Is Silhouette Magnum Still A Thing?

PaxCecilia 293

This list is just a quick thought experiment based on a post on Reddit. Trying to get some creative juices flowing on how the hell you build a Silhouette+Magnum deck.

The original deck had 2 Magnum + 2 Tri-Maf and 3 Security Testing which I thought all sort of worked at odds with each other, so I simplified it down to 2 Magnum + Bank Job + Daily Casts to hold you off until Magnum comes out without any redundancy. I think that Earthrise is a really great way for Criminals to get their draws in without slowing down their aggressive running, and with a 40 card deck I figured 3 is enough to draw into what you need.

If the breaker suite is missing anything obvious, let me know. I didn't go for Datasucker since Magnum takes 2 of your MU, and you want room to slam down a Sneakdoor Beta without trashing sacrificing too much of a rig. I also swapped Legworks for HQ Interface so you can get the multi-access with Sneakdoor runs. I went with BOX-E for the console to minimize rig loss due to over-installing. Blackguard seemed like a good contender with Silhouette's ID ability, but it didn't really feel necessary and probably too expensive.

Added in some Maker's Eye for limited R&D aggression, and Special Orders to help get the long term breakers. Single clone chip because a lot of low cost programs can be easy Power Shutdown bait.

If you happen across the list I'm 100% open to any criticism or feedback.

2 comments
21 Mar 2015 Bigguyforyou518

What do you think about dropping a Magnum Opus and adding an Armitage Codebusting? An early Armitage is a lot more versatile (and, frankly, deployable) than an early Mopus, and it transitions perfectly into the Mopus. If you draw the Mopus first...then you're no worse off than you would have been with your old build.

The ONLY downside I can honestly see is if you're running tags after Account Siphons and Armitage gets trashed. But if you've even used it once before a tag trash, then you're coming out ahead of the corp.

21 Mar 2015 Bigguyforyou518

Other thoughts:

-Passport anti-synergizes with Bank Job

-You have 5 sentry-breaking programs, none of which are 100% reliable (I include Femme as "not reliable" because she's so expensive to use as a normal breaker). Consider slimming/altering these. Maybe drop Mimic, since you have no datasuckers to back it up.

-I honestly think you might have too much econ for a 40 card deck. Once you get your Mopus out, there's 9 other cards in your deck that suddenly are reduced to slight efficiency-improvers. You can't always rely on getting the Mopus immediately, I know, but I think you can pull back on this a bit.

-Consider slimming the resources out of your deck and just running with tags (when appropriate). A second Plascrete Carapace would make this a fairly safe strategy against most tag punishment.