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Results of Day 28

Picks:

Shadow was the corp pick, with 56% of the vote.

Mimic was the runner pick, with 59% of the vote.

This brings your current drafts to look like:

Current Corp Cards

Agenda (7+5)
1x Astroscript Pilot Program
1x Project Vitruvius
1x Efficiency Committee
1x Geothermal Fracking
1x Hostile Takeover
1x Accelerated Beta Test
1x Braintrust
5x Priority Requisition

Ice (16)
1x Shadow
1x Tollbooth
1x Datapike
1x Wall of Thorns
1x Data Raven
1x Paper Wall
1x Hunter
1x Ichi 2.0
1x Himitsu-Bako
2x Muckracker
1x Eli 1.0
2x Enigma
1x Pop Up Window
1x Data Mine

Operation (7)
1x Sweeps Week
1x Foxfire
1x Restructure
1x Scorched Earth
1x Closed Accounts
1x Power Shutdown
1x Green Level Clearance

Assets (4+2)
1x Aggressive Secretary
1x Project Junebug
1x Eve Campaign
1x Haas Arcology Ai
2x Private Contracts

Upgrades (1)
1x Red Herrings

Current Runner Cards:

Breakers(8+3)
1x Mimic
1x Alpha
1x Sharpshooter
1x Crypsis
1x Knight
2x Darwin
1x Atman
1x Aurora
1x Pipeline
1x Force of Nature

Programs(5)
1x Datasucker
1x Self-Modifying code
1x Djinn
1x Keyhole
1x Magnum Opus

Hardware(7)
1x Personal Touch
1x Dyson Mem Chip
1x Clone Chip
1x Akamatsu Mem Chip
1x Spinal Modem
1x Doppelganger
1x R&D Interface

Resource(6+2)
1x Public Sympathy
1x Same Old Thing
1x Tallie Perrault
1x Crash Space
1x Personal Workshop
1x Access to GlobalSec
2x Armitage Codebusting

Events(9)
2x Quality Time
1x Sure Gamble
1x Vamp
2x StimHack
1x Tinkering
1x Test Run
1x Deja Vu

On to the next packs!

Corporation Pack 4 Pick 6 (5 cards)

1 Off the Grid •••
1 Invasion of Privacy •••
1 Midseason Replacements ••••
1 Neural EMP
1 Heimdall 2.0 •••

Vote For The Next Corp Pick Here:
http://www.instant.ly/s/m8rkr

Runner Pack 4 Pick 6 (5 cards)

1 Lawyer Up •
1 The Personal Touch ••
1 Ice Carver
1 Wyrm
1 Bishop

Vote For The Next Runner Pick Here:
http://www.instant.ly/s/nZw5D

Getting down to the end! For when we get to deckbuilding I was thinking that people could post up decklists constructed from the drafted cards, and the lists with the most likes would be chosen as the forum decks.

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C: R.I.P. dreams of not having to run a 5/3. Neural EMP helps with the kill so I’m going with that

R: Ice Carver is technically just better than personal touch, wyrm is the other option, although it’s super expensive. Going with Ice Carver. It doesn’t play well with fixed strength breakers, but it does play well with alpha, darwin and crypsis

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c: Neural emp. Not much good options that could be played with our economy.

r: with atman/darwin/knight rig I think that personal touch will be better than Icecarver and bishop.

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Corp: Not sure we will play any of these, Midseasons is probably the best of the bunch so I’m voting for that.

Runner: Lawyer Up and Wyrm are just not good enough to make the deck. Considering that we increase the range of ICE that Mimic breaks I think Ice Carver is a easy pick here (since personal touch will likely go on Darwin).

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Off The Grid and Heimdall 2.0 are too slow and vulnerable. Midseason and Invasion are expensive enough that unless we’re rolling them into immediate victory they set us back more than they damage the Runner. Invasion of Privacy is calling to me, but the economy just isn’t there for it.

Neural EMP by process of elimination.

Wyrm without Parasite is a waste of time. Lawyer up too inefficient at drawing and we can shake the occasional tag the old fashioned way. Bishop is really good at helping out Darwin and Mimic and would help save Datasucker tokens, but Personal Touch helps fixed strength breakers in a much more dependable way.

Ice Carver helps Darwin and Crypsis and - to a lesser extent - Mimic. It might hurt Atman a little bit. If it hurts Atman too much in a given situation, we just don’t play the card.

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Results of Day 29

Picks:

Neural EMP was the corp pick, with 60% of the vote.

Ice Carver was the runner pick, with 81% of the vote.

