(Startup) Aggro Dad

This pile started as a deck building challenge on our Seattle Discord (Mercury + Bankhar). However I feel like the result is a respectable startup deck (Disclaimer - non boat division). This is the epitome of my current dad deck building (Disclaimer - sub optimal, I would love y’all to improve upon this concept). I spent a ton of time (disclaimer - 30 minutes between child tears and dirty diapers in dad time) on the concept. This is as much write up as I can get these days so enjoy!

The core of the deck is Mercury, Bankhar and Hermes. The rest is just bonus (money, multi access, breakers and draw). With Bankhar and Mercury you have HQ and RND interface ( for you old schoolers) with Bankhar as permanent inside job. This deck works decently because startup corp agendas are mostly weak sauce, aka send a message and friends. The play of this deck is summarized in three phases.

Phase one: Aggro Dad - try to get down Hermes and Bankhar and get in their face ASAP. Even without one of those pieces you want to face check often the first couple turns to put the opponent on their back foot and steal some agendas via pressure from your ID ability. Attack the weakest server. Try to leave one central with unrezzed ice for Hermes value.

Phase 2: Set up/ Counter Attack - you are probably broke at this point because you have been going full bore instead of sane activities like gathering money and building your board state. It’s ok to let them have a couple agenda’s because the Hermes bounce can create a hole to attack again. You can also use inside job or dobrado on the juiciest central the turn they have an agenda in their scoring remote and rip it away.

Phase 3: Big Dig/ Yolo - if phase 2 is going badly or you need the game to be over to order another beer, it’s time to go for “it”. Between Wake / Twining + ID ability and Dobrado / Inside Job you can get 4-5 access and win, or just lose.

Again there are probably better card choices and I’d love to hear feedback. This is a nice deck to surprise your friends or perhaps rogue deck at worlds. cheers!