This Goofy-ass Brahman Deck I Made.

The GRZA 42

It's goofy. It's got Brahman. I made it... Ass.

15 comments
3 May 2016 strongoose

Brahman + London Library! Oh my goodness. I love it!

What's with the Harbinger though? If it's literally just in there because it's a 0 cost program, you could just run paricia. I doubt the saving of one mem is worth an inf.

4 May 2016 inonetrun

Legitimate question.

Is it hard to get through a server with many ice, say 3 or 4?

For a 3 ice server I guess first you need brahman installed. Spend 3 click to host 3 programs on london. Final click run.

If the server has 4 ice you are lucky because with your first click for london hayley allows you too install a second program.

What about a 5 ice server?

Is this how you generally play this deck?

4 May 2016 patrick.eaton

Not to mention as above the harbinger. Have a couple of other questions on choices

Why Oracle May, Your deck is 15x Programs, 12 Resources and 11 Hardware... It just looks like a great way to have a card that will 2/3 of the time just cause you to trash a card and lose a click as well as costing you an influence.

Also Inti, seems to solve a problem you don't have... And takes up a valuable slot.

Finally, I don't know if you really need Levy. I doubt you'll ever burn the whole deck and if you do... One Levy is way too easy to lose and with no way to recurse it.

4 May 2016 say200426

@patrick.eaton Do you know how Brahman works?

4 May 2016 patrick.eaton

Ahh true, I thought it was back to Hand. I can see the value of Oracle May, then. But not as a one off.

4 May 2016 Pinkwarrior

@inonetrun Surely if it's a 5 ICE or greater server you use the Chameleon's to break some of that ICE and in general use other breakers where ever possible thats why their their.

5 May 2016 The GRZA

Hey, guys. I've been incommunicado for the past few days. Let's see if I can answer some of these questions.

@ouroborosglyx: Brahman is great with the library. Early game you just throw it on the library to make a run and use it to pick itself up when you break the single-ice server. Later you throw femme on it and select one of the outermost pieces of ice that you intend to run and put it on top of your deck with Brahman later, allowing you to change its target frequently. Harbinger is there more for the 0mu cost than anything. I found that it was better than using extra deck slots for memory.

@inonetrun: I generally use the library more sparingly than that and am usually spending a click a turn making installs. The London library is basically for turns when you're making runs and to trigger Hayley's ability when you don't have two things to throw on Scheherazade. It's not a problem getting into a 5 ice or even greater deep server. The problem comes when you need to do it more than once in quick succession. The installs can be very limiting at times and a lot of the reason that I have so many draw cards is simply to make drawing as easy as possible because you will be doing a lot of it. @Pinkwarrior is absolutely correct. Use the chameleons. Love the chameleons.

@patrick.eaton First of all: how dare you question the might of inti. He's there to make sure wraparounds stay at 0 strength and to save you from having to deck a program when you run into an ice walk or a Baku. Oracle may is nice to have but not necessary so I kept it as a one of. Once Brahman gets up and running, you say the word program and its a single click proco but better. I was originally running two of but cut one for the femme. It's nice to have but wholly unnecessary. Feel free to cut it.

5 May 2016 Whizkid

I love that you went full Test Run and kept the 1x Oracle May. Sweet janktech here.

5 May 2016 The GRZA

@Whizkid this guy gets it!

5 May 2016 Popeye09

Looks like a fun deck. You've got Net-Ready Eyes in there, have you considered LLDS Processor? Would it work with the way you play the deck?

8 May 2016 powerpuppies

You mentioned being worried about deck slots, but then you run Chameleon without LLDS Processor?

Maya also seems out of place... I get the 2 memory, but with Brahman at 3 I yearn for Dinosaurus.

I might take it for a spin, but try to make it faster and more deadly to nbn asset spam.

12 May 2016 The GRZA

@powerpuppiesDinosaurus doesn't allow AI breakers. The goal is to only use the library for Brahman in the early game, then make it permanent and throw femme on there later. With net-ready eyes, you always have a Brahman at 4 and d4vid to take care of anything else. When d4 is empty, pick it up with Brahman and repeat. The chameleons are in there to keep you from having to pick up cards on every piece of ice you encounter, so I went with net-ready eyes over llds because I'm not trying to make super chameleons. They're just nice to have around. Give it a try with llds and let me know how it goes. I didn't really prefer it in testing.

12 May 2016 The GRZA

I suppose the last comment was for @Popeye09 as well.

12 May 2016 powerpuppies

Yeah maybe I was relying on Brahmin too much, I'll try it again. Do you run Maya just for the memory? How often do you use the parasite?

15 May 2016 The GRZA

@powerpuppies Maya just for the memory and to kill the odd scorch or nasty ice. The parasite I like to have around because Gagarin with Tour Guide is pretty popular in my meta.