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skydivingninja 412

Started testing a Gagarin deck this weekend to take a break from Blue Sun and play with more Weyland cards from this cycle. Basically, you're going to be playing a horizontal taxing game, with lots of high-trash cost assets and taxing Ice. The deck plays with advanceable Ice a lot, and the goal is to never let it go to waste once you rez a free cosmic ice, so you can move your counters with Constellation Protocol or Trick of Light to other pieces of Ice or Agendas.

I've really liked how the deck plays so far. You can score an early Atlas behind an RSVP. Crisium Grid defends your centrals against multiaccess hijinks. Paywall Implementation and Cyberdex Virus Suite makes any deck with Datasucker think twice about running archives to build up counters. The Cosmic Ice has been incredibly strong against traditional rigs, often making the runner spend 10+ credits to get into a server, only for them to hit an Ash. Its wonderfully frustrating for the runner and I love it.

2 comments
17 Feb 2015 Thike

Been playing something similar. Really enjoying it. Do you find ToL worth it? Would you rather use the influence on some more drip econ assets like Mental Health Clinic or Marked Accounts, or some solid taxing ICE?

17 Feb 2015 skydivingninja

I do find ToL worth it. Very useful for using up cosmic ice advancements, and can surprise the runner by quickly scoring a second or third project Atlas. I have considered reducing it to one copy and replacing it with a playset of one of those cards, but I don't know what I'd take out to make room for either of those cards.