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[NUKE9.13]

Hmm. That's not too bad for a two. I mean, obviously Rare is worse than Uncommon, but it could be worse.

Alright, so, we put in max numbers of those two and the Police Officer, take out all the Hired Thugs and three Sanctioned Raids. Then we have this:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Commander
Aki, Chief of the Secret Police

Creatures
Police Officer x5
Recon Drone x5
Police Sniper x5
Armed Tax Collector x3
Police Lieutenant x3
Robotic Officer x5

Reactions
Weapon Scan X10
Hired Assassin x5

Tactics
Field Interrogation x5
Tap the Mind x5
Sanctioned Raid x7

Strategy
Crush the Sparks x2

Energy
20 Slum
20 Metropolis

So, a boring but practical option might be a ETBT dual land:

Restricted Sector
Colour: Technically colourless.
art: ?
Type: Land
Effect: Restricted Sector enters the battlefield tapped.
  When Restricted Sector enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life.
  Tap: Add (B) or (W) to your mana pool.

(The flavour is that it is a section of the city that is on lockdown, meaning only police are legally allowed to enter. Hence the only people other than police (white) who reside there are criminals (black))

Note, we could make this one of those lands that gains you a life when it ETBs, but that would make it less likely to be common... although, come to think of it, how many ETBT lands would we want? Five might be enough...
Yeah, okay, edited to add lifegain. (Note that it could still very well be common if we don't roll terribly, but we don't have to use all 10)

[Failbird105]

Designs/Revisions -
Uploaded Officer (1): Failbird105
Police Checkpoint ():
Police Certification & Armification ():
Prison Recruitment (1): Failbird105
Police Quartermaster ():
Abandoned Complex ():
APB ():
Tranquilizer Pistol ():
Underhanded Detective ():
Suicide Vest ():
Sanctioned Arms Smuggling ():
Restricted Sector ():

Card Swap -
NUKEs swap plan ():

I think quite a few of us have agreed on what our first design this turn will be. The question is what about the second, I'm thinking prison recruitment honestly. I'm not voting for that swap plan just yet because I don't really like the idea of losing ALL of our thugs, even if they are kinda garbage.

[frostgiant]

Black market Contacts.
Colour: Black
Type: Tactic
Effect: Search your deck for a card, Then shuffle your deck and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

Rescheduled Demolition and relocation
Colour: Black
Type: Tactic
Effect: Destroy any one land.

Black market Jacker
Colour: Black
Type: Equipment
Equip 3: Equipped creature gains Hotswap.

A few more suggestions.

Designs/Revisions -
Uploaded Officer (2): Failbird105, Frostgiant
Police Checkpoint ():
Police Certification & Armification ():
Prison Recruitment (1): Failbird105
Police Quartermaster ():
Abandoned Complex ():
APB ():
Tranquilizer Pistol ():
Underhanded Detective ():
Suicide Vest ():
Sanctioned Arms Smuggling ():
Restricted Sector ():
Black market Contacts. (1): Frostgiant
Rescheduled Demolition and relocation ():
Black market Jacker ():
Card Swap -
NUKEs swap plan ():

Not sure for the second option yet, but I like uploaded officer.

[IronyOwl]

SIMULATION ENGAGED
AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL VIEWING ONLY
UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS MAY RESULT IN PENALTIES UP TO AND INCLUDING NEURAL AND/OR CORPOREAL REPURPOSING


Authority Opening Hand:
2x Police Officer (2/1 First Strike, WW)
Police Sniper (2/1 Slick, 1B)
2x Robotic Officer (0/4 Defender, 2W)
Weapon Scan (W, Reaction: Prevent next 3 damage dealt to target creature)
Metropolis (White Land)

Resistance Opening Hand:
Resistance Fighter (1/1, R)
Hack the System (1UU, Instant: Counter target creature, reaction, tactic, strategy)
Fan the Flames (2R, Reaction: Deal 3 damage to target creature. If destroyed, put 1/1 token into play)
Rapid Pursuit (R, Reaction: Target creature gets +1/+0 and first strike)
Housing Sprawl (Red Land)
2x Business Center (Blue Land)

Authority goes first.

