[Blue Sun] Bootcamp Glacier

Here we go :

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kudos to everyone having success with this deck. i think this has to be one toughest of the competitive decks to play well. i have trouble against runners who gain money and camp the remote. i found chronos project ok but it really throws off the scoring pattern. maybe its just me but the two time i pulled it off with devastating effect its made the runner so desperate they did glory run stuff, got a bit lucky and won anyways lol

What about if you know you won’t be playing against Headlock Reina? My intuition is that the additional HQ tax against non-Shapers will be worth the extra credit.

Any particular reason for Restructure #3? I am sorely tempted to fill that slot with S&G or CVS instead.

It was mostly because I slotted out the S&G for another deck and forgot to put it back in this one. Since I had a restructure with me, I used that for my last slot :smiley:
Didn’t really matter in the end because I only faced 2 Kati deck today and won the first one by rushing when Leela didn’t have her entire rig set (also, blowing up a Desperado and a RDI with a single Taurus protecting Hadonis feel really good) and the second one by removing half of Maxx and 2/3rd of her econ with a timed Chronos Project.

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I feel like the deck’s biggest weakness is runner’s who money-durdle. Sometimes you can deal with it by rushing, but sometimes you can’t. S&G can be a game changer, but it’s not too hard to play around. Maybe it’s worth including just to force people to play around it (i.e. use Kati less efficiently)?

One other random thought - if I IAA an Atlas and they let me have it, is it worth double-overadvancing? I guess it probably depends on the situation.

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Most of the time, no.
If I double advance an Atlas, is either so I could put an ICE back to Leela Ability or to replace the Adonis in the scoring remote right after scoring an 4 advanced atlas. I guess there’ some situation where 5-advancing atlas could be nice but I never faced any kind of situations like this.

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Yeah, I like to IAA when I can to obfuscate what I’m scoring, as well as have a click next turn. They can usually sniff out whether an IA is an NAPD or Atlas. So unless I’m trying to sneak an Atlas out as an NAPD, I prefer an IAA, but rarely score it as a 5/2.

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Special thanks to @bblum for innovation on this style of deck and being cool enough to trade a couple messages with me. IT Department was insane good, this deck was the MVP of the two (not that Leela did poorly). Weyland can and will win, true, it needs help, but it can happen. Lets Renovate Oaktown! 72 Player event, at least 4 states, great field.

Cheers,

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@aandries

Nice work! Very similar to my 2nd Place Regionals deck (pre Chrome City).

-2 Oaktown
+2 Corporate War

-1 IT Department
+1 Black List

-1 Taurus
+1 C;yberdex Virus Suite

Don’t have Chrome City yet, but the agenda change is exactly what I was planning on doing. Am also doing -1 Cyberdex +1 Taurus now that NRE is out. Blacklist was a meta call. Tons of datasucker/medium/lamprey stuff in Colorado.

How did IT Department work for you? I know I had several times I didn’t feel like drawing and just ended up clicking for money, hitting up IT Department probably could have helped a ton.

Glad my tinkering is nearly identical to yours. Just a 1-card difference between our decks (Blacklist vs. ITD)

Edit: Also just realized that your Leela deck is also very similar to the one I used to win a store champ.

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@bblum audibled to RP for rochester and got 2nd. @Calimsha wins with bootcamps.

teehee

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i hope someone took videos lol. i’m mystified by the success this deck is having. i probably need more reps but when people dont face check your caduceus/pike and bounce off any barriers on the centrals unless they are multi accessing how are you getting them to spend enough to open a scoring window ?

I was too scared of NREs… I blame @sheshonk for fear mongering, i.e., crushing me with it during testing. Then it turned out our field was almost all crims and anarchs who didn’t have NRE! :sob:

@aandries and @calimsha, :heart_eyes: :heart_eyes: :heart_eyes:

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I’ve literally had a BP-less Blue Sun dcek assembled since it came out, and ran one at worlds. Super happy it’s finally getting results like this. Moon Weyland tier 1.

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A scientist wearing a white lab cloak is holding a test tube with a look of finality and accomplishment.
(voiceover) "we created Clot to slow down the meta"
The scientist (seen from the side) begins to pour the contents of the test tube onto a pile of netrunner cards. Behind them we see one of those semicircular meters. The needle, positioned somewhere between “Glacier” and “Rush” is slightly jittering. Suddenly the needle swings wildly towards “Glacier”. An alarm begins to sound. The scientist is startled. She turns to look at the meter and says “no…”. (that dissonant noise that always plays in movie trailers plays) The needle steadily creeps off the scale past the maximum “Glacier” value as the glass in front of the meter slowly cracks.
(voiceover) “we succeeded”

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I think successful Glacier decks are the one who can reliably score early on. You can’t put pressure on the runner if you aren’t close to the matchpoint.

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The woman turns to the source of the voice, a video monitor into a room in an undisclosed location.

Inside that room, the lights are almost completely off, with only a grand oak table illuminated. The shadowy figures of 5 individuals can be seen, but details are impossible to see.

“What do you mean, ‘we succeeded’? This wasn’t what we intended at all” the woman angrily shouts at the monitor, walking toward it. “We were attempting to find balance and correct the extreme tendencies of the last year, not simply replace one extreme with another!”

“Correction, Doctor,” came a deep voice from the screen, “that is what YOU were attempting.” Eliza scoffed as realization came over her. “Damn you! Were you just playing me the entire time?”

“Not at first, doctor. But once we realized the power of this invention…we had to adjust our plans.”

Eliza grew angry. She clinched her fists. “I’ll stop you. I’ll expose what you’ve done here. The people will know!”

“I think not, Miss Eliza. Our plans adjusted in more than one way. In the same manner that we now see how the future will out…we also realize that we can give ourselves plausible deniability while also saving ourselves from having to deal with a potential security leak. Good-bye, doctor.”

Eliza panicked. “N-no, wait!” The monitor shut off.

Somewhere across town, an explosion of a small underground lab shook the night.

Inside the board room, the 5 figures looked at each other. The same deep voice that spoke before said one final thing.

“It’s time.”

And then, all 5 figures stood up dramatically at the same time.

“Excellent.”

EDIT: Oops, didn’t follow @Crunchums perfectly, but it’s still nice and cyber-punky, so try and enjoy anyway. :smile:

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Harrisburg was literally 20/25 people running NRE and RP, it was absurd. Also, power shutdown.

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hashtagOAKTOWN

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It’s a ‘Good Guys’ corp deck. Love it.