HB EtF Glacier - Help please

scantrell24 152

I still have 3 influence to spare. What should I do? I'm a casual player but I'm attending a store championship this weekend. I know HB Glacier probably isn't tier 1 right now - it seems like NBN fast advance, Jinteki RP, and Weyland Blue Sun hold that distinction from what I've read - but I enjoy playing HB the most. I'd love some advice from HB experts.

6 comments
6 Feb 2015 king_mob

HB is going to see its day, taxing ice is a good counter to eater, keep at it you will surprise yourself trust me :) This is a good deck, though im not sold on ice wall as a splash, maybe drop them and IQ and go up to 3x tollbooths. Draco doesnt seem to do much, whats the tag for? Consider swapping this for another architect. Econ looks good, although shell corporation is a bait and switch card, not a solid click econ card, drop it for 2x MMC and put it in your scoring server. Once you have enough bank trash it and start scoring.

6 Feb 2015 king_mob

by "put it in your scoring server" im referring to MMC here :)

6 Feb 2015 Bananifier

I mostly agree with @holding, I would remove the draco, the ice walls and add an architect and a tollbooth (-1x Draco -2x ice wall +1 x Tollbooth).

You may also want to remove the Shell Corp and add in 2x Daily Business Show, which is simply bonkers and would fill your influence with something really useful.

Lastly, I really do not understand the single Subliminal Messaging. I would swap it out for a Closed Accounts or an Interns or even a Snatch and Grab, depending on your meta (the closed account being my favorite, what with Account Siphon+Eater being a thing).

Good luck at your tournament!

6 Feb 2015 herod1204

In terms of the ice, I would heavily suggest inazuma. It's taxing, and put in front of an archer or an ichi, it's an absolute killer. I'd definitely replace an IQ with one, and feasibly replace one of the icewalls too. If you are after good barriers in HB then feasibly next silver, or just stock up on the bigger bioroids. I am by no means an expert when it comes to HB glacial (I tend to play trap/kill decks with HB), but it looks a pretty interesting build to me.

6 Feb 2015 king_mob

@Bananifier yes i completely overlooked interns - power card for glacier. @herod1204 inazuma is good certainly but you actually want the runner clicking through bioroid ice - thats what makes it taxing. Cheap multiple sub ice that costs either creds or clicks, thinking of viktor or ichi as cards that can blow the runner up is the wrong way to approach them i think. They are designed to stress the runners resources, stacked appropriately you can slow the runner down to a crawl.

6 Feb 2015 scantrell24

Thanks guys. I've made several revisions. I'm at 15 influence now but I only have 48 cards, so one slot is open. I'm probably short on ice - should I drop the IT Departments for more ice? I could also cut Daily Business Show, Lotus and Tollbooth for another Caprice.