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A brain damage deck that places a legitimate threat of flatline. Marcus Batty is bad news period. But with Team Sponsorship , Archived Memories , and Reclamation Order the nightmare never ends.
Pair that up with Sentinel Defense Program and Defective Brainchips a lost Psy game can easily become a flatline with a single Brain Damage becoming 2 Net and 2 Brain damage.
The deck plays as never advance with the runner never sure if you placed an Agenda, an asset or a trap behind a taxing ice. Batty makes these decisions even more difficult with Ichi trashing key programs at the wrong moment or placing a power counter on Viktor 2.0 that can spell doom in any timing window . Faust is a very risky card to play as Batty might end up flatlining you before the run is complete.
If you have an Architect on your scoring server remember your timing rules. Once the runner choose to access set off Marcus Batty and there is a 66% chance that you'll be able to replace your Agenda with an Edge of World and watch the runner take a metric ton of brain damage and net damage.
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31 Oct 2015
Bigguyforyou518
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31 Oct 2015
bubbathegoat
I don't think Sentinel Defense Program adds one net damage for each brain damage taken. I think anytime the runner takes at least 1 brain damage, it does 1 net damage; meaning 2 brain damage, being at least 1, will trigger 1 net damage, not 2. An additional brain damage from a second source or subroutine should still add another net damage, but you shouldn't be doing 4 damage from a 1 brain damage subroutine. |
31 Oct 2015
Ladar
4/2 are a requirement simply because there aren't enough 2/3. But there are enough 2/3 that the playstyle is the same. I find that if it's a 4/2 then you should always install in and advance twice and make it look like a Cerebral Overwriter as soon as Defective Brain chips hit the table people know you are trying to do Brain Damage and get suspcious. I would certainly prefer to be able to score it from the table and maybe when Jeeves Model Bioroids becomes legal I'll put them in but I don't know if I have the econ support for fast advance or the card slots. I find Team Sponsorship is more often written as (The Runner loses a click and 4 credits) Depending on the runner I'll just install them in the open and have them deal with economic cost (I don't always have a Batty in Archieve) and using them to slow the runner setting up as I advance normally is a better option. Eve's can remain in the open most of the time except against Whizzard: Master Gamer because if the runner trashes the trash them, I made an economic gain. Adonis Campaign go in the score server untill they run out of resources. About 50% of the time I have 3 servers and the other 50% I have 4 servers that are protected. Also I find the best way around early Syphons is to actually have unrezzed Eve Campaign so I can go broke when it happens, @bubbathegoat Sentinel Defense Program adds one net damage each time the runner takes at least one brain damage and Defective Brainchips willl handle the second. Which is a net of 2 Net Damage and 2 Brain Damage |
31 Oct 2015
cmcadvanced
Jeeves will definitely make this deck even better, and I think it's such a solid plan, I've never been more excited for brain damage. Good job! I myself would run domestic sleepers instead of reclamation order or archives memories because of the emphasis on team sponsorship, but that's entirely a style preference I feel. I can't wait to play this. |
31 Oct 2015
sondayn
Have you considered Tyr's Hand? You can sit it behind a Viktor and just wait. I have a similar deck I run sometimes and there's nothing more beautiful than Defective+Viktor+Batty/Tyr. Loads of fun. |
1 Nov 2015
Ladar
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1 Nov 2015
SlayerCNV
I think the combo with architet is genial. Seriously I think this. I'd find place for a single Cerebral Overwriter over archived and the place for 2x Breaker Bay Grid, but still ok. |
1 Nov 2015
Dydra
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1 Nov 2015
SlayerCNV
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1 Nov 2015
mendax
You do clearly want BBG, fwiw. I'm unconvinced that overwriter would be an improvement though. |
1 Nov 2015
SlayerCNV
ah and
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2 Nov 2015
SlayerCNV
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2 Nov 2015
x3r0h0ur
MFW I notice that Tori Hanzo works with sentinel defense program.... Sorry, not really pertaining to this deck, but made me happy inside for a bit. I played against this last night and I felt like it wasn't 'stoppy' enough for when the runner has had enough of your shit and just runs centrals. I think Ryon Knight could also be a good fit, but I'm not sure it helps the central hammering issue. Cool stuff though. |
2 Nov 2015
bubbathegoat
I don't think it's a net gain for this deck, since it's much easier to combo the brain damage directly for less influence, but I'd love to see the needlessly complex and janky combo fire just once. As it is, I really like that this deck stayed away from Self-Destruct Chips and stuck with never-advance and Edge of World instead. |
20 Nov 2015
x3r0h0ur
Zed doesn't work at all. No one runs without mimic, thanks to architect, but more importantly early game you need to commit 2 ice to a server, one of which is a bioroid to even make him have a shot at working. |
20 Nov 2015
bubbathegoat
Unfortunately, Zed 1.0 is the unfortunate piece of ICE that is both positional and dependent on the runner using clicks to break another piece of ICE installed on the same server. Zed is useless as the first piece of ICE in a server, then once the second piece is installed the runner has to click through it, finally when Zed is rezzed it is so weak that the runner will easily be able to break it. While there are narrow circumstances where a corp could use Zed, these are far less frequent than the times when another piece of ICE would have been better used. |
20 Nov 2015
Oddball
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20 Nov 2015
bubbathegoat
You can save some money and clicks by using Cerebral Cast instead if all you want to do is land 1 brain damage. Batty can combo well enough off of Ichi 1.0, Viktor 1.0, Viktor 2.0, and Heimdall 2.0, all of which are good pieces of ICE on their own. It really is a shame that such a good flavor (artowrk and text) card as Zed 1.0 is frankly so useless as a card. |
I'm assuming you tested this out of Cybernetics Division: Humanity Upgraded already and found it failed the "is this better than it would be in EtF?" test?
Also how does the deck play as "never advance" when 4 of your agendas are 4/2s and you don't have any fast-advance?
It seems like you need at least 2 solid remotes here - one for scoring/baiting out Edge of World, and another for your asset economy (possibly even a third to protect Team Sponsorship). With only 16 ice, it seems like this could often leave your centrals relatively exposed, opening you up to Account Siphon spam or heavy R&D digging, not to mention making Accelerated Beta Test triggers a very risky proposition.