PEAS in Our Time

"I wonder if there are any Mendel gifs?" he thought, expecting nothing. Certainly not expecting Top 30 Mendel GIFs! or this little cutie:

This is the deck I threw together for @Sanjay's Gregor Mendel stream. It turned out to be surprisingly fun and is dominant, 100% ON JNET!!1 (from two games), so I thought I'd publish it.

I'm sure you already know this, but Gregor Mendel is the "father of modern genetics". So this deck honours him (mainly) via the little-used Genetics subtype, and what an odd little group of cards it is. Adjusted Chronotype has hardly been since the closure of Wyldside. Synthetic Blood is a weird kind of death prevention card. Symmetrical Visage is often forgotten in favour of Professional Contacts. And there's also Enhanced Vision which is even worse. Then if you want to maximise their effect you can visit the Gene Conditioning Shoppe, and let me tell you, Baby getting you two credits per turn feels pretty great.

So now we're on theme, but what do we do with this? We look at what's possible if we're prepared to sacrifice a click each turn (as Adjusted Chronotype will give it us right back). First up we have Qianju PT which you may have seen appear in an odd deck here and there when tagging strategies are to the fore. It's also fun to temporarily switch off cards like IP Block and Data Raven. And can combo with things like Maya, Hot Pursuit or Thunder Art Gallery (hat tip to @Baa Ram Wu for the last two). But the much more interesting click-losing card is Globalsec Security Clearance. You don't need to be an expert to know that seeing the top card of R&D every turn is a good thing, and without the successful run requirement of Find the Truth. All you need is a second link, which Cybertrooper Talut provides masterfully.

While The Birds are attacking, you may as well use cards that benefit from being freshly installed so Euler and Gauss are in, and then you need the tools to install them more than once, so Rejig and Simulchip step in.

Finally we need a couple more references to the great man. Mendel's most famous experiment involved pea plants, so Peas in Our Time allows us to pay for all this stuff, along with the floating little green peas. Throw in a few other nuts and bolts and you have something approaching a functional deck.

Thanks to @Sanjay for the inspiration to build something different all while learning a little, and a fun night of streaming and silly games.