I'm Coming in, If You Don't "Mind."

yung_zoloft 45

This deck started as an attempt to maximize Sage's potential, but after much play testing, it turned into an economic powerhouse capable of early pressure with a highly adaptable breaker suite.

I'm currently undefeated in my local league with this build and I plan on piloting it in the upcoming store championship.

Ekomind + Public Sympathy + Overmind/Sage is the obvious combo, but dropping an Overmind without that setup shuts out early game scoring windows as long as you have the cash (which you will).

Practically everything in this deck is Aesop fodder. (Cache, Overmind, Rabbit Hole, Daily Casts, Bank Job, etc.) You'll have something to sell almost every turn. This deck's economy flows very well; you never have to click for credits.

Lots of singletons due to refinements made over time, in addition to the fact that you'll draw through your whole stack (sometimes twice) in most games.

1 Same old thing to reuse legwork or to use Levy AR Lab Access from the heap if it gets trashed due to damage. 1 sharpshooter because archer is a bitch. 1 net shield because there's tons of PE in my local meta and Feedback filter is too expensive for this deck. The memchips make it so Sage, overmind, and creeper can survive a Levy while Ekomind is installed.

RP is a tough matchup because it doesn't give me enough clicks to draw cards and run. Every game is a close finish. However, it walks all over most anything else.

I've found that this deck is very consistent and super fun to pilot. Once set up, the toughest servers usually cost no more than 8 credits to walk through. Creeper is the weakest part of this build. I often refrain from installing it unless I sense that my Overminds will run out of counters.

Comments and concerns welcome. I'd like to hear what others think.

4 comments
27 Jan 2015 linuxmaier

How do you use Levy AR Lab Access when you have Ekomind out? My understanding of the rules is that your memory would be temporarily set to 0 while you're Levying and you'd lose all your programs.

27 Jan 2015 yung_zoloft

@linuxmaier I had to look this up when the idea occurred to me. It turns out all memory modifiers stack. If ekomind makes your memory limit x (where x is your hand size), then playing an akamatsu mem chip makes your memory limit x+1. Thus protecting 1 memory worth of programs from a Levy.

27 Jan 2015 linuxmaier

@yung_zoloft That makes sense. Is that usually ok for you? I'd assume so, since you only need the extra memory to boost strength and you can go down on memory so long as it doesn't get less than the programs you've got running.

27 Jan 2015 yung_zoloft

@linuxmaier Yeah, it's always worked out fine. As long as I have the two chips installed, my whole breaker suite is protected from the Levy. Not to mention that they help before and after a Levy as a permanent strength boost for Sage and a means to get more counters on an overmind.