agent has good synergy with Gang Sign.

25 Nov 2015 Gygrazok

@Saikron in the previous iterations of this deck I tried with two nerve agents instead of medium, but I found out that they weren't particularly useful. You have to run twice on HQ with nerve agent in order to get to see 1 more card with gang sign (you need two counters), and with turntable instead of grimoire you might not having enough memory to keep nerve agent and medium into play, and medium is much more useful. I want to experiment more with it though, to see if I can find a slot for a single nerve agent