Palana Grail Upgrade Spam(1st Place, Wasteland Games SC, Atl

Hi everyone!

This is the Palana deck I took to the wasteland SC on 1/29/2017. The deck went 4-2 on the day Quorum was legal but I did not include any cards from it. I thought about putting a macrophage in, but this build doesn't care too much about viruses.

This deck is largely based on the From One, An Army list with some changes that I will list below.

You can watch me pilot this deck at:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/118266803 (at around the 5 hours and 45 minute mark)

Card choices: 1 Clone Retirement. I went down to 1 archer only, and I also felt fewer agendas in the deck was better. If I'm going against Valencia, I would only need to score out one of these to get rid of a single bad pub. Any more in the deck increases the chances that they get the bad pub back.

Removed Mumbad City Grid: In my play testing, I never got this to fire. With Sifr + parasite everywhere, it is very unlikely that you will have a 2-3 iced server. My opponent who was running this list in the grand finals told me that he was unable to fire it at all, so I felt my call was correct.

Friends in High Places: This card was teh MVP for this deck, hands down. It brought back ice that was destroyed, but more importantly, it brought back batty/caprice.

I took out the enigmas in favor of a crick to put on archives for more recursion, and many runners like to temujin archives. I put 2 lotus field in so they wouldn't get parasite'd away. and I went down to 1 DNA tracker because it's expensive to rez just to have it die to Sifr+Parasite and is not a good batty target.

Cobra: Basically an Archer replacement. It still gets the program trashing done, and I don't have to sac an agenda!

Excalibur: I wanted 16 ice, and felt like I could pull some cheeky moves with this (I didn't). The idea was that at worst, I could use it as a Batty target. Will probably replace this with another cobra.

Let me know if you have any questions!

Most of my games weren't anything special, so I won't go into them here. I didn't even really trash anyone's rigs on the day. If they kill Caprice or Batty just recur it with Friends. If you get Scarcity in your opening hand, play it. Otherwise, only play it as a reaction to runner currents. Rumor Mill kills this deck, but that's what the scarcity's are for and the one of clone retirement. Ultimately, the idea behind this deck is:

1) Win psi games. 2) Don't lose psi games.