Spoiler: Turns 1-5 (click to show/hide)

Turn 1
Card Drawn: Hired Assassin (1B, Instant: Destroy target non-black creature)
Play Metropolis
End Turn

Resistance Card Drawn: Rapid Pursuit (R, Reaction: Target creature gets +1/+0 and first strike)
Play Housing Sprawl
Play Resistance Fighter
End Turn

Turn 2
Authority Card Drawn: Hired Assassin (1B, Instant: Destroy target non-black creature)
End Turn

Resistance Card Drawn: Business Center (Blue Land)
Play Business Center
Resistance Fighter Attacks
End Turn

Turn 3
Authority Tanks Attack: Resistance Fighter Deals 1 Damage to Authority; now 19 HP
Authority Draws Card: Slum (Black Land)
Play Slum
Play Police Sniper
End Turn

Resistance Card Drawn: Intel Swap (U: Draw two cards, then discard two cards)
Play Business Center
Play Fan the Flames against Police Sniper
Police Sniper Destroyed, 1/1 Resistance Fighter Token gained
Resistance Fighter Attacks
End Turn

Turn 4
Authority Tanks Resistance Fighter, Resistance Fighter Token: Resistance Fighters deal 2 damage to Authority: Now 17 HP
Authority Card Drawn: Slum (White Land)
Authority Plays Slum
Authority Plays Robotic Officer
End Turn

Resistance Card Drawn: Resistance Fighter (1/1, R)
Resistance Plays Business Center
Resistance Plays Intel Swap: Draws 2x Business Center, Discards 2x Business Center
Resistance Sets Conditional: Play Hack the System if opponent tries to play a card costing 3+ Mana
Resistance Fighter and Resistance Fighter Token attack
End Turn

Turn 5
Authority blocks one resistance fighter with Robotic Officer, tanks other; take 1 damage, now 16 HP
Authority Card Drawn: Police Officer (2/1 First Strike, WW)
Authority Plays Robotic Officer
Resistance Plays Hack the System
Robotic Officer countered
End Turn

Resistance Card Drawn: Resistance Fighter (1/1, R)
Resistance Plays Business Center
Resistance Plays Resistance Fighter
Resistance Fighter and Token attack
End Turn

Spoiler: Turns 6-10 (click to show/hide)

Turn 6
Authority blocks one resistance fighter with Robotic Officer, tanks other: take 1 damage, now 15 HP
Authority Card Drawn: Field Interrogation (2B, Tactic: Look at your opponent's hand, pick a card to discard)
Authority plays Field Interrogation: Is immensely disappointed, discards Rapid Pursuit
End Turn

Resistance Card Drawn: Rapid Pursuit (R, Reaction: Target creature gets +1/+0 and first strike)
Resistance remembers overpowered hero exists on sideboard, plays Cade, Hero of the Resistance (4/2, 2RU; 2UT: Peek at the top card of your deck, may draw or discard immediately; RT: Target creature gains Haste)
x3 Resistance Fighters attack
End Turn

Turn 7
Authority blocks one resistance fighter with robotic officer, tanks two others; take 2 damage, now at 13 HP
Authority Card Drawn: Weapon Scan (W, Reaction: Prevent next 3 damage dealt to target creature)
Authority plays Hired Assassin against Cade, instantly snuffs out hope
End Turn

Resistance Card Drawn: Cobbled Cyborg (5/5, 3U; After dealing combat damage, returns to owners hand if survived)
Resistance plays Cobbled Cyborg
x3 Resistance Fighters attack
End Turn

Turn 8
Authority blocks one fighter with robotic officer, tanks two others: take 2 damage, now 11 HP
Authority Card Drawn: Metropolis (White Land)
Authority Plays Metropolis
Authority plays Hired Assassin on Cobbled Cyborg, Cobbled Cyborg destroyed
Authority plays Police Officer (2/1 First Strike)
End Turn

Resistance Card Drawn: Housing Sprawl (Red Land)
Resistance Plays Housing Sprawl
Resistance Plays Rapid Pursuit on one Resistance Fighter, becomes 2/1 with First Strike
Contingency Set: Play Rapid Pursuit on non-Rapid Pursuit Resistance Fighter if blocked by Police Officer
All three fighters attack
End Turn

Turn 9
Authority Blocks Rapid Pursuit Resistance Fighter with Robotic Officer, regular resistance fighter with Police Officer, tanks last resistance fighter
Contingency activates, blocked 1/1 resistance fighter becomes 2/1 first strike resistance fighter; both combatants destroyed
final resistance fighter deals 1 damage to Authority, now 10 HP
Authority Card Drawn: Slum (Black Land)
Authority Plays Slum
Authority Plays Aki, Chief of the Secret Police (1/5, 2WB; 2BT: Deal 3 dmg to target creature; 1W: Untap target creature)
Contingency Set: Play Weapon Scan if Aki would take lethal damage
End Turn

