Experimental Founding: Consulting Dr. Batty

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None. Self-made deck here.
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Executive Founding: A Paradigm Shift in the Foundry
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schum495 373

This deck functions as a HB rush deck. It uses its tutoring techniques and card draw from The Foundry: Refining the Process's ability, Executive Boot Camp, Architect, Green Level Clearance, and Jackson Howard to reliably find the right pieces of its deck at the right time.

It is an incredibly taxing deck for the opponent due to the speed (and cheap cost (thank you Executive Boot Camp!)) in which it lays its ice and the ICE synergies. Lag Time is the Current of choice due to the number of ICE that will be on the field, I had considered Enhanced Login Protocol, but found that due to the number of ICE in play and that this deck taxes credits rather than clicks that choice was obvious.

Now to the main attraction... As the ICE piles up, NEXT Gold's punishment becomes more severe; usually this isn't an issue for the opponent as the ICE itself is relatively easy to break, and really only functions as a threat that needs to be overcome. Marcus Batty makes sure that one simply cannot run through NEXT Gold. If one is to succeed the Psy game before they encounter NEXT Gold then you can have one of the two subroutines fire twice, usually being the program trash unless they could not already break the ICE. If the number of NEXT ICE in play is higher than the number of cards in the runner's hand, then you have a 2/3rds (I know its not as simple as simple randomness) chance of flatlining them right there. Self-Destruct Chips functions as a means of reducing their beginning of turn hand size so that this kill combo is more possible.

Even if the biggest thing you do with Marcus Batty and NEXT Gold is trash programs, that destroys the opponents rig state, which relative to the synergies within the this decks board state, is usually enough to win you the game.

I believe this archetype to be one of the most competitive iterations of the The Foundry: Refining the Process, and would love to get feedback on this deck's design paradigm. This is one of the first versions of this specific deck.

4 comments
8 Jul 2015 HacksonJoward710

Played against this deck, it's very frustrating.. he pulls off the Marcus Batty and NEXT Gold combo almost every game. Once my rigs destroyed I usually just scoop.

8 Jul 2015 firesa

You're only playing 15 ice? I can see this deck folding hardcore to parasite recursion, and R&D pressure to get at battys and various assets before they can be a danger. Anyway looks interesting, and maybe fun, but very vulnerable to parasite (more so than other next lists I've seen recently) and also very vulnerable to early account siphons

8 Jul 2015 schum495

``@firesa` if one places their Architect all over R&D, then you have an indestructible taxing server. From my experiences with this deck it is not terribly vulnerable to parasites (other than NEXT Silver and early game NEXT Bronze), as Marcus Batty and NEXT Gold can be used to destroy parasites on important ice. On top of that, this deck has a whole bunch of tutoring and can use Jackson Howard to put the ice that you want back into your deck, which shortly find their way into your hand.

Siphons have never really been an issue due to the costs of rezzing the assets, Architect to bring forth assets, and the pay cost of Executive Boot Camp .

8 Jul 2015 schum495

And reoccurring assets is even easier than ICE, because between Jackson Howard and Executive Boot Camp any trashed asset can be brought back into hand.