Startup Strawberry Meanie (2-1 at Early Bird Startup)

JayPumpkin 55

I played this at @YsengrinSC's online early bird startup tournament.

I was expecting corps to get run over by good stuff Zahya Sadeghi: Versatile Smuggler so I wanted to bring something to deal with her.

With her focus on running centrals and a small deck size, I thought PE might fit the bill. I modified @Diogene's Pick your poison list.

I found Clearinghouse to rarely hit so I replaced with 2x Argus Crackdown. It's probably better to go all in on one or the other but I liked having at least one in there to make the runner wonder if an advanced Urtica Cipher is a Clearinghouse, especially against Stargate or other win on centrals strategies. Spin Doctor also helps if the runner tries to throw the win into Archives.

It has a singleton Anoetic Void because I saved the wrong decklist the night before. It didn't do anything for me on the day and probably isn't good since you probably don't have cards in HQ to support it.

I went barrier heavy to make a bit harder for runners who can generate the draw to smash headfirst into the Jinteki ICE. I took out the Saisentans since they seemed overly expensive for a meta with a lot of Bukhgalter. Karunā is slightly cheaper for a similar effect.

0 comments