Killer Queen: An Explosive Adventure

Looks really nice -- one thing that comes to mind is Enforced Curfew: netrunnerdb.com

@render787 Yes, Enforced Curfew can play a similar role as Housekeeping to create scoring windows. What Housekeeping does differently is that it encourages the runner to play around it by installing multiple cards in the same turn, often leading to few cards in hand and big windows for City Works Project or Dedicated+Killer.

Enforced Curfew is a cheaper more consistent hindrance that pressures the grip even after the runner has set up and no longer needs to install cards to contest servers. I might replace a Prisec to try it out.

Playing around with the econ: +3 Too Big to Fail / -3 Hedge Fund

This deck does not need much money, and it is nice to easily go up from 0 credits. This change more fully embraces damage (not credits) as a tax, so note that you need to move fast and runners will abuse the bad pub for installs with Simulchip and Paule's Café.

More bad pub also means more Broad Daylight counters.

Another new experiment: +2 Reconstruction Contract / -2 Prisec

Fast advance! Combined with the Too Big to Fail change, its easy to rack up bad pub and Broad Daylight counters. 2 advancements on Reconstruction Contract let you fast advance a Broad Daylight, and 3 (or 1 plus Dedication Ceremony let you fast advance City Works Project.

The beautiful part with Broad Daylight is that it helps you easily fuel Contracts up to that 2 or 3 advancements. So does Akhet, the Builder of Nations ID ability, and Dedication Ceremony.

With these change, you now have 4 beautiful assets to sit in the remote:

1) Wall to Wall to setup explosive ICE on each server and draw into your next gameplan.

2) Urban Renewal to setup kills or City Works Project scoring windows.

3) Contract Killer when you have Broad Daylight counters and believe the runner will drop below 4 cards in hand.

4) Reconstruction Contract to more easily score a Broad Daylight or to fast advance a City Works Project against Film Critic.

@kevnburg Thanks for the game! I've never been so happy to be brutalized before. Love this deck.

I LOVE THIS DECK. THANK YOU KEVNBURG :D

@kevnburg do you ever struggle to have enough ice? Great deck but 11 ice seems a little light.

@hemraa - Usually not. I am mainly looking to put a single ICE with an advancement counter on each server. I will double up a remote to place a second Kakugo.

Ice destruction, particularly Chisel recursion, can be a challenge. The unbreakable subroutine on Akhet helps against Hippo and Knifed if you do the work to place 3 advancement counters.

If you want more ICE, Masvingo is a good call. Hortum is fine for AI tech as well.

I'm having fun with the deck. 30-10 so far on jinteki so it's doing ok.

Just went 2-2 in an online GNK with this list + the Too Big to Fail and Reconstruction Contract changes mentioned in the above comments.

Round 1: vs Hoshiko (Win) Ah, the classic Turn 1 Urban Renewal -> Turn 4 kill. Urban Renewal, Contract Killer, Reconstruction Contract, and ICE in opening hand.

My Turn 1: Install Urban Renewal. Ice remote. Ice HQ.

Runner turn 1: Install Stargate. Proceed to hammer RnD for the next 2 turns.

My turn 2: Ignore the Stargate. Do some minor econ.

My turn 3: Ignore the Stargate. Second ICE on the Urban Renewal Remote. Install Reconstruction Contract + ICE on a second remote.

My Turn 4: Urban Renewal fires. Reconstruction Contract gains an advancement. Install Contract Killer and use remaining clicks + Reconstruction Contract for 2 more meat damage.

Round 2: My BoN vs Ankusa Kit (Loss): Ankusa ruined me. I took a ton of bad pub early with Hostile Takeover and Too Big to Fail, then Ankusa dropped and the Kakugo tax no longer mattered. I got Akhet up to three advancements for a consistent 1 meat damage tax, but RnD was easily hammered by multipe RnD interfaces. Game went long thanks to my agendas being near the bottom of my deck, but, with such a heavy reliance on the Kakugo net damage tax and with so few non-barrier ICE, this was a difficult matchup. -1 Snare! for +2 Engram Flush would have helped here.

Round 3B: BoN vs Smoke (Win): Zero runs were made this game. This game highlights the excellence of Housekeeping. Got econ and draw rolling with a Wall to Wall behind ICE turn 1. Then I was drawing plenty of ice and plenty of assets, but no agendas to score. So I played Housekeeping, dropped a contract killer behind ICE in a second remote, and waited for an opportunity to come my way. Smoke was happily installing cards to prepare for her stealthy endgame, mitgating the housekeeping tax by doing those installs all at once, and pausing for a moment to contemplate my possibilities before going down to 1 card in hand. My next turn: Advance -> Advance -> Rez Contract Killer and snipe. (Smoke quote: "I thought about contract killer, but then said naaahhh impossible")

Round 4: vs Freedom (Loss): A close game that ended once I made a terrible misplay. I had 5 agenda points, a 2 advanced Reconstruction Contract in a remote, and 2 Broad Daylight counters. Runner had 2 cards in hand, so I installed Contract Killer, and popped Reconstruction Contract for the 4 meat damage flatline play...the runner had I've Had Worse...always click Broad Daylight before installing Contract Killer. I had scored quickly and kept up with the ice trashing up to this moment, but then, having failed to use that reconstruction contract to score an agenda or flatline, my servers fell apart.

This deck strategy seems quite explosive and deadly. I can see how Killer Queen, Sheer Heart Attack, and Bites the Dust work together to create a formidable threat to the runner. The inclusion of Engram Flush and Masvingo adds versatility to the deck. It's interesting to hear how your deck has evolved over time with the introduction of new cards. By the way, how are you enjoying my) location now?