Floating Seb [Startup/RWR]

What if we built around Amanuensis?

Actually, I did start with Sebastião Souza Pessoa: Activist Organizer, but I wanted to get value out of his console. There may only be one card that directly synergies with floating tags for Amanuensis, and that is Solidarity Badge. If we end the turn with a tag and a Solidarity counter, you clear the tag and get two cards at the beginning of each turn. So each turn we want to take a tag, install a connection for value and trash a corp card.

That's where that combo ends though, but along side it is a multi-access engine centred on, appropriately, Eru Ayase-Pessoa and it does some crazy things. With Manuel Lattes de Moura and “Pretty” Mary da Silva and threat 3 you are looking at accessing 4 cards of R&D. And the run might not cost a click and you will have credits to trash something which feeds the above engine.

The rest of the deck is just feeding those two engines. This deck needs a lot of card draw, hence the Diesels and Bahia Bands, which also help with the tag-on/tag-off cycle. And you do want to cycle that fast, especially once you start floating a tag; "connection spam" is your best defence. So getting a connection out every turn is important.

Privileged Access and Arruaceiras Crew are power houses you might expect. Crew a little be less so than in a deck focused on it, here there is only a Leech for support. Privileged Access though is lots of fun, you can use it to patch up any holes in your connection line or recycle a trashing connection (Hannah "Wheels" Pilintra or Friend of a Friend) to use them again. And if you hold it until threat 3, you can use it to recycle a Fermenter as a bonus, which is solid source of credits. As is Valentina Ferreira Carvalho when you are clearing 1 or more tags a turn.

I suppose I should provide some play tips. But really there is little to say. Keep up some pressure on in the early game, try to keep them from icing up archives. Sometimes letting the corp score to 3 can be worth it to bring some of your threat cards online. Keep drawing and install as many connections as you can.

All in all, I never got the ratios exactly right (and there are a lot of singletons) so the deck is kind of inconsistent, but I still have had a lot of fun with it, when it comes together it sings and does feel like very thematic approach to Sebastião.