Red Sunset (3rd Sunset AMT)

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I want to take you through the process of building this deck, if you find any flaws, please let me know! It's my first real deckbuild, so I'm happy about feedback.


This is basically an adaptation of Redcoats, so for a real writeup, check that.

Tournament

I should have absolutely played my Tao list in the finals. I didn't want to play against Earth Station (which i've never played against before) because it was getting late, but Mercury completely ripped a bad draw of this deck apart. WP though :) This Deck went 2-2 overall, an acceptable performance. My Tao deck went 2-0, although i think i also got a bit lucky.

General thoughts on Sunset

W/ runners losing some efficient/cheap tools to take on servers early, and corps losing tempo tools (Rashida) and the current Glacier tools to offset Glacier becoming too good, I was drawn to a previous metas Glacier archetype, that doesn't rely on anything banned and would probably give runners (esp. Mulch) a hard time.

Card Choices

Asa Group Not sure if that's a good choice, but at least it confuses Runners. The original ETF ID is gone, so i was looking for the closest alternative, with this being kind of one extra click (=1cred) per install. The other existing HB IDs didn't really appeal to me (Sportsmetal gets ~10 creds through the game, Thule is fun but i don't plan to do anything with core damage, PD is okay but i don't want to recur anything in particular...). AoT would be perfect, but losing the 3 Inf will hurt a lot and people know how to play around it.

1x Luminal Transubstantiation It's a perfect "fake Campaign". Never-advancing this gives you almost free tempo 2 points, forcing the runner to run your taxing servers more often!

3x ADT It's a better version of ABT, but takes 4 advancements. 3x Seamless solves that, though.

3x Marilyn, Nico, Regolith Our big fat econ. Provides something to do with that 2-3 ice manegarm server. Thinking about it now, with the Marilyns recurring themselves, i would maybe cut a bit more of the other 2.

3x Border Control Cheaper in Influence than Anoetic Voids, and can be installed with ADTs and Bran. In fact, one of them in the bin means never ignoring Brans first sub anymore.

The Bioroid Crew was the premise of the original shell, which i took as granted :)

Eli is fantastic w/o cleaver (and maybe even playable with, as long as there's no K2CP).

3x Ravana is an odd choice, but i figured it's great against buzzsaw, and the most reasonable cheap taxing code gate.

Tyr was a fun choice, which i mainly made for ADTs and SaM score/steals. It sucks against Botulus, but i think Mulch is a decent matchup anyways and this can really break someones neck in other matchups :)

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