Congrats!
How did you do it?
Mushin and slow-roll, probably.
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Breaker trash PE. You want to install your programs and try to survive damage? Well now life just got a little harder.
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Yeah, I let it sit there with 4 counters for like 8 turns or so while defending from possible siphon, then casually put 2 more counters on. This came after 2 previous games against the same player where they flatlined on 4-adv junebug and 3-adv ghost branch + double DRT + scorch.
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Yeah, lost badly to this type of argus deck badly while taking my siphon MaxX for a spin last night. First game hit a 12 advanced Junebug. The fear of the takeover is real. Second game hit a psychic field then got scorched to death.
I used junebug in NEH with the same effect. Won my fair share of games by faking a slow beale advance.
Iâm trying to come up with a Gagarin deck that uses Red Herrings to tax and score agendas, but I feel pretty unsatisfied with this list. Any tips? The RSVP idea is a pretty decent alternative.
The idea is to make a 3+ iced scoring remote, initially with The Root then agendas. Along with some drip economy on iceless remotes and paywall implementation. Nothing that will generate BP.
Gagarin
Gagarin Deep Space: Expanding the Horizon (Order and Chaos)
Agenda (7)
- 1x Eden Fragment (The Spaces Between)
- 1x Government Takeover (Order and Chaos)
- 1x NAPD Contract (Double Time)
- 3x Project Atlas (What Lies Ahead)
- 1x Utopia Fragment (The Source)
Asset (11)
- 1x Daily Business Show (All That Remains) â˘
- 3x GRNDL Refinery (Fear and Loathing)
- 2x Jackson Howard (Opening Moves) â˘â˘
- 3x PAD Campaign (Core Set)
- 2x The Root (Upstalk)
Upgrade (6)
- 2x Crisium Grid (First Contact)
- 1x Dedicated Technician Team (Order and Chaos)
- 3x Red Herrings (Core Set) â˘â˘â˘â˘â˘ â˘
Operation (12)
- 3x Beanstalk Royalties (Core Set)
- 2x Celebrity Gift (Opening Moves) â˘â˘â˘â˘â˘ â˘
- 3x Hedge Fund (Core Set)
- 2x Interns (Mala Tempora)
- 2x Paywall Implementation (The Spaces Between)
Barrier (6)
- 1x Asteroid Belt (Order and Chaos)
- 2x Hive (Double Time)
- 3x Ice Wall (Core Set)
Code Gate (4)
Sentry (2)
- 2x Nebula (Order and Chaos)
Multi (1)
- 1x Orion (Order and Chaos)
15 influence spent (max 15)
20 agenda points (between 20 and 21)
49 cards (min 45)
Cards up to Order and Chaos
Deck built on NetrunnerDB.
The Giraffes strike me as a supremely wasteful use of influence, especially since you have no way to leverage piles of money into a winning condition. At the very least, Iâd ditch those for Restructures and go for three Ashes. Another good use of that influence could be said RSVPs.
With Refineries and Beanstalks, I donât think the PADs make too much sense, youâre just giving all those NEH-optimized runners naked remotes to abuse against you, which sorta runs counter to the âstack 'em high and starve 'em of creditsâ basic idea. Youâll already need an iced remote for DBS and/or Root, which means youâre tragically short on ICE already⌠like, 13 pieces just wonât cut it in The Age Of Cutleryâ˘
Also, your Enigma:Wormhole ratio is reversed, and Iâd go for the third Hive over the singleton Belt.
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I think you have too little ice for a taxing deck hoping to score agendas in remotes. Definitely needs at least 16-17, maybe more if youâre really playing a long game. Iâd cut the technician team and some combination of GRNDL refineries / beanstalks. Youâre not struggling for money.
Iâd use 3 NAPDs in this kind of deck, just to go all-in on the taxing agendas theme; forcing the runner to pay 10 to steal NAPD with red herrings on is pretty funny. Really though its hard to buy this deck over a Blue Sun glacier using ash instead of herrings.
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Excellent advice, both of you. Iâll continue working on it.