Princess Toadstool [3rd @ November AMT]

jan tuno 3863

We finally found a deck that's harder to pilot than mulch.

I was looking at the standard cardpool and Umbrella caught my interest again, and I realized it's a card that could be cracked but we just hadn't been really trying with it because everyone had been doing their best to get to a decent, more normal Arissana build. I did some strange things with it, then Paillu, our favorite frogs, stepped in and actually made the deck good. Everything except the idea of playing Umbrella and the deck name is due to em.

Umbrella is good! We break Anansi for 2 credits with Egret, we abuse Living Mural in the most fun way by installing it on code gates and then still breaking sentries on the server, we draw cards and the Corp doesn't because they don't want to give us fresh accesses on Conduit. This is all around very fun, but it's also one of the hardest decks to pilot that I've ever tried, especially in person. You could probably cut Prognostic Q-Loop for something else to dial down the complexity a little bit. We like having our brains fried in QtM, though. Anti-grug action.

I didn't do this deck justice at AMT, only going 1-3 with it in Swiss and then losing in the cut to krysdreavus's magical christmas land rush out of Asa (ey scored out on me in SIX turns!). Frogs can probably play this better <3

5 comments
28 Nov 2023 Porkobolo

I think i will be trying to pilot this frog AFTER my experimenting with Grug's stuff. It will be like running from 0 to lightspeed in one sec!

28 Nov 2023 izzy

After testing this before Sovereign of Subways I nearly gave up on the whole faction. This deck is absolutely wild in the best way. Umbrella is a silly card and I'm glad it's good, actually.

28 Nov 2023 Testrunning

Oh, nice. I like Umbrella. I tried to make it work earlier, but back then I was too fearful of Rig shooter and outfit with too much 6str ice (still wish Umbrella had str 6).

Congrats to actually making the card work!

28 Nov 2023 jan tuno

@testrunning thinking back to my games against you in August was what inspired me to try umbrella again! Thank you

30 Nov 2023 Paillu

11/10 deck, makes my brain tingly