I was surprised to hear how happy you all seemed about what I think is FFG’s biggest mistake to date. Here is where I think you’re mistaken. On paper, SFSS and CVS can all “answer” clot, but in practise trying to go for these combos is a massive drop in power level. Prepaid kate can just keep clot on the board all the time if she doesn’t wanna play guessing games about SFSS. She’s happy if the corp spends every other turn to purge it, since she can make clot up to 16 times if need be.
@RotomAppliance and I did some playtesting to confirm this (videos highlighted on my twitch). But actually what I’d really like to see is for y’all to try the same and report back next episode – just take calimsha prepaid kate, swap the 2nd legwork for a clot, add a 3rd SMC, and play it against a gauntlet of whatever anti-clot tech you can dream up while still being a fast-advance deck. In particular I didn’t get to test midseason + psychographics or some sort of ash build and am willing to eat my words if either could defy clot. I don’t expect they can though.