Mambo Number 1

Sashdoes 137

How's everything going, my first time posting a deck hopefully it's not too bad. So this deck is called Mambo Number 1, don't ask why it just is. The concept of the deck is not to flatline, but rather slow down the runner while you score remotes. With recent games I've found myself lucky enough to have something like a Quandary in hand as well as House of Knives and another piece of ice/econ card and then been able to score it t2 because the runner chooses to either setup first and not bother face checking or by them running into it not having an acceptable breaker and therefore nothing happens. This can also work really well for bluffing with a snare if you feel like they're gonna run it anyway cough cough.

Mid game you want Tori Hanzō set up on at least one main, most of the time RnD, and one in a remote w/ Caprice Niseie. for when they start running your remote and you get rid of the RnD one (cause they're unique). Ideally a perfect remote would have both of them with a Mambaa that way you get at least 2-3 brain damage in one run and then if they hit the snare you placed there they die, or if it's an agenda they're taken pretty low and aren't gonna run that server again until they're fully prepared which will take a while cause they can't keep a certain number of cards in hand.

The one off Targeted Marketing is a bit of a test, but if you know who you're kinda of playing against you can easily name a card they're gonna play, if you're playing Shaper for e.g. you name stuff like Self Modifying Codes, Clone Chip, against Anarch; Datasucker, Corroder, Parasite, then Criminal it's a bit harder but you get the idea now.

Swordsman is my answer to Maxx, which is a beautiful matchup for you anyway, because they're milling themselves anyway.

Lotus Field for parasite + data sucker crap.

Wraparound also for MaxX and does surprisingly good work against a lot of decks cause of lack of fractures they play, i.e Mill Noise, also good early game to score quickly.

Econ is stable, opening Celebrity Gift with no agendas does work, Sweeps Week for Andy and people who keep 5 cards in hand against Jinteki: Personal Evolution (A.K.A EVERYONE).

Caprice Nisei is always good because let's face it that last line of defense does to work, especially if you've taxed the runner down to 1 credit for example.

One more thing you generally want to use the Clone Retirement for Archer, or you can use House of Knives after you've emptied out all the tokens on it, Clone Retirement also is a big FU to Valencia.

I think I've covered everything hopefully you enjoy my deck, have fun and dance dance dance.

3 comments
22 Feb 2015 StarryVeck

I like the look of this, not least because Clone Retirementhas the capability of shutting Valencia Estevez: The Angel of Cayambe out early doors.

I don't think you can land a triple brain damage in one run with Tori though, she only fires during the first instance of net damage each run.

22 Feb 2015 Dydra

Sorry but I can't go with this PE build ... you are taking the teeth out of PE ( no neural, no scorch tag punishment) and counting on the fact that the 4-5 times agendas are scorred/stolen before match point, you will discard them a key for their deck/temp card.

Also, not the most popular card atm but Inside Job would wreck some of your deck.

Personally, the deck might work if you bring it 1 time, out of nowhere ... and people expect u to play more than 3x Snares for traps .... but once they know that, oh boy ... lol

23 Feb 2015 Sashdoes

@StarryVeck yeah it pretty much says to Valencia, no blackmail ty. The most you can do is two that is correct, but keeping the runner down to 3 cards hand does amazing psychological work.

@Dydra This is not like my usual P.E builds, I generally play flat-lines so I understand what you mean, but like I said the deck is to only slow the runner down, not actually flatline them. Inside Job is a card to be accounted for in any corp deck, if you set up correctly they'll end up inside jobbing a chum in a fully set server, but I assume you mean turn 1 one ice only in which case you are correct, generally if I'm playing against crime i don't turn 1 remote to score anything I wait to set up a decent scoring server.

Thanks for the feedback guys I appreciate it :)