GreenDisruption

gumonshoe 2987

If you can play solitaire for a few turns without losing, then this turns into a deep dig deck that really starts pressuring ice.

Peregrine is an awful codegate breaker, but people play a lot of codegates and they tend to be the more expensive ice on the board. Between opus and a full zamba-gpi suite you can afford to derez a few times.

Ankusa is an awful barrier breaker. But installing barriers costs clicks and if you have to do it multiple times against Zamba you probably just give up on barriers.

Atman & Aumakua are your sentry breakers of choice. Set atman from deck using fan site or double install one out of your hand using SMC at the appropriate strength. Yeah, it's going to feel like an awful strategy, but they don't know for sure you don't have flashbang or Golden in your deck too.

Peace in our Time for a single multithreader would go a long way to having more efficient runs, but you can do without. Opus is more important than it appears to be. It fuels most of your early game installs until your running game starts and then it fuels your response to all of the ice getting rezzed. You cannot play without it.

Upya + Equivocation means that if you can make them broke enough you'll just win. If you get an R&D to the point that it costs as much to run as you make from zamba, or godforbid less, then you run three times, gain 3 clicks, run 3 times, gain 3 clicks until you win. If it weren't for Upya+equiv this deck would have no game.

It makes me seriously wonder if diesel should just by hyperdriver; but mu in this deck is already super rough. You might just start asking yourself "Why am I not playing maven instead of atman". My only answer is that 2 bucks a subroutine pop ought to get rid of the ice. But, maybe a single atman for a maven makes sense. I don't know.

This deck shouldn't be able to exist. And it probably folds to all sorts of damage type decks and lateral decks. But everyone likes playing that new HB ID and you can have money to outrace the trace.

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6 Jan 2018 PyWiz

Ankusa is one of my pet cards. I know it's kinda bad but bouncing ice feels great. Possible complements: Egret for bouncing anything, Dedicated Processor for bouncing big things.

Otherwise looks sweet. I hope to live the dream of Upya looping someone.