Rebound IG54 (1st place GNK)

protolich 10

I got picked IG for a random ID charity event and so a GNK was a perfect place to initially test my ideas as well as a chance to get some more games in after finishing a disappointing last in the regionals. And as it happens it took (cough carried cough) me to my first GNK victory!

There is nothing fancy here I just put cards that I thought would work best in a deck and I managed to create another, 'just another IG54' deck. The main workhorse card is Genetics Pavilion it is just so good, once you have a couple of your Hostile Infrastructure rezzed and you're threatening one or more Bio-Ethics Associations the runner can't make any good choices, only less bad ones. The deck is currently rotation proofed (as the event I'm taking it to is, I am assuming, happening after rotation will have happened) thanks to Crimson Dusts Breached Dome.

So the games.

Game one vs. Leela. An early Pavillion stops his draw and I start to load up Domes in Archives. He makes a mistake early on and ends up with no cards in hand, a Bio-Ethics gives me the win.

Game two run draw.

Game three run win.

Game four vs. Noise. My opponent is packing a semi Noise solitaire deck another early pavilion keeps the pressure on and he can't install viruses quick enough to bother me he is on 5 agenda points with two Shi.Kyū taking him down to 3 and he tries a desperate run into R&D hitting a Dome.

Game five vs MaxX. Hats off to my opponent, he could choose which side to play (we we're doing single sides against each opponent) and plumbed for IG over Khan. A turn one pavilion keeps the MaxX speed in check and my first Bio-Ethics earns it's rez cost sniping some recursion away. I get two Hostiles on Breaker Bays and then everything settles down. My opponent is locked by the Hostiles & Bio-Ethics so has to settle for checking R&D/HQ and checking my unrezzed cards. He ends up running a Psychic Field and he loses his hand, at this point the game is sealed but he makes it final by planting into a Snare!.

2 comments
24 Aug 2017 SyIus

I'm curious how the economy felt for you. With only turtlebacks and hedge funds, I was skeptical, but I noticed the only thing you really need the breaker bay grids for are the HIs. Rezzing a DNA Tracker or even triggering a snare sounds pricey for what you've got. AND you have no draw engine. But a 1st place finish suggests it all works out pretty well, so I wonder if it's just tight or if it runs cheap.

25 Aug 2017 protolich

@SyIus It is quite tight on the economy but a lot of your key pieces are quite cheap. From my experience so far even one Turtlebacks keeps me rich enough (mostly).

The hedge funds have not done any real work in this deck (think I played one once). A couple of my friends have suggested Diversified Portfolio as an alternate econ card, weaker at the start but once you hit 5+ servers it starts to shine.

More draw would be good just not sure what I would take out and which draw would work well.