Ending the Fun Glacier

This is my take on a no-NEXT EtF glacier deck. I played NEXT for a while but decided it was far too prone to Parasite for my liking. This isn't exactly a groundbreaking deck so I'll just try to make a few notes on card choices.

AGENDAS

This spread works very well for this deck. NAPD Contract at least taxes the runner and scoring one out isn't difficult for you. Install-advance-advance to bait the run has been very effective for me, and you can score out in two clicks and install something in its place for the EtF credit on the following turn. Let ABT fire with Jackson Howard on the board or if you got to see R&D via Architect and always try to overadvance at least one Project Vitruvius if possible. The 5/3s are interchangeable and really just there to bring density down.

ASSETS

Not much to say here. Economy and recursion hate.

UPGRADES

BBG is incredible. It enables economy and swings the credits dramatically in your favor. It also allows free Caprice and Ash rezs in your scoring remote. I think one Crisium Grid is fine since the Eater hype has died significantly. Throw it on HQ if you expect Legwork or R&D if you expect Maker's Eye/Medium. Cyberdex Virus Suite is so good when you need it that I don't mind the dead draw if I'm not facing viruses.

Obviously you want Ash/Caprice in your scoring remote ASAP. Ash can also do work on R&D against multi-access while Caprice can find a second home on HQ.

OPERATIONS

Snatch and Grab is clutch against Kati. Archived Memories is a flex spot in my mind. You could easily cut this for anything else you want. I considered dropping an Eve and AM for two Biotic Labor but haven't tested it. It would definitely be nice to have some FA capacity since you're typically rich but I'm nervous cutting economy since FA is inherently expensive.

ICE

Markus 1.0 gets the nod as another cheapish barrier, although Wall of Static could be included to bring rez cost down. Markus is just okay and at least taxes Corroder an extra credit. It's easily my least favorite ICE included.

I think IQ is very good and including 3 hopefully gets at least one rez'd cheap early. You can play around Yog/NRE/D4V1D/Atman to a certain degree by manipulating hand size which is a nice bonus. Turing does work on your scoring remote.

I replaced NEXT Gold with the Ichi brothers. Ichi 2.0 has been a nice surprise for runners, no one expects it.

Excalibur caps things off. It's possibly a weird choice but offers some value over R&D if the runner has no answer to mythic ICE.

I really like that the average cost of ICE is low, there are only two ICE over 5 credits and IQ should cost 3-5 throughout the game. I do lean heavily on Code Gates though so a Kit matchup would worry me. There is a Kit player in my group but I haven't played him. I see a lot of Zu so my choices are shaped around that. Refractor/Kit+Torch would definitely be problematic.

POSSIBLE CHANGES

-1 Eve, -1 Archived Memories, +2 Biotic Labor (discussed already)

-2 Markus 1.0, +2 Wall of Static (ETR Barrier than can't be clicked through)

-1 Excalibur, +1 ICE (maybe another Wall of Static, needs to be tested but I don't want to fall below 17 ICE)