Ok, I’ve taken into consideration a lot of these comments on the deck, and I can say that yes, in a tournament, this could get scouted. I was running ice wall in a previous build, and it gave me something to do with the advancement tokens, and make them play a barrier. I’ll probably put that back in, since I feel the deck did a little better with it, but as for marker over sensei, it’s simply not true that sensei does nothing. It’s pretty crappy early, admittedly, but so is a wormhole. A sensei over a wormhole though, if you really need something, is a lot better, right? You won’t need tenma line to save your chum, if you have a sensei above it, and it actually makes for a pretty good etr. Now, as for there not being anything but etr subs, that isn’t strictly true. There have been times that someone facechecked a wormhole, that was obviously a wormhole, and instead of just bouncing them, I made them pay 2 credits via datapike, or lose a click with enigma. In tennin, this can make the difference. In fact, I put a sensei over a datapike and an unrezzed tollbooth, and it made the difference between a dirty laundry success and a dirty laundry ppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp.
If no one knows you’re not playing medical breakthrough, and you’re playing trick of light and reclaimation order, that’s usually enough to get them to try to run on your remotes, which is why NAPD and TFP are in here. Caprice also helps make these expensive runs totally useless. I like the archer idea though, and I would probably trade in any agenda to make that hit.
Marker sucks, and I wouldn’t consider playing it, because it’s just not cheap enough and doesn’t really do anything, having a sensei as the topmost ice over 4 other pieces of ice goes a long way in making that server more secure.
