Umbrella Toolbox 2.0 (2-1 @ GNK)

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This is the evolution of my Umbrella Toolbox deck.

The idea is to get an Umbrella and an Egret, ideally with a Kyuban, and make runs for cheap while drawing cards. This helps with early aggression against the remote since there are ways to search for all of these, and Conduit can close out the game pretty effectively. Because breaking is so cheap, Kyuban and Aeneas Informant can make R&D runs free or even credit-positive while drawing cards to prevent flatline against Jinteki. With Pichação and Hannah "Wheels" Pilintra, you can get 6-8 runs in a single turn against R&D if you're set up, so it's a strong finisher.

With Corps usually choosing to draw from Umbrella, Cupellation's value is much higher. You still get credits from Aeneas Informant when you use it to grab a card, too, so those work very nicely together.

Spree is a new addition to the deck to help with repositioning if you've been locking down the remote and you're ready to close out the game by shifting to a more heavily iced R&D. Between Arissana's ability and Spree, you can move 4 Trojans in a single setup run.

Miss Bones was cut from the previous version because it wasn't always useful. Hannah "Wheels" Pilintra and Aeneas Informant with an extra Trick Shot seemed to do well enough at helping to control asset spam while pressuring R&D hard.

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