Reinarado + Lucky Find

grogboxer 428

I've had some decent luck with this deck so far. It's not super inventive or anything, but I think it's a tiny bit different :).

It's a Criminal-ish deck, meaning your goal is to run all the time. Shutdowns are a problem, but the deck has redundancy in relevant cards so usually as long as you're smart and not just face-planting blindly you're okay. The biggest problems have been finding a Mimic or Money (both standard Anarch problems).

Obviously, mulligan for Desperado or Mimic. Desperado turn 1 becomes a great economic boost and synergizes (obviously) with sucker. It also helps with Hemorrhage and either Medium or Nerve Agent. Mimic is there because Roto is everywhere these days.

I have gone back and forth with: 3x Djinn + 1x Hemorrhage + 1x Medium + 1x Nerve Agent

and

2x Djinn + 2x Imp + 2x Medium/Keyhole.

Both work well in different cases. The latter is more streamlined but can give you fewer options late-game. The former is more toolboxy. Keyhole is fantastic but I have to have a Djinn due to MU limits. Hemorrhage gives you a way to help trash combo cards, I added it to help against HBFA and Astro-biotics.

I took out Account Siphons and replaced with Lucky Find. I know that sounds really stupid, but in practice I have always been happy with Lucky Find, whereas I found Siphons would either not land or yield little to no econ boost for lots of influence.

I could also go: -1 Dirty Laundry, -1 Djinn and then +2 Xanadu. That works okay as well, but then it's a little bit less consistent game-to-game.

3x Parasites are critical, that's really the only defense against Toolbooths and Archers. Deja Vu is to recur them or, if absolutely necessary, pull back a breaker.

Last thing...why Reina? This could be any of the IDs, Noise would be okay given the 9 viruses, but Reina's single tax is surprisingly effective in and of itself. Originally this started out as a Whizzard deck, but with operation econ so strong these days he's often just a blank ID.

7 comments
14 Apr 2014 PeekaySK

Have you considered dropping the third Desperado, in order to get a third QT and a third Lucky Find? Seems like it could increase consistency a bit while also strengthening the econ overall.

14 Apr 2014 grogboxer

I haven't, that's a good idea. I guess my worry is never seeing a Desperado then (and without it my econ is weak). What would you drop then (to get to 45)? Conceivably if I have 3 QT I don't need 3x of all breakers or perhaps could go down to 2x Djinn.

14 Apr 2014 x3r0h0ur

I think you accidentally built a noise deck.

14 Apr 2014 PeekaySK

Yeah, I'd drop the third Djinn. You don't need two on the table, and with three QTs you're going to find your first copy fast enough anyway.

15 Apr 2014 grogboxer

I tried the 3 Lucky Find+3 QT version once, got mad I didn't see a Desperado for 22 cards despite 2 QTs played :) I'll have to try it again.

28 Apr 2014 Greywind

Hey! Just won a Chronos Protocol tournament here, playing a slightly modified version of this. -1 Desperado, -1 Djinn, -1 Yog.0, +1 Lucky Find, +1 Quality Time, +1 Daily Casts. It went 6-2. Kudos!

4 May 2014 grogboxer

Cool! I'm debating putting in Express Delivery instead of QT, it's rare that I actually want all 5 cards from QT, and the 3 credit cost is a tempo hit.