[Classique 2023] Tablet Asa

Deck Advice, courtesy of Nemamiah

What Your Deck Does

This is an explosive asset based deck; you’ll be looking to build and ice several remotes, then use the acceleration provided by Fully Operational to refill your hand and keep the pressure on the runner. You have multiple ways of scoring; you can do so behind ice like Tour Guide, protect agendas with Lakshmi Smartfabrics, or fast advance with MCA Austerity Policy and Biotic Labor. You will usually use several methods to score throughout the game, depending on your draw and what the runner has been able to trash. This isn’t a purely aggressive deck, so normally you’ll aim to build up a board state before you start to push agendas, but once it’s ready to score it can spiral out of control very quickly.

Cards to Mulligan For

At least one asset (preferably Rashida Jaheem or Daily Quest) and at least two ice . Tips and Tricks for the Matchup

You will normally need to ice HQ with one of your fist ice to protect against Diversion of Funds; in an emergency make sure you have enough assets to rez to avoid losing credits from it instead. Subsequent ice will be used for remotes, and you’ll usually want to create two or three iced remotes early in the game. Rashida Jaheem, MCA Austerity Policy and the first copy of Jeeves Model Bioroids should always be iced early; Mumba Temple and particularly Marilyn Campaign can be left undefended if there’s no available ice for them. However, you will need to show some restraint with icing remotes because Leela Patel’s ability and Boomerang can quickly open holes, so once you’ve established a handful of remotes consider double icing centrals and one scoring remote. Your ice is largely flexible, but Drafter is usually better on centrals and at least one Tour Guide tends to go on the scoring remote.

Once your board is set you can use Fully Operational to accelerate; you have very little recursion so try to get as much value as possible out of these. Use Cybernetics Court to hold the cards that you’ve drawn, then look to score. Typically your first score will be from the board, backed up by Lakshmi Smartfabrics (which should be in an iced server) if you’ve drawn it. Use Jeeves Model Bioroids to ideally score a Successful Field Test without having to advance it the turn before, and install all the extra cards you’ve drawn. From that point, you should be looking to score the next five points as quickly as possible, using whatever tools you have available. However, be aware that the runner deck can bounce your installed agendas when stealing or open up holes to attack when you do score, so try to keep centrals as safe as possible with taxing ice; in particular you should time your Gatekeeper rezzes to be as impactful as possible. Watch out for the late Sneakdoor Beta providing easy access to your hand, which will often be very agenda dense late in the game, and use Lakshmi Smartfabrics to protect against that. Bear in mind that with Jeeves Model Bioroids, a Project Vitruvius counter and a Biotic Labor you can fast advance a 5/3 agenda from hand.