Project Iapetus: Preston 2015 Store Champ Winner

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This is the the corporation deck that got 1st place at the Preston Store Championship (14 players) winning 6 of its 7 games.

The goal of this deck is simple, score Project Atlas and then use the token to score another one, searching for either a piece of fast advance, or another atlas, depending on what you need.

12 of the 20 ice are advanceable, so you are never short of targets for Shipment from Kaguya or Trick of Light. The ice is also designed to tax repeated runs on centrals, rather than stop runs outright.

Stars of the deck:

Errand Boy: This card is so annoying to break for the runner, so it often just isn't, leading to either money or cards, depending on what you need. This and Caduceus normally will eventually get their money back, as the runner gets desperate hunting for the agendas to stop your fast advance machine.

Builder: This card is another card that is economy in ice form. The ice is rarely broken at the moment, which lets get get trick of light fodder, and often a discount in 6 on a rez cost. Once it has done all the constellation ice on a server, it can then move to the next one, until its job is complete.

Cards that could be changed:

Agendas that are not Atlas or Hostile Takeover: These slots are going to be the agendas you don't score unless you are desperate. I would still include 2 Geothermal Fracking at least, since that is scoreable from 5 points, or early on the board if the runner is slow to set up. The Hades Fragment is purely there to lower agenda density, to be honest, that could be any 5/3 agenda (that isn't the cleaners) and it will be fine. The two NAPD Contract are there to make it harder to steal, but I have also tried it with another 5/3 and Firmware Updates, and that seems to also work well, especially with Mark Yale.

Fire Wall: This is the ice I am least happy with, since the deck is not super flush with money, so it often costs a lot for another ice that succumbs to David. The advancement counters don't mean as much as they do for Ice Wall in this case. If I have firmware updates in the deck, I think these could be Changeling instead, and this will be the thing that is tested next.

15 comments
1 Mar 2015 PaxCecilia

Looks like a solid Titan decklist! Though there are only 12/20 advanceable Ice. Still, plenty of targets for Shipment from Kaguya like you said.

1 Mar 2015 metagaia

Oops, I will be bold and blame the one beer that I had last night, and I always count 3 x Fire Wall in my head for some reason.

1 Mar 2015 Dydra

OMG you have NAPD Contract and Hostile Takeover IN THE SAME DECK?!!! THIS IS BONKERS !!! HOW IS THIS SUPPOSED TO WORK?!

1 Mar 2015 clercqie

How did it hold up to Eater/Keyhole shenanigans?

1 Mar 2015 metagaia

@Dydra By always teasing and never delivering, poor poor police!

Seriously, you will never score NAPD unless things have gone badly wrong. In all 6 of the games I won, the only agendas scored were Hostile Takeover and Project Atlas. Geothermal Fracking is the backup plan if too many of those get stolen, but if that is the case, you have beefy enough ice to make a shot at trying a remote play. It is difficult but not unwinnable.

1 Mar 2015 metagaia

@clercqie

I only played against one Anarch all day (Reina, with cutlery and eater), but that is not a bad matchup. I did test against an Maxx keyhole in testing though. All the ice is quite taxing, so the runner will not get very many keyhole runs, and the fact you need at most 1 remote means that you can ice R&D quite well.

Once you have the Atlas tokens, you can remove the key pieces before the keyhole hits, and let the runner away with the other stuff, using Jackson Howard the very second something critical (i.e. Atlas) goes into the bin.

I am more worried overall about the aggressive criminal matchup, since they can sometimes disrupt you before you get going. In particular, my own runner deck (Leela Patel: Trained Pragmatist) is a good matchup against my corp deck.

2 Mar 2015 Katsushika

Was glad to steal a win off you in swiss, good showing :) Going to try this deck out myself. Looked solid and the NAPD's are a nice touch. Considered a 3rd Jackson and a Biotic in place of the SanSans? Gives you an extra influence for something daft like a Rototurret and should stop you from running into the problem you had in our game (fingers crossed)!

2 Mar 2015 metagaia

@Mr Plague I had considered the biotic, but the SanSan City Grid is very nice as a repeatable threat. That often drains the runner of credits, even if I can't use it myself.

I also don't want to drop below 5 pieces of fast advance, since I feel I would then be hunting for it too often.

Agenda floods like I had against you were rare, and I can normally score out of them. Of course, your mileage may vary ;-)

3 Mar 2015 Sarakhan

Very nice deck and congratulations for your position ! One question though do you score from hand with Intall ToL and SFK or you make a scoring remote to put San San in ? how you prefer to distribute your ice on servers ?

3 Mar 2015 metagaia

@Sarakhan

I will try to use either depending on what come from R&D first.

Errand Boy and Caduceus go on hq and R&D, to discourage constant runs.

The constellation ice can go on either a remote or central, though nebulae I try to avoid as an innermost ice.

Builder can go on the lightest server the runner actually runs, since you can move it once it is rezzed.

Ice walls are great early, but layetr on they are either token banks, or emergency barriers against cutultlry decks.

Try and get at least two tokens on one ice, even if you have no Trick of Light, but Don't go crazy just advancing a fire wall for the he'll of it.

11 Mar 2015 RustyKettle

It seems like Firmware Upgrades would be good. Pop one of those off on a San San, and you spent a turn for 1 agenda point and 12 credits (with Mark Yale).

13 Mar 2015 xjohncandyx

How crucial is Mark Yale to your strategy? Do you protect him? Seeing just the 1x makes me nervous as I see myself leaning on him for economy.

What do you do with an opening hand that is slammed with expensive or positional ICE? Are you clicking for credits and advancing often?

I also feel that Firmware Updates could easily be in the deck, even in place of Hostile Takeover. If you have a ToL in hand or SanSan installed, Firmware can be scored out of hand just as easily.

13 Mar 2015 metagaia

@RustyKettle, @xjohncandyx

You are both correct that Firmware Updates is an option, and the current deck version drops the 2 NAPDs for another 5/3 and one Firmware Updates.

Mark Yale is not essential to the strategy. He is nice when the runner does not trash him, but he is not vital. The deck has Interns and Jackson Howard, so he will see play. The fact that once the agenda engine gets going you are very difficult to stop means he is definitely not a 3x card.

If any change other change would be made to the deck, I would look to change the Restructure to either Beanstalk Royalties or Subliminal Messaging. The Root has also worked well in testing.

The deck has 3 x Ice Wall, 3 x Caduceus and 3 x Errand Boy, so it is rare you have no rezzable ice at all. If it happens you get none of those, just focus on protecting R&D if you have no Atlas in hand, and HQ if you do.

13 Mar 2015 xjohncandyx

Can you explain why you drop the NAPDs? You end up with the same density and another 3-pointer to worry about while not gaining that much in my opinion.

15 May 2015 lykouragh

I would consider Commercialization also as an alternative to Restructure- having played a deck similar to this, you rarely want to have 10+ credits and you often have 4 or more advancement tokens on a piece of advanceable ICE.