in New Angeles, you're getting traced v0.7 !

Vaos 67

Apply that Surveillance Sweep, try to rush out one Improved Tracer, and you're good to go with a very strong Ice Set !

Since last version : - 1 Shinobi - 1 Uroboros + 1 Caduceus + 1 Viper

Other potential Improvements :

Ash

SanSan?

Team Sponsorship?

4 comments
23 Sep 2015 FarCryFromHuman

Primary Transmission Dish might have a home here. I was considering an Improved Tracers + Surveillance Sweep combo myself; I think NAS is a great identity choice here.

3x Caduceus might be too many copies. I could definitely see Team Sponsorship in at least one of those slots. A few more must-trash assets would help protect your Marked Accounts, and TS is so, so good with SanSan City Grid.

24 Sep 2015 Vaos

I'm not sure about Primary Transmission Dish, I think it works well better with Manhunt for instance. Here, having some money in the bank to threaten the runner with a successful trace (if they don't pump it) is well enough from the games I played.

Caduceus is really great at helping you get that money.

Something like that could be done :

However, that leaves the deck without enough ICE I think. Closed Accounts has to stay in for a minimum of tag punishment (News Hound, Dracō...).

Can the deck survive with 16 ICE or should Agenda Density be lowered?

Another solution would just to remove one Viper and add one Team Sponsorship.

24 Sep 2015 Popeye09

Have you considered/tried out Ichi 1.0? It seems like it ought to fit with Surveillance Sweep and Improved Tracers perfectly. Usually the trace subroutine is fairly unimportant, but with the Runner bidding first they effectively have to say: "This is how many credits you need to spend to do a guaranteed brain damage and tag." If the Runner clicks through it, great. Presumably that means they were clicking through the program trash subroutines anyway, now it's their entire turn to get in (Hello Ash 2X3ZB9CY!).

25 Sep 2015 Vaos

Ichi 1.0 does sounds pretty good with the dilemma for the runner when encountering the trace (especially with Improved Tracers), especially since they will likely click the first two routines beforehand.

However, this deck doesn't have many options to capitalize on the trace firing : no kill options (except Assassin I guess) and only one lone Closed Accounts for tag punishment. Caduceus and Viper are very solid especially early game and Ash 2X3ZB9CY is critical to let you score agendas in a reliable fashion.

I guess that one Ichi 1.0 could fit in !

A more hostile/kill version of this deck (I guess this one is more of a glacier hybrid) could be created as well.