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I started way back with Red Coats, tinkered with it over months with some of the new releases and arrived at this. The base idea is regular Red Coats. You build up an huge wall of ICE, wait until the runner runs out of steam and then score comfortably in a server with Ash. Went 3/2 at the recent, highly competitive Store Championship in Aachen.

The deck has a ton of economy - so much, actually, that in some cases you can even hard-rez that Wotan.

With the advent of some aggressive decks like Cache Noise I decided to dial back the ice a but and add some Operational flexibility. Here are some details:

• Archived Memories and Project Vitruvius serves to bring back important cards that have been discarded by Noise. It's also great at re-cycling operations or bringing back trashed Ash 2X3ZB9CY or Eve Campaign,

• Fast Track is a new addition and helps closing games. The deck has a very low Agenda density and I used to have a lot of games where I had a scoring Window but no Agenda to score. It is also great at fetching the right Fragment Agenda for a given match-up. Against Noise, you want to score Hades Fragment as soon as possible, for example.

• Added one Biotic Labor to fast-advance agendas in late-game if you struggle with establishing a secure server. Deck has 4 3/2 agendas to pull this off and the Fast Track to get them if you need them. With HBs ability, you need only 6 credits to score a 3/2.

• Will-o'-the-Wisp is a good counter to annoying breakers. Especially effective if a Shaper tries the Atman Strength 4 trick.

• The ice is a bit experimental but serves me well. There is still no cheap solution to Tollbooth and it is the deck's workhorse although David can be annoying. Viktor 2.0 is also maddeningly taxing. Architect can do wonders in this deck. Sagittarius is an annoying surprise to punish runners for using Mimic against Architect. Lotus Field is a good parasite-proof showstopper. Caduceus is a great early game ice below the 4-strength threshold. Wotan, Ichi 2.0 and Heimdall 1.0 are your surprise heavy-hitters.

Pending changes

• Thinking about running Eliza's Toybox instead of Melange Mining Corp.. I dislike the low trash cost of Melange and it often does nothing but play the bait to tax runners. Toybox could become more interesting as Bad Pub / Blackmail decks become a thing.

• May be worthwhile to replace a Priority Requisition with the Utopia Fragment. This would be especially viable if Toybox works in here.

• Biggest adversaries are David, Lady and Mimic. Still haven't found good counters against those. Perhaps something like Aggressive Secretary?

• I heard that Reversed Accounts works wonders in this type of deck. Might be worth trying.

• Doesn't have any tag punishment. Was considering ether a Closed Accounts or a Scorched Earth. Was running Bad Times for a while but it almost never landed.

• Deck tends to lose a few agenda points early on as it's setting up. Dominates end-game. May be worthwhile to run Punitive Counterstrike.