Next Foundry "Antarctica" 2.0

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Trewaters 26

This is a glacier style deck.

Economy is critical. Use every chance to build deep ice servers . Rez ice whenever you can. The archives is not a problem because of Architect and Hades Fragment . -think about adding Will-o'-the-Wisp to remove icebreakers. I pushed this build to maximize the influence spent.

12/8/2014 Removed Rainbow and add Mother Goddess to replace it.

12/17/2014

I keep tweaking the hell out of this trying to get ready for this weekend 12/20/2014. Since money is an issue I am thinking of moving away from Nisei and adding another Midway Station Grid. The idea being that if money is a problem why would I want to lose some in a side game. With the Grid I can punish the runner for running most of the time and lose little-to-nothing myself.

12/19/2014

I will add the PAD Campaign and drop the Janus 1.0 for this weekend. This deck is fun but in all my test it is too pricey and too slow to work well in a tournament.

12/22/2014

I took a modified version of this deck and it didn't win. I think I was 1 - 2 with this deck. I saw a Foundry deck with Grail and that was really cool. I think it was better than my Next ice deck. I wanted to give everyone an update on this deck since there was awesome input.

I took out Caprice Nisei and added a Midway Station Grid to the deck. I also removed an Enhanced Login Protocol and added another Adonis Campaign. In retrospect I probably should have added a Melange Mining Corp.. Lastly I removed Janus 1.0 and substituted Rainbow.

I appreciate the comments on this deck and I think they helped me make the deck more competitive.

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24 Dec 2014 IronRaven88

Interesting list. I have also been experimenting with Foundry for a while. We have similar ideas and problems it seems. Some thoughts:

1) I personally wouldn't go more than 1 Mother Goddess. The other two copies are always dead cards and needlessly thin your deck if you go looking for them.

2) I'm intrigued by your choice of Rainbow. It costs $3 for Corroder and Gordian Blade to break and $4 for a ZU.13 Key Master. No one would waste a Faerie on it or datasucker tokens I feel. How has it performed?

3) Same with Guard. Mimic is really good now and not all criminals are playing 3 Inside Jobs. I feel Guard should be a 1 of, but I don't know what your meta is like. Thinking a little broader, Foundry's core ice should come in pairs and triplets, while utility ice is best as 1 of. I think you may benefit from some ice rearrangement.

4) I like Amazon Industrial Zone but I have noticed it is still expensive to use. I find more utility with Executive Boot Camp because it can rez anything on any server and it protects itself. Then again you I run more assets. Just a thought.

5) My meta has been experimenting with the new Order and Chaos anarch cards and unfortunately Eater with Singularity is going to be a thing. I fear all of your cool upgrades may not be the best choice in the near future and I would recommend experimenting in a different direction.

I like the 3 Accelerated Beta Test and with the sheer number of ice you run, I imagine you get huge value out of it even if you choose not to use Foundrys ability. I have also noticed that operation economy and HB advertisements are the way to go. I have found Successful Demonstration to be very lackluster, especially if the runner gets ahead, and I use Restructure instead.

Hope these comments help. Best of luck!

24 Dec 2014 Trewaters

Thanks for the great comments.

I found that Rainbow is great for low rez cost ice but it doesn't do much to stop the runner once they get a breaker. The Mother Goddess is great early on because it can only be broken by a AI icebreaker.

My biggest issue was keeping the runner out once they had their rig set up. Amazon Industrial Zone is good for a limited time and it is expensive.

Guard was never as useful as I thought it would be.