Played two games with this glacier deck after making some changes from last time. First game was against Tim, running Gabriel Santiago: Consummate Professional. I dropped a 1-point Cerebral Overwriter on him early on, then, after he’d scored two agendas from my scoring server (3 ice), I followed up with an Edge of World. It was the most brain damage I’ve done in a game so far, and it slowed him down, but it wasn’t enough.
He kept using Sneakdoor Beta, and I didn’t protect my archives early enough. Luckily for me he seemed to access Janus 1.0 over and over, no matter how many or few cards I had in hand. Unfortunately, Janus sat in my hand for the entire game.
On the final score for him, I didn’t do the math for how much it would cost him to access the last agenda, and he had exactly enough credits to get through. If I had pumped up Ice Wall by just one strength, he wouldn’t have gotten it, and the score would have been tied.
Also, Ichi 1.0 or Ichi 2.0 should not be the first or only ice in front of a server. It needs to be behind and/or in front of some hard-stop ice. It’s most useful for mid-game.
Second game was against Raphael, using Valencia Estevez: The Angel of Cayambe. This was fucking brutal. Using a combination of Infiltration, Blackmail, Same Old Thing, Deja Vu, Clone Chip, and Raymond Flint, he could always see what was in my scoring server with Infiltration and, because my ice was unrezzed, blow right past it with Blackmail, then recycle both cards back into his hand or deck. Because of Clot, I couldn’t have scored any agendas on the same turn I installed them, even if I’d had the clicks for it.
Because I couldn’t get any of my ice rezzed, there was absolutely nothing I could do to stop or ambush him, and neither Cerebral Overwriter nor Edge of World showed up at all anyway.
I needed to start scoring a lot sooner, and have some more ways to get my big ice rezzed outside of a run. I had a couple Priority Requisitions in the deck, but they never showed up either.
This game was especially frustrating because I couldn’t even put up a fight. He just rolled right over me no matter what I did.
Possible changes vs. Blackmail deck:
-1 Efficiency Committee
+1 Accelerated Beta Test
+ Chronos Project (requires First Contact)
HB Brainbuster – Modified for Currently Owned Sets
Haas-Bioroid: Engineering the Future (Core Set)
Agenda (9)
- 2x Accelerated Beta Test (Core Set)
- 1x Efficiency Committee (Creation and Control)
- 2x Priority Requisition (Core Set)
- 2x Project Vitruvius (Cyber Exodus)
- 2x Sentinel Defense Program (Creation and Control)
Asset (12)
- 3x Adonis Campaign (Core Set)
- 2x Cerebral Overwriter (Creation and Control)
- 2x Edge of World (Cyber Exodus) ••••
- 2x Haas Arcology AI (Creation and Control)
- 1x Levy University (Creation and Control)
- 1x Melange Mining Corp. (Core Set)
- 1x PAD Campaign (Core Set)
Operation (5)
- 3x Hedge Fund (Core Set)
- 2x Neural EMP (Core Set) ••••
Barrier (8)
- 3x Eli 1.0 (Future Proof)
- 2x Heimdall 2.0 (Creation and Control)
- 3x Ice Wall (Core Set) •••
Code Gate (4)
- 2x Enigma (Core Set)
- 2x Viktor 2.0 (Creation and Control)
Sentry (9)
- 2x Fenris (True Colors)
- 2x Ichi 1.0 (Core Set)
- 1x Ichi 2.0 (Creation and Control)
- 1x Janus 1.0 (What Lies Ahead)
- 2x Rototurret (Core Set)
- 1x Tsurugi (True Colors) ••
13 influence spent (max 15)
20 agenda points (between 20 and 21)
47 cards (min 45)
Cards up to True Colors
Deck built on NetrunnerDB.
Then I completely failed at using this against Raphael’s NEXT Design: Guarding the Net deck. It was my third game, my brain was a bit fried, and I was rushed because the store was closing shortly. I didn’t whip out my Wyrm soon enough and couldn’t get the corp to rez ice in order to drop Parasite on them, so I ended up face-checking most of it. He had 6 points before I scored my first 2. I also didn’t get enough economy cards out soon enough.
I really wish I could get better, faster, at this game.
Whip out the Wyrm
Chaos Theory: Wünderkind (Cyber Exodus)
Event (15)
- 3x Diesel (Core Set)
- 3x Indexing (Future Proof)
- 1x Levy AR Lab Access (Creation and Control)
- 3x Stimhack (Core Set) •••
- 3x Sure Gamble (Core Set)
- 2x Test Run (Cyber Exodus)
Hardware (9)
- 3x Clone Chip (Creation and Control)
- 2x Plascrete Carapace (What Lies Ahead)
- 3x The Personal Touch (Core Set)
- 1x The Toolbox (Core Set)
Resource (3)
- 3x Personal Workshop (Cyber Exodus)
Icebreaker (4)
- 1x Atman (Creation and Control)
- 1x Femme Fatale (Core Set) •
- 1x Inti (Creation and Control)
- 1x Wyrm (Core Set) ••
Program (11)
- 1x Datasucker (Core Set) •
- 3x Magnum Opus (Core Set)
- 1x Nerve Agent (Cyber Exodus) ••
- 3x Parasite (Core Set) ••••• •
- 3x Self-modifying Code (Creation and Control)
15 influence spent (max 15)
42 cards (min 40)
Cards up to Creation and Control
Deck built on NetrunnerDB.