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bblum 5030

I've never been so sure about a deck being tier 1 as I am about this one.

16 comments
30 Sep 2015 moistloaf

I can attest to the pain of faceplanting an Assassin. Definitely a scary card that players need to keep in mind at Worlds. I really like this ice suite, especially the single IQ

1 Oct 2015 stormzbowler

Do you feel the 17 ice is a bit low for a deck that is trying to protect money assets, central square and a scoring server? Also why 2 cybersex with no fast advance options?

1 Oct 2015 bblum
1 Oct 2015 chill84

welcome to the 1 assassin club Ben, we've been waiting for you.

1 Oct 2015 bblum

Still undecided on 1 vs 2 in blue sun, but 1 is clearly the right number for ETF.

6 Oct 2015 xanshin

No love for Team Sponsorship? I've been loving this 9-agenda suite lately, requiring 4 agendas for the runner Vs 3 for the corp is a superb advantage.

6 Oct 2015 bblum

TS is more appropriate in fast advance where you're also gonna score 4 times. Every spare slot here will be archived memories instead, chiefly because of caprice. (It does no good to TS back your caprice after scoring...)

11 Oct 2015 axiomatic

Does it make sense to go up to 2x Caprice? It's hard to score vs PPVP Kate if you don't find a single Caprice...

11 Oct 2015 bblum

what would you cut for it? i'm already 1 under the ideal number of ice

11 Oct 2015 axiomatic

One possibility is

+1 Marcus Batty +1 Susanoo +1 Turing +1 Wall of Static

-2 Tollbooth -1 Crisium -1 Wraparound

11 Oct 2015 axiomatic

Alternatively, replace Crisium Grid with Recruiting Trip.

11 Oct 2015 bblum

honestly, tollbooth is a better card for beating kate than caprice.

the way I win as kate is not by out-moneying the corp and running through tollbooth repeatedly and paying through ash traces all the time. it's by denying the corp to have a remote at all, by making lady to break eli, cycy to pass turings, and using sucker+parasite to kill tollbooth. kate is not actually as rich as people seem to think.

CVS is really the glue here that ties together the kate matchup, together with the GFI agenda suite enabling low-stakes remote plays that knock kate out of her tempo. I don't see the kate matchup as bad at all, and would rather shore up my centrals with crisium than strengthen my already-great remote.

11 Oct 2015 bblum

iow, 5 protection upgrades is one too many, and caprice is not enough better than ash that it's worth crippling the ice suite for.

3 Nov 2015 ANRguybrush

btw I see that assasin is pretty good, but why play it over ichi 2.0?

3 Nov 2015 bblum

You're happy to rez it on a no-programs-installed facecheck. And not clickable is very relevant against noise. Basically a strict upgrade imo.

8 Nov 2015 MrBrown

So why 2xGFI and not 3x? I always have trouble finding one, and then I have to decide whether to risk scoring 2 agendas, or waiting for one GFI.