Old Men Mill(king) - Original Deck

Dydra 2799

Hello everyone! It has been a while since I published a deck, but I feel that you will have a great time with this one!

Note: this is just the core idea, but I will build it to competitive ( if it's not already lol) at some point =)

This time there won't be much fancy editing and my usual wall of text, so learn the most you can from this.

The main Idea :

Is to mill the sh*t out of them :D Let's look at why this is so potent and dangerous.

  • Eden Shard + 3x Fall Guy. What you do is basically once you setup the 3 Fall guys you install the Eden Shard and at the end of their 3rd click you use the paid ability window to "sac" the Eden Shard for them to draw up 2 extra cards ( to 7 for example). Then however, instead of trashing the Eden Shard, you trash a Fall guy ... again and again ... and then the Eden Shard , forcing the corp to draw up to total of 8 extra cards, from which they will need to leave 8 in archives before the start of your next turn. This is the scariest weapon ever if you know how to use it. .
  • 3xDLR's for a minimum of 6 cards mills
  • Now if someone wants to argue that a Noise deck can mill more cards, he is absolutely welcome to show me how he will do it with such pressure and timing unless with a Personal Workshop, but even then having 8 viruses hosted on it will be pretty tough :)

How to play this deck:

  • You generally install your connections, setup the combos, poke here and there with the Overmind and do a finisher with the Eden Shard, HQ Interface, Legwork and R&D Interface. I don't know what they will do if u combo force them into 2-3 agendas, if they put them in archives - thanks, if they stuck them in HQ , well HQ interface and legwork for their entire hand =)
  • It's an all 3 servers pressure deck (similar to my Blue Noise deck), which has proven to me that it's the most competitive deck type out there.

Some cards (most are self-explanatory, but ... ) :

  • John Masanori for self-tag for the DLR
  • Oracle May and Motivation is a nice draw engine and a connection
  • E3 if the enemy is too ICE heavy and you need to pull out the maximum of your Overmind Tokens

Cards to swap (maybe):

  • I think 1x Inside man might go out, because most of the HDW you install doesn't cost more than 4. Just for consistency's sake has to be tried out

  • Not sure if the 3x Motivation worth 30% of your Influence, but I really wanted to use the Oracle May, so that will need some tuning maybe.

Cheers and have fun!

The Dydra Package :

  • This is how you can refer to the Eden Shard + 3x Fall Guy combination from now on :D

Generally speaking, many of you can ask " Why Iain? What does he bring more than a Noise or other Criminals?"

Well, in all honesty, the "Dydra Package" (TM) can be run in an Anarch too. However, there you will face some problems most likely with getting things at the right time. Anarchs aren't the greatest fetchers or drawers where as with Hostage and Logos both in-faction, blue seems like the better color for this combo. Logos is part of the reason why you would want to run this Iain as well, because you simply won't play that console atm on another runner. Another part is the general perception people get while playing Iain. Many of them won't hurry to score, because they don't want to trigger his Identity and you really need that, because this deck is slow, truly and the corp might leave you in the dirt before you setup properly.

1 comments
20 Aug 2014 Diegofsv

Eden Shard + 3x Fall Guy is not a combo. If you prevent a thrash used as a cost to pay an ability, the cost is not considered paid so the ability is not trigger. That's you you can't use Sacrificial Construct with Deus X foe example.