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Standard Ban List 23.09 (latest) |
Standard Ban List 23.08 (active) |
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Deck valid after Fifth Rotation |
This is the Corp I took to the recent Leisure Games Startup GNK alongside Lat, thus meaning I had the shortest pair of ID names! (As long as you ignore all of the extra text after Ob. Okay look this might not be the best way to describe my ID choices but I don't think anyone is gonna say Ob's full name. Don't @ me.)
This deck only went 1-3. Admittedly that's not a great record, but I had a lot of fun playing the deck, and I'm not a very competitive player so I'll absolutely take it. (Also as we'll see later, two of the losses were extremely close.)
Stavka's on rez ability is ridiculously useful in Ob - it's a very effective way to at least drain the Runner's credits on breaking a strength 7 sentry, or trash programs in a format without Paperclip and friends. (And of course, you get an Ob trigger if you trash a rezzed card.)
Unfortunately, it only lasts during the run. Fortunately, we have a friend in Ganked!, which means that Stavka can have another go at trashing the Runner's stuff. You also have Archer as an extremely good Ganked! target. This also means that if the Runner is using some kind of trick to get through an ice (e.g. Boomerang or boat), they'll have to somehow use it again on the bonus encounter.
The rest of the deck is basically built to facilitate Stavka + Ganked. I'll briefly go through some of the card choices, and how they work with Ob:
I originally had a draft where this had Svyatogor Excavator in it. I didn't find Svyatogor worth it when you're mainly trashing ice, which is a bit of a shame. But I still got to run fun new cards so I'm happy.
Well I kind of spoiled the answer already by saying it went 1-3, but the games themselves were cool and close so I'm gonna talk about them.
Game 1 (win vs Sophie on Steve): I can't remember exactly how this game went but I do remember two useful bits - first that Archer did a very good job of being a good remote ice, and second that I had an 11 strength Ice Wall protecting HQ because Wall to Wall is a fun and good card.
Game 2 (loss vs Jo on Esa): this game was extremely close. Jo stole two Hostile and an Atlas reasonably early on, and I scored two Atlas and an Above The Law. I had to forfeit two of them to Archers however, but this trashed the remaining Begemot after Jo miscalculated how much it would cost to break with Mayfly. I still had to score out, but only had SDS Drone Deployment left in deck, so had to install-advance-advance and thus signal the winning agenda. The second Mayfly came down as the last breaker available to Jo, a Fermenter being used for 14c, and my server being broken into. There was probably some way I could have won (I probably should have gone for an SDS score earlier, or purged the Fermenter) but Jo played the endgame fantastically so absolutely deserved that win.
Game 3 (loss vs Ams on Steve): in round 1, I got extremely lucky in my Runner game. Here, I paid for that luck by losing four points on turn 1 and never really recovering. Ah well, happens to the best of us.
Game 4 (timed loss vs Fern on Sable, but got a lockout): I am mildly grumpy about this one - managed to get a full lockout via Archer + Ganked except for one Cleaver with non-barriers on every server except Archives... and then time was called. Turns out the real enemy was not the friends we made along the way, but time itself. Or something. I'm not a philosopher.
Yes, definitely. I really wished that I had the third Stavka so I could Ob more - but didn't really feel like I needed the third Archer because I was usually tutoring at least one via Envelopment. The game vs Jo also showed that I was really relying on never advance, so only running four agendas that you can never advance kind of hurt. As such, I think I'll be trying the following. (You could add the third Azef in place of the Above The Law, but I'm not sure.)
-1 Hostile -1 SDS -1 Archer +2 Azef +1 Stavka
Have a go if you like and see how you feel! I've also seen some discussion of tutoring Bass CH1R180G4 with Ob which could help with the above changes given then number of 3/2s that end up in the deck, which I might try out as well. If you go for Bass, you may want to add more Hortum, because you may want an extra target or two at 4c to be able to tutor the Bass.
I definitely had fun with this deck and would recommend having a go with it if you like rigshooting or saying the word Ob. Huge thanks to Tamijo for running such a great and friendly tourney! (I will treasure the Afshar alt-arts and Sanjay's Creative Commissions forever, because I am a die-hard Shaper and Weyland player.)
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25 Jul 2022
AceEmpress
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Sorry about game 4! Also, I wonder if the Manegarms could become Seamlesses - needing two to NA a SDS isn't ideal, but it means you can keep that threat and so drag the runner through the remote, especially because of how much work it feels like SDS pulls in this deck - I wouldn't have been locked out as badly if I hadn't misplayed by stealing an earlier SDS, and the extra threat of unavoidable trashing on score.