My Agendas! Let Me Show You Them! 2nd at GNK tournament

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This is a stupid deck I built because my meta has a lot of blackmail in it, so I didn't want to bother with big remote servers. Instead, I prefer to just tell the runner that yes, this is an agenda, and no, you can't have it.

The backbone of the deck is Lakshmi, and Team Sponsorship does a lot of work as well. Fast Track enables Lakshmi when you need another copy of an agenda, and Biotic is Biotic.

The agendas were chosen to go with the Lakshmi and Biotic plan, 3 copies of every agenda because you need to be able to show a copy to keep the runner from stealing them. Domestic Sleepers is nice because you can keep the runner from stealing them forever as long as a lakshmi is on the board (pay 0 counters), and with turtlebacks and team sponsorship scoring them is a good thing.

The obvious way to use Lakshmi is to wait til you have two counters, then install a 2 pointer, and then they run it, show them another copy in hand. You can also use it, though, after Legwork or Makers Eye runs after they've passed all the ice.

Lakshmi is a must trash asset. Nearly every game I win has the runner's final turn unable to steal one or more agendas so that I can safely wait to score my last agenda or else add a token to a scored Domestic Sleepers.

This isn't really a great deck, objectively speaking. It should fold hard to Whizzard and Film Critic. However, as a dumb deck I threw together it's won almost every game (in casual jnet, so take that for what it's worth) as well as doing well in a tournament yesterday. At the end of the day it's a silly, fun deck that works better than I expected it would.

5 comments
7 Sep 2016 hi_impact

awesome deck!

how was the card draw? do you feel it could be sped up with BLC or was 2x jackson + mandatory enough?

7 Sep 2016 Johnny Polite

@hi_impactThanks! It could probably use more draw, but I never felt like I was struggling because of it. Spending the odd turn drawing a few times isn't the end of the world. Blue level would be all right, for sure.

8 Sep 2016 vor_lord

@Johnny Polite Did you run into money problems? It looks econ light.

8 Sep 2016 Johnny Polite

@vor_lord No, not really. I'm actually playing a version with even less money now, I've replaced the Adonises for Enhanced Login Protocol. Nearly everything in the deck only costs 1 or 2 credits to rez, with the exception of Silver for 3 and Architect for 4. In most games I find my money hovering around 10 credits, unless the runner leaves up the PADs and Turtlebacks, in which case you're rich.

8 Sep 2016 vor_lord

I somehow missed the Adonises. My thought had been to squeeze in Mumba Temple but if you aren't having difficulty with econ there is no need.