Control Stirling

jaywinner 1

My latest attempt at making a viable Stirling deck.

The early game is focused on getting Mr. Li and Logos down.

Mid game will have you searching for 1 Access to Globalsec and every copy of Underworld Contact. This is also a good time to get a Crypsis down to threaten any agenda they'd like to score.

In the late game, both players will likely have lots of credits but you should have more. Now is the time to Vamp it all away. With no safe place to score an agenda, finish the game off using John Masanori and Data Leak Reversal

Ideally, The Source should be played after they score their first agenda and should be replaced after use or saved with Fall Guy. Don't be afraid to Data Dealer your agendas away; you often don't need them to win.

If you choose to bring something like this to a tournament, be mindful of the time limit. Even when playing at a quick pace, this will take a while.

2 comments
5 Aug 2014 feng_zhao

Highly situational, but let's say you're up against a midseason deck. The corp is sitting on a pile of money and decides to install advance advance, leaving it there. The next turn they do the same thing with another card and it turns out that the corp is trying to score most of their points in one turn. Leaving your ability useless.

What do you do?

If you decide to steal an agenda. You'll get midseasoned and the corp will probably score out an overadvanced Project Beal or Scorch you. If you don't then they'll score it out when they're close to victory.

6 Aug 2014 jaywinner

I haven't faced this situation yet but here are some options. I put the source down (along with fall guys) to make it harder for them to score them all at the same time. Next is try to gain an economic advantage. Throw out my Calling in Favors. When I see it's likely I'll lose next turn if I don't do something, I start running agendas and if need be, Data Dealer away the 1-2 agendas I took to keep me out of Midseason range.

I'm hoping the corp can't reach that board state too fast; I usually have less money than the corp early and catch up as time goes by.