One Man's Trash

Preliminary: My main interest in building decks is not winning tournaments, but exploring an idea – an original one, if possible – as far as the card pool will allow. This deck will be updated once the Lunar cycle is completed.

As an alternative to db0‘s brilliant Street Kasparov or the many Overmind/Dog Pack Exile decks, the approach here is to have a toolbox of programs that is mainly accessed by Self-modifying Codes or Clone Chips and boosted by LLDS Processors.

The main design goal apart from flexibility is to create significant server accesses out of nothing, thanks to cheap programms and sudden credit bursts from Freelance Coding Contracts.

In the early game, those bursts will ideally go towards setup turns to mass deploy your Clone Chips and LLDS Processors via Replicator. Later on, they will go towards installing The Toolbox or towards a run, hopefully a decisive one - single copies of Indexing and The Maker's Eye for R&D, Nerve Agent for HQ and Imp for both.

Furthermore, Crescentus allows you to make all runs costly for the corp, even those that do not net you agendas. The general approach towards ice is to constantly break small speedbumps with cheap breakers and to overcome the big guns just once and then derez them. With just a bit of money and a Clone Chip and SMC in play, there is not a lot that you can't break.

Scheherazade and Sahasrara will get you through a lot of installs on the cheap, especially since your highest program cost is a measly four creds.

That's the plan, and here are the reasons why it usually won't work, a.k.a. things you should be careful of:

• Economy is unreliable, and if your Freelance Coding Contracts hide in the bottom of the deck, you will be horribly slow

• There is not enough recursion to pose a credibly threat for more than a few runs, so losing your Levy AR Lab Accesses is usually lethal. Don't hold on too long to them, especially if you've alread played more than one Freelance Coding Contract.

In spite of its problems, this is a very fun deck to play, and can catch corp players on the wrong foot due to being so unusual.

The update for Lunar cycle will, of course, include Cerberus "Lady" H1 as a natural fit, and go from event-based draw to Astrolabe and Collective Consciousness. Leprechaun will also allow a replacement of Scheherazade with good old Magnum Opus, which frees up some influence for new program tools. Chronos Protocol will still kill you dead, but this probably goes for all Exile decks.