[Standard] Thule Agenda Nightmare 4th @Gent CO

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This deck went 2-2. In non Esâ games it really comes down to finding your ice early to have a taxing remote and make the runner check youre remote often. I had a game where I could really set up with 7 ice early, an easy win. And I had another game where I only had 2 ice the entire game, a convincing loss. This deck also depends a lot on the runner finding nightmare archives.

I played during the tournament twice against Esâ, 1 win 1 loss. And after the tournament I played against the last Esâ player for fun, I won. I can now safely say this matchup is very fun, but really comes down to 3 things:

1) Who gets Ontological Dependence? If Thule can score them it's a corp win, if Esâ finds them it's a runner win.

2) Spin doctor: finding them as Thule is very important, most cases game winning

3) Does Esâ take more than 1 core damage in the same turn. For example, if Esâ finds nightmare archives but already took a core earlier it's big for Thule, Esâ takes or too much core or has to take the -1 agenda.

Distributed Tracing is to counter Caldera, If the runner has a Caldera it's unplayable. I tried Scapenet for a while, it just sucks when the runner also has way too many credits.

Some changes I'm looking at: adding more ice. Cutting 1 or 2 Stock Buy-Backs because it really is just a win more card, I didn't play a single one the whole tournament.

1 comments
6 Jul 2023 clercqie

Thanks for the games!

Agreed on Stock Buyback, but I think it's already worth it after the runner has 2 agenda's. Then it's as good as Hedge Fund. More is just upside.

As I mentioned, I think the low count Harmonic ICE suit is sometimes a liability. Getting Bloop as only ICE is just sad. Pulse on its own is a great card though.

Mostly agreed on the Esa matchup as well. You have all the tools to deal with that deck, but it's often a slot machine..