I agree I would almost say any e kim deck is strictly better in val/whizzard unless you know it’s all going to be kill decks. Free jackson trashes are so nice.
I really think is because his mileage solely focuses on places where operations are, it narrows the number of places ice has to be placed. Along with a lack of really meaningful operations that exist it does weaken his viability.
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Also, there’s only a couple places where trashing opperations actually matters. If you trash them off R&D, it’s like they’re on the bottom of the deck and the corp never drew them that game, so it doesn’t effect the corp’s play. It’s good if you can get in again and get another access that turn, but only on that turn. Medium is a good use of this, since you can go in and see more cards the next run if you ditched an operation. HQ is the only other real place that matters, since the opponent has already drawn their card, so getting rid of it lowers their possible actions for the future.
Also, I hate the fact that if you run Archives first click to maybe get rid of a Jackson or some such, accessing an operation that’s already in Archives kills Eddy’s ability for the res of the turn. Super dumb.
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I’ve had experience to the contrary.
Part of this is that Scrubber exists- It’s a much better Whizzard replacement than Imp is a Kim replacement. Scrubber+Kim makes eating through R&D/HQ feel like punching through a paper wall.
When playing against RP during SanSan, Whizzard didn’t hold up for me- you got to trash stuff, but they could get by of off sundews+ops econ. Kim with scrubber really put the screws to the deck.
On the first point - it’s a little bit different than that, because you’re actually removing a card from R&D - so it is accelerating the game a bit (also, it’s not incidentally fixed by a Jackson shuffle). That does add up, especially for decks that really on a few ops to provide a ton of econ (I’m looking at you, Celebrity Gift).
As for the archives thing - yeah, it’s annoying, but it’s not super common either.