sozlol get rekt (The Other 0ther Geist Deck)

JohnnyMilton 1052

Other Geist decks draw lots of cards and clear lots of tags, or try to make the B&E suite work as best they can. This one just gets in. Not very often, but more often than you'd think and always when it counts.

PILOTING

Siphon them lots. Drink the honey straight from the beehive.

You don't need e3 implants, they're just nice to have.

Play the fool. Saving up your installs for right before you run can frequently fool the corp into thinking you're much less prepared than you are.

DECKBUILDING RATIONALE

This is a Siphon recursion deck. It holds down the headrest with Cortez Chip and Crescentus.

Everything else is built around the sympathy of Grappling Hook, Overmind and e3 Feedback Implants. These cards want Box-E, for the extra MU and you can draw quite a bit which makes the extra hand size desirable. Box-E also gives you Stimhack permission.

HQ Interface and Medium are your late game.

The econ suite could be stronger. Overmind is expensive. We've got Fall Guy for protection so, after further testing, I expect to sub in Kati Jones in some slot. Tri-maf Contact is also an option (because we have Crash Space too).

Crash Space is our default Scorched Earth protection because our ability loves it and, well, Account Siphon is our bread and butter.

Scavenge is there to recur Overmind elegantly. Clone Chip can also do this more expensively.

Mimic to shepherd your Overmind in the early game in the absence of Grappling Hook and for its general efficiency.

Special Order because our icebreaker density is LOW.

4 comments
26 Jul 2015 x3r0h0ur

I get that box-e adds to your overmind (just 1), but I think logos is way better, specifically for its ability to find medium, but also act as a free special order, help you get econ/draw rolling with visage, find the stimhacks, etc. Also the hand size buff is nice. The 1 overmind counter probably isn't better than Logo's very very abuseable effect.

26 Jul 2015 SlayerCNV

so you don't "siphon a lot". You have your meat protection as resource so it will be trashed while tagged, i think...

27 Jul 2015 JohnnyMilton

@x3r0h0ur Thanks for the suggestion x3r0! I'm definitely going to test this. The Box-E call is a hangover from when I was running something similar - to surprising success - with Andromeda (first turn Box-E is just silly with her starting hand).

I'll post back here to let you know how I go =D

27 Jul 2015 JohnnyMilton

@SlayerCNV You actually do Siphon a lot with those Same Old Things.

If you're scared about losing the Crash Space, keep a Fall Guy around. At least they'll have to trash him first. If you get these two out - unless they're packing a Freelancer - they're going to have to spend two of their three clicks trashing with only one left to Scorch. You'll survive that, if you're on your game.