Expanding the click horizon

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This deck started as a magical christmas land deck, but has so far turned out much more consistent than expected. The combo between game day and beach party is no joke, and with Haley's ability, allows you to set up a supremely advantageous early game while applying pressure to servers.

The resources are the items you definitely want to proc on Haley's ability, as opposed to what i've seen others do with Cache and Sahasrara, which usually only save you the click and not much else. With assets such as Daily Casts and pro-co, it allows you to turn up the tempo on the current turn as well as in some cases for the rest of the game. Career fair makes this even better, as it allows you to get daily casts for free, and pro-co for a measly 2. Combine this with getting out a ghost runner for no clicks and a paltry 1 credit allows you to expand your econ for pressuring runs, when otherwise you wouldn't be able to in a single turn.

"The above is all well and good, but there are some questionable choices here that you haven't explained, whats with game day and beach party? What the hell is Stim Dealer doing in this deck?" I hear you say, with condescending tones. Well, this is where the true fun begins. You see, I didn't just want to stop at compressing clicks for value. What I wanted to do, kind readers, is take it one step further. We now go from click compression- to click expansion. Taking a single click and turning it into multiple clicks for extreme tempo surges.

With both All-nighter and Stim Dealer, you can turn your one click of installing an econ resource (remember synergy with Career Fair!) into an extra click on any turn you want. This can often catch the corp by surprise, turning what looks like a scoring window for their next turn into a mad dash to protect anything they can before you unleash the absolute stupidity that is a 5+ click turn onto them. I have personally gotten an 8 click turn off of this deck relatively quickly, and it will have your opponent cursing whatever god they happen to believe in. You can also sell the stim dealer before the drugs kick in the negative way, making the overall transaction 1 credit for 2 extra clicks. Yes sir, thank you sir, can I have some more drugs please sir?

Finally, you have to have cards to fuel this unholy storm, and that's where Game Day and Beach party shine (and pro-co when you can't). You can install the beach party, proc for Aesop's Pawnshop, and play game day to draw 7 freaking cards! Then next turn when you think you will regret your terrible decision making, you sell the beach party to Aesop and basically become Andy. This is essentially you playing, using, and making money off of a Duggar's in the space of one turn. Think about that.

With all of that good stuff going for it, however, this deck does seem to have a few downsides. The influence is really, really tight, as are the card slots (imho). We have no clone chips, as I would rather not give up the tutor / recursion flexibility that is test run, but maybe overall it is better. Certain sentries will give you trouble since you have no Datasucker to compliment the mimic, and hitting an early Komainu or Snare! can destroy your tempo so hard you may just lose. There is also no HQ multi-access, due to Stim dealer and corroder, but maybe swapping corroder out for lady and something else for +1 Legwork is a good choice. Econ seems solid, but i've been considering swapping the Sure Gamble for Kati Jones, since the former is good at many surge turns, but only gets you 4c for the click, where kati can turn the click expansion turns up to 11 (possibly removing the need for stimhack?).

Regardless, I've had a blast with this deck, and I highly recommend it to get a good laugh out of your opponent, then watch as the laughter turns to fear.

2 comments
30 Apr 2015 tonybluehose

with so many clicks available, I'd love to see some Notoriety somewhere in this deck.

Hehe, imagine comet in this deck with 5+ clicks. Notoriety + Notoriety for two points just because Hayleyis a smarty pants student.

30 Apr 2015 Tundinator@gmail.com

@tonybluehose Hah, that would be great. I think that would work in other shapers a bit better though, as the number of events already in this makes me hesitant (variance has gotten me once or twice on the mulligan where I couldn't use her ability). That and comet is very expensive comparatively, so I'd rather have an RDI.