Devilled Pancakes on the Beach

This deck was made for a tournament where IDs were randomly assigned. There was also an understanding that the point of the tournament was to try to blaze a new trail rather than playing the established archetypes. Everyone was playing something weird and wonderful instead of facing their 5th Kate/RP/Noise/NEH match of the day.

The core idea is that while Kit will obviously rock a decent decoder to handle one ice servers, at some point the pesky corp will put multiple ice down and you need some way to break through. Enter Faust, a solution to all ills. Then all you need are cards to fuel it, and Shapers are great at drawing.

In the spirit of the tournament, the draw combo I plumped for was Beach Party + Game Day. Then I spent some influence on Adjusted Chronotype to get the click back from the Party (the first Party anyway). Aesop's Pawnshop can be used to sell a Beach Party if it gets out of hand and you think the extra click would be more useful.

I opted for Comet as my console, as I am running so many events. In practice I think so many of them are situational I often skipped the "free" event, so it usually wasn't worth what I spent on it, Astrolabe would probably have served me better.

It was great fun to play, though I did pretty badly (1-4 I think) - I'm not a very experienced player and made a lot of mistakes, but it felt like there could be a reasonable deck here with a bit of tweaking. There were certain bits of ice which become very expensive for Faust (Wraparound, Komainu spring to mind as ones I encountered on the day).

At one point I drew up to 17 cards though, which made the whole thing worthwhile. I also got 5 brain damage in the same game and just laughed it off. Good times.