Nice or Naughty 1.2

tacullu 67

Got to the top 8 in the Store Championships with this baby.

The plan is to setup the three-card combo: Aesop's, NACH, and A. Support. This will enable Blackmail, the star of the deck.

While getting there, play The Source to stall them out. Drop all your Levys, you'll need them later when all your Blackmails and SOTs are gone.

Use Capstone to accelerate toward your Blackmails by trashing redundant Daily Casts, Aesops, NACHs, etc.

On the off case that they get to rez ICE (i.e. BioEff Research, Oversight, PriReq), keep a Femme handy, to steal the next dropped agenda.

While the Source is out, any silly drop or advanced card is Blackmailable. Unless it's Jinteki. :p

8 comments
2 Mar 2014 Maugman

So, you set this up and maybe the corp doesn't get it and you sneak an agenda with blackmail. Then, after that, you're relying on the corp to not rez ice before you run, and they need exactly 4 pieces of ETR barriers to completely shut you out permanently. I don't get it, help me out here.

2 Mar 2014 Maugman

So, you set this up and maybe the corp doesn't get it and you sneak an agenda with blackmail. Then, after that, you're relying on the corp to not rez ice before you run, and they need exactly 4 pieces of ETR barriers to completely shut you out permanently. I don't get it, help me out here.

2 Mar 2014 tacullu

They can't rez ICE outside runs, Maug. The only way they can is via Oversight and BioEff. And they really only use it to rez 1 piece, then drop an agenda behind it. That's when I drop Femme and take it.

Oh, and they can't score PriReq. 5/3s are usually not safe against Blackmail. If they put Ash, you gotta Blackmail twice.

By far, these were the only real challenges of the deck. And Midseason Replacements, because the Corp is never poor from rezzing ICE.

2 Mar 2014 tacullu

If they do hide agendas, Blackmail HQ or RnD with Interfaces. :-)

3 Mar 2014 feng_zhao

This deck looks pretty exciting! I'm curious about what you do against NBN Fast Advance? What if you Blackmail into non agendas? To me it looks like you can only Blackmail up to 6 times.

3 Mar 2014 feng_zhao

Oh wait, I missed the Levy. How long do your games usually last while playing this?

4 Mar 2014 tacullu

They range from 8 Corp-then-Runner turns to anywhere beyond that.

NBN FA is done in by The Source. Their first usual scores are Breaking News on Biotic Labor. So unless they drop one behind an ICE, and let it sit for a turn, then Biotic it out next turn, it's mine. :p

4 Mar 2014 feng_zhao

Super interesting! I'm assuming you decided to go with Chaos Theory because of the card draw, deck size, and the Levy.

I'm wondering if you have ever thought about building a variation on this deck using Andromeda. I imagine that she would be more consistent but handling the influence would be a little difficult.