[Startup] Cayambe Pravdivost (1st at Sinsen Round Robin 22)

Hamsan 7

... might sound cool, but is in fact a massive clickbait. We're a minimal group of four players in Oslo, Norway, who have been playing on and off since the Flashpoint cycle. We recently purchased the full NISEI pool of cards and decided to play a Startup tournament.

Being only four players, we made it a double sided round robin format, resulting in three rounds of a total of six games each.

The deck went 2-1 on the day, beating Breakerless Loup and Coffee Az, and losing to Ghosttongue/Swift Zahya. My runner deck was Coffee Control, which also went 2-1.

The Deck

The deck is a depressing image of the economy of our time, systematically built to keep the runner poor. Cayambe is a busted card and is not unique. Coupled with advanceable ice, as well as non-advancable with advancements on them, servers get very difficult to break through repeatedly, if at all. Not to mention that Reversed Accounts and Artificial Cryptocrash will punish you for trying to save up a buffer. (How will you be able to save capital for a home loan, when you're stuck paying rent for your current shitty apartment.)

However, the deck is not as rich as it might seem either, as rezzing ice is expensive and Pinhole Threading is a card. Whitespace might be better as Pop-up Window.

Thank you!

Thanks a bunch to our dedicated and friendly playgroup, who has stuck with this game on our own for years. Hopefully, we'll continue for years to come. Cheers!

2 comments
31 Aug 2022 Kopiok

Have you considered -1 Akhet, +1 Urtica Cipher? Could be a nasty surprise if they're expecting to trash a Cayambe, and it looks like you have plenty of ice otherwise!

31 Aug 2022 Hamsan

Thanks for the comment, @Kopiok ! You're right, there's probably too much ice. But I was actually quite happy with the Akhets. The triple advancement is often relevant, and it's an early stopper.

Urtica Cipher is cute, but I'd worry it wouldn't have enough of an impact. As the only damage in the deck, it would rarely be able to flatline a runner, so then what does it do? And it being stuck in the remote when you want to install something else might get awkward.

If I'd get rid of an Akhet, I would rather have some form of recursion, like Archived Memories, or ditch another ice for 2x Government Subsidies or something.