Quarantine at The Earthrise

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kyledoesntknow 123

Experimenting with the new Earthrise Hotel and Incubator. Oh, my gosh, Incubator. This card blows your scoring windows wide open. With two Incubators in play, accruing virus counters, you can do the following in a single turn:

  • Play a Darwin from hand, give it upwards of 10 strength, run on a server. Or, load up a Datasucker and Clone Chip+Parasite through a server
  • Play a Medium/Nerve Agent, look at most of the corp's deck/hand
  • Knock a piece of ICE into outer space with a Parasite from hand, graveyard, etc
  • Refill your empty Imps in play and trash all cards, forever
  • Convert the counters directly to credits by refilling a Cache, then Stimhack through any mega-server

Wherever there are viruses, Incubator makes them nastier and makes the runner unpredictable. I've thought about Fester to make purging virus counters, but not sure what to replace, and the downtime after a purge has so far been very short.

Earthrise Hotel is a fine replacement for Wyldside. Getting your click back is tremendous, and the install cost is minor. Definitely my future go-to for generic card draw.

3 comments
28 Dec 2014 Friff14

How often do corps purge against this? I feel like they'd purge a lot, giving a lot of free turns to the runner. But how does this do when there are no virus counters anywhere? It seems like it'd be a totally wasted turn if you don't have any virus counters on the board, given the fact that there are 17 viruses and only Mimic and Darwin, so you could only break

29 Dec 2014 kyledoesntknow

@Friff14 It's true, I haven't played against super fast decks yet, so I can't say how significant a momentum shift that would be. Against glacial/shell corps, I've found that there are still things to do, and you haven't lost much more time than the corp. Still, it makes me put a lot of thought into finding a home for Fester. I could also be convinced to sub in Knights or Crypsiseseses.

29 Dec 2014 4dd150n

Incubator rules. I have been waiting for that card since they spoiled it. It + Medium = the business. It turned my current Noise deck from respectable to amazing.

My deck is pretty similar to this except I use a more standard breaker suite and I am still sticking with Wyldside in the meantime. I sleeved my Earthrises up, but still haven't converted.