SCREW CANADA

CrushU 193

Criminal Cash... They roll in it, but what to do with it? Why, turn all the ICE off, of course!

Rubicon Switch and Inversificator join forces to go to Bloo Moose, and say SCREW CANADA, taking all the poor Moose's money.

Oh, and on the way past, they destroy some ICE too.

Most of the deck is basically just Criminal Good Stuff, which is fine. Leave No Trace gives you early pressure without leaving ICE rezzed behind you (combos with En Passant), Emergency Shutdown exists to turn off any one ICE later in the game. Employee Strike is just Really Good against specific decks.

Saker is here because of Chiyashi primarily. Turns out that when you spend 11 credits to break it, it's better to pay 6 to de-rez it, than use Rubicon and pay 12. (Bounce+Reinstall Saker vs Rubicon) Mostly I needed to drop some influence to fit En Passant, and Paperclip was the best thing to drop, because you need Medium for R&D pressure.

The deck plays out like a Gabe deck, pressuring every server. Temujin pressures Archives, and with Aeneas punishes open Remotes. Medium pressures R&D, and Account Siphon existing as a card pressures HQ. HQ is actually where you do the least work, as all you get is Shutdown and Siphon from HQ. But they don't know that!

Inversificator allows you to shift code gates around to make things easier. Fairchild 3.0 is still a pain, but at least you can put it onto the least important server now. (That'd be HQ.)


Courtesy of @nutritionalzero I present a Glossary of Canadian terms:

Account Siphon: Quebec, according to Alberta

Career Fair: Alberta, according to Quebec

Emergency Shutdown: October Crisis

Employee Strike: lololol, most Canadian card ever

En Passant: New in-flight magazine for Air Canada

Hostage: Pierre Laporte

Leave No Trace: Where the F is Stephen Harper

Special Order: CRTC rules "Special" legally means "twice as expensive for less content"

Sure Gamble: "Hey, where can I find a casino and and some cheap cigarettes wink wink"

Desperado: French word meaning "I desire one credit"

Rubicon Switch: Software company implicated in the RoboCalls scandal

Aaron Marrón: Gets mad when you call him chestnut

Aeneas Informant: Greek construction boss who testified at the Charbonneau Commission

Bloo Moose: Every bar in Banff and Whistler is called Bloo Moose

Earthrise Hotel: See above

Film Critic: Only hosts Canadian agendas, other agendas go straight in the bin

Keros Mcintyre: Jian Ghomeshi's predecessor on Q

Temujin Contract: Best Korean restaurant in the Annex (five stars on Yelp)

Femme Fatale: Famous strip club on Ste-Catherine

Gordian Blade: The Tragically Hip's unreleased final album

Mammon: As in "toutes les mammons hot du Mile End qui font du yoga"

Mongoose: Punk band from Swift Current, SK

Saker: Famous 1920s department store now the site of a Canadian Tire

Medium: One of three sizes of coffee available in Quebec, as in "Veux-tu un petit, médium, ou grand?"

13 comments
25 Jul 2017 Manadog

Your inversificator is a gordian blade fyi. Do you find Bloo Moose is so crucial as to warrant a 3x? I guess you can always just moose your extra copies.

25 Jul 2017 Superganja23

From a Canadian:

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25 Jul 2017 d1en

As a Canadian I disapprove of this deck; mainly the name.

25 Jul 2017 CrushU

@Manadog rends clothing noooooooooooooooooo I swear I changed it... Dangit. Yeah, Gordian should be Inversificator. And yes, Bloo Moose is required to make the econ engine actually go, similarly to Temujin. I need at least two econ pieces, and one needs to be Temujin or Moose. (The second can be Siphon/Gamble.)

@Superganja23 Getting a 404 error. :(

25 Jul 2017 formerteen

folks, we got an edgeboy

25 Jul 2017 CrushU

@d1en Sorry, blame netjogging. He helped with some of the ideas of the deck, and he suggested the name. (I declined to use Inverse Rubicon, because it was too easy. Ditto for Bloo Switch. I figured there was some play to be had with Rubicon Switch and Inversificator both being in the deck and playing on 'swap' or 'switch'... And he suggested SCREW CANADA. In caps.)

25 Jul 2017 Akanthinos

As a French Canadian, I approve of this deck; mainly the name.

26 Jul 2017 nutritionalzero

Glossary of Canadian terms:

  • Account Siphon: Quebec, according to Alberta
  • Career Fair: Alberta, according to Quebec
  • Emergency Shutdown: October Crisis
  • Employee Strike: lololol, most Canadian card ever
  • En Passant: New in-flight magazine for Air Canada
  • Hostage: Pierre Laporte
  • Leave No Trace: Where the F is Stephen Harper
  • Special Order: CRTC rules "Special" legally means "twice as expensive for less content"
  • Sure Gamble: "Hey, where can I find a casino and and some cheap cigarettes wink wink"
  • Desperado: French word meaning "I desire one credit"
  • Rubicon Switch: Software company implicated in the RoboCalls scandal
  • Aaron Marrón: Gets mad when you call him chestnut
  • Aeneas Informant: Greek construction boss who testified at the Charbonneau Commission
  • Bloo Moose: Every bar in Banff and Whistler is called Bloo Moose
  • Earthrise Hotel: See above
  • Film Critic: Only hosts Canadian agendas, other agendas go straight in the bin
  • Keros Mcintyre: Jian Ghomeshi's predecessor on Q
  • Temujin Contract: Best Korean restaurant in the Annex (five stars on Yelp)
  • Femme Fatale: Famous strip club on Ste-Catherine
  • Gordian Blade: The Tragically Hip's unreleased final album
  • Mammon: As in "toutes les mammons hot du Mile End qui font du yoga"
  • Mongoose: Punk band from Swift Current, SK
  • Saker: Famous 1920s department store now the site of a Canadian Tire
  • Medium: One of three sizes of coffee available in Quebec, as in "Veux-tu un petit, médium, ou grand?"
26 Jul 2017 aero

^^^Wonderful.

26 Jul 2017 CrushU

Congrats, @nutritionalzero, you're now mentioned in the deck write-up. :P

12 Aug 2017 zmb

Hmmm no multi access for R&D runs? Have you considered The Turning Wheelseems obvious it synergizes with Leave No Trace and incites corp to rez

12 Aug 2017 zmb

ahh saw the medium! duh

12 Aug 2017 zmb

After having my Inversificator trashed two times and since Hortum is a thing, I chose to replace the Medium with a The Turning Wheel and add a Rip Deal and cut the Emergency Shutdown