Reg-Ass MaxX (Big Boxes Only)

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I'm building some decks with only the Core Set plus all three deluxe expansions to see what types of archetypes are will be available permanently throughout Netrunner's lifecycle. I'll put "big boxes only" in the deck titles so they can all be retrieved via search.


An attempt to build Dan D'Argenio's Reg-Ass MaxX with access to only the big boxes. While Noise might be the strongest Anarch in a world without Jackson Howard, this is about as solid a middle-of-the-road Anarch deck we could build with no frills but a strong breaker suite and good support cards.

Economy

MaxX builds typically rely on either Account Siphon or Kati Jones for their economy. If we want to build a "good stuff" deck with Clone Chips, we can't afford Siphon, and Kati isn't in a big box. That makes our economy here a little shaky; Day Job is great recovery but inflexible & Armitage Codebusting is fine but not particularly efficient. At the very least, this deck has the ability to rebound from low money very easily, but it likely will not be rich.

I also considered Tri-maf Contact as a poor person's Kati Jones but ultimately decided against it. Cyberfeeder is another oft-forgotten economy source Anarchs will always have access to, & with this many viruses it works well.

Card Choices

While Lotus Field isn't in a big box, it's still wise to choose breakers for every eventuality. Femme Fatale is a great silver bullet & Gordian Blade gives us an efficient, pumpable decoder.

Viruses are what makes Anarch strong & we have all the good core set ones here. Given the card pool we're using, this is probably the best possible deck for burning down ICE in real-time with Clone Chip & Parasite. While the breaker suite is a strength, the deck can get pretty far with a handful of Datasucker tokens & access to Parasite.

2 comments
5 Nov 2015 Jaik

What about adding Multithreader?

5 Nov 2015 phette23

Not a bad idea, I guess the place to cut from is Femme, unless you swap out Gordian Blade for a 2-influence decoder & those options look bleak (Sunny's Striker being the best probably, feasible with the Datasucker support). While I kind of doubt memory issues would arise, that's a concern too. I'd rather stick to the in-faction Cyberfeeder I think, though it's definitely not as good as Multithreader.