View to a Kill

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This is a quickly assembled attempt at a The Cleaners + Contract Killer control deck. Kills are possible for sure, but you are Argus Security; you use the threat of kills to aggressively score out, and just kill the runner if he tries to mess with your plans. The twist here is that you can take the fight directly to the runner. This is totally untested and my first attempt at an Argus deck, so please offer any suggestions you feel are warranted.

Some highlights:

Contract Killer is Ronin for Weyland, and combos very well with even a single additional meat damage from The Cleaners.

I threw in some advanceable traps as punishment for not running on remotes that could be agendas, or for running on remotes that could be killers. If a Project Junebug gets sniffed out, advance it to 3 and install any Shell Corporations you find there.

Architect and Crick are there to let you keep the shell game going, and Susanoo-No-Mikoto gives you unexpected scoring windows. Gonna have to be careful about femmes here, but with Space Camp I think this might be fun.

Pachinko might be an interesting piece of ICE for Argus. In theory it will force the runner to take meat damage on steals if they are running out of clicks/cash and want to stop a score. It should force some hard decisions, and is cheap as hell on credits and influence.

Scorched Earth is the catch-22: keep a tag or take damage, life is terrible either way.

Simone Diego: no one runs her. Let's see if this should be The Root.

I'm probably juggling too many balls here, but I'm at work, so if anyone wants to give this a whirl and report back please do.

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