A Skorpios Story 3 - Weyland can do everything!

My name is PowerBunz and I love Skorpios. I've built more Skorpios decks than any other ID and It's time to share my enthusiasm and joy for the murderous and oppressive. Not all these decks will be good, not all of them will have actually been sleeved up and played; they together tell a story of learning, improvement, and, most importantly, huge remove-from-game piles.

You remember what I said last time, how I learned to only moderately lean into dumb combos? It took me a while to follow my own advice.

I thought this was a great idea. A-A-Ron was everywhere, ruining all my fun, so what could we do about that? More tags! Too many tags! And what if they start to remove tags? We give them more, punish them for each one, and speed ourselves up. It was beautiful!

It also didn't work. If we look at the money cards, 7 are agendas, 3 are operations, and 4 are ICE. So far, so Weyland. It turns out that judges aren't cheap, and runners are rich. Also, somehow forgetting my own previous lessons, bad publicity is pretty bad when all your key combo pieces are cheap to trash.

This lead to another key lesson I somehow neglected to learn during the first few years of playing this game: play to the strengths of your faction. This was an attempt to go for a mass-asset tag storm punishment based deck. There might be another faction that might be better at this kind of thing (this will come to an angry frothing head later on). Fortunately for the theme of this series, I refused to believe it. It seems like such a simple idea, but it's not something that I immediately realised. Such was (is?) my love and devotion to this ID and faction.

I feel like at this point I need to explain why I love Skorpios so much. It's the fear factor. It forces the runner to build their decks in certain ways, or be afraid of certain cards, because the possibilities are both vast and terrifying. No more Siphon spam or Parasite recursion. MaxX and Steve are very very sad. Prepaid's Levy becomes much worse, and Sacrificial Construct becomes cherished. This is ignoring the holy grail of total breaker loss and lockout, which has also not been the point of any of my deck in this series so far. It isn't the point. The point is the fear, and the resultant inefficiency and slower, safer play by the runner, and the many hilarious ways this can be exploited by a corp.

Or that would be the point, if any of the decks I played were actually any good. Maybe next time.

PS: No Jackson Howard at all in this deck. That's how you know it's good.