Yomi Glacier v2.0

lolpaca 1247

Removed The Future Perfect in favour of a nice mix of nasty 3/1s. Having a lot of fun with this!

2 comments
10 Mar 2016 bubbathegoat

I have several questions/comments:
1. I normally think of Yomi and Glacier play as polar opposites, where Yomi sets up many remotes, with many of them being traps, while Glacier sets up 1 scoring server and pushed agendas through it, supported by 2-4 ICE and defensive upgrades., this seems to be not-quite either of those. How do you typically pilot this deck?
2. I really love Cerebral Overwriter.
3. I like House of Knives as a 3x, the potential to deal 1-2 net damage immediately before access will scare many runner off of accessing.
4. I've been considering Ancestral Imager to pair up with HoK to up the net damage pressure. I think this will force more accesses, but I often want that.
5. What are you using The Future is Now for? I know you can just grab whatever you like, but I normally use it to complete a combo or grab a silver bullet, but I don't see a lot of those here.

10 Mar 2016 lolpaca

It's kind of a hybrid between the two. You can play the typical PE shell game (lay down a naked agenda or two along with a Snare! or Psychic Field), but you also want to be gradually building a scoring server into which you'll drop either agendas or Edge of World.

I'm surprised more people don't play Edge of World - it's a cheap and fairly reliable way to land brain damage, and even 1 damage is worth landing in the early game.

You can leverage that fear to score out Braintrusts and put even more pressure on (hence the Yomi aspect, which is admittedly a bit of a stretch). Obviously, the more Pop-up Windows on your scoring server the better.

I had a Junebug in the last version, but advanceable traps become less good when you're planning to score all your agendas as never-advance. As usual, you pretty much never want to actually score Fetal AI.

The agenda mix can be switched up however you like - I like the toolbox approach I've got now, but a third House of Knives might be a good idea. Chronos Project really puts a lot of pressure on runners who rely on Levy or Clone Chip to get into servers safely.

The Future is Now I mainly use to grab either an Edge of World when I'm reasonably sure they're building up to run the scoring server, or econ if I'm getting low on cash. Since I'm not running Profiteering, getting a constant flow of econ operations is important. It's kept me safe from siphon spam by grabbing Crisium Grid early, and occasionally I just use it to grab another Neural EMP.

Ancestral Imager might be a nice include, by all means try it out. 3/1s in general are just stupid good in PE, it's best to see them as points second and ways to create a terrifying situation for the runner first :)

It's a wonky old deck to be sure and could do with more tweaking - I'd love to fit in more Psychic Fields for one thing - but it's been doing surprisingly well, going 4/5 at a recent casual night.