G-AU-NKED! [Undefeated 1st @ Whimsy GNK 2025-05-04]

So me and @lunari brought this deck to our first Elevation-legal GNK, not knowing that this article https://nullsignal.games/blog/ashes-remaster-rules-update exists. Good thing no infinite loops were fired during the tourney or else it would have been a shameful illegal play XD

The deck still rocked with 5 wins 1 loss and got 1st and 5th place. 1 score out, 1 Fujii kill, and 3 Byte! kills!!! Even though the infinite loop doesn't work, we found that the individual pieces carried their weight in an AU Co.: The Gold Standard in Clones deck.

Drafter - Recursion in a deck that mills its own cards and 4 to break w/ Carmen

Your Digital Life - Nets 5c if you start with 5 cards and trigger AU Co

Ganked! - Fires subroutines vs Botulus/Bankhar/Boomerang/Backstitching enjoyers. Installing Ganked on HQ root feels amazing, especially vs crims. And if you don't ice R&D, they'll be forced to Bravado into HQ or a remote.

Then we have the standard Regenesis + Fujii/Sisyphus package, with Moon Pools to FA and Sting! to poison archives. Byte! and Anemone to stack on damage, and taxing ice via Attini/Empiricist/Mycoweb.

Barriers? We don't stop the runner. We let them in.

This deck is ultimately a scoring deck so we can pressure the runner into running. Then we just punish them with the threat of a flatline.

ETR (End the Runner)