East Heinlein Trading Company

I've been waiting for you to publish this for a bit now :)

As always my first question has to be: do you find having +4 cards and +1 NAPD Contract is beneficial, and why not trim it down?

Actually going to 54 was done to add Successful Demonstration; there have been 3x NAPD since the card came out. NAPD is huge in this deck as it can be as much of an economic trap as an agenda. With Ash, you can make it almost unstealable and I'll frequently use it as bait to create a window for PriReq or Wotan. Hell, you can often install Ash, NAPD, Advance naked and it can't be stolen. When I went to 54, I believe I added net +1 agenda, and 4 economy cards. If you think about it from the standpoint of wanting to have more money, any money, in the deck then it didn't necessarily get less trim.

This deck operates in huge credit swings, which is why ETF isn't as useful. I rarely find myself wishing I had 1 or 2 extra credits...it's 5 or 6 that I need in swings. Successful Demonstration retains usefulness through the game because I'll often leave unrezzed ice for the threat because HB with 10+ credits is far scarier than HB with a rezzed Heimdal 2.0 and no credits. This means that when you DO rez the ice, you've picked your moment so that it ends the run. Lately I've started even leaving a double advanced PriReq out another turn to play SD or 2, especially if there is still unrezzed ice in front of the scoring agenda. I've noticed that a runner who spends credits/clicks trying to steal an agenda only to get stopped after spending their turn or credits will often treat it as a sunk cost and not try to get in again the next turn as they assume that the unrezzed ice is still nasty, or that it isn't worth burning all the resources they'd need AGAIN to try and get in.

Happy to answer more questions or go into depth on some of the choices. This has been changing since Plugged In, and a lot of stuff makes more sense when you consider the evolution.

@captainraffi i am somewhat surprized by Viktor 2.0 over 1.0 for this ID do you find 2.0 to be much better? i've always found 1.0 better for this id for a cost to usefulness ratio.

I find it odd you have only Next bronze and not Silver id make room my self for both plus a Mother Goddess since it will also be a Bioroid and get +1 Str. I've never found guard to be worth taking i've tryed it afew times and eventually figured its abit poor.

I really like Architect i've used it and fell in love with it stright away id run 2 my self tho one for R&D and 1 for Archive but am the sort of person who always Ice's up archive.

I like that your trying HB:ST it's nice to see something a little differnt and i hope you can make it as strong as a HB:ETF deck.

I go back and forth between Viktor 1 and 2. They're both great in the deck. Viktor 8 ends up costing the runner quite a bit more, and is more resilient to Parasite/Datasucker play.

Guard protects against Inside Job/Feint which has been useful before, but it isn't an all-star. Both Next: Silver and/or Mother would be good adds. I hadn't thought about Mother getting a bioroid. I actually didn't buy any of the Lunar Cycle packs until very recently and haven't done a lot with those packs. Mother would also get Next and raise str + subroutines right?

As for ETF, I'm not sure how competitive this deck is on the large scale, but I can say this deck itself runs better with ST than with ETF. It was originally an ETF deck, and I've gone back and forth between the to.

@captainraffi Yes mother would get Next and give + Str & Sub's to the two next Ice.