Double Roto ETF (1st Place Sarasota SC)

stephenball 998

Short write-up due to the fact that I did a long one that got deleted upon saving when NRDB sent me back to a login screen. However I will go into more detail if anyone wants, just comment with a question. Won a small but competitive SC this weekend and the deck is pretty good, dropping one game on the day.

The motto of the deck is "bend, but don't break". You'll feel like you're losing a lot of the time, and sometimes you are, but it's resilient and has a decent scoring plan that can dig you out of holes.

No Cyberdex Virus Suite because I found it to be the worst card in my deck. Most Parasited ICE dies because of Sifr and not Sucker, all decks playing Clot also play multiple Sac Con, and if you are at the point of hoping someone hits it while digging with Medium, you've already lost.

Rototurret is in the deck because I found that in the Sifr era more people are face checking to get ICE rezzed so they can kill it, so more subroutines are firing. In testing it was very good, so I went to 2x for the SC and it was very solid on the day.

Deck should find space for an extra Magnet, maybe cut down to 1x Turing. Magnet is very good, even if it never ever pulls a Parasite off of something else (which it never does).

2 comments
22 Feb 2017 FBI.Net

I really Love the Deck but some of the things i don't get is why no macrophage no CVS or friends? I guess it plays much quicker then the classic foodcoats style.

23 Feb 2017 stephenball

@FBI.Net For Macrophage, I think it's a heavily overrated piece of ICE. I've never seen it totally wreck a runner, at the most it's a speedbump, at the least it does literally nothing and takes up a valuable deck/ICE spot.

CVS wasn't doing anything for me, as I described in the write up. If I had space somehow I might try to squeeze it in, but for now I'm not missing it, and would prefer a card like Fast Track.

Friends in High Places I just hate as card design so much that I don't want to play it. But it also doesn't fit as well here as it does in other ETF lists, and I prefer Archived Memories.