Heritage Committee seems like it could fit in a lot of IG decks, especially in asset spam decks like this. Draw a bunch, discard what you don’t want.
I also don’t know how you win? I mean, Caprice/Batty is fine, but you don’t need a bajillion credits to do that. The way to beat you seems to be let you do whatever you want, and then just hit your remote. Ash seems like a no brainer.
Ash + Caprice is better IMO than Caprice + Batty, and Ash gets a ton of value from your archives. It’s saved me games both in defending the remote and defending R&D.
ELP drops for me just about as soon as I draw it. Even in games where they snag an agenda right away I don’t feel that bad about using it. Most games it stays out almost the entire time, and while it’s out it protects econ in remotes.
I’ve been playing around with adding Crisium Grid and GFI and cutting the Eli/Markus for Wall of Static. I’ve also found slotting in Fast Track has been very helpful in exploiting an early window, lowering R&D’s value, and closing out games. I’ve taken out a snare to make space because very rarely does the runner even hit it, and its impact hasn’t been that great when they do (although I haven’t run into much criminal lately). I might bring the snare back, but FT is getting good work done.
Museum of History has definitely got me pumped. You could cut 1 Melange abd find something else to cut for two MoH (maybe Interns?) and I expect it to do serious work.
If you want to cut economy slots, you can cut Hedge Fund or perhaps Mental Health Clinic, but never Melange. It’s what allows you to rez your ICE early on and what keeps Hostile Infrastructure from bankrupting you. One of the most important cards for Genomics, IMHO.
Personally, I would cut 1 Interns and then either 1 Hedge Fund or 1 Snare to make room for Museum of History. I’m not fond of cutting the Interns but it seems difficult to cut anything else. Thoughts?
I think that now that we are unable to run 3 Elis, paying 2 influence for one or downgrading to Markus is not very appealing but everytime I’ve tried Wall of Static I’ve been dissapointed. I wish there was an alternative beyond that and Rainbow.
Is anyone doing not-kill-you IG? I’m thinking about my old blacklist/attrition deck, kinda mixing it all up with the new asset, which increases your noise matchup dramatically (and without lady ruining the fun, eli and ashigaru make remotes impassible). Updated from my semi-successful last list;
The idea is to work around faust decks, which are all the rage, eventually you caprice/ash behind ashigaru, install blacklist, keep them from levy’ing, then they lose all breaking power. Also causing damage after breaking with faust can result in flatline pretty easily. The meuseum lets you go long if you can keep it on the board. Score otu should be 3/5 semi-rushed, nisei, then rock nisei to score whatever. Going 3/5x2 then also allows you to infinite headfake with snares, shocks, etc, threatening philotic or braintrust, or chronos, or whatever.
hedge → diversified?
I’ve been playing something similar to the TWA IG glacier, and it wins most of its games, the problem being those games take about 45 minutes to complete, and also that it’s so mentally taxing that I would never bring it to a tournament. Here is the list I’ve been trying:
Industrial Grindomics
Industrial Genomics: Growing Solutions
Agenda (7)
1x Global Food Initiative •
3x The Future Perfect
3x Vanity Project •••
Asset (16)
3x Jackson Howard •••
3x Launch Campaign
3x Mental Health Clinic
3x PAD Campaign
3x Shock!
1x Sundew
Upgrade (6)
3x Caprice Nisei
3x Marcus Batty
Operation (14)
2x Anonymous Tip ••
3x Celebrity Gift
3x Hedge Fund
3x Interns
3x Restructure
I wish I could go to 3 Assasin, but it’s blank verses Nexus Kate, but I could go with just discarding it in that matchup. Otherwise, I’m pretty comfortable with the card choices. Sundew is there to make them contest your remote when there is no agenda, and Yagura… I have nothing better to put in that slot.
I didn’t include assassin, mostly because nexus kate, no ash makes me worried, because its so good when making cash or scoring. I guess 3x batty is a fine replacement though.
I kept counting your influence as 18/12 until I finally realized MoH is 0 influence in the deck. They should probably put a note next to it on export like they do for the MWL cards.
I think grind IG is better positioned right now than kill IG. With more Anarch comes more Keyhole, which can wreck the deck and leave you racing to build the flatline.
I plan on playing a list like @ErikTwice but teching hard against Faust is a good idea. Museum of History is going to make the deck sing.
Can confirm that VP is MVP. Having basically 2 cards in the deck that you don’t want to them to access makes R&D super secure, and gives you more room for obnoxious Jinteki mean stuff. Scoring twice to win is super strong, and actually lets you be fairly aggressive if the cards come up right.
You want the super hard to get to 7 suite, but you also want more than 49 for obvious reasons. I am 95% sure that 3 TFP 3 VP 1 food is correct, and just play a lot of redundancy in your 59 card deck so
A) your economy doesn’t get buried, and
B) you can discard cards that you don’t need and make use of your identity.
The thing with 3 VP is that that’s a much bigger chance that they only need 2 agendas to win. The 3VP/3TFP/Chronos setup has 12 pairs of agendas that get your opponent past 7 points, where as the 2VP/3TFP/Hades/Fetal setup only has 9.
That’s what’s been keeping me from 3 VP, whether in 54 or 59 cards. I think 2 VP and a Fast Track is really helpful in keeping the runner from getting the easy win against you, while I’ve found myself more often forced into scoring 2 VPs when there are 3 in the deck.