Iceless Genomics

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king_mob 106

Fair warning: Untested.

The general idea is to install Caprice Nisei and Crisium Grid on HQ, ICE HQ more than any other central and ignore ICE on remotes completely. Use Off the Grid to create unrunnable remotes, and therefore scoring windows. If you have already installed an agenda on a remote with OtG, your looking to rez OtG after 2nd or 3rd click of the runners turn to jump them running the remote, otherwise just rez at the end (of the runners turn). They wont be able to trash OtG until Crisium is off the table, and 3 face down cards in archives will make Crisium cost $10+ to break through to and trash with any given ICE in the deck bar Quandary (don't be tempted to replace Quandary - its a perfect card to live face down in archives or for plugging gaps early game).

Rezzing OtG is sure to be a massive tell so have everything you need in hand before flipping it. Build econ horizontally and the runner should be more interested in archives (reduce trash cost), then HQ (bust Crisium), than nuking Private Contracts. Melange is a notable exception, try and play this when you have a good number of face down cards in archives.

Other things to note - don't try and score The Future Perfect if you can help it - just dump it straight away and increase the trash cost of everything else. Psi games are fun anyway.

Be interested to see how long the scoring window this combo creates actually lasts and how effective it is, also how it holds up against R&D pressure - although low agenda density hopefully mitigates that to a certain degree.

Thoughts and criticisms always welcome.

8 comments
15 Dec 2014 esutter479

3 face-downs will make OTG cost 10 to trash? So you're saying that Genomics' ability effectively parallels that of Origami on the runner side?

15 Dec 2014 esutter479

Oh wait, nevermind. You were factoring a Crisium Grid run into that. My bad. :)

15 Dec 2014 king_mob

No its cool I worded that clumsily. Im referring to trashing Crisium which has to happen before OtG can be accessed, and in fact another run on HQ needs to be made even after Crisium is toast. Iv edited the comment so its less confusing :)

15 Dec 2014 esutter479

Well, either way, I favorited this. It looks scientifically delicious. :)

15 Dec 2014 king_mob

Cheers :)

19 Dec 2014 ItJustGotRielle

Long time Weyland player here, interested in this deck. My question is this: there are ZERO traps in here. What keeps the runner from wanting to run Archives? Or do you play this like Tennin fast advance, and glacier all 3 centrals? Could you fit Shi.Kyu and shock in here by running 3 pointers instead?

19 Dec 2014 king_mob

Yes, there are plenty of holes in it, i admit to that. Its a first draft, and an untested one at that. The combo is far fetched but achievable, and it goes like this (how fast this would be in competitive play is another question):

With OtG on a remote and Crisium Grid on HQ, the runner has to run HQ, break through, trash Crisium, run HQ again causing OtG to self destruct, then run your remote. With Genomics you can make the trash cost of Crisium ridiculous, but the most likely scenario is 2-3 face down cards in archives, making Crisium 7-8 credits to trash.

This makes running archives to expose the face down cards a realistic play for the runner, probably over two turns as the build up to hitting a remote, and probably seen only at match point.

So with that context, to answer your question - nothing is stopping this play from happening, and regularly. The ice stack on archives that works the best is Marker + Tsurugi, but even then you are facing inevitability. The hope is to have everything in play so that the runner is looking at either 4 clicks + costly run, or 4 clicks over two turns. That in my mind creates 3 turns for advancing agendas.

Shock! would be the most attractive addition, and i'm already considering the economy heavy handed and the deck too large (45 would make the combo believable).

Potentially as well this could all be done far easier with Blue Sun + Atlas, but alas i'm a newer player and What Lies Ahead was out of print by the time i started buying data packs, hahaha.

Regardless, please apply as heavy handed criticism as you can, its all welcome, i'm over the moon a pro player has taken an interest in the idea.

19 Dec 2014 king_mob

As a slight correction to my last comment- I said "probably only at match point" as im expecting the meta to be consistent and things like silhouette completed or stealth criminal be prevelant, and a certain level of central pressure to be unavoidable.