Before my body is dry

Has the economy been strong enough to run the conspiracy breakers? I had a similar Apex deck before rotation that ran off Faust, and I remember still having a fairly hard time with money.

Kinda. You need to use Prey on the awful ice, and infiltration/spycam to run smart. You could swap aumakua for datasucker or use it to break the nasty ice.

I agree with @Narduwel, I wonder whether you'd be better with multiple AI breakers and maybe some utility for the case you Apocalypse. It's not like you're looking to repeatedly trash MKUltra for effects, is it?

Having a second copy of Aumakua would be cool for sure. I could see cutting Stimhack for it, as they kind of fill similar roles. But just so we're clear, this isn't a deck which normally plays Apocalypse. In my last 10 games I think I only planned on playing it once, and I found a win through a lucky Spycam peek instead. I have thought "I wish this Apocalypse was a second copy of Infiltration instead" more than once.

Double Levy AR Lab Access is excessive imo. Even Spyware ran only one, and it used Faust as a primary breaker to get around the money issue. I haven't done much experimentation with Apex: Invasive Predator in a long while - but I feel like this deck is starving for money. Would consider dropping a levy adding a 3rd Deuces Wild adding a 2nd Aumakua then ... filling up more Spy Cameras... actually getting up to 6 Spy Cameras would be totally worth it too. Dropping The Turning Wheel for the 6th Spy Camera wouldn't be insane. To get around asset spam without laying down Apocalypse, a single Paricia does a gigantic amount of work for Apex.

In fairness, Apex struggles with money in general. Being stuck with virtual resources does that. There are options, but programs like Multithreader or Magnum Opus cost MU, which means building to account for that. Hardware like Cyberfeeder, Prepaid VoicePAD, or Cybsoft MacroDrive could be potentially useful, but you'd need to have a goal in mind for it. And all of these take up precious Influence & deck space.

@Snake Eyes: I think this is going to come off more hostile than it is indended (because it's not intended mean-spirited at all!), but have you tried the deck? I go through my deck literally every game I don't randomly lose early on, and find myself having to play the second Levy in something like 50% of my games. Playing only one makes triggering Hunting Grounds a very risky proposition for you as well, so I think playing 2x is correct.

As for money, some games you don't draw Wasteland and it's a bit tight (or people play Scarcity before you get any Wastelands down!), but otherwise it hasn't been a huge issue. (If you find that it is, I would replace the Deuces Wilds with Peace in Our Time.) I have even beaten a Palana glacier despite my econ engine being 100% based around drawing every turn, which I'd attribute to Stimhack and a combination of using Prey smartly and having Spycam/Infiltration save wasted runs. I am currently testing a build which plays more efficient breakers (Gordian and Shrike) to save a bit of money as well courtesy of @nicohasa.

That being said, I would not at all be opposed to adding any good money card. The problem, as @Drakeheartpoints out, is that there aren't that many good ones left. Of the ones you mention I'm most keen on the extra Spy Cameras, and have considered the Paricia as an asset spam tech. But I think cutting the Levy to pay the inf for it is a mistake. I also think slotting extra Aumakuas is a mistake (unless you're planning to play an Aumakua-only build, which is actually an interesting idea) because you're going through the deck and only really need the one copy of it.

@Snake Eyes: Sorry, I now understood that by Spyware you meant a deck - for some reason I thought that was a Geist deck, but I now see that it's a deck you made with basically the same Reaver/Wasteland econ. So I guess you're pretty familiar with the archetype already - my mistake. :)

I still think most of my comments apply, though. The key inclusions in my list which you don't play are Turning Wheel, Aumakua, Stimhack, Infiltration and extra Preys. The latter in particular are a lot easier to use multiples of when you're on 2x Levy, and really saves you a lot of money on the nasty ice. The first three also are really good and indirectly save you a lot of creds as well.

Honestly, though, the main difference between our lists might just be that post-rotation corps look a lot different, I don't know.

Nawh I haven't played it, I don't see it working to the level that I'd like for an Apex deck, due to the lacking economy versus the average break cost of most ICE, plus not having the money to deal with trashing assets. It isn't easy to get the numbers to work for our sentient AI overlord. I'm working on an overhaul of my Apex but I'm not satisfied enough with it to perform atm. Faust was a major part of it and losing that breaker changes all the math and takes away a big chunk of the benefits of the most powerful draw engine in the game that is unique to Apex.

Speaking of Hunting Grounds, I meant to address that in my first post - I think 3 of them is unnecessary, partly for the exact reason of potentially losing a Levy AR Lab Access, and partly because the pieces of ICE that trigger on it aren't too plentiful. Komainu and Data Raven are really the only popular ones. A potential work-around for the Levy Hunting Grounds issue though is instead to go triple Fan Site and The Shadow Net, which could be a nice burst econ boost with stuff like click-reduced Day Jobs profiting 10 or Sure Gambles profiting 9 as well as a safety net for Levy AR Lab Access.

I can't really say anything except that outside asset spam matchups, I've been okay happy with the econ. :) I think if you cut the Stimhack for a Paricia as you did in your deck, you get more game against asset spam corps at the cost of a dead card vs. honest corps, which might be worthwhile depending on the meta.

I think Fan Site is a good idea, although influence is a concern. I ended up slotting 1x Shadow Net as a tech card against News Team, 15 Minutes, etc., but also as a means of recurring Levy if worst comes to pass. I don't think Day Job is worth the inf given that Shadow Net Sure Gamble is only 1 credit less, though, but if you pretend 1 Fan Site = 9 creds, cutting Deuces Wild for it becomes appealing.

As for Hunting Grounds, I'd add Tollbooth and IP Block to that list. I've lost one CtM game partially due to needing to click to remove tags from IP Block and Data Raven, so I think it's worth playing at least 2 of - 3 might be too much, but, it's a lot better when you're on 3x Prey. Data Raven in particular can be trashed by Prey by first using an installed Hunting Grounds to stop the encounter effect, during break step trigger it to get 3 facedowns, let sub fire and then in pass step trigger Prey to trash the 3 cards you installed + 1 more and there goes the Data Raven without giving you any tags at all.

Actually, I guess the obvious cut for the Fan Site is a Stimhack. Both are sorta 9 creds. Fan Site requires a click, but offers the extra utility of giving you a Levy in a pinch and can be played for creds against corps without expensive ice.

Well done with what you've been doing with this lately. I've been wrecking people with that Palana deck I've been working on and Apex was the only hard match/loss I've had with it yet.