This brings your current drafts to look like:

Current Corp Cards

Agenda (7+5)
1x Astroscript Pilot Program
1x Project Vitruvius
1x Efficiency Committee
1x Geothermal Fracking
1x Hostile Takeover
1x Accelerated Beta Test
1x Braintrust
5x Priority Requisition

Ice (16)
1x Shadow
1x Tollbooth
1x Datapike
1x Wall of Thorns
1x Data Raven
1x Paper Wall
1x Hunter
1x Ichi 2.0
1x Himitsu-Bako
2x Muckracker
1x Eli 1.0
2x Enigma
1x Pop Up Window
1x Data Mine

Operation (8)
1x Neural EMP
1x Sweeps Week
1x Foxfire
1x Restructure
1x Scorched Earth
1x Closed Accounts
1x Power Shutdown
1x Green Level Clearance

Assets (4+2)
1x Aggressive Secretary
1x Project Junebug
1x Eve Campaign
1x Haas Arcology Ai
2x Private Contracts

Upgrades (1)
1x Red Herrings

Current Runner Cards:

Breakers(8+3)
1x Mimic
1x Alpha
1x Sharpshooter
1x Crypsis
1x Knight
2x Darwin
1x Atman
1x Aurora
1x Pipeline
1x Force of Nature

Programs(5)
1x Datasucker
1x Self-Modifying code
1x Djinn
1x Keyhole
1x Magnum Opus

Hardware(7)
1x Personal Touch
1x Dyson Mem Chip
1x Clone Chip
1x Akamatsu Mem Chip
1x Spinal Modem
1x Doppelganger
1x R&D Interface

Resource(7+2)
1x Ice Carver
1x Public Sympathy
1x Same Old Thing
1x Tallie Perrault
1x Crash Space
1x Personal Workshop
1x Access to GlobalSec
2x Armitage Codebusting

Events(9)
2x Quality Time
1x Sure Gamble
1x Vamp
2x StimHack
1x Tinkering
1x Test Run
1x Deja Vu

On to the next packs!

Corporation Pack 4 Pick 7 (4 cards)

1 Sentinel Defense Program
1 Punitive Counterstrike ••
1 Hunter
1 Chimera

Vote For The Next Corp Pick Here:
http://www.instant.ly/s/Lw6Cq

Runner Pack 4 Pick 7 (4 cards)

1 Record Reconstructor •
1 Cyber-Cypher •••
1 Gorman Drip v1 •
1 Scheherazade

Vote For The Next Runner Pick Here:
http://www.instant.ly/s/2o5ET

Alright, this is the very last pick to be made in the draft! After this it is the auto picks, and then deckbuilding.

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Another corp-pack that got nothing very exciting. Chimera is probably playable even if the cost is really annoying with no reliable economy.

For the runner I’m perfectly happy to grab Gorman Drip v1 here, it’s a mediocre economycard but the rest of the pack is pretty much unplayable.

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C: punitive and hunter are the two best cards in the pack, and they’re both only borderline playable. I guess punitive since we have to run a 3 pointer

R: Cyber cypher is a useful trick, the rest is garbage since we don’t have nearly enough programs for scheherazade

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I like Chimera a lot here, since we’ve pulled Crypsis, 2 Darwin and an Atman from the pool, the gear check will hold on for longer.

The cost of Chimera is not a big deal. It’ll likely go on the scoring remote to rush Agendas, and if it does end up on a central server we’d mostly only rez it against run events. We do have a pop-up that we can stick in front of it if we want a little more sustained defence.

Punitive Counterstrike I also like quite a bit. Potential flatline, credit or draw tax on the runner. Punitive/Scorch is something that could happen with Data Raven and shadowing the deck.

I wish we could take both but what it comes down to is economy. I’m sure that we will have the economy to activate Chimera in a moment of need, but I’m less sure we can win a trace battle even with a base 5 if the counterstrike ever truly threatens the runner.

I like Gorman Drip v1 since it is passive economy and it is a virus we can tutor with Djinn - maybe - and because none of the others make any sense at all. Self Trashing means not so much concern on the MU front.

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Results of Day 30

That was the last day of drafting! Below are the final picks. Next step is deckbuilding.

Picks:

Chimera was the corp pick, with a mere 38% of the vote, barely winning as today’s pick.

Gorman Drip was the runner pick, with 75% of the vote.

