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pillowdemon 653

(To be perfectly honest, this deck under My Decks is actually named "HB Next Executive 1.0," but

you know

why not.)

It won't make coffee

BUT with a little luck and careful piloting, with Demon Kate as its companion, it might go 6W, 1L at a certain MTG Deals' store championship in San Gabriel, CA, taking no losses after the Top 8 cut!

WHY WONT IT MAKE COFFEE

Because it's way better at being a Fast Advance deck utilizing asset pressure and evolving ice to transition into a highly taxing late game with leftover FA options! For example, you can use an early unprotected SanSan City Grid to score one agenda and tax the runner 5cr, and still have 3 Biotic Labors left for the rest of the game while the NEXT ice suite gets cookin! It's actually what I term a Fast Advance/Glacier hybri-

I LOVE ICED COFFEE

So do I, so do I. But you know what else I love? Being able to proactively manage your boardstate at a discount, progressing taxing ICE evolution while plugging potential problem servers (like Archives)! (Executive Bootcamp[TM])

You can also proactively shuffle your RD at least 5 times in a single game, making this highly resistant to repeat Indexings (Executive Bootcamp[TM]) - mind that Jackson can shuffle back in trashed Bootcamps, making the shuffle even stronger.

This makes rezzing those assets (which HB: ETF already has an innate discount for, considering its special ability) and tempting the runner to tax themselves by going after those rezzed-at-discount assets an even BETTER early and mid game option!

EBC that Pad Campaign for free? Yes. (Actually, don't do this. It's totally not legal.)

EBC Next Bronze for 1cr? Yes.

EBC SanSan City Grid for 5cr, making it equally taxing for the runner credit wise to trash, but you come out ahead in overall clicks? Yes!

COFFEE ICE CREAM JELLO. YES.

If you want, simply swap out the Shipment from SanSan for Peak Efficiency, which is an excellent late game econ card for this deck - and also swap out IQ for Lotus Field, since an early Yog+Datasucker suite combo is effective at scoring early agendas against this deck, and because Yog is rising back to prevalence (at least in the SoCal meta) now that Lotus Field has largely done its job and reduced Yog's popularity on a bigger scale. Shipment from SanSan is a niche econ card that allows you to score from a destitute state off SanSan, since smart Anarch and Criminal runners will be looking for ways to Account Siphon you after that SanSan goes up, double whammying you by gimping your bank account and getting rid of your expensive-to-rez Fast Advance asset option. One very, very valid way to play against Account Siphon is to simply make the event not worth it... by being very poor. Shipment helps enable this playstyle in the mid and late game.

WTF I DID NOT UNDERSTAND A WORD YOU SAID

No need to get all weird about it!

Bye everyone!!

6 comments
19 Mar 2015 therealwarrior

Sorry for that, but you cannot use Executive Boot Camp on PAD Campaign and earn your credit, because the second wasn't active at the begginning of the phase. Besides that, the ideas behind your deck seem pretty cool.

19 Mar 2015 FarCryFromHuman

I'm not sure that's true. From the rules:

When one or more abilities have the same timing trigger or can be triggered at the same time, each player chooses the order his own abilities trigger. A player can trigger an optional conditional ability before a required conditional ability if they both have the same trigger condition

He should be able to use Executive Boot Camp's effect first, then trigger PAD Campaign. Unless this is in the FAQ somewhere?

19 Mar 2015 therealwarrior

Actually, the FAQ says about The Supplier:

"The Runner cannot use any “when your turn begins” abilities on cards that are installed by The Supplier until his next turn."

And it's the same here. I just can't find the ruling :-) .

19 Mar 2015 x3r0h0ur

The game checks for effects available at the start of turn, then builds a list, then resolves them in some order (your choosing). PAD would not trigger if it wasn't available to be added to the list when 'start of turn' happened.

If you had supplier, unrezzed pad, pad on supplier and EBC, you could use EBC to rez the unrezzed pad, drop pad off supplier, but NEITHER would give a credit, because when start of turn occurred, there were 0 active pad campaigns.

19 Mar 2015 pillowdemon

@therealwarrior- def did some research and you're totally right. I only did the PAD thing once during a Swiss match, but both my opponent were not apparently aware of the ruling. I might have to find him and apologize, and I'll revise the description up top :)

@x3r0h0ur - yep, that sequence timing is exactly what I found researching the issue. And I totally agree The Supplier would be a badass corp card!

19 Mar 2015 x3r0h0ur

I've had to explain that issue with UWC often enough, the similarity seems easy to understand once you can see something you already understand. I bet they will have something like that.