Ken the Big Rig Driver

Atypical criminal deck running a big rig. Started out as a fun experiment to build a criminal deck that didn't use the standard anarch breakers. After countless iterations, it ended up pretty good and won me a tournament :)

The deck revolves around installing your rig as fast as possible. Preferably, the first one you should install is Morning Star, followed by Torch. You have multiple tools to do so: Stimhack + Savoir-Faire/Clone chip, Siphon money, or even Dirty Laundry + Security testing. The preferred way is to Stimhack+Savoir-Faire, although don't tunnel vision on that and be afraid to hard-cast your Morning star.

Once you're set-up, you're pretty much unstoppable. You will win by run volume, rather than run quality. This puts a lot of pressure on the corp because cards like Ash and Caprice are not all that taxing. Security testing will be your long-term source of income, although once you're set up, you need very little money to make runs.

Crescentus is a key insight for this deck in favor of Emergency shutdown. Even though runs are very cheap for the big rig, there are always the occasional annoying ices that cost a bit too much (ie. 4+ credits). Examples include: Grim, Ichi, Archer, Tollbooth. For sentries, the standard way to deal with them is Faerie, but it is a one-shot process, therefore you need Crescentus to lock it down. For Tollbooth, Torch costs 5 creds which is acceptable to pay one time, therefore you want to derez it after you pay that. Crescentus also combos really well with Savoir-Faire.

The other weakness is big barriers that Morning star can't deal with. To solve this issue, I use a combo of Crescentus+Grappling Hook + E3. Against Bioroid ices, just E3 is needed. The most annoying ones are the Weyland ones where you need the full combo. Thankfully, those are not rezzed that often, although with oversight AI they could be annoying (but then you don't need Crescentus).

Quality time is another really important card to draw into your rig quickly. You can also discard breakers to activate Clone chip + Stimhack, although that's not the preferable way to get them into play. It's better to keep Clone chip in case your rig gets trashed (usually this only happens through AggSec, since destroyers are not a big issue), or to recur Crescentus/Grappling hook. Clone chip is also useful in case a Stimhack makes you lose a breaker in hand.

The deck is lacking multi-card access. Those would definitely be appreciated but not necessary. Probably the most viable is Legwork since it doesn't cost any influence. More experimentation is needed to determine what can be cut for it.