And then we had the auto picks for the last pack:





This brings your current drafts to look like:

Current Corp Cards

Agenda (8+5)
1x Posted Bounty
1x Astroscript Pilot Program
1x Project Vitruvius
1x Efficiency Committee
1x Geothermal Fracking
1x Hostile Takeover
1x Accelerated Beta Test
1x Braintrust
5x Priority Requisition

Ice (18)
1x Chimera
1x Hourglass
1x Shadow
1x Tollbooth
1x Datapike
1x Wall of Thorns
1x Data Raven
1x Paper Wall
1x Hunter
1x Ichi 2.0
1x Himitsu-Bako
2x Muckracker
1x Eli 1.0
2x Enigma
1x Pop Up Window
1x Data Mine

Operation (8)
1x Neural EMP
1x Sweeps Week
1x Foxfire
1x Restructure
1x Scorched Earth
1x Closed Accounts
1x Power Shutdown
1x Green Level Clearance

Assets (5+2)
1x Ronin
1x Aggressive Secretary
1x Project Junebug
1x Eve Campaign
1x Haas Arcology Ai
2x Private Contracts

Upgrades (1)
1x Red Herrings

Current Runner Cards:

Breakers(9+3)
1x Garrote
1x Mimic
1x Alpha
1x Sharpshooter
1x Crypsis
1x Knight
2x Darwin
1x Atman
1x Aurora
1x Pipeline
1x Force of Nature

Programs(7)
1x Gorman Drip
1x Pheromones
1x Datasucker
1x Self-Modifying code
1x Djinn
1x Keyhole
1x Magnum Opus

Hardware(7)
1x Personal Touch
1x Dyson Mem Chip
1x Clone Chip
1x Akamatsu Mem Chip
1x Spinal Modem
1x Doppelganger
1x R&D Interface

Resource(8+2)
1x Underworld Contact
1x Ice Carver
1x Public Sympathy
1x Same Old Thing
1x Tallie Perrault
1x Crash Space
1x Personal Workshop
1x Access to GlobalSec
2x Armitage Codebusting

Events(9)
2x Quality Time
1x Sure Gamble
1x Vamp
2x StimHack
1x Tinkering
1x Test Run
1x Deja Vu

That is it for drafting packs! The next step is deckbuilding. Post your decklist ideas to this thread, and the lists with the most likes will be chosen as the lists to play during the draft games (please like the lists that you think are good). If you are interested in representing the forums during the OCTGN games, also please note that in one of your posts.

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Pssst would you remind me of the deckbuilding parameters and draft rules? I don’t much care to scroll through 330 posts ;(

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30 card minimum. 14-15 agenda points for corp. 6 points to win.

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Seems like you missed adding the Chimera and Gorman drip to our cardpool.

Corp deck (34)

Agenda (8)
1x Posted Bounty
1x Astroscript Pilot Program
1x Project Vitruvius
1x Efficiency Committee
1x Geothermal Fracking
1x Hostile Takeover
1x Accelerated Beta Test
1x Braintrust

ICE (1)
1x Chimera

Sentry (4)
1x Shadow
1x Data Raven
1x Ichi 2.0
1x Muckracker

Code Gate (5)
1x Tollbooth
1x Datapike
2x Enigma
1x Pop Up Window

Barrier (4)
1x Wall of Thorns
1x Paper Wall
1x Himitsu-Bako
1x Eli 1.0

Operation (6)
1x Sweeps Week
1x Restructure
1x Scorched Earth
1x Closed Accounts
1x Power Shutdown
1x Green Level Clearance

Assets (5)
1x Aggressive Secretary
1x Eve Campaign
1x Haas Arcology Ai
2x Private Contracts

Upgrades (1)
1x Red Herrings

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Runner deck (30)

Breakers(7)
1x Mimic
1x Sharpshooter
1x Crypsis
1x Knight
2x Darwin
1x Atman

Programs(6)
1x Gorman Drip v1
1x Datasucker
1x Self-Modifying code
1x Djinn
1x Keyhole
1x Magnum Opus

Hardware(6)
1x Personal Touch
1x Dyson Mem Chip
1x Clone Chip
1x Akamatsu Mem Chip
1x Spinal Modem
1x R&D Interface

Resource(4)
1x Ice Carver
1x Personal Workshop
2x Armitage Codebusting

Events(7)
2x Quality Time
1x Sure Gamble
1x Vamp
2x StimHack
1x Test Run

Unfortunatly I’ve never played on OCTGN and it’ll probably take more than a few games to get used to the interface, otherwise I wouldn’t have minded representing the voters in a game.

