Val's Pals
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| Standard Ban List 23.08 (active) |
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BTrain 2971
Know their weaknesses. Control their plans.
Val's a busy gal, and this is a build that looks to gain pure control of the corp's game plan. Activist Support ensures they keep that bad publicity, and our connections inside New Angeles City Hall will make sure we don't take the heat for it. Investigative Journalism digs up plenty of dirt for that burnout Raymond Flint to get his paws on, and we're packing HQ Interface because for each HQI installed, every new instance of bad publicity nets you an extra card from hand.
But blind guessing isn't fun. We also want to know what the corporation is up to, so we've enlisted a Woman in the Red Dress to help us out. Like what we see, and the corp decides to draw? Fire the Investigative Journalism. Like what we see, and they don't draw? Blackmail R&D. If we don't like what's on top, start building up and piling on the bad pub, because a very real win condition is to load them up with BP and drop Itinerant Protesters before firing off Hades Shard the next turn.
We have the slow-rolled R&D pressure via Medium, and while previous versions of this included Emergency Shutdown as a way to get around Blackmail defenses, it diluted the consistency of the deck, which simply can't happen when you're dealing with 50 cards.
Chop Bot 3000 is to turn off Activist Support so you don't bleed yourself dry paying the 2 to NACH every turn.
Liberated Accounts and Day Job make up the backbone of this deck's economy, although with the "sit back and wait" style Logos and Woman in the Red Dress encourage, Kati Jones and John Masanori are both in as one-offs to get you either draw or money.
Next up with this deck is to start working in more draw power. Any thoughts?
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27 Jan 2015
mythbuilder
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27 Jan 2015
Torf
Why are you using Activist Support? The corp already start with one bad pub. Activist Support activates only if he/she has no bad pub. |
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27 Jan 2015
BTrain
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I like the idea, but this deck needs some work.
Tallie Perrault and Steelskin may be good in-faction draw answers, while providing you protection from Scorched Earth, Traffic Accident and the like.
I question the need for Activist Support, as while it gives bad pub it also costs you 2 /turn if you don't have Salvager out and both Liberated Account and Day Job run out eventually. I think Investigative Journalism serves that purpose, will inconvenience you less often.
I think I can get behind Activist Support if you were running Data Leak Reversal on the side with Joshua B.. That way you can retain 1 BP on the corp even if they are running cards like Elizabeth Mills, Veterans Program, Witness Tampering, Rex Campaign, and Clone Retirement.
3/4 of your breakers don't benefit from your accumulated bad pub, instead relying on your Datasucker to bring them down to their level. I know you have John Masanori, so you may be trying to run at least once a turn, but I feel that mid-late game your rig will suffer. Instead of running 3 x Logos, drop one and get some pump-able breakers.
Maybe Corroder instead of Morning Star? Maybe ZU.13 Key Master instead of Yog.0? Maybe Pipeline instead of Mimic? Knight is good where it is. Pick one or two of those to change because you don't want to be relying too heavily on Datasucker, especially if you are running Parasite as well.
One last thing, Personal Workshop is your friend. It'll help you get out the HQ Interface quicker and may be a good place to stock Parasite cards for when you may need them.
I hope some of that helped. Looking forward to playing her when Order and Chaos comes out.