Brain Damage on Speed

donutsdad 7

Deck focuses on finishing fast and using brain damage/howler to delay runner

2 comments
19 Apr 2014 partialcharge

You're mashing together two things that I'm exploring myself right now, the NEXT identity and HB brain damage focus. So nice!

I am extremely curious to know if you've played this deck yet. AFAICT from my own poking about, NEXT and Accelerated Beta Test both require decks with a very high percentage of ICE. Jackson Howard, of course, takes some sting off not finding much ICE on an ABT, but better for it to it to just be there in the first place, no?

Also, a card I keep thinking has got to work well in an ICE fortress-style deck is Melange. Making it impossible (or simply extremely taxing) for the runner to get at it eliminates one of its two weaknesses, and these decks sure can use income in large chunks to rez all that ICE.

Thanks for putting this up. I'll go ahead and publish mine, too. Love it if you'd drop in and critique. =D

29 Jun 2014 esutter479

It is absolutely driving me BONKERS trying to come up with an effective brain damage/big ICE NEXT deck, lol. As god is my witness, I'm GOING to do it though! I wish there was somewhere a bunch of us could get together and discuss matters like this...though I doubt my spare time would ever coincide with most others' (I work 3rd shift, heh).