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Yup, fixed now! Thank you. :smile:

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Agendas 8
posted bounty
astroscript
project vitruvius
efficiency committee
geothermal fracking
hostile takeover
accelerated beta test
braintrust

Sentry 6
Shadow
2 Muckraker
Data Raven
Ichi 2.0
Hunter

Barrier 3
Eli 1.0
himitsu bako
paper wall

code gate 3
2 enigma
datapike

Mythic 1
Chimera

Operations 7
sweeps week
restructure
GLC
Neural EMP
Scorched Earth
Closed Accounts
power shutdown

Asset 5
Eve campaign
HAAS AI
2 Private Contracts
Project Junebug

Upgrade 1
Red Herrings

Best rush deck I could make out of our pool. we don’t have the money to flip big ice, so I went with mostly cheap stuff, focusing on sentries due to how weak pipeline is. backup plan is flatline so I went with junebug over aggressive secretary

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Programs 12
Mimic
Alpha
Sharpshooter
Crypsis
Knight
Atman
Aurora

Datasucker
SMC
Djinn
Keyhole
Opus

Hardware 6
Personal Touch
Dyson Mem chip
Clone Chip
Akamatsu
Spinal Modem
R&D Interface

Resources 5
Ice Carver
Same Old Thing
Personal Workshop
2 Armitage

Events 7
2 Quality Time
Sure Gamble
2 Stimhack
Test Run
Deja Vu

I get the feeling people don’t quite get how fast draft is, with only 2 support cards, darwin isn’t going to do much against people who wipe regularly, which is just going to get extra value if we run drip. we’re playing to 2-3 agendas, we need to not give windows for them to score. if we had another personal touch and a cyberfeeder it might work, but we don’t have enough

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I think you have the right idea by cutting the Darwins, but we need Gorman Drip in there for additional economy. I also think we don’t need Aurora. Presumably Aurora is in there for Wraparound, but I think Knight is a sufficient answer for that, given the amount of tutoring, draw and recursion we have. I also don’t like Alpha, too expensive/slow. I pulled out Alpha and went with Public Sympathy instead, because it allows us to be aggressive/fast with our Stimhacks while avoiding damage issues in the mid to late game.

Breakers(5)
1x Mimic
1x Sharpshooter
1x Crypsis
1x Knight
1x Atman

Programs(6)
1x Datasucker
1x Self-Modifying code
1x Djinn
1x Keyhole
1x Magnum Opus
1x Gorman Drip

Hardware(6)
1x Personal Touch
1x Dyson Mem Chip
1x Clone Chip
1x Akamatsu Mem Chip
1x Spinal Modem
1x R&D Interface

Resource(5)
1x Ice Carver
1x Public Sympathy
1x Personal Workshop
1x Same Old Thing
2x Armitage Codebusting

Events(8)
2x Quality Time
1x Sure Gamble
1x Vamp
2x StimHack
1x Test Run
1x Deja Vu

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I sort of agree that our Corp deck is low on economy, but cutting Tollbooth and Wall of Thorns doesn’t make sense to me if x2 Muckraker is being left in. The 5 to rez and the 1 BP is a comparable economic hit to 8 to rez of Thorns/Booth, and given our lean economy the runner might very well blow through Muckraker on Econ differential alone. I cut the Muckrakers and put in a hunter. Cutting Ronin makes sense from the perspective that it is very economy intensive. Without Ronin or Neural EMP I like Aggressive Secretary more than Junebug. There’s also an economic/bluffing argument regarding Junebug, which tends to want 2 advancements to have an impact, where the Secretary is fine with 1 - which fits the state of our economy and agenda spread better.

Agenda (8)
1x Posted Bounty
1x Hostile Takeover
1x Astroscript Pilot Program
1x Project Vitruvius
1x Accelerated Beta Test
1x Braintrust
1x Efficiency Committee
1x Geothermal Fracking

Ice (14)

Mythic
1x Chimera

Sentry
1x Shadow
1x Data Raven
1x Hunter
1x Ichi 2.0

Code Gates
1x Tollbooth
1x Datapike
2x Enigma
1x Pop Up Window

Barrier
1x Wall of Thorns
1x Paper Wall
1x Himitsu-Bako
1x Eli 1.0

Operation (6)
1x Sweeps Week
1x Restructure
1x Scorched Earth
1x Closed Accounts
1x Power Shutdown
1x Green Level Clearance

Assets (5)
1x Aggressive Secretary
1x Eve Campaign
1x Haas Arcology Ai
2x Private Contracts

Upgrades (1)
1x Red Herrings

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I will volunteer to run a draft deck in OCTGN, however my running skills have been pretty shoddy lately so buyer beware. Pretty confident with corp though.

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