No Code Gate For You!

Card draw simulator
Odds: 0% – 0% – 0% more
Repartition by Cost
Repartition by Strength
Derived from
None. Self-made deck here.
Inspiration for
None yet
Include in your page (help)

connorhalo 141

This deck is brutal and fun to play. The core concept is simple: Destroy all Code Gate breakers. I've won about 12 of my last 13 with this deck including going undefeated at store tournament.

Folks might see the Grim / Marcus Batty combo coming, but they won't expect Will-o'-the-Wisp too.

Nothing feels quite as good as scoring out a Vanity Project behind a Quandary.

Plenty of cash because you have cheap ice. Just put out your code gates then double up with Grims or Lycan. Once they don't have their Code Gate breakers, score at your leisure.

Deck density is ridiculously low so R&D digs aren't too bad early on.

Your enemies here are heavy ice destruction decks (hence the Cyberdex Virus Suite and shapers who use a lot of Test Run, SMC and Clone Chip shenanigans. But that just requires that you watch more carefully for scoring windows.

11 comments
23 Aug 2015 Voron

Why not just play it in Jinteki... the place with all the best Code Gates?

23 Aug 2015 connorhalo

I actually first built this in Jinteki, but I found that I liked the trickling economy from HB:ETF and Turing. I always felt just a credit or two short doing this in Jinteki.

23 Aug 2015 whirrun

Cool deck! How much value do you tend to get from underway grid?

23 Aug 2015 connorhalo

@Whirrun - Not much, but when I do, it's big. It only gets used every few games, but it has saved me from Drive By and Inside Job. I've also used it as a lure to get a runner to face plant into my Grim/Batty combo.

23 Aug 2015 Alakallanar

Why Project Wotan? You aren't playing any Bioroids...

23 Aug 2015 connorhalo

@Alakallanar I suppose you could swap them out for PrioReq or something. I'm using those to keep agenda density down. More than half of my wins have been from scoring out a Wotan followed by a Vanity Project or vice versa. The high values give the runner vary short windows in which to come up with a Code Gate solution.

23 Aug 2015 whirrun

What about swapping lycan for assasin to fit in two Global Fodd Int. once D&D drops? Or has Lycan been any good?

23 Aug 2015 connorhalo

@whirrun Lycan has been "okay". I like your idea for GFI though! Cheers!

24 Aug 2015 Phoenix

Why are you running Lycan at 2 influence, when you have Sagittarius in faction? Even Ichi 1.0 and Batty may be better?

Also, if shaper/anarch recursion is a problem, Blacklist? Helps you to achieve true lockout.

24 Aug 2015 connorhalo

@Phoenix Sag is a trace. Our meta is running pretty heavy runner econ (as most probably are) and I like fixed cost Ice for that reason. As for Ichi, I don't always have Batty ready to go when I want him so I don't want the runner to be able to click through and get out of it.

I like the blacklist idea though - I may try that out. I'll let you know how it goes! Cheers

24 Aug 2015 Phoenix

Sagittarius is a trace, yes, but you don't have to win the trace to trash a program :)