Your Prepaid Contract is NULL and Void

Jandersoncad 1021

This is a deck that was created on a car ride back from a SMC qualifier. The idea is we wanted to make a deck that was very aggressive and just kept going.

--The Trap-- I see a few Null decks popping up and I see them going the fixed breaker route. That's nice and maybe its the way, but in this deck we don't have time to find specific breakers. We decided on Eater + Keyhole (yeah nothing new) and using Null's ability combined with parasite and cutlery to tear away at R&D and dig for those yummy agendas.

--Dollars-- This deck needs to hit the bank a lot. That being said I feel having resourced based econ is too risky these days with all the forms of tag hate out there. So lets get money from events. Sure Gamble is fine. Dirty Laundry is great especially when your running at something with a Parasite on it so you get the value of killing something and getting some creds. Deuces Wild is excellent due to the expose and draw/cred options.

--DESTRUCTION-- Forged can either destroy bank accounts or destroy ice. This card combos well after a Deuces Wild and actually force rezzed a Janus 1.0 in a game vs Facecheck. I'll post a link to the video below. Three parasite + three parasite is enough to just chew up ice. And with cutlery you can actually rip out two ice at a time on a server. When you run out of cards levy and do it all again.

ICE (Facecheck) vs ICE DESTRUCTION (ME)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm8NyoQEou4

11 comments
18 Jul 2016 hi_impact

Surpised you went with Forged and not Prey. The run event seems pretty good in Null as sorta omni-cutlery.

18 Jul 2016 manveruppd

Rules question: Ice Carver, Null's ID ability, and "on encounter" triggers on ICE: which of these would take priority? If, for example, there's a Data Raven with a Parasite with 3 counters on it, bringing it to str1, and you have Ice Carver installed, when you run and encounter it, will Ice Carver lower its str to 0, trashing it, before you take the on-encounter tag, or afterwards?

18 Jul 2016 Arter

@manveruppd It would be the runner's turn so wouldn't they decide which effects happen first? So they would have the ice carver go first so that the data raven gets trashed and never fires the tag.

18 Jul 2016 manveruppd

I don't know. I know that with the Datasucker/Parasite combo you have to actually be encountering the ice, so on-encounter effects would fire before the ice gets trashed. But Null is new and I'm not sure at which timing window his abilty would fire. From the wording I would guess it's the same, but I'm not sure.

18 Jul 2016 Jandersoncad

@hi_impactForged gives you more options. If there low it can kill an ice out right. Plus it can force a rez you just parasite and run at. You can even -1 Forged +1 Paper Tripping if your in a tag heavy meta with Hard-Hitting News.

19 Jul 2016 FarCryFromHuman

DDoS seems like a natural include if you are running Forged Activation Orders.

19 Jul 2016 aero

^^^Maybe. But Ddos only says during a run, whereas FAO isn't during a run.

20 Jul 2016 manveruppd

No, ddos is for the rest of the turn

20 Jul 2016 FarCryFromHuman

You are both right! But unfortunately DDoS does not interact with Forged Activation Orders. I'm sure someone would have come up with that deck long ago were this the case.

20 Jul 2016 manveruppd

Is that because of the "during a run" stipulation on ddos?

20 Jul 2016 FarCryFromHuman

Correct.