Requisitioning Retirement

KillerShrike 17

2 comments
5 Jan 2014 PeekaySK

I honestly don't know how you intend to ever rez any of the Walls of Thorns... at the very least, you'll need Hedge Funds and Celebrity Gifts.

Also, Thomas Haas doesn't look like a worthy include - he's not actual economy, and you'd be much better served using the influence elsewhere. Personally, I'd go with 1x Elizabeth Mills (to have an out if the Retirement package turns against you) and a third Sundew instead.

7 Jan 2014 KillerShrike

I've been playing this basic deck for a couple of months now, with card +'s and -'s as packs are released and further play experience dictates. I've played somewhere between 25-30 games with it locally, with a handful of friends and acquaintances. It has lost 6 times, and most of those were early on in the deck's evolution. One loss was to getting decked by Noise, the rest were agenda point losses. It's not a tournament deck for sure, but it's been fun and has played well casually.

Rezzing WoT is rarely a problem, though typically in the mid to late game; I usually have a tidy amount of money handy, and also 3 priority req's. Well timed Melanges and situational use of a scored gila hands provides enough coinage.

Tommy is not for money, he's a trick that pays for himself. He's a shell in the shell game of ronin, overwriter, tommy, or agenda. He's never wasted as worst case scenario the runner wastes clicks and bits and I get my money back. I can also pull advancement tokens off him with ToL. Every now and then, if my draw is bad or I'm in a pinch, he's a ghetto economy card, but that's not his purpose.

Clone Retirements clean up after themselves. There was one game where a runner managed to grab all 3 of them (I still won), but other than that one anomaly BP has not been a problem. Worst case scenario, I just pump Ice Walls up to absorb the impact for a wash on centrals and drop an extra remote to extend the shell game.

I might go with a 3rd Sundew. I've only played 2 games w/ this deck after adding them (I was too busy w/ family activities over the holidays to play much) and they did well enough. I'll wait until I've played at least 5 games w/ them in to make that decision.

I don't care for Celebrity Gifts, and don't use them. I don't want to use operation / burst economy in this deck as it doesn't forward the central strategy and isn't predictable enough for the deck.

The real problem the deck has no solution for at all is decks with good reveal capabilities, but that's a problem for most if not all trap based decks. Luckily for me, in the group I play with only one player has a paranoid criminal deck that uses an unusual amount of reveal, but the deck isn't very good past phase 1 and it hasn't been a threat.

Anyway, I do appreciate the feedback and discussion, and respect your opinion, but play experience with the deck has been good thus far so I think I'll stick with this basic set up until the local meta or new cards cause me to reconsider.