Medical Yomi - 2017 Store Championship 2018-02-25 (2W 2L)

Nasty deck ;). maybe itll be better if you change the celebrity gift for IPO, you give a lot of information with the gifts , and in a trap deck thats not very good. Ill give it a try,

Thanks! I hear ya on IPO. The deck is plenty lucrative, though, and Celebrity Gifts is actually used primarily as a yomi tool. For example:

1) Celebrity Gift > [Obokata, Fast Track, Mushin No Shin, Snare!].

2) Mushin No Shin > Cerebral Overwriter/Project Junebug/Gene Splicer/agenda.

I typically don’t Celebrity Gift my Punitive Counterstrike and no more than one total of my agendas and assets.

Where I really lost my games were the lack of punishment from stealing SSL Endorsement. After they steal SSL Endorsement, there’s not much I can do after they steal another or Obokata.

After switching to Bacterial Programming, I can now dig for 1 or both Punitive Counterstrikes. I also swapped out Gene Splicer... it’s too slow with little reward. I made room for 2x Neural EMPs and a Ronin.

Any ideas with improving upon this without going farther back than Mumbad? I plan on completing back to that cycle at the farthest in the next month or two.

I have been playing a bit of Medtech lately (though a different, fast advance driven variaton) and I am curious how you deal with film critic? It seems pretty rough, though I could be missing something since I too am a newer player.

Also, would it be worth swapping 1 overwriter for an archive memories? It can be a 3 counterstrike or get back something else of utility in the late game.

Good point. Now that Film Critic is Restricted in MWL2.1, I'm not sure if I should be too worried about someone teching this in their deck. In a way, I feel Film Critic wouldn't severely impact this deck but make them feel braver in a way that I can punish.

I'm not going to be able to do much about Deep Data Mining except hope they run into at least one Snare!. With that out of the way, what I can do is continue to lay down new servers with one or two advancements (if not installed with Mushin No Shin). Film Critic may empower them to run those remote servers anyway.

Any remote server they run will either:

1) Give me money

2) Give them brain damage

3) Give them net damage

4) Give them net damage and 3 points

5) Give them 3 points and let me fish for Punitive Counterstrike(s) and/or anything else useful

What I'm thinking of changing is increasing the amount of ICE in my deck. In the long run, Punitive Counterstrike becomes worthless as their economy grows, and increasing the number of ICE will help soak up their credits. I don't know if I have many good options here right now, though. I'm looking for ideas if anyone has any!

I'm not sure about 1 Cerebral Overwriter for 1 Archive Memories. Cerebral Overwriter is a pretty big include for this deck, and I haven't felt like I needed to grab anything back from Archives, but I haven't been thinking about this during games, either. I'll keep this in mind!

I think that some ice worth considering are: mind game, vanilla (neither of which is in the packs you listed unfortunately) and swordsman (which is in revised core).

Vanilla is just a cheaper gear check and against a lot of decks you can Mushin, vanila and score next turn which is great with SSL.

Mind game really has some entertaining plays like bouncing them to a a sever with a rezzed Komainu. Even more in the spirit of the yomi aspect of the deck, sending them to a double advanced face down card on a naked server. It is pretty satisfying to see them jack out, put a card at the bottom of the stack and then watch as you score the agenda next turn.

Finally, Swordsman is often great against decks that lean too heavily on Aumakua. I only play one, but it can set the runner really far back.

OMG I want Mind Game. That sounds AMAZING for the very reason you laid out.

A friend gave me 3x full art Swordsman. I may just slide that into the deck somehow and at least get something to chip away at their credits (and a deterrent against AI programs as a bonus).

Thanks for the feedback!

Not a problem. If you keep playing this, I would be interested in any updates or insights you get as this is something of a pet ID for me.

I would say drop Shipment from Kaguya for Back Channels