Sage it aint Shop

Gamaran 1

Combination of the "Stimshop" and the "Sage it aint so" Decks. For a Shaper Sage centric deck.

The concept is to Run/Tutor mainly a super powerful Sage, with enough economy to run safely and with some backup against sentries (Creeper for weak sentries and Overmind for any clutch run you have to do against anything else).

The amazing thing about this deck is how much clicks worth of stuff you get once you settle down some cards. With 1 The Supplier, Profesional Contracts, Personal Workshop and 3 Data Folding, you get 6 Credits and a Card worth of stuff for one click every turn.

It has nice combination of drip economy (Workshops, The supplier, Lockpicks and Datafoldings, Pro Contracts) and burst economy (Kati, TestRuns/Scavenge, Sure gambles, Diesel).

The runs get expensive but are supported by the Workshops and The supplier so you can save your cash for running, which makes you also safe from traces. Also with Kate ability combines with The supplier things like Dinosaurus go into play for 2 credits, or the Memstrips go in for free. Once you get some cards down you generally cant be stopped easily since you are running with a 10+ strength Sage and have incredible poking power, with the HQ interfaces and R&D interfaces.

I like the combos with the two HQ interfaces and Utopia shard that lets me access the 5 cards from the Corp hand, with only poping the Shard a two runs (HQ and Archives).

3 comments
12 Mar 2015 Ventrikel

Only 1, surely Creeper isn't good enough to take as a standard ice breaker?

12 Mar 2015 Gamaran

@Ventrikel its the best in faction sentry breaker i could find that didnt need me to sacrifice the influence. Also adding the Link for one MU has no point since you get Sage potentially to about 15 Strenght. Giving 2 of those MU up doesnt hurt the deck once you have overmind and Creeper installed.

I guess i could always drop the utopia shard and get a mimic or drop a memstrip and get a ninja or drop both for garrote and a Dyson. This is mostly about preference. Im actually thinking about adding Crypsis to be more flexible while you build up.

12 Mar 2015 Ventrikel

Sounds like you've thought it through. Interesting!