Ygg the White Tree

This deck has a bit of a rough early game. Don’t be surprised if the Runner snags two agendas before you’re really ready.

But after that…

After that, the runner is pretty poor, they may have brain damage, and you’re sitting on five remotes.

I’ve consistently won games with this deck where I have 35+ credits in my pool at the end.

This deck is based on two ideas:

• The agendas cost the runner to steal
• The ice is either credit expensive or click expensive

And of course, being in Jinteki: Replicating Perfection, expensive ice means they rarely have the resources to get down to the bottom of your scoring server and steal the NAPD Contract after playing a Psi Game.

Your mid-to-late game setup will be one or two pieces of ice on each central (don’t forget to ice archives around turn 4 or 5…the Hourglass works really well there) and three or four pieces of ice in your scoring server. I generally play my other remotes (PAD Campaign, Sundew, Mental Health Clinic, and even Jackson Howard) without ice and rely on high trash costs and the click/cash intensity of running against Replicating Perfection.

How the runner beats this deck:

• Early game aggression against R&D. Answer: Put a Heimdall 1.0 or Heimdall 2.0 on R&D. It’s fine to go a little poor this early on to make them take brain damage and/or click through Heimdalls. You’ll regain the money while they can’t hit your remotes.
• Encountering one piece of ice and jacking out, then killing your Sundew (or other drip). Answer: Put a single piece of ice in front of your Sundews after they pull this trick. Rainbow and Eli 1.0 work very well as taxing one-offs. Secondary answer: Keep your Encryption Protocol facedown until pay window 4.3. Tax them that extra credit. Bait them into going after your Encryption Protocols instead of dealing with your money. Find those scoring windows.

Common questions:

• Why Chum? Don’t put it in your centrals unless they have multi access. Chum is for your scoring server. It’s taxing and dangerous if they’re not running the full suite.
• Why Wall of Static? Because it costs 2 credits with Corroder.
• Rainbow? Really? Yes! Because Corroder, Gordian Blade, Garrote: 3 credits
• Why the operation split? Hedge Fund for early game, Celebrity Gift for midgame (show them that Snare!), Diversified Portfolio for six or more credits in the late game.

Do not install an agenda outside of your scoring server unless you think you can sneak the Philotic Entanglement out as if it were an asset. The other agendas in this deck are all two-turn scorers, and a runner can encounter the first piece of ice on a central, jack out, then just hit your face downs for points.

And the main thing to keep in mind: be aware of your opponent’s money. Find those scoring windows where you know they can’t steal that NAPD or Fetal.

Have fun sitting on a mountain of money!