@aandries pretend you’re not running ITDept, what is your 1 influence instead?
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Back to Blacklist most likely. I really think the ITD is much stronger, more taxing, and can better lock the game up. DBS maybe, don’t love that in here due to the agenda build. Possibly Wall of Thorns, more ways to kill Lady Counters, or just tax fools running Corroder. All that said, I’m entrenched in the ITD out of this build, it wins games, and even if people know it’s there they can do nothing about it. What are they going to do? Run more face downs or centrals trying to find it, love it, please do, enhance the taxing.
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I totally agree, but I am either too impatient or don’t want my games to run long/time, and ITD has always done that when I played it. Not my fault, but my opponents having to figure out how to get around it, their thinking and run spamming seems to add too much time for tournies for my liking. I prefer to be done in 20-30 minutes and have mental breaks 
Sure - I get it. I think people just take longer to get their mental headspace around this style when sitting across the table from it. There was a time when opponents of RP couldn’t deal with the situations they were in either, but after playing a million games vs. it they started to figure it out and operate a little faster. With that said, this might not be the tournament deck for you if you want free time between rounds. I got almost none and I played EXTREMELY fast in any game where I needed to. I came close to time twice, and I’m a player who never goes to time in a game.
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What do you think about swapping the snatch and grab for a power shutdown? I’m not a huge fan of snatch and grab as it is only situationally good in about half of the top decks. Power shutdown seems well positioned with NRE out.
EDIT: or perhaps a fast track to snag the chronos when you need it or another agenda when you have the scoring window.
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I removed S&G for power shutdown in my Bootcamp deck. But I still play 2 Chronos / 2 PriReq and 0 Oaktown. I do think Oaktown is an awesome agenda but I’m not certain if Bootcamp can score 4 agendas without having to rely on either ITD, Blacklist or any recursion denial/lockout shenanigan.
All good comments. I’ve thought about the Power Shutdown vs. the S’nG. I kind of view one off tech cards as something that can be luxury. You can Atlas for it, which is nice, but in all honesty it won’t be a core card to what you’re doing. Al and all, PS is useful more times than S’nG so in that sense, I love it.
Yeah, I did score 4 agendas in many games, but they were all aided by ITD. However, Oaktown helps keep your tempo up and continues to keep the scoring window open for multiple turns.
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My feels as well. You can’t reliably score your fourth agenda without an ITD lockout I think. That’s why right now I prefer the double PriReq but it’s probably just a matter of taste, both versions are strongs.
For information, my latest build put back the 2nd Lotus Field and added a Power Shutdown to make Lotus Field relevant again. It’s only bad against double CyCy kate (something not even me play anymore) and NRE but NRE can be taken out of the picture with PS.
I don’t like the 2 3 pointers for this simple reason, this deck is most vulnerable in the early game. So more 3 pointers is more danger. I dug out a win going down 5 points on turn 2, however, I hate being in that situation. Just preference, as you stated. I want a little more early game stability, vs. the late game fantastic that 2 3 pointers can be. When you are in a position to make that Pri Req your first score, rez a huge ice AND only need 2 more scores to win.
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Yeah, matter of taste. On the defense of the 2PriReq / 2 Chronos, I think I prefer this kind of setup because you will naturally draw those agendas more often than not and I really don’t like to telepgraph a Chronos / PriReq play ;). I’ll rather use my Atlas Token on tech cards like S&G or on other key component cards like Ash or Adonis. It’s also arguably easier to land a goog chronos project when your opponent think you just put your adonis back into your remote, something you can’t really do if you need to use an atlas token on it.
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Yeah, totally true. I like to build a great deck and then let it play itself out. It’s like a well tuned PE deck, you draw traps, install traps, you draw agendas install agendas. Never let the runner see you be worried. Any install can be anything at anytime. If the deck is well built it should play out evenly, if you get flooded just play it out.
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That’s Aaron. Two test games, goes 2-0, and, fuck it, I’m good.
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Irony: @bblum then plays RP, doesn’t win.
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@Calimsha won with bootcamps the same weekend, too. Honestly wouldn’t feel too bad as @bblum, taking 2nd and your pet deck winning two regionals is a pretty good weekend in anybody’s book, I think.
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Yeah I don’t feel bad about my performance at all, but I do think I might have done better with bootcamp. I anticipated the rochester meta totally wrong. At the very least, I would have flattened @d1en’s valencia in the finals. The irony is real.
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No one said he should feel bad.
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No man, I dub the last Saturday of May BBlum Appreciation Day. Awesome weekend.
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I guess if I had audibled from Regass to Calimsha and then Calimsha and BBlum won regionals with Regass, I might be a little salts.
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You once had a scoring remote… What happened to it? 
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