A Space Oddity

mechmisfit 41

Take Gagarin Deep Space: Expanding the Horizon, toss in a bunch of assets, Government Takeover, Paywall Implementation (for that nasty Anarch current that will remain nameless), and add ice to taste. Yes, this is a recipe and mediocrity is the end result.

Nothing corp-wise really wowed me recently, so after looking through some cards an idea began to form. Blood Money is almost out, try to come up with an asset-spam deck that avoids unique assets, aside from our lord and savior Jackson Howard.

I tried several ID's before setting on Gagarin. Originally Sandburg wasn't included, that changed after a game where I'd amassed 120 credits, and lost because the runner could efficiently break my ice.

So there went the original premise, but it gave me inspiration for the name (Sandburg sort of resembles HAL). Still, the deck is solid if not spectacular. Probably going to take this to a GNK tournament soon and see how things play out.

2 comments
16 Aug 2016 yrr

Just had a match against the author of this deck and I am astonished how smooth the deck just said "You have no chance". It felt like a vicious circle as accessing cards is already expensive but you better make sure you keep his economy down so Sandburg can not make Tourguides like level 5. But you still have to break subs as every ICE makes you etr, I had no clue how to start here.

THUMBS UP!

17 Aug 2016 mechmisfit

After testing, I'm not sold on Blacklist in this deck. I also wanted to see Sandburg more often, and a more impactful current.

Changes are: remove Blacklist, Magnet at Paywall, add in the third copies of Sandburg and Public Support, 2 more Enigmas and 2 Cerebral Static and test some more.