Black Swan v1.2

Snake Eyes 4651

This deck has a ridiculous win rate. You only sometimes lose against Scorched Earth.

This is a pure Andy Stealth deck. You can set up huge economic gains off of Desperado + Security Testing+John Masanori runs, and pay virtually nothing due to the economic benefits that stealth cards have. Switchblade turns sentries into ribbons. Refractor is perfectly positioned, starting at 2 strength, and boosting to 5, so even Tollbooth isn't that difficult to get through (in a world, where Femme Fatale tokens get laughed at by Blue Sun).

To speed this deck up even further (helpful against the beast that is NEH) - Earthrise Hotel has been added in to replace Express Delivery for card draw.

A 3rd Silencer is added at the cost of a Ghost Runner - and this is to provide more Power Shutdown Resistance (as there is no recursion in this deck).

An Emergency Shutdown is then taken out. Little will matter to actually shutdown, as you get in anywhere for peanuts. Tollbooth, or anything that gets OAI'd with Blue Sun are usually the number one targets, although a server with several stacked sentries could be worthwhile, if one of them were an Archer, Janus, Grim/etc would all be great as well.

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17 Mar 2015 DarlingSensei

Interesting take on the archetype! I've been running Stealth Andy with top 8 results each time. A few questions:

Why so many John Masanori? I've found 2 to be about as much as I can handle. I used to do one and Hostage, but that was too slow. I had a similar issue with Earthrise Hotel but found it to be okay in smaller numbers.

Why so few breakers? I try to play conservatively and protect breakers whenever possible but sometimes that grail ice shows up and nets something you need. Did you ever get in trouble where you lost your singleton Corroder or Refractor?

On econ I've been back and forth between Dirty Laundry and Daily Casts. Laundry is better in the opener for sure, but casts gets you a lot more money. I find casts to be okay usually because of all the 1 cost stealth bits that can smooth out your opener.

Final econ question would be why cut Sure Gamble?