Here we are again!

Welcome to the cutting edge of Gagarin: Deep Space. Please put on these protective goggles and leave your expectations at the entrance to the facility.

This latest edition of my Gagarin deck achieves success by using "good cards", something I probably should have looked at more before. It's now a pretty horrible thing to play against!

Are you sure?

Yes! And it's very simple to pilot. Here's how it usually works.

1. ICE your centrals and get Paywall Implementation up.
2. Start installing cards like it's going out of style.

This puts the runner in a bad place. Between Gagarin's ability and the Paywall, trashing your assets is just as bad as leaving them rezzed (to say nothing of it being insufferably annoying just to CHECK face-down, unprotected cards). If they go down to low, low credits you can threaten Scorched Earth. If they give you some breathing room to either develop their rig or try and outpace your economy to stay out of SEA Source range, you can score agendas.

And you took this to a Regional!

Yes! I was expecting to do terribly but it went 5-1 in Swiss, then 1-1 in the Top 8.

As for changes, I'm going to try swapping the Geothermal Fracking for two Hostile Takeovers. I always avoided Hostile because it gave automatic bad pub which is TERRIBLE for all your taxing remotes, but both the games Gagarin dropped on the day it was sat at 6 agenda points and couldn't end the game. Saving Hostiles for the end (and Jacksoning them back if you get them early) might be a fix.

Trivia

Yuri Gagarin became the first human to journey into outer space only by edging out his rival candidate for the flight, child prodigy Gherman Titov. Titov would later set the record for being the first human to pilot a spaceship personally, as well as becoming the first human to vomit in space. From this fact we can deduce that Yuri didn't throw up during his own flight! A minor victory which reminds me of what using this Netrunner ID feels like.

Today Titov is still the youngest person ever to endure a space flight, being just 25 at the time of his first launch.