Gabe's Aviary is Hidden at the London Library

It's also really nice to install Paperclip from grip to London Library for free and use it a few times before it gets binned, then pay the install cost when you need it once more. LL + birds is pretty cool!

@FarCryFromHuman, I never even thought about doing that interaction. I'm taking this to Open Play tonight (no tourney, just casual play) and I'll definitely give that a shot. I'm just wondering how much of Ark am I going to see...that makes my lone barrier breaker sad.

Some further thinking: for the first time ever I find myself considering whether Lemuria Codecracker is worth a slot. My main question is if it would be useful whenever you draw it, since running more than a single copy would be a huge opportunity cost. It does let you really optimize your bird breaker plays against new ice, and you already want to get into HQ every turn so free clicks can go to exposes and next turn planning.

Oh and I might trade out the Mimic for Mongoose and use the last influence for The Turning Wheel.

oh man, I didn't even think about mongoose; that's a great idea. If I do that, then I can have all pump-able breakers. Maybe drop the data suckers then? Then again, Datasucker is always good.

I think I'd keep the Datasuckers for a bit, they make your bird plays a lot more affordable and might prompt a purge, which would be amazing tempo gain. If you find you don't need them, replace with TTW imo.

Femme Fatal is essential to making this deck good

sorry for the wording got a little excited

Multithreader. I'd replace datasucker with that, mimic with mongoose, and throw in a Femme somewhere.

All good suggestions. Playtesting went pretty well last night, I got to send old Golden and Peregrine 4 times to do their job. All the while saying, "I CALL FORTH GOLDEN!"

That said, this is a first draft for a fun Birds of Prey shell that has tons of room for tinkering (but, hehe, not Tinkering). I think a one of Femme sounds good, one thing I've noticed with the Datasuckers is that memory gets kinda of tight when I've got both on the board, plus regular breakers, plus preparing for throwing one of my birds out of my hand.

@FarCryFromHuman, I do think that The Turning Wheel would be a good add since the only mulit-access is Legwork. If you happen to try a variant of this build, let me know how it goes!

I tried playing this and I immediately ran out of steam when the open servers dried up and Caprice Nisei kept me out of HQ. Political Operative? Kati Jones?

@RubbishyUsername, Poli Op sounds like a good play--what do you think of cutting? There's probably some wiggle room in the events of the deck to do that.

Box-E might work in this deck. Extra memory and hand size for holding your birds.

@dawspawn I think you're right. This is a case where we actually want both benefits of Box-E. You need 2 Datasucker and/or Multithreader to deal with the cost, plus your suite of breakers, plus a bird. Also, BOOM! is a thing, and the birds (if they are anything like grail) take up too much space in your hand.

What would you spend your newfound influence on?

maybe a prepaid voicepad or two?

I'd spend it on either Multiaccess or Meta matchups. Just generally, a Self-modifying Code wouldn't be the worst thing in the world, either. Then maybe you could drop a Special Order and add in a Femme Fatale.