Tower of Pain

tiedyedvortex 4801

When I saw Back Channels, I knew I had to make this happen.

  1. Use Mushin No Shin to install a Project Junebug.
  2. Using Tennin's ability, Space Camp, and advancing the old-fashioned way, get an absurd number of advancements on the Junebug. Aim to get at least 8.
  3. Use these counters as needed for Trick of Light FA shenanigans with Braintrust, Medical Breakthrough, Philotic Entanglement, or Gila Hands Arcology.
  4. Pop the bug with Back Channels, making 20 to 30 credits in a single click.

Surprisingly...this works really well. Once you get the Junebug installed and advanced a few times, it becomes really difficult for them to run it without frying. There are a few counters--Drive By hurts, as does Deus X, and Edward Kim will occasionlly hit the key operations for this trick.

It's also not too difficult to set up a brutal scoring remote using Susanoo-No-Mikoto and Wormhole, which is useful when you can't find your Trick of Lights or need to score out something larger than a 3/2. It's hilarious to bounce them into an archives full of Space Camps and Shock!s, slowing them down and adding more counters to your agenda, your Project Junebug, or an Ice Wall.

I won't say this is a Tier 1 deck, but it's pretty damn satisfying to go from 0 to 30 credits in a single click.

5 comments
16 Aug 2015 thesm17

Have you thought about just rezzing the Project Junebug? Then it can't get driven by. I know that takes away a little of the suspense, but then it can't get trashed.

17 Aug 2015 tiedyedvortex

That actually would work! I forgot that you could rez traps. It does prevent the hilarious possibility of them running it and taking 20 net damage, but it's probably still worth it.

17 Aug 2015 lolpaca

I've been playing with a similar idea in Harmony Medtech, but this looks a lot better! I still dream of the day Space Camp is seen in a T1 deck.

17 Aug 2015 ANRguybrush

I'm just worried that deus X can dodge this. overwriter would work for sure, but influence is tight.

18 Aug 2015 marauding_antisec

But then that introduces Theophilius-Monolith in CT or Kate into the meta again, which nobody is ready for.