Yellow AgMarine - 1st Intercontinentals (undefeated)

On Saturday afternoon, Leela boarded an unknown vessel and started to sink. Hard.

Then, during game 3, this little beauty started kicking into full gear.

Ag in a post-excaliptic world

There are a few reasons Ag is interesting.

• Ag is rango-proof. Boomerangs on unrezzed ice fall victim to boops. And Ag's favorite boop target, Anansi, is even more rango-proof
• Cyberdex Sandbox is amazing, and I really want to play only 8 gendies. Ag can afford to drop two Niseis
• Ag has a ton of influence, and it doesn't need to include a playset of border controls. This means we can play triple gold farmer
• Ag can include situational ice such as Macrophage and Sadaka. Worst case it's boop fodder
• Ag is good against Apoc, which has recently been popular
• Unlike Palana, Ag doesn't supercharge Pad Tap. Unless you have that Hortum on HQ ¯\(ツ)/¯ (Yes, I overextended on the remote, and then couldn't rez another ice on HQ as planned)

ICE amount
Glacier decks usually lose if they don't have early ice. I play such a large number of ice primarily for consistency (I don't install/rez them all. This is not GameNet).

ICE cost
Some new ice with fabulous numbers has been printed. For example, for Amina, breaking Engram Flush or DNA Tracker costs the same! Most of the deck consists of small-mid sized ice with good numbers.
The one ice expensive to rez is Anansi. It's the deck's most important ice, as it enables the most viscous booping and taxing.
An earlier iteration of this deck was running Týr. And while he is awesome, there were ways to work around him that do not work on Anansi.

Gold Farmer

Gold Farmer is amazing. If the runner isn't stimming, I actually like the fact that runners can pay through. Ag is more interested in taxing than gearchecking, and paying 6 to see an NGO being popped is rough.
However, I don't think that this deck needs Gold Farmer to work. It just happens to be some of the best value that influence can buy.

A more gearchecky alternative would be Sandstone, and there is some antiviral synergy in the deck. However, stacking too many of them makes repeated runs too cheap.

Shout-out

Shout-out to lostgeek for inspring both finalists to play Jinteki glacier. I would also like to thank Noah and him, along with the other jnet devs, for developing such an amazing online client. Without it, lockdown tournaments wouldn't even be possible in the first place!

Notable mention to Kloppy for providing me with the rango-proof badge.