[Startup] Earth Station 1.1

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[Startup] Earth Station 1.2
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Navelgazer 324

Another in a series to try to build workable [Startup] decks around every Startup-legal ID. Originally I built this without Punitives or in fact any damage at all, with the thought that Earth Station wants to score out a win over a long, vertical, glacier game, making runs difficult and rare, rather than baiting runs into a kill. As such, this deck is built to make runs as pricey as possible, make face-checks likely to trash the runner's set-up, and generally frustrate the runner as much as I can. In the end, I realized a toothless Weyland is a kind of stupid proposition and added the Punitives back in as an insurance policy.

I'm least certain about my ICE package. There's probably a version of this deck that uses the Cyberdex Sandbox and Sandstones, but I like my Agenda suite for now. As always, any suggestions are very welcome!

5 comments
29 Jul 2021 Baa Ram Wu

I agree that your Ice is probably the main thing you want to look at.

As you are running 3 Wall to Wall you want to make sure you are getting value from it as Much as possible (currently just 5 ice benefiting from it) - I would look at swapping 2x wraparound and either 1 Eli or an Ice wall for 3x Akhet.

Colossus is the other ice worth considering, maybe over Roto and 1x Winchester. Its a bit positional (but so is Winchester)

30 Jul 2021 Navelgazer

Thank you! I'm going to give that a try!

30 Jul 2021 Ätsch

Spending influence on Lotus Field is very surprising to me since you can rez Hortum for a credit less and having a second subroutine.

30 Jul 2021 Baa Ram Wu

@Ätsch - in a format where Buzzsaw is by far the best decoder I don’t hate the lotus field here - the second sub means nothing to Buzzsaw but the ability is relevant.

(Unfortunately it probably still just gets a botulus strapped to it - but still)

30 Jul 2021 Navelgazer

@Ätsch - Yeah, I was thinking about Anarch's there, but that doesn't mean it's the right choice. Especially with (as @Baa Ram Wu points out above) I'd do well to have more advanceable ICE, I think Hortum's gonna replace the Lotus Field, Roto and one Winchester for 2 Colossi, and the pop-up windows for Magnets. Not certain about losing the Wraparounds yet but I'm sure they'll be gone after my first Tão matchup. Thanks a bunch!