CD-ROM v3.2

sondayn 38

My attempt at making Victoria Jenkins work in HB. It's a click-denial deck, so you want to minimize how many clicks the Runner has to work with each turn. Ideally, you have one or two nigh-impenetrable servers you're scoring out of, with the Runner forced to decide whether they should spend their entire turn just to make a run. The deck has a lot of good synergies: Ruhr Valley/Enhanced Login Protocol+Strongbox, Strongbox+False Lead, Heinlein Grid+False Lead, Heinlein Grid+Utopia Fragment, etc.

As for Victoria, you can basically play her two ways depending on the situation. Option 1: bring her out early into a locked-down server (usually Turing) and try to pull ahead of the Runner's pacing. Once the Runner is strong enough to break in, trash her to drop in another asset (no need to worry if she's in Archives, since the Runner has to trash her to score her). Option 2: bring her out late-game into a server with Ruhr Valley to shut down any hopes the Runner has of doing something productive during their turn.

The deck's great to play with once it gets chugging, hope y'all enjoy! Comments welcome. :)

2 comments
17 Aug 2015 esutter479

I love the concept! :) Just a quick 2 cents though - in my experience, this deck might be better with 1 or 2 more ICE to make things REALLY secure. Thomas could potentially be dropped in favor of one more Eli and either an Enforcer (mainly to see how it plays) or Rototurret for more surprise rig destruction and/or Parasite bait.

18 Aug 2015 sondayn

@esutter479 Glad you like it! I've taken your advice and dropped Thomas Haas for an Eli 1.0 and an Enforcer 1.0. Deck runs a lot smoother and protecting things is easier. Thanks for the advice!