GU shaper starter [transmutation]

welcome! my name is soup time and I've decided to throw together a couple potential "starter decks" using cards from gateway and system update!

for shaper I've built "transmutation"

shaper decks tend to follow one of two extremes. on one end, you have combo decks that use cards that work really well together to weave nightmare rigs that tear through servers like paper. on the other end though, you have shenanigans and weird niche ideas.

these niche ideas are exactly what make my choice in Rielle "Kit" Peddler: Transhuman both somehow good and very fun. our game plan is really simple; use her ability to turn the corp's outermost I.C.E into a code gate that we can slice through with Gordian Blade. on servers with only 1 piece of I.C.E this makes them basically free and for servers that have more than 1 piece, we have cards like Egret and Chameleon to either turn the I.C.E into a code gate or break it if we cant.

the biggest weakness with Chameleon is the fact that it can't increase it's own strength and it comes back to our hand at the end of the turn. our solution is simple; Leech and Ice Carver weaken ice and DZMZ Optimizer makes it cheap enough to keep tossing onto the table.

one last little tip/tech for this is a few copies of Aesop's Pawnshop. the only time we'll really be using it is on the off chance that we have a unique card installed and also one in hand or you've managed to pull up both copies of Gordian Blade.