I got a Crick in my NEXT!

Well, looks like I'm back to Glacier stuffs again! I tried NBN, but I guess it's just not my style.

This may look like quite the mishmash of silliness, but it's proven to be quite functional so far. Mid-range ICE that's at least mildly taxing to even the richest of runners is the main course here. Let's start at the top though...

AGENDAS - As our good friend CodeMarvelous says on his videos, "Gotta go fast...gotta go fast!" Sure, this is a slow advance deck (unless I score an Elective Upgrade of course), but the way I see it, with 9 agendas, I should be able to put one or two in a remote and score by turn 5 or so. If I can rush, great; if not, then I may or may not lose...but I do have answers to multi-access/Indexing. I'd LIKE to score a Sales Team, but if I don't find it or the runner steals it, no biggie. Hackers can have my GFIs, but if I can score them, I will. Same thing with the Sleepers.

ASSETS - No need for many frills here, as this deck is much like the Pittsburgh Steelers defensive line back in the 1970s. You know what's coming, but you just can't stop it unless the stars align.

OPERATIONS - Mo' money, less problems...at least in this case! Hedge and IPO are staples just about everywhere nowadays. If you're HB and not CI, ya basically need Lateral Growth. It's just too damn good. A couple of Peak Efficiencies round things out nicely mid to late game when all your stuff is rezzed and hopefully making the runner sweat. Play a PE and then just make the servers stronger! Preemptives take the place of Jackson Howard...not well...but still.

ICE - Here's where it gets interesting...or janky, whichever you like. :) Architects are nice for some free ICE installs early. Enigmas are good for a time tax. Turings should ideally go as the 3rd or 4th ICE on a remote. Them Adaptive Barriers are guaranteed to make 90% of runners cry if the server goes 3 or more deep. Vanillas are what they are. I have Mothers in here for certain situations, but if they prove fruitless, I could always sub in Guards or some such. Loki is there to copy Queen Bioroid herself...and finally, the Jinteki clan adds in a little love of its own! IMO, Miraju can have a place in just about any Corp deck. Over HQ, it protects against Legworks, Omar, Sneakdoor, Stim Implant (my Eddy Kim HATES this ICE); over R&D, it staves off TME, Indexing, DDM, Counter Surveillance, etc. Kakugo is in here purely for annoyance, and cuz I couldn't think of a better 3 influence ICE to stick in here. The only question mark for me atm, is Crick. If it proves fruitless, I'll just add in a second Kakugo or something.

So there it is! Before I clamor for feedback and all that jazz, I just have a quick story of a game I played in last night. It was me playing this, playing against Sunny. I mulligan'd my hand of 1 ICE, 1 agenda and 3 operations. My new hand was 3 agendas (Elective, CST and GFI), Peak Efficiency and IPO. UGH. If I didn't have an iron stomach, I might've lost my Moe's burrito bowl on the table. My mandatory draw was another operation. SMH. So I Lateral'd my CST onto the table, took a credit, and IPO to end turn. I banked on my opponent running centrals, and he did. R&D yielded nothing, but then he just HAD to poke HQ instead of setting up, like I'd hoped he'd do. Upgrade stolen. Next click, GFI stolen. 4th click I think was an install of something, I forget.

Mandatory draw...Fairchild. Cool. I slam it on the remote, draw a card, and advance the remote...again praying to god that he stayed away. He ran R&D again, and took my Domestic Sleepers. Oh well. R&D was dry for him after that. More setup, pass turn. I scored out the Sales Team and pass. Next turn, I ICE up R&D with an Architect, and HQ with Vanilla the next turn. He's well on his way to setting up with drip and stuff, so if I don't get at least 2 ICE on centrals and 4 ICE on the remote, I'm sunk. 1 Vitruvius and about 4 turns later, I draw my GFI. By now I have a good amount of money with Ops and 2 Marilyns dripping away.

I IAA the GFI, and he's pretty low on credits, though he's got some drip and a Multithredder out. He runs the remote on click 4, and I rez everything...Turing, Vanilla, Enigma and finally the Fairchild. He couldn't break the Fairchild with Striker, so 2 turns later, I scored the GFI out and won. I know I got a bit lucky with the asset bluff early, but hey...it happens! :)

That was hopefully an aberration of the draws I can hope for from this deck, but regardless, I made it work and am very proud of this deck. Any ideas from my peeps in the community? :)