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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
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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.
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14 Apr 2014
PeekaySK
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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
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. |
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.