SHAPes: Shaper Heuristics; Anarch Prices

belkalra 17

A.K.A. the S4-G3 deck

This is my attempt to pull a few disparate ideas I've been mulling over into a single cohesive deck.

So the Core of the deck is based around the Creeper/Sage breaker suite, with the idea being that Creeper takes up no memory once you have the necessary link, so your memory(which can go up to a theoretical 16) should be enough for sage to tank all but the most resilient of walls(or Hivemind, if we're being honest).

Due to the memory and link requirements of the above combo, Data Folding and Underworld Contact just seemed to slot in fairly naturally to the deck and can give the deck a terrifying amount of drip.

Overmind also slot well into the deck, considering the massive amount of spare memory lying around. Knight also lends the deck some early game aggression, and pairs fantastically with the Deep Reds.

The large amount of hardware makes the replicators an excellent way to thin the deck, as well as a way to keep the power overloads away from your more valuable tech. With the addition of the economy resources in the deck The Supplier makes for a wise investment, especially since his discount stacks with kate's(unlike personal workshop)

Finally, I threw in the Plascrete Carapaces to deal with the meta of ALL HAIL BLUE SUN and the R&D Interfaces to give the deck some sort of aggression outside of fairly efficient runs.

This deck's natural predator seems to be the Tag storm, though thankfully that archetype is fairly absent in my meta and the amount of link you'll get in a match will probably put a damper of a fair bit of their plan.

2 comments
12 Jan 2015 x3r0h0ur

I dont know the influence on memstrips, but they are also amazing at overmind counters. You could even run parasite and datasucker in addition to sage to help with the fixie aspect of it. My guess is that they'll be 3 inf though, just because.

12 Jan 2015 belkalra

No, apparently MemStrips are the same influence as the Deep Reds; I might even hot swap them in my next build.

Also in the swap will probably a hostage->Supplier. Also thinking about taking out some of the recurring credit economy for some event based economy, just so it's not a total shutout against tagstorm