Meeples Games Store Championship 2nd Place Corp

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CI Scorch - 1st place Divedice Championship(20 players)
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yung_zoloft 45

Got second place going 8-2 in the Meeples Games Store Championship last Sunday, 2/15, with this list. The player who got first place had the same ratio but won by strength of schedule.

I anticipated lots of Eater/Keyhole nonsense, so I wanted a deck that went vertical to make accesses as taxing as possible. Crisium Grid provides extra protection from Keyhole as well as early Siphons (the bane of this deck) and the like. Icing archives against Noise and MaxX is a good enough counter, honestly, as it can provide a decent enough window to snatch agendas back with Archived Memories. It is not likely they will ever have 7 points in there at one time to insta-win off a Hades Shard.

Early game is spent icing centrals and winning the econ war. If they get too aggressive with accessing cards and let the credit gap get out of control, you can burn their house down. Meanwhile, you're looking for combo pieces. There are lots of ways to score 7 agenda points out of hand in this deck, but the most efficient is:

  1. Biotic + Biotic for Efficiency Committee

  2. First click install a 5/3 agenda, Second click advance, take Efficiency Committee counters, then double Shipment from SanSan

  3. Biotic for Vitruvius, or double Biotic for NAPD/Efficiency Committee.

Reclamation Order is the MVP of this deck. Grabbing 3 Restructures from archives makes it hard for the runner to stay within a safe margin of your credit pool. It's also useful to get Biotics back to score that last agenda.

Subliminal Messaging is also a huge help because runners can usually only afford to run one of your centrals about once every 3 turns.

The one match I lost was to a MaxX deck that Siphoned me 5 times in the first 3 turns which made me consider dropping a Shipment from SanSan to include a third Crisium grid. Another option would be adding more non-bioroid etr ice.

Thoughts and suggestions welcome - I plan on piloting this deck at the PNW regionals and I want it as polished as possible by then. Thanks for reading.

5 comments
17 Feb 2015 Dydra

I've been playing some CI past 2 weeks and I found out that it is good meta call. However, mine is with IQ and Ashigaru (and a bit more ICE in general) without Scorch and Crisium. If you land a decent Acelerated you will give yourself tons of space.

Edward kim jacks up CI though, so really beware of that.

Did some testing today against Kim, knowing the match up is bad, to see "how bad it can get" ... well whenever he "hammered" something , wether it was a Hedge Fund or a Biotic it did hurt ... trashed some of my ice with an Imp and gave me a lot of pain

I wouldnt run this in a tournament if I expect more than 1 Kim deck

17 Feb 2015 sruman

Did you play against much cutlerly? Playing HB:FA in one store championship, I lost in the finals due to relatively easy destruction of my bio-roids on click-thru cutlerly runs. The ichi 2.0's would be immune but the rest could be killed for "cheap" paving the way for deep digs or keyhole crazy turns.

I like Viktor 1.0 as taxing as well, but has switch to Viper as it's even more taxing without the click-thru option. It can be played around by running last click and breaking just 1 sub, but still usually 3+ to break (or at least 2 on trace).

How many scorch kills versus scoring kills?

17 Feb 2015 yung_zoloft

@Dydra I like IQ for CI, but I'm not as fond of Ashigaru. In my local meta, anyway, it's just too high of an influence and credit investment to be killed by a parasite so easily. I have played against a few Kim decks. I would be lying if I said the matchup is easy, but with as much resource recursion as this build is capable of, all the combo pieces that got hammered were more of tempo hits than game-changers. That said, Kim is definitely one of the toughest matchups for HB fast advance, and I need to play test against it a lot more.

@sruman I was lucky enough not to play against too many decks that destroyed ice as their primary mechanic. A little bit of ice destruction doesn't hurt too much because I generally have 3 or 4 in my hand that I haven't needed to install. I agree that taxing, non-bioroid ice would be a big help. What else would you suggest to deal with a deck that focuses on ice destruction? In response to your question, I won most tournament games with flatline because no one installed a plascrete against me. When I play friends in my local league who know my deck, it's almost always a scoring win.

16 May 2015 JAK

I've been playing basically this deck (as a result of reading this list) for the last couple of months. It's a lot of fun, just wanted to say thanks. No-one's really expecting CI in a post-clot world.

17 May 2015 yung_zoloft

Glad you're having fun with the deck!