Resistance Card Drawn: Housing Sprawl (Red Land)
Resistance Plays Housing Sprawl
Resistance Plays Cade, Hero of the Resistance
End Turn

Turn 10
Authority Card Drawn: Armed Tax Collector (2/2, 2B; Whenever opponent plays creature card, they lose 1 life, you gain 1 life)
Aki taps, deals 3 damage to Cade, Cade is now Yamcha
Contingency Maintained: Weapon Scan on Aki if lifesaving
End Turn

Resistance Card Drawn: Business Center (Blue Land)
Resistance Plays Business Center
End Turn

Spoiler: Turns 11-15 (click to show/hide)

Turn 11
Authority Card Drawn: Slum (Black Land)
Authority Plays Slum
Authority Plays Armed Tax Collector
Contingency Maintained: Weapon Scan on Aki if lifesaving
End Turn

Resistance Card Drawn: Resistance Fighter
Resistance Plays Resistance Fighter
Takes 1 damage from Armed Tax Collector, now 19 HP
Authority heals 1, now 11 HP
End Turn

Turn 12
Authority Card Drawn: Metropolis (White Land)
Authority Plays Metropolis
Authority Plays Police Officer (2/1 First Strike, WW)
Contingency maintained: Aki guard
End Turn

Resistance Card Drawn: Resistance Fighter
Resistance plays namesake
Three active resistance fighters (x2 1/1, 1x 2/1 first strike) attack
Contingency set: Play Rapid Pursuit on resistance fighter if it would turn a stalemate into a kill
End Turn

Turn 13
Authority blocks 2/1 first strike resistance fighter with robotic officer, one 1/1 with Aki, one 1/1 with Police Officer
Contingency activates, Rapid Pursuit played on 1/1 Resistance Fighter; both fighter and Police Officer destroy each other
Other 1/1 destroyed by Aki
Authority Card Drawn: Police Sniper (2/1 Slick, 1B)
Authority plays Police Sniper, Police Officer
Authority attacks with Armed Tax Collector
Akiguard Contingency maintained
End Turn

Resistance tanks Armed Tax Collector, takes 2 damage, now 17 HP
Resistance Card Drawn: Housing Sprawl (Red Land)
Resistance Plays Housing Sprawl
End Turn

Turn 14
Authority Card Drawn: Metropolis (White Land)
Authority Plays Metropolis
Aki taps, deals 3 damage to 2/1 first strike resistance fighter, fighter destroyed
Akiguard Contingency maintained
Armed Tax Collector, Police Sniper, Police Officer attack
End Turn

Resistance tanks 2/1 Slick Police Sniper, 2/1 First Strike Police Officer, blocks 2/2 Armed Tax Collector with Resistance Fighter; Resistance Fighter destroyed, 4 damage, now 13 HP
Resistance Card Drawn: Hack the System (1UU, Instant: Counter target creature, reaction, tactic, strategy)
Contingency Set: On enemy playing 3+ mana card, Hack it
End Turn

Turn 15
Authority Card Drawn: Weapon Scan (W, Reaction: Prevent next 3 damage dealt to target creature)
Everything attacks
Akiguard maintained
End Turn

Resistance tanks 7 damage, now 6 HP
Resistance Card Drawn: Hack the System
Despair
End Turn

Spoiler: Grand Finale (click to show/hide)

Turn 16
Authority Card Drawn: Robotic Officer
Played for giggles, countered for giggles
Glorious Government Forces storm rebel headquarters, valiantly destroy all rebel scum

Authority Victory, Cycle

Final Analysis: Pray for mana when you need it and creatures when you don't. Strategies and reactions were typically not as impactful as expected. Cade is Aki's bitch, as is the resistance in general when we have four mana to spare. Results not representative of mid-game scheming, but bear in mind the low draw rate for any particular card. Severely anemic early game is deeply concerning, given that we were working with an updated proposed deck for us and the starter set for them.

[NUKE9.13]

Why the fuck would we keep a one-land hand?

[IronyOwl]

Wasn't sure what conditions to mulligan, so I went with not. Resistance didn't mulligan their two lands of the wrong type hand either.

