The anarch card pool is AMAZING!

No influence, no neutral, only in faction and IT IS STILL BUSTED!

Game plan : Regular Esa. Self sabotage, Chastushka HQ, Finality R&D, check archive.

Mulligan plan : Get either Marrow or Ghosttongue in the opening hand.

One year ago, I tried the same experiment. It was good, but I would not say great.

Now, it is great. Let me rephrase that : IT IS AMAZING! The lost of bin breakers (Paperclip, MKUltra, Black Orchestra) did not even slow the Anarch faction. You can have a competitive deck with only Anarch cards. No other faction is as good.

I hope that every faction can be just as good. Having a card pool that does not makes it mandatory to import from neutral or other faction give MORE choices. Anarch is probably the only faction where it is not a mistake to not use all your influence.

If played with Hoshiko Shiro: Untold Protagonist, here are some possible replacements :

• Keiko instead of Marrow.
• The Price instead of Ghosttongue.
• 2x Stargate, 2x Leech, 2x The Twinning instead of Finality and Chastushka.
• Cleaver instead of Begemot.
• Fermenter instead of Running Hot.

You would still be rich and fast.

With Freedom Khumalo: Crypto-Anarchist, you would probably go with the usual Knobkierie, Imp, Solidarity Badge, Yusuf, Audrey v2. For a different game play and probably just as good. Which is almost the same shell as for René "Loup" Arcemont: Party Animal.

This is how busted the anarch card pool is. It is fully self supportive.

Try the experiment. It is fun!