Off Batty's Metamorph Grid

Krams 949

Untested, Janky, stupid. Really stupid!

Game plan:

  1. Install standard Crisium Grid + Off the Grid combo.
    (No actual need for Crisium at all, but the synergy seemed okay.)
  2. Marcus Batty fires Metamorph -> Metamorph swaps OTG to HQ
    (see ruling on Metamorph - OTG cannot be installed in, but swapped to HQ!)
  3. Now HQ isn't runnable. At all. -> Any new OTG will stay forever!
    ...
  4. Profit!

I added some random agendas, eco cards, upgrades (to switch) and ICE to ... well ... make it a deck. Didn't give much thought into it, really.

I just wanted to try it out. And since my search for decks including Batty, OTG and Metamorph turned out empty, I thought I'd share this piece of jank with you.

7 comments
1 Aug 2017 Krams

Possible Improvement: White tree with OTG on all three centrals and The News Now Hour in a remote (for Employee Strike) -> no more runs possible.

1 Aug 2017 Crashdown

@Krams:"Install only in a remote server."

1 Aug 2017 Krams

That's the fun. See the Ruling on Metamorph for details.
OTG is installed only in remote server, but can be switched into a central server. Like HQ.
That stupid interaction is the only reason for the whole deck.

2 Aug 2017 Severijn

Fortunately Sneakdoor Beta, Political Operative and Omar Keung: Conspiracy Theorist exist to deal with this kind of jank. Keep us posted how it went in testing.

2 Aug 2017 Crashdown

hat off to your yank²

3 Aug 2017 Krams

Played some games, did some standard glacier stuff, but couldn't pull off the combo.

I forgot that you can't really do the swapping thing during a run on HQ, unless you can then end it before the runner accesses OTG in the root of HQ. So you have to have Batty and Metamorph on a non-HQ server the runner is running (or being sent to by ID) and an upgrade in HQ and an OTG and the money to do it.

I will continue to try and see if it works just once.

4 Aug 2017 Krams

Well, I built this deck to pull off the combo at least once and I just did. (After what? 5 tries? ...)

It was a messy long game and I clicked for creds about 20 times, but in the end I managed to get OTG on HQ and a scoring remote and then score out.

This janky, clumsy, silly combo fired. Case closed.