Martial Law - Blue Sun + Docklands
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ItJustGotRielle 2958
Limited play testing has shown so far that there is something here. Blue Sun is meant for Scorch threat; you're just a less taxing HB without it. The idea started as a rush deck that can set up a remote quickly to get Docklands up and collecting counters quickly. How do I do this? I tried Shipment from Mirrormorph so I could click one ice-ice-install, and clicks 2 and 3 click Docklands, but that required a higher ice density to get multiple ice types AND Docklands quick enough. Instead of tax or ETR rush ice, I have aimed to guard Docklands with things like Data Raven, Archer, and Chum. This led to OAI Curtain Walls, which you put on a central with Docklands out, so they have to pick which server to deny you on. Denying Curtain Walls is expensive, which will help lend itself to Docklands tax. The False Leads help bottleneck windows the runner has to break out of Docklands pressure, since Data Raven will tag you as you pass. The Deck is light on econ currently, but three Hostiles helpyoubounce back when necessary and turn on Archer. Caprice is ridiculous, but if you fire it once it pays for itself two fold; it's easy to trash so I'm running a single Interns as a backup. There are five strange one-ofs currently, with me assuming I will draw at least one early, and that is what I will work with. I enjoy the high variance style of play, and it also makes you be unpredictable to the runner. Obviously you want to over-advance Atlas to fish for what ever card you need (False Lead? Grab a Snare during their Legwork. Installed the breaker that will get them into Docklandsremote? Grab aWill-o-the-Wisp or Caprice, or Power Shutdown.) With a Jackson and a single scorch, scorch them/jackson it back/atlas it back out/scorch again. These are common Weyland plays; but for this deck you want to play in a reactionary way- using one click, respond to their turn, and Docklands.
You will probably lose if you are inexperienced with Blue Sun, but don't give up. This is a ton of fun and the tax is INCREDIBLY huge once you get three counters. Justknowwhen to Docklands and when to use those 3 clicks to clear agendas, econ up, and ice up more.
It will have trouble with event heavy decks (criminal more than PPVP Kate, who still installs a lot of things), so feel the deck out. Don't waste time on Docklands if you can't get it to 3 counters and protect it for a turn or two, you still have Shutdown, Archer, binary ice, econ agendas, and scorches. Decide the best way to proceed based on your own experiences. I'm very fond of the idea of IoP for the deck as an answer to criminal, but first I will see how it handles against them over the coming days. I will need more econ if I want to sink money into an IoP trace.
Interested in reasonings/advice/experiences with Blue Sun + Docklands! Let me know what you think- taking it to a store tournament this Saturday, I'll see how it does and post results!
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17 Dec 2014
Bananifier
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20 Dec 2014
ItJustGotRielle
Scorch must be in here, the idea is to hold an economic lead to threaten a trace, and turtling means Docklands gets another click so NOT running becomes more and more expensive. The issue here is, to have enough to threaten Scorch while still being able to rez ice. It seems to threaten Scorch while having a Docklands out, you need to make a rush deck. Cheap binary ice, plenty of destroyers. Power Shutdown and Jacksons for recursion. Running Docklands turns on Sea Source, so it could be iced lightly and perhaps only clicked once or twice while setting up and scoring agendas in a rush remote. How do we do this without running the bad pub agenda suite? Ordo we care about that? Chimera would be awesome in front of Docklands to maximize the tax but dies to Parasite. Data Raven is also a huge disincentive to running Docklands just by itself, I'm doing that currently and seeing big success with it. Running the flatline means you can go cheap on the ice, so I think that's the way to go. What do you think about all of this? Perhaps the two of us can shape this deck into experience :) |
Dead or alive, you're coming with me !
A small suggestion : Rototurret is pretty good too in Blue Sun, and works well with Docklands Crackdown.
I'm running a similar deck (i.e. Blue Sun with Docklands Crackdown), and you are right about the 'Blue Sun Newb' part - I feel like there is something there, but I still suck at it ;)
What surprises me in your version is your very light economy : I had to go full vegan to free economy slots for the deck. I even thought about swapping Blue Sun for GRNDL: Power Unleashed, to hold the runner at bay in the first few turns. How do you survive the early game???