A Second Can o' Whupass

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My Post-Core 2.0 take on the infamous "Can o' Whupass" deck that I loved to death despite my mediocre win-rate with it. The core is still there: The slow motion, "WHAAAAA?" with the help of Virus Breeding Ground and Hivemind.

Your clickless econ now comes in the form of VBG, Incubator, and Trypano and a metric sh*t-ton of virus counters on successful runs, especially if you trash something!

Corp still purging you like a little bitch in 2018? Same old sh*t, different cycle. Just click your Hivemind back up and mill away. They hit you mid-run to try and lock you out with your virus breakers? Acacia says, "Shut the hell up and eat a Paperclip instead!"

The Corp won't be trash talking you for not running, because you are running every turn. Scared of Hard-Hitting News? Don't be a bitch. Just pay 3 of the bajillion virus counters you gained for a successful HQ run to trash that ish. Or just Imp it. Whatever. You don't care.

Self-protecting agendas got you cowering for your life? Why are you even playing this deck? Imp them into archives and just deal with them later with Hades Shard.

What's that? You think this deck is too slow?! You're probably right, but Freedom doesn't give a sh*t. Self-modifying Code and Crypt give you what you need, when you need it.

Oh, now you're complaining that it doesn't have enough money? What the hell's wrong with you? Your breakers cost 1 each to install and nothing to boost/break. What the hell do you need money for, anyway?

Big, scary ICE from... does it really matter? Pump Hivemind to 5 and throw down a Trypano and burn down their entire server.

Fast Advance decks cry when they see Chakana... assuming they've ever seen that card before. Glacier decks run for the hills when your Trypano hits the table. Kill decks can't kill anything if you burn all their cards before they even see them.

Scarcity of Resources scaring all the runners in your meta off the resource econ plan? Trade your Casts for Cyberfeeders... it's fine... trust me...

In all seriousness, though: I don't expect this to be any good. Without the Noise mill, it has quite a bit less power. Whatever. I don't care. I'm still going to play this deck, and I'm still going to enjoy the couple wins I can eek out with it. If you have any suggestions that would actually make this deck better, without sacrificing the core of it, let me know! Oh, and one Black Orchestra is going to be a Musaazi.

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13 May 2018 PyWiz

Some thoughts:

LLDS Energy Regulator to keep Acacia’s around through purges. It sounds clunky but you make insane money with it.

Street Peddler because most of your deck is cheap installables.

MemStrips for more MU if you need it.

Aumakua is dumb with Hivemind. Plus he’s a virus.

Maven because fuck it.

13 May 2018 Sabin76

@PyWiz I originally had LLDSER and Peddlers (and also Fester), but in my very brief initial testing, as soon as one Acacia was down, the corp was loath to purge, which meant anything adding to the pain for the corp was basically dead draw. I might put it back, but the only thing I would cut for it is the Shard. The problem with Peddler (and why I don't use it in Sunny any more either) is that there isn't much I can sacrifice to the bin... especially with the large number of 1-ofs. I've thought about throwing in Memstrips, but I guess if I haven't lost by the time that I'd need them after putting all the memory hogs on the Progenitors, then I'm already in a position not to need the other programs. OTOH, it would make slotting LLDS a little easier.

You are right, Aumakua is just stupid dumb with Hivemind... but I really didn't want this deck to be "yet another turtle deck". But I also don't think it really fits here anyway. I can go two ways with it: replace the virus breakers or replace the conspiracy breakers. The whole point of using the virus breakers is to get those sweet counters on successful runs to trash stuff with. The turtle is anti-synergistic with Freedom's ability. Replacing the conspiracy breakers seems even worse because then a purge REALLY hurts, and I won't have anything to spend all that money on to bounce back from it.

I think you bring a compelling argument for Maven, though... definitely fits the theme! :)