Diva De Los Muertos

Indstrl 34

This is the first deck I have published and it may be the meanest deck I have ever made.

A long while back I tinkered with the Snitch and Blackgaurd combo from Social Silhouette. It's a fun combo; controlling when and where ice is rezzed all while keeping yourself safe by avoiding ice you can't handle. One of the most crippling parts of the mix is that it takes away much of the corp's choice. They can place Ice, sure, but you dictate where they spend their money.

It was fun, but had some trouble against low ice asset based decks.

Since then, specifically in the Underway, a few nice cards have come out.

Drive By and Muertos Gang Member

Drive By + Blackguard forces the rez and still trashes. Imagine it on something like San San City Grid or The Root -Corp pays 6 to trash their asset.

Muertos Gang Member enables some amazing early plays (Turn 1 - Forged Activation Orders on HQ Ice to either Account Siphon if trashed or Muertos Gang Member if rezzed.) and can be used for draws once everything is rezzed or early if you have an Emergency Shutdown ready.

Toss in a Vamp to further drain credits and Social Engineering so you get paid for them to rez the ice they don't want to.

Emergency Shutdown and Crescentus allow you to de-rez key ice to repeat the punishment.

Same Old Thing recurs anything you want.

I haven't tested this yet as Underway hasn't hit my area yet but it seems really nasty.

I am always up for improvement suggestions - Finding deck space for everything I want is always hard so if you see anything that could be replaced, please let me know.

Current worries are Econ and Draw, though Andromeda: Dispossessed Ristie helps arrange many of the pieces early. (It's reasonable to get Blackguard and Snitch out turn 2 and control the entire game from there)

4 comments
3 Jul 2015 yokelbloke

Are you sure Drive By and Blackguard would interact like that? Don't event card effects have to fully resolve before triggers fire? Just curious

3 Jul 2015 Indstrl

Yeah, it's a bit squishy. I think since has two clauses it may trigger that way. I searched around a bit and there doesn't seem to be an official ruling but most interpretations I have seen were forcing the rez then trashing.

ancur.wikia.com

was pretty helpful in determining this as well.

3 Jul 2015 FarCryFromHuman

I really hope it does work this way, Blackguard needs any help it can get.

If you can make a single slot for it, I think Unregistered S&W '35 would be pretty nice here. Tori Hanzō, Marcus Batty and Ryon Knight are probably going to be around for a while and Ash 2X3ZB9CY and Caprice Nisei will always be a thing. This would let you save your Drive Bys for big assets and utilize the Blackguard combo a little easier, as well as let you back into a remote you got kicked out of by a sysop.

This deck is obviously mechanically better in Silhouette, but Andromeda just has that glorious consistency...

3 Jul 2015 Dunhere

If events had to finish before triggers resolved, Ken Tenma would wait a long time for his dollar