My resourceful investor

tvaru 8

Here is my stab at Fisk and I will be grateful for any suggestions or comments. Main plays: Econ gained via events (Siphons, Laundries, Gambles), Desper and resources. I sometimes run three times per turn - once on an unguarded remote to Bank Job, once on HQ/RnD and last click for Security Testing money. Support provided by Supplier, Scrubber and Crash Space (which also works as Scorch prevention, most corps I played against forget that it also sucks up 3 meats). Draw courtesy to Seminars and EH. I also used Vigil and Babies before but they were used to rarely to make the cut. Corp money is drained via siphons, FOAs and ES+FOA combinations. Additional pressure from constant runs and occasional card floods (courtesy of Fisk's ability and his seminars) also does help.

I have some concerns about the breaker suite. I do not want to shift to the central only one, as it would deprive me of Bank Job money and would make the corp hide everything precious on remotes. I am pondering whether to go with Zul or Gordian.

9 comments
20 Nov 2015 LeaPlath

I'm not sold on Account Siphon and a resource based economy.

20 Nov 2015 tvaru

Thanks for the comment. You mean the combination of both? Well, Siphon works as money drain as well (and I do not have to pay influence for Vamp) and Crash Space makes losing tags cheaper. I usually do the AS runs first click, so I can then spend two next ones shaking off tags. I was considering switching Seminars to Lawyer Ups but they do not work well in this deck IMO.

20 Nov 2015 Krams

Maybe a second Crash Space to clear tags after the Siphon?

20 Nov 2015 Stratix

My biggest worry with this deck is it's vulnerability to The All-Seeing I, with all of it's resources. You may want to consider something like Decoy to defend against a SEA Source. Midseason Replacements will still be a worry though.

20 Nov 2015 Badeesh

Consider getting some recursion for your breakers, and settling on a strategy for best leveraging Fisk himself. (IMO he is a DLR ID). There are 1 of strategy cards like Gang Sign that you really need to see early. 1 of breakers without lots of draw is also going to be an issue. Apart from the FIS' you'll need something else, maybe the Drug Dealers. In which case you need to look at Codebusting. I tried the classic runs-4-money package but it just doesn't work here, you only wanna start running when the corp is broke, otherwise you are literally giving them cards for free.

20 Nov 2015 tvaru

@KramsI was considering it but cannot find space for it for now. But if I manage to squeeze it in, sure, that is another 3 meats and another tag lost for free.

@StratixAs for being tagged by SEA and Midseasons, it is not a big problem as long as you have more money than the corp, what this deck is capable of doing, I think. I am more concerned about the 24/7 + Breaking News tags but shaking off 2 tags at once is something only New Angeles City Hall can do, AFAIR and it would trash after the agenda is stolen.

20 Nov 2015 tvaru

@BadeeshI used to have clone chips to make up for losing stuff to Batty and the like but it was not a problem in my games. I know he works well with DLR, I had the standard package of it + Papparazzi and WNP but I found those milling games boring and not fun for my opponents. I do realize that I am using Fisk suboptimally (Gabe or Andy would be better here, probably). As for draw, I find that Earthrises along with FIS are enough to get me to the things I need most times, and Special Order helps with the breakers I cannot find. Finally, Fisk's ability is not mandatory, so when I feel that I will be helping them (so if they are below 5 cards), I simply do not fire it.

20 Nov 2015 Bigguyforyou518

@LeaPlath There's nothing wrong with Account Siphon and a resource based economy - there's several great resource-based criminal decks, and all of them run 3x Siphons (every criminal deck does). It just means you're going to have to clear tags every time you do it except in situations of extreme desperation. I would say that if you're going so resource heavy anyways, Film Critic+New Angeles City Hall offers great utility and tag defense, as well as allowing for Account Siphoning without losing a single to clearing the tags (this is absolutely brutal, especially for multiple Siphons).

I'd echo that The All-Seeing I is popular in the meta right now (for obvious reasons), and there's not a great way to counter it without bad pub or preventing tags (see NACH suggestion above).

I applaud your commitment to making a non-DLR deck - they're so boring and uninteractive (for both players) that using one begs the question - why are you playing Netrunner when you've got a perfectly good bottle of lube and a porn mag under your mattress?

20 Nov 2015 Bigguyforyou518

@tvaru Your breaker choices are fine, although I'd question not having more of them. At the very least, if there's only 3 breakers in your entire deck, then you should have a full 3x Special Orders (you're only running 2 at the moment).

I would steer away from ZU.13 Key Master, because it's an extremely easy target for Power Shutdown, which you have absolutely no way to prevent.

Because of your lack of breakers and tutors, your deck seems to rely on just making a ton of s by pinging undefended servers until you eventually draw your rig pieces. While this might sort-of work against NBN (assuming they aren't rushing) or other horizontal-ish decks, it's going to get completely, utterly denied by something like Haas Glacier, which is back in a big way because of Worlds.

Inside Job is probably the most powerful criminal event besides Siphon, and is a great way to threaten a corp before you've got breakers. You should be running at least two of these.

Of your 17 possible targets for The Supplier, only about half of them will be able to take full advantage of his discount. While I can see the synergy with Fisk Investment Seminar (sort of like Quality Time + Personal Workshop), I'm not sold on his value to the deck, especially since you really need him early (frankly I think he works best in Andromeda).

My overall suggestion would honestly be to run Fisk out of a completely vanilla criminal build (probably look at Gabe decklists) and see how he feels, and then tinker from there. This deck feels a bit unfocused at the moment.