2 Faust 2 Furious

pikachewbacca 147

Faust is an outstanding breaker. Yes, I said it.

Scoring opportunities are not always what they seem now for corporations. If you have cards in hand, you have ways to get in. The economy is slightly light here, but again, you're using cards as economy with Faust.

Some card choices:

Dirty Laundry could become a queen's gambit and free up one more slot, but ultimately its to help enable getting liberated going faster. The only weakness I've seen so far with this deck is with Kati Jones getting blown up with a breaking news. 3x is a must for her to ensure you can get that going again if it happens.

Game Day is flexible and could become a different use of resources, but with multiple origamis on the table, there is not a more efficient card draw event in the game.

Yog.0 is to make all the cheap code gates useless and for Turing on a central and Lotus Field/Tollbooth.

Mimic is for Swordsman.

Corroder is for the case of multiple barriers stacked in front of each other. Quetzal can usually deal with early barriers easily with e3 Feedback Implants, but double eli or double wraparound can be difficult without Corroder.

Pancakes/Wyldside is as outstanding as usual for anarch in this deck. It helps get setup and helps fuel Faust.

Net-ready eyes: there are not a ton of ice that makes it worth including for just Faust, but for lotus field and ichi 1.0, net-ready is a godsend and worth it completely to me. Test it yourself and see if you like it or not, of course.

This is a work in progress when it comes to influence. The e3 is absolutely necessary with Faust/Queztal/D4vid. I've yet to use the levy in 8 games, but against the grindier decks like RP or perhaps PE, its going to be more necessary. The clone chip typically has been used for a medium or nerve agent that you can pitch in the early game if you aren't able to get through.

Reasons for cards NOT being included:

Parasite: perhaps the one that does need to go in, but it would require more clone chip support. -game day - quality time + clone chip + parasite is one variation I am testing.

Duggar's / Beach Party : Neither of these cards worked well in the first rounds of testing here. Beach party requires the adjusted chronotype, but you don't want to run wyldside too if running beach party unless you're running Gene Conditioning Shoppe. That's a four card combo when this deck is already almost too many pieces to get going.

Same Old Thing would be great, but I wouldn't cut anything currently in this deck to fit it. That said, it might be worth going to 46 to include, but that means you're drawing pieces slower.

5 comments
5 Jul 2015 blacklionchest

I really like the look of this. Can't wait to try it out. I think you're right about Faust and that we're going to start seeing it included quite a bit.

6 Jul 2015 Qualistarian

Have you considered Vigil instead of Grimoire? You've only got 4 viruses to trigger it, and while the extra MU is nice, you've got MemStrips already. Just a thought.

8 Jul 2015 serax

@Qualistarian : I've been testing this with @pikachewbacca and the Grimoire's ability triggers and extra memory are more useful actually.

8 Jul 2015 Qualistarian

Makes sense. Here's another thought out of right field...what about #Ekomind?

8 Jul 2015 serax

Becomes very easy to trash your rig by getting your Ekomind with something or causing you to spend more cards than you thought you would have to.