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Greasythumb 565

I think this deck is pretty grim. It started off as a fun 'how much can I squeeze out of Divert Power' project, and it's become the start of something genuinely nasty. I'm more of an 'explore the gamespace' guy than a 'make the best deck' guy. The latter involves more empiricism and less rationalism than my personal inclination.

This deck, in my analysis, could be tuned by someone with the former type of bent into something actually competitive. It has two flaws currently. Firstly, it's a little clunky to set up. You have to bluff a bit early on. Secondly, you end up with a scoring server that's often breachable, albeit at significant expense. This means you sometimes have to bluff an NGO or Luminal Transubstantiation for ther win.

Noteable cards:

Indian Union Stock Exchange was initiallly included as a combo with Divert Power, and that's it's real strength, but in general it's just a decent economy card that works well with your ID and isn't absolutely essential, so you can cope with it getting trashed.

Sandburg is a late edition, but this deck is rich as creosote if left unchecked, so it makes sense to include an asset that takes advantage of that and pings Indian Union.

All the other cards that are good in ASA, for reasons that are explored elsewhere, but especially Spin Doctor, which is even better than usual here because of lovely interactions with Indian Union and Divert Power.

Subliminal Messaging, which doesn't have to fire that often to be good, because Indian Unions give it a huge amount of support.

Chiyashi, because it's cheap on influence, gigantic, and hates AI.

Ansel 1.0, because it makes banning Fairchild 3.0 almost entirely pointless.

Anyway, give this a go. It's nasty, but it could be nastier.

1 comments
16 Jun 2021 vreely

Awesome! I love the use of something a bit different than other lists. i.e. Indian Union Stock Exchange