Mitosis is the Powerhouse of the Cell

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It turns out that the safest place for agendas is in central servers. The agendas go from R&D into HQ, from HQ into Archives, and, with a little help, from Archives back to R&D. It's just the cycle of life. To help the agendas on their journey, we're running three Spin Doctors and three Moon Pools. Moon Pool is just an amazing card. It's basically three more copies of Spin Doctor, but it also works on HQ and helps with fast advance and makes Regenesis way easier to use. Keep the runner going in circles looking for your agendas.

The goal here is to use Regenesis to add a Jumon to your score area. Once you have a Jumon, you can start doing crazy stuff. NGO Front becomes a click for 8 credits. Get a Clearinghouse/Urtica Cipher fork faster than the runner can deal with it. Or just advance the winning agenda and win on points. Bonus points if you use the first Jumon to score the second Jumon.

To make this work, you want to have a Jumon in archives and a Regenesis in hand and then fast advance the Regenesis. The problem is that almost every method of fast advance turns off Regenesis. Biotic Labor doesn't work. Trick of Light doesn't work. Bass CH1R180G4 doesn't work. Firing a Rashida on the turn you want to score Regenesis is also a trap.

In this deck, we're using The Holo Man for fast advance. Install The Holo Man on a central server behind some nasty ice, rez him at the start of turn, move him to a remote server with just an ice, install Regenesis, score Regenesis. Alternatively, you can use an installed Moon Pool, trash zero cards from HQ, shuffle back an agenda, and use Regenesis to get the second agenda sitting in HQ. Since Moon Pool removes itself from the game, it doesn't go to Archives, which means Regenesis is still online. That does require you to leave two agendas in Archives, but they're safe with Spin Doctor and Moon Pool protecting them. Even better, you can use Moon Pool to trash agendas on the runner's turn, and Regenesis still works because no cards were trashed on your turn.

Mitosis is another star in this deck. Mitosis for two NGO fronts nets you 13 credits. Or you can Mitosis out an Urtica and a Clearinghouse and the runner has to figure out which to run. Usually, you'll use Mitosis on one thing that cares about the advancements and one that does not. Mitosis for NGO Front and Rashida is still a lot of credits. Also, NGO Front with two advancements is exactly enough to rez Anansi!

Shoutout to everyone in Atlanta for putting up with my agenda shuffling shenanigans!

1 comments
2 Apr 2025 ChiptheRipper

I love attracting all of the Ciphers and missing all of the Clearinghouses in this deck! Loving the write up!