Goodnight BOOM!

You in the red, chop chop!

I still think aaron still would butcher this deck, I've played and seen so many more skilled players use aaron marron judiciously.

Scuse myself for being blind to MCA.

I must have run into one of your testers yesterday because I encountered this in the wild.

They had a really bad time.

The two immediate difficulties they had were that they couldn't create a board state at all. A combination of hacktivist and siphon meant that they couldn't duck it so they were always poor and ran out of cards in hand quickly. Plus with so many agendas they just bled accesses from HQ way too easily. I think you have to consider dropping the 2 turtlebacks for GFIs just to free up some space. That also means you can then slot some other nice pieces like disposable HQ to draw into more things to power Estelle or your combo (or more importantly other forms of tag punishment). You need a best defense at least.

That said, I don't know what the advantage of this deck is over Ben's Sync. Money is nice, but that Sync deck is hardly poor and Jackson is a suitable replacement for Estelle draw to find your combo pieces. Plus what makes that deck so terrifying is the agenda suite. Here it is too easy to drop a plascrete and win before the combo is ready.

I love this deck a lot because of the title/meme. Does that make me a terrible person? My mother used to read me this book as a child constantly. Also I am infatuated with Yellow Kill. THANK YOU!

Any reason for not swapping a PAD Campaign with NASX?

@TR1S IT WAS YOU!!!!!! But it wasn't me. I was the other tester.

But seriously, we did discuss that game. 'Lost a harsh one to siphon whizz.' was reported :) We all played games against whizz, and to my surprise your game was the only loss against him.

I wish I had kept the exact numbers, but I found most games I had closed out with a boom between turns 5 and 8. Few went longer than that. I boomed answers out of hand (plascrete, guru davinder) so it is likely that players arent respecting the boom threat out of NEH. Which is madness in our meta.

I think the deck is solid. It goes crazy fast. If you dont have the kill before Giant Dad gets setup you will have problems. If you dont get out ahead of Whizzard you could have problems. We want to keep working at it, but our initial days of testing were strong. I dont think the deck is perfect yet, but it has a strong core

Also, kudos to @CodeMarvelous for the title. My suggestion was 'Lunarshop'. 'Goodnight Boom' is much more inspired.

@Lynx Kuroneko I intend to test it with -2 turtlebacks -tech startup +1 Moon +1 NASX +1 Launch Campaign. honestly expect it to do worse. Turtlebacks seems so innocuous but I bet it makes me more money over a game than those do.

@TR1S It was me! Probably. The feedback is good, though. I had the added complexity of this being my first ever NBN kill deck. I definitely found that people were finding Plascretes before the Boom some of the time, and it was much more difficult to push through at that point.

@Conphas The more I think about that game, the more I think the problem that you had is actually caused by the shell of the deck itself. Frankly, I didn't respect Boom either. I just played a normal control game against an asset spam deck and when I saw Boom on a Keyhole run I just made a mental note to shake tags after each siphon rather than go tag me. Even then, I still think you can still afford to go tag me with plascrete in hand.

Essentially the deck is entirely reliant on finding two breaking news as well as the combo before the runner can find their particular response. This is super dicey because once a plascrete is on the board, you literally have no way of winning. But more problematically, by trying to play a hybrid asset spam-kill deck you end up having to sacrifice all of the tag punishment (most particularly the best defense) that gives you outs in games where you don't see your combo within the first few turns. Estelle is a powerful card, but she is only a 2 of in the deck and you have so few assets to feed her. Plus, Hacktivist makes this deck really sad as it forces you to throw out combo pieces in order to make the asset game work, or sacrifice the asset game to keep the combo in hand. This is what happened in the game I played and Hacktivist has become a clear auto-include for any remotely competitive Anarch deck right now as it is the best counter to Moonspam. I definitely don't think this deck is consistent enough in its current form to win games in competitive environments without a good deal of luck on the draw for the first few turns. You beat durdle shaper, sure, but that seems like a poor meta call atm.

Very definitely the deck needs to find space for at least three new cards: 1x Closed Accounts 1x Best Defense 1x EoI These will at least give you some outs against decks that can handle Boom (such as Siphon Whizz or any deck with plascrete).

I think you also have to change the agenda suite. It is way too easy at the moment to lose to an indexing or deep data mining into Mad Dash as you have too many 2 point agendas. I'd probably cut the turtlebacks to free up influence for at least 2xGFI. The alternative is to be more audacious and run 2xRestructured Datapool and then hope to win before the runner can steal everything. That gives you influence for a 3rd Estelle, or to keep your 2 turtlebacks while saving you a slot.

@TR1S I wasn't clear. It wasn't me that you played, so my knowledge of that game is second hand.

I think your comments are excellent ones though. However I feel you are advocating for a different deck. we either need more assets to make Moon better, or more operations to make tags better. Earlier iterations had Closed Accounts and Best Defense, both were pulled for more assets.

A methodical whizzard player is going to give any asset spam deck problems. Hacktivist will give any asset spam deck problems. Hacktivist + Maw have been heaven-sent to deal with Moon Spam.

4 2-1 Agendas is the deck's answer to hacktivist. It doesn't hurt that the deck wants to score those anyway.

Anyway. I don't think the deck is perfect (yet). But take it for a spin. Be Aggressive. It's better than you think.

Good golly, Estelle Moon really makes me want a rule where extra remotes beyond 1 costs money (like ice does).

Good deck, but I don't think I could ever sleeve it up for a play night locally. I wouldn't have any friends anymore.

@CodeMarvelous How easy would it be to land someone with, maybe 15 tags in this deck? I could see a psycho-Beale combo in this deck, MASSIVE FAN btw lol

@codychilton13It's a great card, but what you can't see is the current heated debate about what to do with card slots amongst the Ghost Branch. We currently feel like we need a few more slots, not filling any holes.

@codychilton13 adjust to what works with you. Slots is tight

I just lost to a version of this deck this morning. However, that version contained a SSCG and an EOI. I wonder if finding room for those cards would create a better dual win condition deck.

Really good and fun deck used in Philibert store during the regional in Strasbourg in France (100% of flat).