[STARTUP] Professional Grifter
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Diogene 4464
Make the corp pay. Everything is expensive for the corp.
Game plan : Derez everything, return ice to hand, and touch cards for the win.
Mulligan plan : Professional Contacts or Hermes.
You do not break ices here. In Startup, there are no ice that make you lose the game. You have every tool to derez ice or make them even more expensive to rez.
In earlier iteration, I tried Fermenter and Telework Contract. But since everything is relatively cheap (we do not break ices), Professional Contacts is much easier. As you draw, you get the credits needed to play your cards.
After multiple iteration, Paricia showed load of value, being a 0 cost that help me trash assets, thus letting me deal with assets spam without breaking the bank.
Tags are the main weakness of the deck. They do not kill you, but losing Professional Contacts stings.
This is fairly easy to play, but still present the board as a puzzle to solve. Mainly, you have to be willing to facecheck ices. An earlier iteration had Forged Activation Orders, but those had to be cut in favor of Prepaid VoicePAD.
And with Steve Cambridge: Master Grifter, you get to bypass and derez again and again. Games can go a bit longer, finishing around turn 18, unless you get lucky in your accesses.
This is a different way to tackle the startup meta, where everyone has tech against Arruaceiras Crew. This bypass and derez deck deals with boosted Logjam, difficult Archer and indestructible Lotus Field in a different way.
I've enjoyed this deck quite a bit. Tell me if you find ways to make it more efficient or more potent. Cheers!
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1 Feb 2025
freeman.ko
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1 Feb 2025
Diogene
Great question Professional Contacts allow the deck to be more efficient, by drawing and getting the necessary credits at the same time. Prepaid VoicePAD further this efficiency by have recurring credits to play the events. Otherwise, in precious iterations, I was clicking for credits or to draw cards often after using tools to draw cards (Earthrise Hotel) or tools to get money (Liberated Account, Telework Contract, Fermenter). This allowed me, using this deck, to have the speed requires to pressure the corp, so as not to let the corp recover enough to lock me out. Because one HQ is triple iced with rezzed ices and archive as two rezzed ices, it becomes possible to be locked out. I hope this answer to your satisfaction. Cheers! |
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2 Feb 2025
Dudeydude
I saw this deck on the 31st, the night before the fairly large startup tournament, "Three blind mice". I instantly fell in love, such a neat archetype to show off with Steve rotating out. This deck went 3-0, absolutely grinded down the corps credits every game, from face checking Seraphs to Cloud eaters, nothing really stopped the deck. There are definitely tech cards that come to mind here but I don't think you need them. I followed your plan of get the Hermes/Proco down asap and it worked so well. You've spent the influence in a beautiful fashion, 3x Paricia is just so hilariously diabolical. Love the deck, and thanks for the 3 wins! I had to drop from the cut, but wish I could've used this to potentially bring it home. Cheers! |
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5 Feb 2025
Diogene
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just returning back to the game. can you explain Professional Contacts and Voice Pad in this deck? it feels like there are better economy values out there, but I might be missing something.