Spikey Palana

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BizTheDad 213

Out of 60+ games with this deck on J-Net, I have a win percentage over 80%. I think Nisei will eventually need to deal with Ganked!. I very quickly lost count of how many games that card single-handedly won. Couple it with Anansi and it's pure brutality. Anansi is hard enough to break once much less two or three times on the same run. If your server contains Anansi, Ganked!, and Obokata Protocol, then good luck to the runner that can break and steal.

The other spikey cards in the -- Snare! and Chrysalis -- punish early running which is required against almost all Palana decks given how fast they set up and score out. On a side note, Chrysalis surprised me. I put it in as an experiment and after the first ten wins I couldn't believe how powerful it was.

When Ganked! isn't killing runners, this deck scores out like any other Palana rush deck using Nisei MK II, Border Control and Bio Vault. I found I didn't need that many ETR ICE given Anansi can act as one.

Enjoy.

3 comments
24 Nov 2020 lukevanryn

This looks a little poorer than "standard" Costa Palana (e.g. LostGeek's Data Loop list from words). The ice costs $70 to that deck's $71, and you've cut 2 gifts and an IPO. Do you find it running a bit close to the ground? I guess with the kill backup money is less of a problem, but I'd be interested to hear your thoughts.

25 Nov 2020 BizTheDad

``@lukevanryn` I haven't had any issues that stand out to me. I've made and played a lot of Data Loop lists and I've found they put too much faith in scoring an Obokata Protocol behind the Data Loop as their win condition. Besides rush of course. In fact, I made this list in some ways because of my issues with those lists.

I've found that Ganked! plus Anansi can mean you probably don't have to protect a remote that heavily especially if the runner knows your deck. If they can't break an Anansi multiple times they simply won't run the remote which means you can spend your money on protection R&D. I usually don't protect HQ that much because the Snare!'s and Chrysalis's do that.

Give it a try and see if you have any money issues. I'd welcome any feedback.

8 Dec 2020 BizTheDad

@lukevanryn After playing more with this, I realized that a really hard matchup is 419: Amoral Scammer. That's probably due to some of the econ issues you noticed.