The Vampire Diaries

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The Vampire Diaries - Kati variant
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BTrain 2971

A Magnum in the dark, with a bit of a bite.

It's no fun letting the bad guys have their way, so let's put some pressure on the corp's wallet with the Mopus + Vamp pile-driver. I've tightened up this build to make it as efficient as possible while still giving you the power to dig deep, and dig cheap.

Get Magnum Opus on the table ASAP. Mulligan for it. Test Run it. SMC it. You have 3 Diesels and 3 Astrolabes, and you should find the draw power smoothing over having to pop an early tutor. The Astro with Akamatsu support should be more than enough cover your memory issues while letting you keep pressure up, and getting dedicated stealth credits on the table should also be fairly simple. Five of your stealth sources don't require MU, meaning a) you can afford to run early while keeping room open for breakers, and b) if you have to, you can overwrite a Cloak later without sacrificing much pressure. You'll find the once-a-run turns to be pretty self-sustaining because of the stealth suite, meaning you can use your Magnum Opus money to get your programs and hardware on the table.

This is the original build, but since my meta is skewing heavily toward Jinteki at this point, I've taken out one Legwork and swapped it for a Parasite. I get pretty tired of paying for Komainu every time, so why not blow it up instead?

8 comments
12 Dec 2014 Dydra

I like it :)

12 Dec 2014 daytodave

This deck wants Code Siphon so bad.

13 Dec 2014 SlayerCNV

only 4 stealth cards + 2 ghost runner. So not so much, imho.

14 Dec 2014 JamesG

@SlayerCNVI think that 2 cloaks, 2 lockpicks and and 3 ghost runners are more than enough. I run a similar stealth deck with Kate and so far stealth credits have never been a problem

15 Dec 2014 romanoSoprano

I'm thinking of switching out Akamatsu for the CyberSolutions Mem Chip as I hate digging for memory / choking while being unable to find another Akamatsu Mem Chip. Yea, they're more expensive and stuff, but what we have here is Magnum Opus and Modded, what we don't have too much of is draw power.

Also wondering about 1x Plascrete Carapace and John Masanori.

15 Dec 2014 Sojourne

Heh Vamp and mass credits are your scorched protection I guess. Well tuned out deck, you can tell it went through a lot of practical testing. +1

15 Dec 2014 Snake Eyes

I really like your deck. Nice job! I'm playing around with a Vamp Rielle "Kit" Peddler: Transhuman deck using Code Siphon to use as my secondary deck - but I am inexperienced in the ways of Kit (and shaper in general tbh) and it shows I think.

I might take my current "draft" build: netrunnerdb.com and streamline it to look a little bit more like yours.

15 Dec 2014 BTrain

@SlayerCNVThere are plenty of stealth creds in here, I promise. The 2 Cloaks and 2 Lockpicks refresh at the beginning of every turn, and 3 Ghost Runners -- 3 stealth creds for 1 regular credit -- are more than enough to get you into the heaviest servers. And you can use GR creds to steal NAPD's or trash agendas in a pinch! Win win!

@romanoSopranoThe problem I've found with CyberSolutions is its cost. You can throw down an Akamatsu and a Dagger for the same price as a Cyber. You're right though that it's a beauty with Modded, but personally I prefer to drop those on RDIs so I can make a run on the same turn it hits the board.

@SojourneYou're right! Magnum Opus is up there with the best Scorched protection a runner could ask for.

@Snake EyesThanks for the feedback! What do you think of Code Siphon? I've been kind of leery about it because you'll likely have to spend a click and 2 credits clearing the tag, but I can certainly see how it would be useful for fishing out support programs.

And everyone, please be sure to check out The Vampire Diaries - Kati variant that I put together. You'll see in the write-up that there are a number of things about this current build that I'm unhappy with, and they're the same things I think my latest version fixes. It's a little rougher around the edges, but I've run a similar build before and it's incredibly powerful.