Argus Don't Need No Ice

lolpaca 1247

Lol?

5 comments
27 Nov 2014 HollowsHeart

Nice! Could actually work if it had more money, I suspect.

27 Nov 2014 Jashay

I don't think you want Punitive Counterstrike, and Cerebral will be tricky to pull off, as will Junebug

I do think you want Psychic Field, and Jackson, and Atlas.

I also don't think it'll work 3/4 of the time: a single medium or nerve agent will give you a headache

27 Nov 2014 lolpaca

Oh, I think a 1 in 4 success rate is being generous :) Still, I think there's something in this idea, even just as a fun janky deck.

Psychic Field's a good call, but I'm wary of any agendas higher than 1 point besides the obligatory Cleaners. Aggressive Negotiation's your tutor anyway.

HollowsHeart, I'd have thought there'll be enough economy in the agendas to keep the deck ticking over - since you don't have any ice, don't care about bad publicity and you're mainly just paying for advances and traps, you'll probably get more than you need from the likes of Profiteering and Hostile Takeover. That said, Account Siphon's gonna suck.

I definitely don't need 6 Currents though, not sure what I was thinking there :P I dunno, I'm gonna play around with the idea some more once O&C comes out, see if I can't make it halfway viable.

28 Nov 2014 HollowsHeart

Feel like using 3 cost agendas for money is iffy especially early on. Seemed like all my simulated hands had snares and scorches not enough money to use them. and advance things. My "more money" suggestion would have just been 3 Hedges or beanstalk royalties as a backup/initial source. Probably beanstalk. I had actually forgotten about Profiteering, though, so I don't know.

I do think Cerebral Overwriter is useful for either brain damage or making the runner leery of simply running everything that gets advanced.

28 Nov 2014 lolpaca

Yeah, you could be right - Beanstalk Royalties at least lets you recover from Account Siphon and the like. I'm also wondering if Psychographics might be a good splash to enable scoring out of hand, in case the runner decides to just rack up the tags and play around Scorched.