🔥 aRgus Plus 🔥

Argus is back (❤️) IN STARTUP (😱) with a yellow hue (🤯)! This is my The Automata Initiative evolution of Arg+ with a few Hard-Hitting changes...

🧠 While the core game plan of rushing and/or tagging the runner into the ground hasn't changed, we now have an absurd secondary tagging tool along with some new friends:

• Oppo Research… This card is a bomb drop in Startup
• Your Digital Life… This rapidly replaced Regolith Mining License because of its faster ROI and NBN: Reality Plus's ability to flood HQ while you dig for your key pieces
• Virtual Service Agent… With Endurance on the loose (as well as other alternative ICE solutions including a new surge of bypass), I wanted additional and cheap early-game tools. This deck can often bridge the early game straight into the late game very quickly, and VSA is a helpful tool for that
• Starlit Knight… Speaking of late game, this is the cornerstone tag-punishment card. Once the runner has entered tag hell heaven, this has phenomenal stopping power. Because we're on all 2-pointers*, T4 is easily achieved and held, enabling Starlit Knight's endless ETR subs
• Enigma… While not a new card, it is new to my Arg+ blend (I previously swapped out Enigmas in favor of Whitespace). I just wanted my opponents to know I had a hard ETR on a Code Gate for cut open-decklist mind-games 🙂

🏆 PERFORMANCE:

Swiss (2-0):

• R2 - W vs Captain Padma Isbister: Intrepid Explorer
• R4 - W vs Mercury: Chrome Libertador
• R6 - ID

Top-4 Cut (1-0):

• R1 - W vs Esâ Afontov: Eco-Insurrectionist

The cut matches after R1 can be viewed here @ 05:55:00!

❤️ Thank you Radiant & Whiteblade111 for developing & hosting (along with the rest of the incredible staff and NSG's influence/support) the 1st inaugural Cascadia event! It was a Joy Ride to have the American Continental Championship earmark its beginnings, and an honor to have it in our little corner of the world. Truly a Banner year! May Cascadia flourish and be an event that continues to create remarkable memories every year for netrunners of near and far!

...GO BIG OR GO HOME

🪦 Tithonium. While you were hated by most, you were <3ed by me. Your blood may have been spilt, but you will be avenged.