Arboreal Amphibian

Toolkit Arissana deck, featuring a flexible World Tree engine. Lots of cheap, impermanent installs let us slow-roll out the more expensive and specific components of our rig, all the while tailoring it to the particular match-up. This deck especially has a few choices tailored to my local meta:

• low reliance on viruses (early versions focused on Conduit and Knobkierie infinite Imp)
• no “reprisals” due to us not trashing many cards (it is the corp who trashes due to Maw)
• solid economy (Telework Contract, Daily Casts, Sure Gamble, Creative Commission and Cyberdelia)
• fast ramp-up (Earthrise Hotel, The Class Act, Diesel, Self-modifying Code, Overclock)

The core engine being neutral / shaper cards means we can spend our influence on interesting 1-of tech cards; in my case, I went for 1x Hush and 1x Clot, but these are kinda flexible. We have no multiaccess, instead opting to pressure with Maw, but Conduit or Nyashia might be an interesting include.

Getting Maw down early can really hit quite hard! Against certain boardstates it makes sense to just WT out Maw and Aumakua and go ham on centrals.

Having The Class Act fairly early means we don’t accidentally draw all our World Tree targets with Earthrise Hotel. I recommend going for it soon after Maw, but depends on a number of factors and it can also be WT’d itself later when we run out of Earthrise Hotels.

Does the deck need to be 60 cards? Perhaps not, but any less and it tends to deck out pretty quickly, especially against grinder Thule or PE. And if we’re decking out, we aren’t using World Tree anymore.

Airblade might be the worst card in the deck: after playing without it I felt that the deck needed a few extra cheap hardwares for that early World Tree into Maw.. despite this being the main reason, I found it useful in a number of matchups (sometimes moreso than Clot) allowing me to trivialise some ICE and cheat through others. And I was always happy to WT it into a Cyberdelia later. Airblade FTW!