Lukcy Find is important because Liberated is way better with an extra way to jumpstart your economy. Lucky Find into Liberated Accounts gives you a ton of cash.
Career Fair in Anarch looks really good for this reason. I think this might be a thing - and at 1 inf, I can easily imagine a 3 Clone Chip, 3 Crescentus, 3 Compromised Employee, 3 Career Fair influence plan. Those are a bunch of really strong Criminal cards (in this deck) at 1 inf each.
A cheaper liberated seems soooooo good. Also, what cards did you chop for the upcoming current? Interested to see what went out. Kinda feel Scrubber might be one of those cuts.
Right now in the deck there are plenty of tempo negative cards, and you also need to dive into any remotes and kill Adonis Campaign and Sundew at all costs. Thatās where Luckyās ā+6 now so I can do thingsā is superior to Employeeās ā-2 now, then a buck here and thereā.
Career Fair is going to the same thing as Lucky - let you afford to get your Earthrises and Liberated rolling in the first place while being able to spend money trashing things as necessary.
I donāt think Compromised is a bad card, and itās certainly relevant in the Blue Sun matchup. But I think the deck is tight for slots as-is and itās not the best use of deck space.
For IHW, I havenāt had any trouble with damage decks since I usually have more money than them. I think IHW is reasonable but Iād rather get 1 card deeper with Inject and maximize my chance to find that crucial Vigil or Kati.
i was playing minus one Scrubber and with 46 cards just to test the 2x Hactivist Meeting. i really want to go with 3x, though, just because of how strong it seemed in initial testing. especially since players in my group are now mumbling about adding Enhanced Login Protocols and Lag Times to their decks. itās even strong against bootcamp Blue Sun, deterring Adonis Campaign shenanigans.
Iām pretty excited by Hactivist Meeting too. Crisium Grid, Adonis, Bootcamp, NEH asset spam - thatās all pretty tough to rez if you lose a random HQ card.
Any advice playing this against blue sun? Iāve had good success against virtually everybody else, but the inability to deny them the minimum rezzing credits on an HQ ice is killing me.
blue sun is actually one of my best match-ups! theyāre actually losing credits even if they return ice to hand, and you can Test Run or play a David when they decide to Oversight something big. since so much of their econ often depends on returning rezzed ICE to their hands, Crescentus can also be brutal.
if they have a huge credit lead, though, like Sam said, timing a good Vamp or two paired with Crescentus derezzes can put them in a position where they never recover.
Alright, Iāll keep trying, my only concern is that if they get a bit ahead, it can be tough to catch up, and of course the scorch threat remains if youāre using the non Iāve had worse version.
It starts at trace 4 and costs 0. Iām not sure itās great against Reina (I find the Weyland matchup pretty good in general) but S&G has merit for surprisingly little cost.
S&G is worth considering in RP and BS glacier just because of Reg Ass and Criminal, I donāt think it needs to be an all star in this matchup for it to be worth justifying, (though I suspect it could land pretty hard if you were playing the matchup well and the timing was right).
So what are we thinking are the cuts for Career Fair if at all?
Some Lucky Finds out of @kiv 's list? Tempted to cut inject but card draw is even better at getting a Career Fair and a resource at same time.
Replacing Compromised out of @SamRS 's? I havenāt played with the card but I like the idea of burst>drip to make sure to shut down asset economy.