Never Forget (68th at GenCon)

sanluyene 27

Stuck with my Cache Refresh style of play, and had tons of fun at my first tournament!

3 comments
21 Aug 2017 Sanjay

This is a really interesting list! Thank you for posting it.

I really love going to tournaments with a deck I've been working on, because I get so much good playtesting. How do you feel like the deck did? Would you tweak it and take it to another thing? Or are you on to the next deck archetype?

21 Aug 2017 sanluyene

I loved playing this deck! Not worrying about having to bump up Savant was convenient, but I wasn't ever hard-up for credits. Never even played Magnum Opus.

Was actually really surprised at how many of my cards weren't recognized during play. I guess they aren't too popular in the competitive scene when you have access to and play with a larger variety. I did receive multiple comments regarding this and my Corp deck about how I'm crazy for competing with Cache Refresh-based decks. I took it as a compliment! ;)

Had Levy AR Lab Access almost every game from the beginning, but never used it, although I definitely should have during my second game. That was the only trouble I really had; I had taken 5 net damage on the second or third turn of the game. Made me discard Battering Ram, and I never saw him again until I drew the very last card from my stack. Surprised the game went on that long despite being unable to defeat barriers, though!

I think the decks with fewer agenda cards are harder for this deck because they are potentially harder to find. Running Deep Data Mining only does so much good if the Corp is only drawing the one card a turn. If running against a potential Government Takeover, that's when the Legworks are going to be my bread and butter.

Which is exactly how I won with this deck against Weyland Consortium: Builder of Nations! Legwork scored me Government Takeover and an additional agenda like it was a cakewalk!

Ran really well against AgInfusion: New Miracles for a New World a couple of times. They had more agendas to potentially pull, which I guess I was more used to playing against.

Not sure what to tweak on it next. Having Medium is nice, but I only ever played it once. Potentially, throwing Special Order in could be helpful to make sure I can get everything out I need ASAP, but something else influence-wise would need to go. Maybe remove Dirty Laundry and get some other run-related events in would be a fun variety.

I would love to take this deck elsewhere! It's unfortunate that people don't play where I'm from, so I have at least a 2+ hour drive to find store and other championships- which I'm definitely planning on starting to do :)

21 Aug 2017 sanluyene

I do want to note that this is not a strict Cache Refresh deck, it was built in a Cache Refresh style; due to the use of multiple box sets, and the lack of use of any pre-Red Sand datapacks :)