The Moonlighting Radical

wily-odysseus 119

By day he's a distinguished, Ivy League professor, but by night his hippie past returns as he abuses the resources afforded by his position to tear down evil corporations with vicious viral attacks.

Corroder, Cyber-Cypher, and Mimic/Faerie/Deus Ex serve as cheap solutions to keep the pressure up early while Morningstar, Torch, Femme, and Inti provide a longer-term threat. The main paths to victory are either Sneakdoor/Nerve Agent to snipe HQ or Incubator/Medium to assault R&D. Getting Incubator out early creates a ticking time bomb that forces the corp to either periodically purge or face the consequences. Shaper search and recursion keep those Anarch viruses flowing and recycling. Magnum Opus is the driving force behind the economy--it's delightful to watch the corp sweat when I just take 8 credits while the Incubator ticks up. Sure Gamble, ProCon, and Modded fill in the early game econ, with Modded being particularly clutch for keeping the pressure up with discounted, click-efficent installs.

It can be a little wonky to set up initially, since both Magnum Opus and ProCon entail a sizable tempo hit. I could switch to Diesel instead, but I'd miss the money. Scorch is also a problem, but the hope is that Box-E's grip size boost plus Imp and MO should help mitigate that threat if I suspect it.

2 comments
19 Jan 2015 king_mob

You could slot FCC in here for some generous burst econ, you have enough programs to make it so that you would still have easy access to a full breaker suite and you can pull anything back via clone chips if needs be. Oracle may would be another, slightly riskier, option.

20 Jan 2015 Myriad

FCC and Earthrise are two options in Professor that I think might be worthwhile, especially coupled with either Diesel or Quality Time.

That clickless double draw, just lets you get so many interesting things. You can get 8 creds and 2 cards for 4 Clicks, which really helps the tempo hit from Opus AND the pretty decent click sink of spending 4 clicks getting money.

Anyway, food for thought. Keep fighting the good fight with the Prof. I kind of want a combotastic Professor deck that uses cards like Monolith, Hivemind, Medium and Parasite to just blow games wide open. It won't happen most of the time... but those few games they do happen will live on in legend.