HB: Big ICE Glacier

Nopetapus 48

I've been playing various versions of this deck for a couple months now. The idea is pretty standard: ice everything to ludicrous levels and score agendas behind ice forts 4-5 deep.

Early game is, by far, the weakest point for any glacier deck. I get around early weakness in the central servers by using taxing ice like Eli, Architect, and Viktor to keep accesses down. With only 8 agendas, the odds of losing agendas is fairly low, which means I can focus on acquiring a mountain of money.

We move into the mid-game when I drop my first Tollbooth, Heimdall, or Inazuma over R&D. After rezzing, I can usually get off my Successful Demonstration to bounce back up. Once I'm over this initial hump, I can pound out an ABT or Efficiency Committee fairly easily, which is where things start going downhill for the runner.

Endgame, I just keep focusing on gaining economic advantage and icing servers. For fun, when I'm waiting for my last agenda, I'll put an Adonis Campaign or a Melange into my scoring remote and make embarrassing amounts of money.

The weakness of this deck is, primarily, it's inability to secure the central servers in the early game, which is mostly addressed with low agenda density. The downside of the density is that the timing of my agendas is not predictable. I have to find the scoring window whenever the agenda comes and however ready the runner is to attack.

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