Gambito de Dama

guirto 8

This is a deck based on comments and suggestions made by @xx3r0h0ur and @accless on a previous deck, 'This is a matter of Chess'. Thanks, guys!

6 comments
15 May 2014 rahmal

Very interesting deck...I'll have to try it

15 May 2014 Sibelius

¡Great idea for a powerful deck!

Troubles with your economy could be a problem, specially in early game... A third Sure Gamble and some Dirty Laundrys would work for me. Also I would think about Account Siphon.

Xanadu works great with Reina Roja, so a third copy could be powerful. You could reach the 45 cards deck adding a third Xanadu and maybe removing that Pawns (I had never liked that card, but its a fact of personal taste!).

Good luck with "Gambito de Dama"!

16 May 2014 guirto

I'm not sure about Dirty Laundry. Only works on successful runs. What about Professional Contacts?

16 May 2014 slevin38

Bank Job might work here

16 May 2014 guirto

Three games today. One lose, one win, and one unfinished while below on points. I must say that this deck must be revised. As you say, @slevin38, it is low on economy and overloaded with very hard to play (at least for me) cards.

17 May 2014 accless

Ahh, looking much, much better! As you noticed, your economy seems rather low. A good rule of thumb is to play around 12 cards that make you money properly. You're only halfway there and your options could be better. Hard at Work is quite frankly a terrible card. It throws you back 5 credits and has paid for itself after 3 rounds in play NOT counting in the clicks you lost you could have spent on clicking for credits. It also doesn't work well with Wyldside since you'll be left with only 2 clicks for your turn. Secondly, Modded is a great card but your deck can't really exploit it. You have only a handful of cards that actually cost 3 or more so you can't fully benefit from Modded most of the time.

The breaker suite looks very solid! You have quite a lot of free influence, so you could consider playing 1-2 more Special Order . Speaking of influence, I don't know why you opted to cut Lucky Find (I assume in favour of Hard at Work?). It's a fantastic card for Anarchs.

As for money, these are some neat options: Armitage Codebusting, Kati Jones, Daily Casts, Liberated Account, Queen's Gambit and Easy Mark. You might want to go up to 3 Sure Gambles as well. Having one in your opening hand is almost always a hand worth keeping.

You'll be faced with some space issues if you want to add more money cards. though. I'd recommend cutting some of the remaining viruses, maybe even lower some Caissa programs to 2 copies instead of three (Blackmail, Infiltration and now that you have Plascretes, Networking would be other cards I'd say could be cut but those are preferential).

Aside from that, good job on cutting down from the original 57 cards; the deck is going in a good direction!

Cheers