If it ain't broke, don't fix it (4-0 at Zürich Startup CO)

lostgeek 3514

Trusty old PD

This deck's motto: Why play something fancy, when you an play something boring, old, and good instead?

It's a simple PD deck doing simple good PD things. Create hard to run servers with your ice and the Skunkvoid combo. Score tempo-positive agendas quickly with Seamless Launch and propel yourself forwards to 7 points before the Runner has any chance of catching up.

For this particular meta, I was very aware that my ice quickly becomes very porous to Endurance and the Skunkvoid combo can be disrupted pretty easily with some copies of Pinhole Threading. So as an alterative way to 7, you can quickly launch 4 points and then rely on Biotic Labor + your 3/2 agendas and your 2x 2/1 agendas to get to 7 instead.

By not having Send a Message, the Runner is forced to steal 4 of your 10 agendas, 2 of which you can score the second you touch it (because who even is able to Clot-lock you these days?).

As the final bit of spice, there are 2 Reversed Accounts, which are great for presenting a lose-lose situation to the Runner. Install-advance it in the remote and either force them to spend their resources checking and trashing it (typically losing 8-ish credits while doing so and using up some valuable resources like Boat tokens). Or next turn use a combination of advances and Launches to take away their entire credit pool and then push a score through that way.

I think a second copy of Biotic Labor would help a lot to get through the games where the Runner is able to deal with everything you throw at them. I'd take out either a copy of Regolith Mining License or the Wave to make some space for that.

Went 4-0 in the 8 person Zürich Startup CO this weekend winning against Reg Sable, Reg Padma, Combo Deep Dive Padma, and Reg Tao. Many thanks to @Lukenukem for hosting a great tournament and everyone who attended for a great time!

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