Are you bored of crushing your opponents with stupid Museum of History IG decks?

Why not try crushing your opponents with a stupid Museum of History Gagarin deck!

Enter Hot Tub Time Machine! A deck that combines time traveling Alliance bullshit and 3 copies of Executive Retreat for flavor and because every 5/3 is pretty much exactly the same in the slot anyway.

I'm glad you asked, Hot Tub Time Machine supporting actor Craig Robinson!

Like your standard IG prison deck, step one is to land a Mumbad City Hall so you can start spamming out your Museums and Temples to give you sufficient economy and recursion to not worry about those things. If you need to ICE City Hall or a Museum because your opponent insists on trying to trash things, that's fine. You don't usually need too much ICE for your centrals super early. Just one Hive or Tour Guide on R&D should last you through the midgame.

When you use MCH, look at the top 3 cards for the things you need at the time to secure the midgame. Good finds include more ICE, Tech Startups, Hostiles, Banker's Groups, and the pieces of your kill combo for later.

Once you have a chokehold on the board, you can start playing Salem's off MCH to take out whatever is potentially annoying from their hand: Parasites, Levy, IHW are common things to attack. If they let you take a shot at their Plascrete, take it, because otherwise you're going to need to land a large Power Grid Overload to take it out from the board. You want to reshuffle Heritage and Salem's every turn so you can look at the top 3 before deciding which to play first.

If your opponent ignores or tries to Moby you, you have a pretty reasonable scoring plan: Mumbad Construction Co plus 3/5 of your faceup agendas. You don't want to nerf your Hives too badly in the event that you have to score. Ideally, you score one New Construction, then find a way to draw two more faceup agendas at the same time off Heritage and score them both immediately for the win. CVS for clot if necessary. SEA away their Sac Cons if necessary.

Glad to hear it, Craig.

Here's some explanations of the cards:

Agendas: The minimum non Government Takeover influence-free agendas you can play with enough face-ups to score out. Don't take out Executive Retreat or my deck name goes to shit.

Blacklist: taking Levy out of their hand or blocking Parasites with Tour Guide-Blacklist is pretty good. Necessarily for NBN alliance

DBS: Could be a Reversed Accounts, but that plan never materialized for me and DBS is good at finding things.

Mills/Executive Search: Anti-Slums tech but also good at destroying Wyldsides and blanking Val.

Executive Boot Camp: Combination 4th Tech Startup-Anti DDOS/Blackmail tech.

Turtlebacks/Commercial Bankers: Probably the best economy cards that get you Jinteki Alliance.

CVS: You're a fast advance deck and being able to blank their early game Medium spoils in the midgame is also pretty good.

Lotus FIeld: Jinteki Alliance, 8th ICE, only Code Gate. Not really any other decent options here unless you want to try Wall of Thorns.

Finally, here's a picture of Princess Space Kitten: