Are you watching closely? 2nd at ANRPC Wausau, Jul 18

PixieSkull 1

I took the original deck and played offhand games and enjoyed it. I played against an HB deck that loaded up on glaciers and used Howard Jackson/Daily News Cast to up their card-drawing abilities and sentry-heavy icebreakers. Have you played this deck against stacked Turing with only one sentry card left, then to see the last rezzed ice is Ichi? I flipped the table over ( in my mind, because who wants to pick up and straighten all that shit?) A few times. My minor changes are as follows...

I changed: +1 Unscheduled Maintenance (to combat Corp currents used) +2 Access to Globalsec (to keep the throwaway icebreakers free and increase link against traces, decreasing the amount of coin spent against traces helped keep the brain damage at bay) -1 Fairie (to make way for Ninja power) +1 Snitch (to check the first unneeded ice on glaciers and give the option to Jack out) +2 Ninja (a persistent Sentry breaker was missing)

*The weaknesses I saw in playing against one heavy HB deck were that I didn't have enough consistent icebreakers and an extra link card to make my disposable ones attack and count further for their strength bonuses. Access to Globalsec was cheap and in-faction. Having the extra protection against traces also means saving money to protect on traces. 1 cost for persistent link is great and having the protection for your Security Testing economy card is great. * Then I realized a hole in sentry coverage, playing against a sentry-heavy deck. Ichi and Turing may cost lots of money with Sentry, but if you only have one Shiv or Faerie left in a sentry-heavy glacier and no Levy in sight, you could waste clicks and turns to get them back. And it helped psych out the Corp when you want them to spend their coins on Redding ice you can spy first with Snitch. * Snitch. Handy as hell for players that like to pre-run HQ to make the Corp spend Rez credits before going through with Account Siphon or Legwork. The ability to jack out if you see something huge is monumental, too, too see how many clicks or coins you need to spare for a successful run through. 3 cost to use it once per run-up consistently makes this a need card for me in general, in or out if faction. * I hate currents. When they're played against me, that is. I was forced to spend 2 clicks for each first run a few times before I freaked out and grabbed an Unscheduled Maintenance. It's also handy for stopping the Corp from making multiple glaciers to protect multiple San San or Ash agenda farm servers.

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