This deck is so cool, I'll need to sleeve it up to try at my locals next week!

With how many Ari players I've seen running Physarum Entangler to get around big ice, did you feel like 1 Mavirus was enough? I've been experimenting with 2 in my A Teia deck for increased reliability but I'm having second thoughts.

Oh thanks! That's very kind of you to say.

I think Arissana has been underplayed recently, so I took this deck with the intent to not have to play against too many of them. The real danger factor she represents to me is the proposition of running Rnd very cheaply with a Kyuban Pichacao Conduit engine that makes the Bacterial plan a bit more questionable. Inasmuch I don't know if a 2nd Mavirus would really save us, though it could certainly be helpful in pushing through a decisive score. The answer could be more big ice, like Seidr, which she's gonna have to Hush to get through cheaply. But a top tier Arissana with the right cards is very dangerous for us when piloted well, and you'll need to play the deck expertly to have a good chance against her.

Hell yeah!!!!! This deck is sick as! love ur changes to the og ver and cannot wait to rez one sadaka after the other!

@HaverOfFun

Thanks! Your continued enthusiasm for the archetype warms my heart.

It's hard to give this a tier list ranking, but with expert piloting it definitely hovers around tiers 1 and 2 at the present moment. There's not a lot of decks that can break multiple 12+ Str Sentries sustainably.

Terrifying deck, love it, will certainly lead to Viral Weaponisation of jnet casual

@davz131

What can I say but t'is the Season of Viral Wep Wep Wep

I recently finished Path to Carcosa with my partner, so next, into the Jungle it is :)

Congratulation for the win! I own you an alt art ;)

*owe you an alt art :D

Seeing you piloting this deck yesterday night was such a pleasure. No wonder you went undefeated at nats. The Viral Weaponization is the icing on the cake showing your touch in the game. Hope to see you again soon!

this deck looks super cool!! gotta try it out some time. and congrats on the championship title!

@Girometics

If you'll believe it, Aksu, Augustus and Jonald are wrapping up a TFA campaign ourselves, wherein we all got poisoned in the jungle. It's my favourite, ahh I love it so much! :D It's like playing against Prana PE!

@PreNic

Ohh yes, this, more than anything, spurred me on - I have a pretty involved art brief, let's see if we make it happen. :) Very excited for your work.

@Silent Arbiter

Samezies - I love your brews a lot as well, let's get together to jam some more.

@VirtualAnalogue

<3

@Council we can discuss on Discord (PreNic). I can start working on it as soon as we put down some ideas. ;)

Cool and original brews :D What is not to like? Congrats!

Deck is good when piloted by non-clowns! Congrats my friends

@kogaJoin me now, before we commence the clowning...

@BridgemanAyy ty. :) Spiced up the version Armin (and testrunning independently) originally came up with.

I lovehow you develop the deck farther and farther. Great idea with the viral. How do you like the 3x Mindsaping? So finally you also like the Konjin?

@ArminFirecracker

Yeah I've fully converted to Mindscaping. Factors for me:

• A Teia loves draw, seeing 2 more cards is great.
• You can play it from 2 credits, speeding up your DoF recovery or just in general when you've sunk low protecting early Charlottes etc
• You can use it to put an agenda on top to shuffle back with a rezzed Spin Doctor, which is a cool way to shuffle back 2 others cards AND an agenda.
• It punishes Surveyor tags and helps you win tagme matchups, which could otherwise be a bit problematic.

I've started to enjoy the Konjin - not quite playing it like you can but overall I like it. There's some very cursed Criminal knowledge I am now privy to that I will not mention here tho...

And down on one Code Gate. The only good new Jinteki Code Gate got banned immediately...

Thanks for the write-up! What is Sadaka used for? Which resource are you mainly looking to trash? Is it used for anything else besides resource trashing? Which server does it usually protect?

How would you describe this A Teia? is it a single-server glacier? Or is it a two server shell game?

Hyo @somefish, thanks for the questions!

What is Sadaka used for? Which resource are you mainly looking to trash? Is it used for anything else besides resource trashing? Which server does it usually protect?

Sadaka does several things for us:

For once, it plays into our overall strategy of controlling central accesses. While thisusually only works for 1 run, this can be a deciding factor between Bacterial scores.

When we first started playing this deck, generalist Hoshiko decks (otherwise known as reg) like this one were both very strong and very popular. Here the cards we were looking to trash were DJ Fenris for Steve Cambridge: Master Grifter to reduce the value of HQ runs, which we don't defend that much, and The Twinning, which triples the access depth of runners.

In our more modern meta, Twinning sees less play, but there are still a lot of strong targets we want to snipe, such as Hannah "Wheels" Pilintra in Reg Lat decks which use her to gain an extra click to spend on Deep Dive, or Arruaceiras Crew, which would otherwise threaten to trash your ice. Insofar HQ and R&D are both good places to put your Sadaka, and whee you put it depends on whether you value trashing DJ Fenris or controlling R&D access more. In some games you can just leave it derezzed on the remote server to boost Surveyor strength.

How would you describe this A Teia? is it a single-server glacier? Or is it a two server shell game?

This deck is designed to use your Identity ability to create one very tall server from which you exert control over your centrals via Bacterial Programming. It is very rare that you want to ice your 2nd remote, though it can happen in maybe one out of 10-20 games. The NGO Front is usually not used to bluff opponents, but to get a free ice install on the remote while you econ up - but again, in an odd game it can also be used with its original design intent, as I did in my game against AceEmpress.

Thanks for giving me the context of how to use Sadaka in the current meta and for other metas as well! I always thought The Twinning is a stronger gameplay than Stargate, but I now see that there are stronger tech cards against The Twinning now, like Sadaka or tags.

I love the idea of leaving it derezzed to boost Surveyor strength, I was thinking it would be a non-combo with Surveyor since the trap trashes itself, but that’s only if you rez it!

Love the Attitude Adjustment influence spend. A little bit more draw