Ellen Ripley saves the day

Card draw simulator

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Derived from
None. Self-made deck here.
Inspiration for
Lola Hayes - Quantum Mechanics 2 2 0 1.0

Difrakt · 1286

This is an experimental 'jank' deck that capitalizes on three things:

The last one forms the foundation of the deck: this is a draw and recursion heavy deck a la MaxX/Levy AR Lab Access decks from Netrunner. The idea is very basic: spam card draw and use skills to blow through the game at maximum speed, Quantum Flux it all back, and do it again.

This allows us to avoid Lola's biggest downsides: her middling stat line which many people feel compelled to boost with many permanents, and a weakness which wipes out swathes of permanents at a time.

Of course we trade in for other issues instead. Now Crisis of Identity and our Random Basic Weakness will get recurred just as often as the rest of our deck, which can be troubling. Fortunately Crisis of Identity is mild when you don't have much invested in assets and Scavenging can help us pull back any critical losses (such as machete). Of course if we're recurring Amnesia then that might not matter at all, so difficulty will be highly variable.

This deck also provides a good foundation for future EXPenditures. a boosted Archaic Glyphs: Guiding Stones can pull numerous clues off of one location when boosted through Perception. This deck is incredibly cheap and loves to draw up cards so Higher Education and Scrapper combined with your natural money drip can help you round out tests you don't necessarily want to commit cards to. Magnifying Glass (1) can be used without threatening your hand spot and with minimal risk of losing it. Adaptable can allow you to flex your level 0 deck spots. Switchblade (2) and Opportunist (2) combo well with our method of skill card excess. This is also a deck where card-draw upgrades are welcome like Lucky! (2), and of course there's Try and Try Again.

I could go on all day. Give it a shot for yourself.

3 comments

Jan 20, 2018 PaxCecilia · 411

I like the idea of Resourceful being able to return Lucky and Look What I've Found since they are such valuable cards. But at the same time with only 6 Survivor cards I'd be tempted to swap Resourceful out for something more generally useful... Maybe I am not giving the Levy-style deck concept enough credit though! What has your experience with Resourceful been like?

Jan 20, 2018 StartWithTheName · 68640

Nice idea I like it. Have you thought of a similar approach in Jenny maybe? same statline. Would have a different deck composition ofc. Same question for Jim maybe. While hes not exactly 3333, 4332 is only short on agi which is unlikely be a problem. I note you drop 1x Manual Dexterity presumably for the same reason.

Jan 21, 2018 Difrakt · 1286

@PaxCecilia in this build I included 2x Scavenging but tbh I removed 1x copy before moving forward! Scavenging is useful as a safety net for critical item losses but with the speed you blow through your deck I found only 1 was necessary (and since survivor is our third 7x card faction it is required!)

@StartWithTheName I considered using faction-dedicated characters but found that largely it was a struggle to make them work with the skill-spam. Lola objectively has access to the most (and most diverse) skill card options. I was considering using Sefina for the event recursion with The Painted World but found Stars of Hyades too asynergystic! But if you try this build in Jenny or Jim lemme know how it goes!

That being said if you’re willing to sacrifice the seeker and survivor cards Jim Culver is definitely a strong option for trying this deck archetype