[STARTUP] Card Games on Roller Blades

Okay. You're gonna shoot arrows with shotgun shells attached to 'em to a bank window to blow out the glass. Then you're gonna shoot a zip line through that window and you're gonna slide on into the hallway.

You're gonna be wearing roller skates so you can just skate on past the armed guards, who will be shooting at you, and you're gonna hope that they both won't hit your legs, and, if they are aiming at your torso, the suit of medieval armour will deflect the bullets.

Then you're gonna hope to gather enough speed to burst through the big bank vault at the end of the hallway where you're gonna collect the money in a cartoon money bag.

Well, no. I'm just an uncle who's buying some shit for Christmas and I, uh, think I'll take my business elsewhere. Merry Christmas.

It's April.

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This was the runner deck that I took to the Netbrummers Startup 2nament and went 1-1-1. My Corp deck went 3-0 leaving me with a 2nd place overall finish.

Game 1 was against Pravidost Consulting. I won by having more agenda points as we went to time on the round, having gone tag me and then realising I had zero chance of getting past a Starlit Knight. Botulus let me get through Ice Wall after my Cleaver got trashed, and I sniped a few lucky agendas off the top.

Game 2 was a wash vs BTL. Turns out Ice Wall stymies our "bankrupt the corp with forced early rezzes plan" especially when said corp starts to turbo out oaktowns.

Game 3 was only 9 minutes long due to a very grindy Thule vs Arisanna match. Facing Restoring Humanity, I tried to get as many random single accesses as I could to snipe any agenda points, but the game ended in a draw.

This deck performed not as well as I hoped. The gameplan is to get either Hermes or Wake Implant down early, and leave the corp too poor to protect both R&D and HQ. Steal an early agenda, bounce something the corp was too poor to rez, and go from there. Unfortunately, Ice Wall is a card that people play. I might shop around with a version of this list that uses an Audrey v2 engine.

Airblades + Bankhar is a fun synergy that I was too tight on inf to actually use properly. An alternate version of this runs the twinning to save on some influence.