Iceless Team SportsMoon

This is pure glorious unadulterated madness and I love it

Time to slot Marathon I guess. :P

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Oh thy Medium, why have you forsaken us?!

Honestly, I feel the Green Level Clearances are doing nothing. Either dropping to 45 cards (because you don't care about agenda density, but really need to consistently draw multiple Calibration Testings, Game Changers, and Team Sponsorships) or adding some anti-Shadow Net tech would probably be a big improvement. Not sure if all three Breaker Bays are necessary; if you install another Estelle Moon on your scoring turn, that should give enough credits to use all the Calibration Testings, but it's possible that you'll really be broke and barely be able to afford the Game Changers, in which case one is needed.

Cool, just started to play around this idea and look what i found :D would love to tweak it better

I'm probably not reading the cards correctly, but I don't see a way to recur Calibration Testings when an agenda is scored.

please disregard my last comment for I am an idiot

This has been a blast to play, thank you for publishing this!

The current changes I've made are:

-3 GLC, -1 Advanced Assembly Lines

+3 Turing, +1 Shipment from MirrorMorph, +1 Archived Memories.

Often I found myself losing to them just moneying up and taking out the right targets, with them never falling behind on the econ war. I think Turing is the best piece of ice to tax the runner on a remote right now. Aumakua can't break it, Black Orchestra costs 6 to boost/break, etc. The other consideration would be Architect, but MKUltra and Aumakua both break it easily.

I also often found myself stuck with a turn where I really wanted to fast advance a card in my hand without spending Game Changer, or to install Team Sponsorships before a score, and just couldn't. If I installed them, they would run them and trash/steal. Shipment from MirrorMorph lets you install multiple cards on multiple servers in a single click. It also makes an excellent play with Estelle Moon.

Unwittingly Film Critic'd the first of the two winning agendas before the corp scored 6 points the next turn XD

@EnderAI did make another revision to the deck: currently it has no GLC or AAL, 2 Shipment from MirrorMorph, and 3 Archived Memories. I don't feel like you actually need to protect your upgrades with ice, though; you're either going to draw and install them to same turn, or Archived Memories/Restore them back, then immediately end the game. You need them to look identical to agendas or install them next to agendas so the runner has to blindly pick up agendas; otherwise, they can set up for a big turn where they attempt to reach 7 in one fell swoop.

It's not the upgrades that need protecting, it's the Team Sponsorships and Estelle Moons. Trashing them limits the economy and delays the combo significantly. Getting to keep just one Team Sponsorship on the board for random scores, or hold an Estelle Moon for an extra turn's worth of installs, is incredibly valuable. As is costing the runner so many credits/clicks that they're slowed down significantly.

If this were in CI, then we could hide everything in HQ until it was time to strike (but then we don't get insane $$$/draw, obviously) and thus wouldn't have to commit anything to the board after a Fast Break or Estelle Moon. But we can't do that, anything we don't install gets discarded, and we have a finite supply of TS/AM/Restore/Game Changer to threaten with. If they burn through those through some combination of economy/bad pub/vengeance/rebirth into EdKim, we're dead in the water.

As for The Shadow Net tech, I tried Best Defense as the most straightforward solution, but I don't think we can afford to waste a slot on it. I think the best option is to pray we can disrupt them with a Chronos Project at the right time. As a 3/1 agenda it effectively takes no space and can randomly help us in other situations. I also feel False Lead isn't good enough, and Bifrost Array is better (it helps combo in conjunction with half our agendas, especially TFIN/DHPP.) So something like -2 False Lead +1-2 Chronos +0-1 Bifrost is a good swap. Another threat is Salsette Slums, which people may start playing vs the CI Dedication Ceremony + Reconstruction Contract combo deck/CtM/Gagarin. That'll definitely be a problem, particularly in combination with all the other Val goodstuff. There's some amount of playing around it, but at that point we're playing around so many cards it becomes nearly impossible. There are some other matchups that are basically impossible (Counter Surveillance/Deep Data Mining are brutal if timed properly) but there's nothing we can do about that.

Regardless, this has been a very fun deck to play, the surprise factor is off the charts, lol!

Does Estelle Moon stay unrezzed? Surely the runner runs her immediately once she's rezzed and you only get 2-3 counters on her.

I have been playing a very similar list, except I'm running 23 agendas (all 1 pointers + 3 domestic sleepers). I have come to the conclusion that ice is indeed a waste of time, and sticking to 45 cards increases the consistency dramatically. I disagree with cutting False Lead, and would not have any less than 3x in my deck. False Lead is a key card and lets you manage the amount of agendas you're feeding your opponent. At 45 cards you can just straight up win on turn 2 or 3 depending on how foolishly aggressive the runner was.

I only run 2 x Estelle Moon. She's ultimately unnecessary, but strictly better than GLC as it combos well with the deck. A good combo turn is install Moon, rez Moon > Fast Break > pop moon after installs, game changer = you probably have the combo in hand now, and if you don't you can just fast break until you find it.

Ultimately, there's lots of stuff that ruins your deck, but I think worrying about it all is a trap. Just stick to the plan and win as fast possible.

Interesting direction to take the deck, I'll have to try it out. I've found Vitruvius counters quite valuable in setting up a combo (making trashing much less relevant), but they are also a liability at 2 points.

The main time I want ice is against a Reg Val/MaxX that can afford to spend 3-4 clicks each turn trashing/checking my stuff/clearing HQ, particularly of Team Sponsorships. I think Turing is the most efficient at slowing them down (Aumakua proof, and 6c to break with Black Orchestra), and it happens to be nice when people assume it's an Architect.

I don't understand this deck. Runners always snipe estelle or team sponsorship..., or econ is bad... Dunno how to score with this...

You don't need any TS installed except on the turn you are going to win. Use a Fast Break to power a newly installed Moon if you can (you can install over cards in the same server while resolving the card if you need to, for additional counters). Some of your TS's will spend most of the game tucked in R&D to be drawn or tutored with The Future Is Now on your last turn, unless you have poor luck; it's fine if one or two ends up in archives. You're aiming to have like ten clicks to set up an autowin board state all at once, not trying to outpace the runner over time.