What Have I Become, My Sweetest Friend v2

What Have I Become, My Sweetest Friend v1 fell short - it was simply too slow. I simulated 50 games using the card-draw simulator on NetrunnerDB (this was possible because the deck is basically a game of solitaire).

Although there were issues with the simulation and I suspect it would be faster on average in practice, the testing revealed:

• Mean CBM ("clicks before milling begins") was 15.04;
• Median CBM was 14.5;
• Mode CBM was 17; and
• Highest CBM was 35 and lowest was 6 (although 35 was a pretty significant outlier, with nothing else even close to that figure - the next highest was 24.

This was too slow when you're only milling 2 cards per turn on average. There had to be a better way.

This is that better way.

The key changes are the following:

1. You are not going to clear your tags; this removes the need for Crash Space and New Angeles City Hall, and frees up a click to mill.

2. You no longer need John Masanori to tag yourself, because you're going to use Paparazzi. This frees up another extra click to mill.

3. You no longer have much use for Early Bird and you no longer need New Angeles City Hall, because once you've made a single successful run on a central server to install Data Leak Reversal, you can just mill.

4. I've replaced Faust with Crypsis to free up influence for a Déjà Vu; this is to ensure that you can get back any combo piece the Corp may have managed to trash. Data Folding means that by the time you need a breaker you should have amassed enough credits to make up for any inefficiency.

5. Once the deck is up and running you could be gaining up to three credits and milling up to 5 cards per turn. The key cards enabling this are:

Paparazzi: tags you and prevents damage - what more could you want in a mill deck?

Wireless Net Pavilion: the main downside with Paparazzi is that the Corp can just trash it (or Data Leak Reversal) to turn Data Leak Reversal off. Wireless Net Pavilion makes trashing resources an extremely expensive proposition: with three of them installed, a trash costs a click and eight credits. Add in three Fall Guys, and the minimum cost for the Corp to trash a single Data Leak Reversal or Paparazzi (other than via a card ability) could be four clicks and thirty-two credits. That's insane, and all it achieves for the Corp is to turn off your milling - it doesn't win the game or advance the Corp's strategy. That's wonderful, albeit evil.

Activist Support: this is included as a preemptive measure against The All-Seeing I - it provides you with a reliable supply of bad publicity so you always have a bad pub to give up to The All-Seeing I. The Corp will need 2 of them to land, and it seems unlikely that many Corps will go all-in on The All-Seeing I. It also activates Blackmail, which the Corp will never expect out of Andromeda and which can give you an unexpected access in a server the Corp thinks is safe from Inside Job.

Joshua B.: this gives you an extra click for milling, and you don't care at all about the tags. If you play this deck I recommend that you bring dice to track the tags - you will quickly run out of tokens.

Fisk Investment Seminar: this makes the deck even nastier - it turns your card draw during set-up into yet another form of mill.

Logos: You have no need of the memory, but get Logos on the table early in the game and it will ensure that you can pull whatever combo piece you are missing quickly and easily, with the added benefit of deterring the Corp from scoring agendas.

The list is evil and will win you no friends. You have been warned.

A longer write-up discussing the evolution of this deck is on my blog, at http://www.unorthodoxpredictions.com/2015/10/13/milling-with-andy/