Second Best Botanist

Second First Best Botanist

With Wu banned, Ayla becomes one of the best IDs to play World Tree in.

This deck resembles the old Wu, but we cannot afford a 60+ deck size. The main thing we want to get with Tree are economic resources, and breakers. Stoneship Chart Room and No Free Lunch are Tree fodder, as well as an almost empty Daily Casts or Telework Contract.

With Ayla's ability, you want to set aside as many as you can of 3 types of cards:

1. Ways to get the Tree out

• World Tree. Duh.
• Self-modifying Code makes you a less optimal, +1 Wu.
• Test Run makes you a much less optimal, more expensive Wu, but also doubles as recursion if rig shooting is online. Having it out of the deck is great since you never really want to draw it until you really need it.

2. Fast Economy

• Sure Gamble, Creative Commission, Dirty Laundry, Overclock are great to build a strong enough economy to afford the tree.
• Telework Contract: great to get money going, and perfect to feed to the tree when there are only 3 left on it, to get a Daily Casts or Liberated Account.

3. Silver bullets

• Pinhole Threading: you only have one copy of it, use it sparingly.
• Test Run: see above
• Misdirection, although sometimes it's nice to pull it out with tree in a pinch, after recovering from HHN. If you do host Misdirection in a matchup where it's relevant, make sure you end your turn on 4 to be able to afford drawing Misdirection from your ID, installing it, and using it to clear tags.
• Mayfly: it's quite nice to be able to summon the fly á la Wu when needing to contest a remote early on.
• Cyberdelia: this helps when you need MU, which you do when you're ready to be all set up. Otherwise, it just fills your hand. Since we don't have ways to tutor it with Tree, we don't need/want it in the deck.

Things you DON'T want to host on your ID

• Miss Bones: if you need Bones in your match, having it in the deck is actually much nicer than having it ready. It's great to make a run on assets, and pull Bones out before access, sacrificing fodder like Stoneship Chart Room or No Free Lunch.
• non-Mayfly Breakers: better get them at a discount with tree!
• K2CP Turbine: same as the breakers.
• Daily Casts and Liberated Account: the best tree targets.
• Earthrise Hotel: third the best Tree target, especially after all breakers are tutored