Chronos Salem

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satanthresher 10

My attempt of trying to get Ibrahim Salem work after failed attempts in NBN.

The idea is to snipe important cards from the runner while slowly scoring a couple of agendas and increasing the pressure through that. Hokusai Grid + Snare! or Fetal AI can finish the job while it's usually quite easy to keep the hand size small if the runner keeps running.

The cards on the trigger are mainly ICE and ironically Ibrahim Salem who very rarely manages to do any real damage. If the runner is unable to trash him, you'd probably usually be winning anyway.

Chrysalis is a recent addition taking the place of Cortex Lock. Not sure if Turing is worth it anymore with the new MWL getting rid of Faust spam. Cobra is somewhat new and I'm unsure whether it's worth its price over Pup.

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19 Jul 2016 PureFlight

The Gd: Archangel is really rough when you have a scored HoK. I think you have a few tough pieces of ice Ibrahim can hide behind.

The : Looks really light on econ. Might be hard to fire Snares and rez bigger ice. I wonder if you could benefit from more Chrysalis instead of snares? Your sentries can fall to Mimic/Parasite (nice thing about Cortex).

20 Jul 2016 satanthresher

Thanks for the feedback @PureFlight! I think I might indeed try 2 x Snare!e! into 2 x Chrysalissalis and either keep one or switch it to Cortex Lock. The Cortex Lock didn't do that much work because the meta's been quite Shaper-heavy (who are often at 1 or 0 MU due to the SMC's) lately.

As you mentioned, the econ is perhaps a bit light but I haven't so far noticed significant problems. Of course this depends quite heavily on how quickly the Mental Health Clinic gets trashed but in my testing so far people haven't usually been overly eager. I rarely get very rich but haven't had huge problems either and the Snare! into Chrysalis switch might very well help be enough to help on that side.