Scrap Merchant

Spiche 108

The goal of this deck is exploiting Hayley and Wasteland to make ridiculous amount of money. I love how every single card in the deck is synergetic with others.

Let me tell you a silly scenario it can make. You have just hit by a Closed Account and are bankrupt now. So What? At the end of the corp's turn, install Cache from Street Peddler to Scheherazade(triggering 3x Wasteland/3x Technical Writer) and use Hayley's ability to install another Cache from hand to Scheherazade(again triggering 3x Technical Writer). Then take your turn, sell a Cache to Aesop's Pawnshop(again triggering 3x Wasteland). You earned 16c, 6c on Technical Writer, a Cache(which can be pawned next turn) from nothing and didn't even use your first click yet! Now you may want to pop a Technical Writer which would maybe have 20+c on it and run to the most taxing server in the world.

Card Choices

Wasteland

It is practically ‘you gain 2c at the start of your turn.’ in this deck.

Davinci

A cheap program that triggers Hayley, Technical writer, Scheherazade, Wasteland and can be pawned. Ability to install small cards(Inti, Paricia, RDI) with no cost during run is a bonus.

Self-modifying Code

Another Cheap program that triggers Hayley, Technical writer, Scheherazade, Wasteland and can be pawned. You would pop the first SMC to get an early Scheherazade most times.

Cache

Another Cheap program that triggers Hayley, Technical writer, Scheherazade, Wasteland and can be pawned AND gives me additional 3c. Sorry for the repeated statement, but nearly all cards in the deck are that sort of. I have only 4 cards that cannot be installed(reads: event) and the most expensive card to install is RDI and Cybersolutions Mem Chip.

Paricia

Another Cheap program that triggers Hayley, Technical writer, ...etc. Actually that was the only reason I put this somewhat janky card in the deck, but I found that it helps me really a lot against NEH or other asset spamming decks (Astrolabe is also great at this matchup). Sometimes it is even worth to use a SMC for it.

Inti

Another Cheap program that triggers Hayley, Technical writer, ...etc. Actually that was the only reason I included this card in the deck, but I found that it is quite helpful against NEH. Turning off those Wraparound but having no tempo hit is nice. Actually Wraparound and Eli1.0 are two most frequently used Barriers, so let your Inti take care of Wraparound and save Cerberus "Lady" H1 counters to deal with Eli1.0. with Paricia and Astrolabe, this deck can play quite well vs NEH.

Clone Chip

Another Cheap hardware that triggers Hayley, Technical writer, ... etc. It is very versatile card and clone chip-ing a Cache at the end of your opponent's turn to pawn it right after is a nice economy burst.

Street Peddler

Another Cheap resource that triggers Hayley, Wasteland ...etc. It dig your stack to get Wastleand of Pawnshop early. You don't have to worry about hitting multiple events. Many cards in the deck costs exactly 1c to install(Astrolabe, Clone Chip, Drug Dealer, Aesop's Pawnshop, Cache, DaVinci) and it just feels awesome to get those from Street Peddler. And you know all sort of intersting plays he(she?) can make by himself. The only problem is that I would suffer a lot if he hits LARLA(which I have only 1 copy in the deck).

Levy AR Lab Access

You would burn your stack really fast, so it's a natural choice.

Technical Writer

Another Cheap resource that triggers Hayley, Wasteland(If you didn’t pawn anything at start of turn) ...etc. Since you would already has a lot of money at late game, it is usually better to pop one or two copies of it for mid game economy.

Harbinger

Though the idea of selling it twice to Aesop’s pawnshop looks nice, I didn’t include it in the deck. The reason is that when I pawn it, It is installed face down(which is not considered as progarm, hardware, or resource) so that I can’t use Hayley’s ability until end of the turn. Also there are plenty of pawn-able cards in this deck so I really don’t need a card which can be pawned multiple times.

Game Plan

At early game, draw cards and set up economy. You would be surprised at how fast the economy engine starts working. At late game, you should be swimming in money and have lots of free clicks to run everywhere. There are two copies of RDI in the deck, so you may lock R&D if ICE’s protecting there are not too taxing. (And most times ICE’s are not taxing enough to stop runners who gain 10+c with hardly any effort every turn.) If the corp tries to score an agenda behind giant server protected by Caprice Nisei and Ash 2X3ZB9CY, pop a techincal writer to get into the server multiple times.

Other Thoughts

I was not very impressed by Drug Dealer playing the deck. It adds two ‘at the start of turn’ triggers to game and I find it hard to keep up with so many triggers. But I can’t find any 1-influence card that I want to import. Maybe second copy of Scheherazade? Also the idea to use Chameleon as breaker suite (like the deck which is being shown at main now http://netrunnerdb.com/en/decklist/27937/the-novelist) seems quite interesting. Anyway, thanks for reading and try this deck! It's really fun to play :D

3 comments
31 Oct 2015 Spiche

Anyone knows how to decorate text of hyperlink cards? I can't find it and it seems quit hard to read now :(

31 Oct 2015 Krams

Aren't you running into problems if the corp uses two sentries wir different strength values that are both higher than 3? Like Assassin and Archer or Ichi 1.0 and 2.0? With only a single Atman and a Mimic without Datasucker Support you seem to lack a boostable killer.

As for the hyperlinks... have you tried typing an # before the name of a card? It should automatically change into something like [ this ] ( /en/card/1234 ). And typing $ and selecting from the list should give you an icon like this:

31 Oct 2015 Spiche

The previous version used Creeper to deal with sentries out of mimic range, but I hardly wanted to install it. Now Atman seems enough to me, and if that becomes a problem I woud consider using 1 Femme Fatale.

Thanks for the answer, but I actually tried both and wrongly concluded that they only works on comments. Dunno why but it's not working for me.