So when I originally made this deck, I made it in Blue Sun back when Old Hollywood released. I used a single Biotic Labor as the FA tool, and it was built around a Bootcamp Glacier shell. When Dedication Ceremony released, I realized it was almost an in-faction replacement for Biotic. I tried it out, and realized that Caprice could go in place of the Biotic influence, then I realized I could drop the 2 Ash I was playing and play 2 Caprice. After a couple test runs, I wondered how it would do in Titan due to the extra Atlas counter, and changed it into rush. Seeing that it worked, I brought it to the GNK and it killed. I may have mentioned this all up there somewhere, but I can’t really remember. Anyhow.
Anyhow, I was trolling through @kiv’s Meteor decklists (I’m in ur decks, stealin ur mans), and noticed he had thrown together a Blue Sun variant, it it reminded me of the old deck. After some tinkering, I re-made the Blue Sun deck, because I didn’t really try it out that much. His is still mostly rush; I went back to mostly glacier. It might end up being safer, since it’s more on a Glacier/taixng strategy than a rush-your-pants-off strategy, but can still rush some (we’re still Weyland, after all). I know this is the Titan thread, but I thought I’d post the list I’ll be running this week as a trial, since it’s similar conceptually.
Hollywood Explosion
Blue Sun: Powering the Future (Up and Over)
Agenda (10)
Asset (7)
Upgrade (5)
Operation (10)
Barrier (7)
Code Gate (3)
Sentry (6)
Multi (1)
- 1x Orion (Order and Chaos)
Since I’m on the Tax plan, Hostiles are out. I’m okay with saccing an Oaktown to Archer, since the deck can recover from that, so I’m keeping one (also, 2x Future is Now). I like 2x TFIN for both that, and the fact that since we’re also on Curtain/OAI, we actually have 2 relevant combos to find pieces for. Orion takes the place of the third Curtain because it can have some synergy with Hollywood occasionally. I had Wormhole in, but the card is nearly worthless with all the D4v1d out there right now. Instead, I’m doing 2x Assassin, since it taxes D4v1d harder. It’s worse vs Nexus Kate, but I honestly never see that deck around any more, at least not around here.
I’m also doing the meh combo of 2x GRNDL/3x Dedicated because, although slow, this deck isn’t trying as hard to rush, so it’s a little better. Maybe it would still be better as 2 Restructures and -1 Dedicated +1 Bootcamp, but it’s seemed to be fine so far, actually. Since the remote should actually be taxing, it can be okay to simply install and advance the Refinery. Blue Sun has a lot of econ in the OAI game, so it’s not as necessary to land the Refinery for money, and taxing the runner through your remote can be okay. It still sucks to get it sniped off R&D, so it’s still kind of a mediocre card, but I’m trying it because reasons.
I also went back to 2x Ash 1x Caprice, since I like having a Tollboth and Adonis. I think having 3 upgrades is better than just doing 2 Caprice, plus sometimes you get them both in the server and feel like HB for a bit. It might be better to do -1 Ash +1 Tollbooth, because Booth is pretty sexy, but I really feel like with Faust everywhere, the more upgrades the merrier.
Anyhow, this is what I’m testing this week.