NEH: More Bull (2nd Place Store Champ)

vampire0 250

I built this deck off of the basic NEH Astro-Biotics baseline. It took 2nd of 21 people this weekend during a Store Championship, loosing in the final round due to poor piloting at the end. This deck largely plays itself, except maybe against strong opponents - I think my poor play at the end was really due to inexperience with the deck: I took it to 2nd place having only played 2-3 games with it (or any Astro-train deck) prior to that day.

No Sentries

Mimic is everywhere and I had no good choices other than Architect. I just skipped them. I think I had Mimc played against me 3-4 times even though I had no Sentries in play - it was just a waste of credits and clicks for my opponents.

Quandary and Popup vs Yog.0

With Cerberus Rex out there, Criminal is running Dogs instead of Yog.0 largely, and I expected Anarch to go with Eater builds. Paid off all but one game with Andy where I sill made bank each run with off of Popup Window.

No Architect?

I kind of figured that since Architect is still the "new" hotness (particularly as a taxing counter to new anarch agression), people were going to be running Mimic all over the place... and they were. Yeah its taxing, but I get the same tax swing (2 credits) from Popup Window for 0 credits, not 4. The 1x Archived Memories was strong for me in at least two games, letting me pull back a discarded Closed Accounts when the Runner Account Siphoned me and pulling back and reinstalling a SanSan City Grid the Runner had trashed.

2 comments
10 Feb 2015 esternaefil

"The 1x Archived Memories was strong for me in at least two games, letting me pull back a discarded Closed Accounts when the Runner Account Siphoned me and pulling back and reinstalling a SanSan City Grid the Runner had trashed."

But there is no Closed Accounts in your build...

I like the Archived Memories, I've been using that influence on more/different ice.

10 Feb 2015 vampire0

Hey, yeah, my bad. I did run 1x Closed Accounts in the deck, but I constructed this list from memory at work - I missed it then. I'll recount tonight but I think I maybe only ran 2 Quandary - 3 didn't feel right when I was writing it up, but nothing else was ringing a bell.