Don't Give the Man a Hand v1.4

For the life of me I have not been able to get this ID to work in a 44 card deck: the econ is just too slim... it has either been all ICE and no cash, or the other way around. So I finally bit the bullet and decided to try a "regular" 49 card deck just to get some extra econ in there.

The main changes from previous versions are:

Adding 2 Gila Hands Arcology to get up to 20 points - giving the added benefit of acting as econ if I score them.

Dropping the #Punitive Counterstrike altogether. I had not landed a single one in all of the games that I had played with previous iterations; I simply never had the creds to beat the Runner with the trace... even with a Trace 5 head start! In the Punitives place goes 2x Edge of World to pair with the 3x #Cerebral Overwriter.

The 2x Mushin No Shin stay to either lay out some Cerebral ambushes, or give a 3-pointer few extra advancements as the opportunity presents. These would most likely be the first cards recycled using Jackson Howard, second would be econ cards.

Other main changes are 1x Fast Track and 3x Biotic Labor, with the aim to get a Gila out ASAP so you have a reliable source of income and are not beholden to the Runner not being able to trash your assets. After a Gila is scored, then the remaining Biotics can be used to fast advance a couple of Self-Destruct Chips.

I had originally included 2x Targeted Marketing as it potentially gives the Runner another dilemma, in addition to all the Brain Damage floating around. Name a key card in their deck and watch them decide whether or not it is worth the 10 creds to you for them to play it. But I opted out of that for a second Neural Katana. However If the Neurals don’t hit, then I will likely got back to some Target Marketing.

The ICE is either hard ETR (or as hard ETR as HB bioroid ICE gets with their “click through” property) or does Brain or Net Damage.

If you still REEEEEALLY want to run this as a 44 card deck, then I would swap the Hades Fragment for another Gila, drop the Biotics and Fast Track, and probably the Architect.