I'm on a BOAT! (Chronos Glacier)

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Strong glacier deck that is fun, easy to pilot, makes a ton of money, routinely rezzes ALL of its ICE (just to be clear, we are talking 4-5 rezzed pieces of ice in front of EACH server) while destroying Runner's hand at the same time. Named after a mothefucking boat called Salem's Hospitality that makes this deck so much fun. Take a good hard look.

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Card choices:

Global Food Initiative, Corporate Sales Team and Nisei MK II: We need to score 3 agendas and Runner needs to steal 4 agendas because of Global Food. Classic. Other agendas are economic and defensive.

Neural EMP, Salem's Hospitality and Ark Lockdown: Our favorite toys in the deck. Why 3 Salems and only 2 Neural EMPs, you ask? Because the motherfucking boat is not passive like Neural EMP. We can always use it, and depending on the skill level, we can guess pretty accurately what Runner has in hand. And if we did net damage before, then we already know everything we need to know. Our targets? Mostly icebreakers and economy cards to slow the runner down.

We can also play two operations, one after the other, and do Neural Salem or Double Salem, so we can play the first operation and guess a card, and then immediately play the second one and know the card. We can also use Ark Lockdown to remove conspiracy breakers, Levy AR, Siphons and other nasty stuff that we sniped earlier.

Scarcity of Resources and Targeted Marketing: Since we want to snipe key cards from the Runner's hand, we want to discourage him from playing them down or to make him pay dearly for them. These can also deal with pesky Employee Strike and Rumor Mill.

Celebrity Gift, Hedge Fund and IPO: Very standard and effective operation economy. Nothing to see here.

Kakugo: It is amazing. If the Runner is aggressive we can use it to snipe the key cards from their hand during every run. Guaranteed. We can also use it to deter a more cautious Runner from running, and then score one, or maybe two really nice agendas.

Aiki: Costly piece of ice, but not for us of course. Might be tempting for the Runner to let the first subroutine fire, but does he really want to draw 2 cards only to later lose them to net damage from Kakugo or something?

Pop-up Window: Provides awesome drip economy. We also need it to play 3 mothefucking boats in this deck.

Eli 1.0, Lotus Field, Pup and Tsurugi: Classic pieces of ice that Replicating Perfection as a glacier deck would generaly use. We know why they are awesome.

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