AoA: Reina's Icecapades II

wswan 68

This is my Anatomy of Anarchy (great read, found here: http://teamcovenant.com/botounami/2014/05/20/anatomy-of-anarchy/) deck, mixing it with my first Reina deck.

The problem most people run into when building a deck is going overboard with a theme and then not having a usable deck at the end. You see this with people putting tons of random programs into Professor decks or putting Scrubber into Whizzard decks. I originally went pretty far with Reina's ability, adding Xanadus and all the Rooks along with Forged Activation Orders to really screw with the corp. This would generally work, but my running game was slowed and not as good as it could be because of it.

I used the AoA template here to give myself a good foundation to build off of, still using Rooks (but not Xanadus) to go with Reina's ability.

My problems as of now are wondering if I really can use Wyldside. It works with Noise because he can always be slapping down viruses, but Reina can't necessarily play two cards each turn. That along with the fixed breakers, which I haven't really used too much, are what I'm mostly testing in this deck to see if they should be changed out. Y0g could probably go now that Lotus Field has come into existence.

4 comments
17 Aug 2014 wilk

I think Yog is still pretty solid, if any of those darn Lotus Fields shows up, well - that's what Knights are for. :)

17 Aug 2014 wswan

Good point, definitely.

17 Aug 2014 wilk

Also, the economy looks pretty weak. If you decide to run Aesop's Pawnshop, why not lose 1 Siphon for 3 Caches and an additional Pawnshop (Cache shines with Grimoire, but it should still be pretty good here). If you decide to do this, I would also recommend running 3 Same Old Things. Are you finding the Joshua B./Data Leak Reversal engine to be good enough to warrant 5 cardslots?

25 Aug 2014 wswan

I've switched my Josh B. and Wyldside into John Masanori. John is pretty great because you can get yourself tagged exactly when you want. Most Anarch decks seem to flip a switch between set-up while running and full-on pounding away, and John Masanori gives you that ability, it's great. I'll post up my new version and link the decks.