Standard Rush Ob Snuck into ESL [ETERNAL]

AugustusCaesar 1834

alternative title "someone needs to point IQ, its too OP"

A couple meta aspects led me to bring this to the middle weeks of ESL. Most relevant:

  • Sentries are really good right now: Barriers get eaten up by Paperclip, codegates by Yog.0, but breaking sentries is hard, so slamming an early Archer is really good. Archer is a whopping 12 for MKUltra, which even the richest runners cant reliably pay. Hammer is also a decent 6/9.

  • You need a good answer to currents: and just playing your own feels embarrasing when runners have 6 copies or theirs. Standoff is a great answer, it both clears the current, makes you money, and then enables your drawn Archers. Hostile is even better, getting you a point.

  • With runners focused so heavily on surviving silly combos, they have less ways to get into servers early, letting you snowball with Tucana.

  • Wu wasnt very popular in the first week, this turned out real bad for me, with this inverting on the weeks i played this. This deck is pretty soft into Wu, mostly because Wu is unbeatable, but also because we just cant defend centrals well enough ever, or be fast enough, The Holo Man might change this slightly, but i couldnt find a way to fit it in.

About Deck Slots

  • Advanced Assembly Lines: The most important card of the deck, clickless rashida that then moves to getting one of your gearchecks.
  • IQ: Is not actually op. Situationally it will be a 5 str ice that you can install for free off a Mark Yale or assembly line and your opponent will despair. But we are playing it mostly for its floor of being a Quandary that is fetchable.
  • Estelle Moon: We arent a very good Moon deck, but I wasnt using the points and it is the best option for fetching a Tranquility Home Grid, which is a lot of money.
  • The Holo Man: is not in the deck, but since this deck runs into problems not having enough clicks to score, i really want to get it in here.
3 comments
17 Mar 2025 Shishu

amazing that the eternal super players are still finding new ways to exploit wording. a real high IQ move, if you will.

17 Mar 2025 jan tuno

wonderful <3

19 Mar 2025 lunari

this deck is crazy, specially seeing it go off on turn 1 with the IQ fetch!!