NBN: Engineering the Future

This is my (not first) attempt at an NBN glacier deck. What surprised me is the fact that it works really effectively. NBN was the last faction to have an effective glacier build, which is strange because they have Tollbooth and Red Herrings in faction and have since the beginning, so you'd have expected there to be a lot of potential for this kind of deck pretty early on, but it wasn't until Troll that this really got to the point of being good.

The Goal

Get a good scoring server with Ash and Red in it so they can't tell whether you like Pokemon the cartoon or Pokemon the video game better. Preferably an RSVP in front of a Flare or Tollbooth, or a few other ice to include a Heimdall. Use the other ice on your centrals. Eli, Pop-up, and Troll work really well as cheap, taxing central ice. Troll combos with the ID very well.

Does it work?

Yep. This current iteration is undefeated (6 games), though the previous ones had to go through a lot of alteration to get to this point. I didn't include Troll before and focused more on RSVP and splashed a few Cortex Locks just for the surprise factor, and that didn't work at all. I could tell there was something to it though, so I kept it up. Troll, Flare, Architect, and Heimdall made the list for this iteration and they've all done good work.

I'm currently undefeated in my local league, mostly thanks to this deck. There is a lot you can do with this deck. A few examples:

• Ash 2X3ZB9CY with the Making News boost.

• Bluff out a Project Beale as an NAPD then Astroscript it into a 3-pointer. Or just score it as a 3-pointer.

• RSVP them into a Tollbooth or a Flare

• Remind them that Flare exists by getting rid of their Dinosaurus

• Flare + Making News

• Use Architect to get them to bring out their Mimic which will then only be good against Architect

The other important thing to do with this deck is to get googly eyes to use as the recurring credit counters.