Sisyphus

amightyrobot 75

Pretty standard Glacier plan here: build a secure remote and stack some credits, then open your scoring windows with Ash/Caprice or well-timed program destruction.

Some specific choices:

  • Domestic Sleepers are in there to feed to Archer, and also to ensure that scoring two "real" Agendas wins me the game. I've toyed with the idea of dropping them to pull in some flatline threat via net/brain damage, but I'd probably also have to drop my single Caprice to free up the influence.

  • Corporate Troubleshooter is mostly there so I can live the NEXT Gold dream, but in a pinch it can just as easily end the run or help Architect pull a Parasited NEXT Silver out of Archives.

4 comments
7 Apr 2015 Shockwave

You might want to consider a Fast Track or two. I've ran a similar deck a while and the last thing you need is to feed your first Domestic Sleepers to Archer and then have the runner Steal the second one, you will want to the that last one the very second you need it.

You also might want to consider a single Mother Goddess, can add a lot to the strength of your NEXT ice

Executive Boot Camp Seems a strange choice, though it kind of combo's with Peak Efficiency

7 Apr 2015 amightyrobot

The thinking with Boot Camp is that it actually sorta synergizes with the NEXT Ice AND with the ID:

  • Hitting Foundry's ability on my own turn means I can fish out ICE and install it right away, just by discount-rezzing another copy.

  • If the Runner is leaving one or two pieces of ICE alone because they suspect (correctly) it's more NEXT, I can force-rez it to make the rest of my NEXT better.

The synergy with Peak Efficiency is just icing on the cake.

2x Mother Goddess were actually in my last build, but now that I've got NEXT Gold I wanted to try running without it. Unique means it doesn't play with Foundry, and it's pretty porous on its own once you rez some other stuff. It might find its way back in if I play this a bit and find NEXT needs a boost... it would have to replace the Tollbooths or the Elis, both of which I'm a big fan of.

Fast Track sounds great, and I agree, but I'm just not sure I have the deckslots. Ironically, Sleepers is the main reason deck space is so tight.

7 Apr 2015 FarCryFromHuman

Have you considered dropping Domestic Sleepers for Eliza's Toybox? The install, advance, advance required to score DS is the same as the 3 you pay for Eliza's, minus the install and 2 difference, plus it interacts positively with the runner (by forcing them to run to trash it) and is absurdly good with NEXT Gold and Tollbooth. If you can get 2+ uses out of one Eliza's, it far outweighs DS. Between Eliza's and Priority Requisition you should have no problem getting your Archers rezzed.

8 Apr 2015 amightyrobot

Obviously Eliza isn't far from my mind, and with the Boot Camps I could even throw it in as a single. If I'm having trouble getting those Tollbooths and Golds rezzed I'll think about it, but honestly I'm not projecting a whole bunch of money problems with this deck. For now, I think it might be more valuable to have the one "safe" Agenda point... it sort of justifies my whole Agenda makeup, after all.