[NUKE9.13]

Mulligans go 7>7>6>5..., no scry. If I recall correctly. And three lands of a suboptimal distribution is miles better than one land.

[FallacyofUrist]

Designs/Revisions -
Uploaded Officer (2): Failbird105, Frostgiant
Police Checkpoint ():
Police Certification & Armification ():
Prison Recruitment (1): Failbird105
Police Quartermaster ():
Abandoned Complex ():
APB ():
Tranquilizer Pistol ():
Underhanded Detective ():
Suicide Vest ():
Sanctioned Arms Smuggling ():
Restricted Sector (1): FallacyofUrist
Black market Contacts. (1): Frostgiant
Rescheduled Demolition and relocation ():
Black market Jacker ():
Card Swap -
NUKEs swap plan ():

I like the idea of an improved land.

[frostgiant]

You get two picks right now FallacyofUrist.

[NUKE9.13]

Designs/Revisions -
Uploaded Officer (2): Failbird105, Frostgiant
Police Checkpoint ():
Police Certification & Armification ():
Prison Recruitment (1): Failbird105
Police Quartermaster ():
Abandoned Complex ():
APB ():
Tranquilizer Pistol ():
Underhanded Detective ():
Suicide Vest ():
Sanctioned Arms Smuggling ():
Restricted Sector (2): FallacyofUrist, NUKE9.13
Black market Contacts. (2): Frostgiant, NUKE9.13
Rescheduled Demolition and relocation ():
Black market Jacker ():

Card Swap -
NUKEs swap plan (1): NUKE9.13

I just realised that tutors are more valuable than usual here, since we can design the perfect card for a situation, then tutor it up.
Also voting for the land.

[Failbird105]

Hmm, true enough on the tutors I suppose.

Designs/Revisions -
Uploaded Officer (2): Failbird105, Frostgiant
Police Checkpoint ():
Police Certification & Armification ():
Prison Recruitment ():
Police Quartermaster ():
Abandoned Complex ():
APB ():
Tranquilizer Pistol ():
Underhanded Detective ():
Suicide Vest ():
Sanctioned Arms Smuggling ():
Restricted Sector (2): FallacyofUrist, NUKE9.13
Black market Contacts. (3): Frostgiant, NUKE9.13, Failbird105
Rescheduled Demolition and relocation ():
Black market Jacker ():

Card Swap -
NUKEs swap plan (1): NUKE9.13

[FallacyofUrist]

Designs/Revisions -
Uploaded Officer (2): Failbird105, Frostgiant
Police Checkpoint ():
Police Certification & Armification ():
Prison Recruitment ():
Police Quartermaster ():
Abandoned Complex ():
APB ():
Tranquilizer Pistol ():
Underhanded Detective ():
Suicide Vest ():
Sanctioned Arms Smuggling ():
Restricted Sector (2): FallacyofUrist, NUKE9.13
Black market Contacts. (4): Frostgiant, NUKE9.13, Failbird105, FallacyofUrist
Rescheduled Demolition and relocation ():
Black market Jacker ():

Card Swap -
NUKEs swap plan (1): NUKE9.13

Search cards are more useful than normal, I've realized.

[frostgiant]

In the name of rexsolving a tie

Designs/Revisions -
Uploaded Officer (1): Failbird105, Police Checkpoint ():
Police Certification & Armification ():
Prison Recruitment ():
Police Quartermaster ():
Abandoned Complex ():
APB ():
Tranquilizer Pistol ():
Underhanded Detective ():
Suicide Vest ():
Sanctioned Arms Smuggling ():
Restricted Sector (3): FallacyofUrist, NUKE9.13, Frostgiant
Black market Contacts. (4): Frostgiant, NUKE9.13, Failbird105, FallacyofUrist
Rescheduled Demolition and relocation ():
Black market Jacker ():

Card Swap -
NUKEs swap plan (1): NUKE9.13

[Failbird105]

So what cards should we swap in and out? I like Nukes plan, except it leaves us without any sort of turn 1 creature if our enemies keep their resistance fighters.

[frostgiant]

So what cards should we swap in and out? I like Nukes plan, except it leaves us without any sort of turn 1 creature if our enemies keep their resistance fighters.

Hmm, even if we left all 10 in with the desire to replace them next turn, there would still be only something like a 10/100 card chance of us drawing that turn one play. Sooo, I think That it might be best if we replace them with the stronger 2 and 3's that we have been making.