[Startup] FA MM

My own tweaks on the fast-advance mirrormorph list that is circulating:

ccxkrish1921 (original)

Tader-Tot

Like these, the main idea is, you can score a 4/2 from hand by:

1. Use Red Level Clearance: +1 Click, install Bass CH1R180G4
2. Rez and trash Bass CH1R180G4 (+2 click)
3. Install agenda (e.g. Offworld Office)
4. (MirrorMorph bonus click) Advance Agenda
5. Advance
6. Advance
7. Advance and Score

You can use the same formula to get Project Vitruvius scored with a counter, which you can then use to recur Red Level Clearance or Bass CH1R180G4 and repeat the cycle.

There are also 3 Biotic Labor which gives you another way to score from hand.

The core of assets and operations, with lots of recursion and money, is not really changed.

I prefer the Tader-Tot ices (3x Drafter, 2x Gold Farmer, 2x Engram Flush) to the original version -- see his comments for why these ices are a good choice for taxing the runner efficiently. These ice are cheap to rez and are consistently taxing.

The deck may seem very fragile because there are not very many ice.

You have a couple draw acceleration cards that can help you find ice:

• Sprint
• Spin Doctor

You are almost always going to take money and not cards with Predictive Planogram.

Crisium Grid is also crucial for slowing down Steve Cambridge: Master Grifter, runners with Khusyuk or Stargate, etc.

The main changes I made on the Tader-Tot version are:

• -1 Project Vacheron, -3 Megaprix Qualifier, +2 Superconducting Hub, +2 Cyberdex Sandbox

This is because, it is almost always too difficult to score Vacheron in a real game (need 3 cards and 13 credits), so it's typically a liability. Megaprix Qualifier was removed because I was finding that in almost all games that I actually won, I won with 8 points and the fact that Megaprix Qualifier is worth 2 points instead of 1 just isn't relevant in most games. Superconducting Hub on the other hand actually helps you win because hand size helps you hold on to your important FA pieces, and makes HQ multiaccess with Docklands Pass less threatening. Cyberdex Sandbox also gives the deck yet another way to make money, and particularly, to make money while trashing Clot which is a major challenge for the deck. Both of these agendas were in the original, so in this sense, we are reverting the agenda suite to look more like the original.

• -1 Hagen -1 Tranquility Home Grid + 2 Ansel 1.0

Tader-Tot's writeup describes Hagen as a counterplay to clot, but in my games, it never happens that the runner facechecks Hagen, and they also have clot installed at this time. In my games, the deck just doesn't go as fast as e.g. PD rush decks unless you get lucky draws, and Hagen diminishes in strength so much that it's usually not worth it to rez it.

I think Tranquility Home Grid is sometimes good, but it's often just kind of a "win more" card. You are usually only going to trigger it in the course of fast advancing something, or maybe with a spin doctor or something.

I'm not sure that Ansel 1.0 is the best choice of ice here, there's a good case to be made that Brân 1.0 is better overall. The main reason for Ansel is the possibility that you can recur Bass CH1R180G4. This is what I'm playing with for now.

• -1 Sprint, +1 Scapenet

This is the change I'm least sure about -- I noticed that in many games, I draw multiple sprint and end up discarding one of them. Also sprint is less needed when you have superconducting hub (or so the theory goes). Scapenet is here because it gives you a way to try to break out of Clot lock. First, use Scapenet to kill Simulchip. Then, purge the Clot. You also have several methods to try to recur Scapenet. This change is a bit sketchy because Sprint is important in this deck to help deal with low ice count. I find that 1x Scapenet is usually not a dead card, you can sometimes snipe important tools away from the runner, such as Paladin Poemu or DreamNet in a way that will help their game. You have several ways to recur Scapenet anyways if needed.