The Big Blue Deal

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ironblue 166

Of the 37 economy cards in this deck, 24 of them are also ICE.

The two Taurus are especially hilarious. It's not a kill deck, can barely even be counted as a glacier deck, and the one thing it targets is the last thing any runner ever expects to be targeted.

Honestly Taurus, along with Hive and Lotus Field, are only in there because the price is right.

Install more ICE! For you, it's a steal!

3 comments
21 Oct 2014 Pinkwarrior

I would argue that 6 of your ICE is Econ and the cards that turn the ICE into econ are the actual econ cards but that to one side i see a couple of things you may want to consider.

Akitaro Watanabe makes the ICE you rez 2 less but also you would have to return him first befor getting you ICE back to actually make anything on it since the rez cost would still be lowered otherwise so it's a little slower at the pay off.

Amazon Industrial Zone takes some time to setup and at least 2 ICE before it pays off.

You may also want to consider Restructure for this ID it really is perfect as you can just return something to bring your creds upto 10 then play it.

21 Oct 2014 ironblue

'I would argue that 6 of your ICE is Econ...'

You are correct, of course. I was being mostly hyperbolic.

Good catch with Akitaro! I really thought that card was doing great things for Blue Sun. It could still work, but the time investment plus the relatively low trash cost makes him a little too risky in my eyes. That changes a few things...

If it takes more time than expected to get cheap ICE stacks on the field, I'll probably want to change my agenda strategy. Focus more on 5/3's and leave the last point to a Hostile Takeover turn, which doesn't require I have an intact scoring remote.

With Project Atlas out, I can ditch the Grids and throw in 2 x Punitive Counterstrike for the inevitable 6 point steals, giving the deck a sorely needed alternate win condition.

I could put Akitaro's 4 influence right into Eliza's Toybox to try and keep the deck's theme, but I don't think I can recoup the tempo loss, not without like a million more influence points for Biotic Labor, Haas Arcology AI et al. Instead I may have to (the horror!) resort to more traditional burst economy cards like Restructure, and fill the influence gap with (the humanity!) actually useful traps that suit Blue Sun like Snare! and Tsurugi.

I think this deck is back to the drawing board with me...

Thanks for your advice, Pinkwarrior!

22 Oct 2014 Pinkwarrior

@ironblue No problem.

An alkternate win con is always nice am not a fan of 5/3's my self though i find the luck aspect to be a bug factor thats my personal taste tho. I think rather than go for Eliza's Toybox i would spend the influence in Ash 2X3ZB9CY and add a 3rd root for econ plus some regular transactions.

I find ash an excellent way to keep agendas and such safe and he doubles up as protections elsewhere if needed, had him on my R&D once as my opponent had a huge medium.