The 99% Experience

Butler223 70

This deck forces the corp to pay a premium on ice, using Xanadu and Rook. Once up, ice can be dropped again using Parasite and Cresentus. Knight makes a solid early breaker, weak only to Swordsman (answered by Mimic or a good Parasiting). The deck is slowed by corp playera trashing ice with installed Cassia on it. Try to keep Knight on more costly pieces the corp has paid dearly to res, and use Darwin, Mimic and Yog to handle cheaper ice. All else fails, Clone Chip and Retrieval Run can bring those key programs back - including Parasite and Cresentus, if needed.

2 comments
23 Mar 2014 v01d

I'll tell you my thoughts. One thing you could do is reducing the number of kati jones and mr li in favour of hostage. You would gain some flexibility and potentially free 2 slots. How does Darwin perform? in this setup it looks like it is intended to replace corroder, which is a damn good breaker. As you run Deep Red, perhaps a couple of bishop would help your fixed strength breakers.

27 Mar 2014 Butler223

After yet another rebuild, Mr Li came out for Emergency shutdown. Even before that, I would likely not run hostage - with only two targets, odds are I'll find the first anyway, giving hostage one use before it was dead. If I had gone with dyson/contacts, I would put more thought into it.

Darwin is still theoretical at this stage, having had no chance to deck test. It isn't cheap (enigma costs 4c, and requires a few turns of support), but with Cyberfeeder, I figure its worth a go. I would consider dropping it for Corroder though. My worry is that I'll be stuck behind an ice wall or something waiting for key breakers (thus why I like generals).

In the rebuild I did decide to run 2x Datasucker in place of Yog. I'll need to have a play with the icebreakers (perhaps drop Darwin for Datasucker, keep yog and mimic?)

Yes, bishop would be great - its not a card I yet own, though! Also, id find it hard to include. If I did, id want pawn in too... ita a bit of a mess