Food is Delicious - MWL

strundle 350

1st Place, 2016 Store Champs, The Game Shoppe, Bellevue, NE

2 comments
2 Feb 2016 rwknoll

I'm working on updating my own HB glacier deck, and your list has a lot of things that look like they will be a good fit for mine. I'm curious, what was your general ice layout strategy? What ice did you typically put on each server?

What was your game plan for dealing with Account Siphon or Vamp? I'm thinking of dropping -1 Caprice Nisei to find the influence for ~2 Crisium Grid. Thoughts?

2 Feb 2016 strundle

Crisium is probably a meta call -- I wasn't anticipating much Vamp (and didn't run into any), and Siphon can often be played around with asset rezzing. Turing on HQ can also help if you're expecting Siphon out of a Faustian-MaxX (resist rezzing it early, even if it means giving up a few accesses). I would probably cut Architects (and that would be a rough cut) before Caprice: she is your only hope for scoring out late game against a control deck. You can always toss her on a central, also -- she's probably than Crisium against Eater/Keyhole and arguably as good against Siphon.

Otherwise, general ice layout is pretty straightforward -- any early non-Turing ice goes over R&D/HQ (in that order, unless you're flooded or sitting across from a criminal). Ideal scoring remote has a Turing on the inside with Ichi or more Turings stacked on top as the game progresses. If playing against Whizzard or someone who installs Scrubber/Paricia, I may also build a second, lighter remote with a single Turing or stray piece of ETR that comes through to house extra Eves/Adonises. In most matchups, though, I'm fine installing an Eve naked, as you're often happy to trade credits with the runner on an equal basis.