APEX IN PROGRESS - OVERMIND AND BOXE

engelhb 1

Need ideas for improvement

3 comments
11 Jan 2016 engelhb

I need a bit of help improving my Apex Deck. Fairly new to Netrunner (only a few months) and I have built a sort of unorthodox Apex deck. When I look at Apex as a runner I see a lot of contradictory incentives. Primarily Heartbeat and Endless Hunger- they both want to eat up your cards. Then on top of that the "next best card" would be Apocalypse, which really discourages you from building much of a rig with no efficient way to retrieve your own cards in faction. SO I decided to do without those, and build a big rig Apex. This is where I am at. I am still new to piloting it, but it seems to have some weaknesses and getting going, but has potential. I would love some feedback or ideas

11 Jan 2016 FarCryFromHuman

The biggest issue I see is dealing with Turing and Swordsman (both will remain popular as long as Faust is). Including at least 2x Prey seems smart, since you can at least click through Turing to trash it. Five cards and a whole turn is a high cost to deal with a single piece of ICE, but it's better than losing the game.

3x e3 Feedback Implants is probably overkill, and it would be nice to run Scavenge instead of Uninstall.

12 Jan 2016 Kronosdev

Career Fair might be better for you than Modded. Honestly I think the Apocalypse Kraken decks are my favorite, but this is cool too. No Heartbeat (damage prevention), or Sharpshooter (trash program prevention) included, which is a pain. You could drop an E3 to add a copy of Feedback Filter, but that's a crappy version of Heartbeat anyway. You could run Heartbeat and Brain Cage instead. They synergize better, are cheaper, and free up more influence. You can even prevent the Brain Cage brain damage with Heartbeat. Now with all that influence you can port in cards like Inside Job or Always Be Running so that you don't even need Endless Hunger to get into places and be a nuisance. Uninstall is a little too niche, even for bouncing Overminds, and try dropping a Dyson Mem Chip for now for space. @FarCryFromHuman Scavenging Harbinger into Endless Hunger is so good I just saw it. Yet another use that isn't recharging counters that makes Scavenge good enough to warrant a definite spot. Maybe I've Had Worse becomes Inject if you need the money (test with I've Had Worse first though). I'd play Cache over Gorman; it pays off quicker and trashes for Endless Hunger. I think that's a lot. Is that what you're looking for?