Flashpoint Magician

Treiclon 65

This is mostly a regular Stealth Smoke deck, all with Temüjin Contract and Beth Kilrain-Chang. Thing is, I noticed nobody was paying attention to the Top Hat/Equivocation combo. Maybe because it needs 2 cards. Maybe because you accomplish more with Deep Data Mining and recurring The Maker's Eye. That's fair. But I wanted to change that. So here it is, a brief explanation on it.

Points of interest

Möbius - Top Hat - Equivocation

You are not actually multiaccessing R&D with this deck. But you are checking and revealing a lot of cards.
When the run is successful, Equivocation will reveal the top card. If it isn't an agenda you can force the Corp to draw it. Usually you'd access the next card.
That's not what we want here.
If you're planning on making 2 runs, in this case you are choosing to use Top Hat to access the currently third card.
That's right, the 3rd one. The fourth card before forcing the draw.
This is because during the second run you're forcing the draw of the first card and accessing the next one.
After these 2 runs you have:

  • Forced to draw 2 cards.
  • Accessed 2 cards.
  • Know the card the Corp is drawing with his Mandatory draw next turn.

And this is why Möbius and Data Breach are interesting for these cards. Also Temüjin Contract.
If one is planning even more runs during a single turn one have to plan accordingly to access and reveal every card.

Fan Site and The Shadow Net

I just like The Shadow Net. I should probably include more target events, notice that Careful Planning isn't a valid target.

Maya

I picked Maya to have some sort of soft denial in the deck. Although maybe The Gauntlet and Mirror are more suitable.

3 comments
24 Jun 2017 igrekk

Crazy interaction between Equivocation and Top Hat. Thanks for sharing this!

7 Jul 2017 SHIEL

What would you cut to free up influence for Mirror? Drop the Switchblade perhaps? And why the Brahman include?

20 Jul 2017 Treiclon

@igrekk No, thanks to you for reading it!

@Rhaplanca1001Cutting up to free up influence for Mirror? But Mirror is in-faction. You mean The Gauntlet? I would probably cut on Clone chips and Mobius for 2 The Gauntlet. An alternative would be The Turning Wheel. Brahman is there to break subs efficiently in case a breaker is missing for whatever reasons, it can return spent Cloaks to the top of the deck or even itself. Basically it's there to save my life since rigshooters can make my life miserable. I've considered switching it out for something else though. Not sure what.