4-0 GNK: Potential Shame

ryanbantwins 2738

This is the deck that I brought to the latest GNK. It went undefeated against Temujin Kate, Nexus Kate, Stealth Kate and Faut Whizzard. It's a lot of fun to play but so stupid to play against that it basically always tilts your opponent.

The gameplan is simple, spam it 'til you make it. You don't really have a quick way to finish the game so you'll have to play the prison game like in the old IG. Decking them almost never happens but it brings fear to your opponents so they'll make risky decisions.

Since you don't have a scoring plan/window I play the easy self-protection agendas. While House of Knives is bonkers in this ID, I don't have the deckslots for it, nor do I want to raise the agenda density.

The deck is built around the prison of Bio-ethics, Genetics Pavilion and Hostile Infrastructure. I chose to use the MCH engine as the backbone, while it's influence heavy it is reliable and efficient and it let's you outlast the runner so much easier. Tech startup for MCH early, hostile mid game and Bio ethics late game (you can't use them that turn tho).

Currents against Rumour Mill and Voter Intimidation against Slums, Sec testing, film critic, ... Heritage is still the MVP. I've said it many times, the errata on MCH doesn't change that much it's still good draw and hand management whenever you want for only one deckslot. I normally use it 5-10 times per game and I can't imagine the deck without it.

Add some taxing, annoying ICE and you have a deck that is so stupid to play that you should be ashamed of yourself.

3 comments
1 Nov 2016 Megasquidd

What is your strategy for getting credits? I see Turtlebacks and Mental Health Clinic, but nothing else. Is it a drip econ only?

1 Nov 2016 ryanbantwins

Priority number one is getting 2-3 Mumba Temples. Those pay for 90% of your expenses. The 5 starting credits are enough to set your engine up and for the early MCH and Heritage that I need to pay for. 1 or 2 econ cards is all I need to have a decent amount of backup credits in case things go wrong. Just be carefull with your early expenses (especially ICE) and you should be fine.

During testing most criminals tried to deny my econ by trashing temples and econ. Never found it to be a problem. They all ran out of steam long before I did.

1 Nov 2016 Megasquidd

Nice... This is seriously douchey deck. How do you sleep at night?