The Immortal Iron Fist

I am the Immortal Iron Fist, and my arsenal of Kung Fu is rich and deep.

Not sure what people usually do with Ken builds, but I imagine it's probably pretty close to this: Pack a ton of run events and make sure you can almost always pull the exact one you need at the right time.

Desperado and Sec Testing are the backbone of your economy. At best, they give you at least one three-credit click per turn and turn your Dirty Laundries into disgusting money machines. At worst, they force the Corp to rez Ice over Archives and every non-Jackson remote, spreading those glaciers thinner than they'll be comfortable with.

3x Planned Assault and 3x Same Old Thing mean any run event you need is just a click or two away.

Maker's and Indexing pressure R&D; Legwork and Account Siphon pressure HQ. Inside Job gets you into any single-layer remotes, which can take you far, especially if you can get surprise Femme in there.

Oh, and on those surprise Femmes: Retrieval Run has honestly been this deck's MVP. Nobody sees it coming, even after you trash a Femme early. Corp thinks they're safe against your centrals-only breakers, installs a second layer of ice and an Agenda. Retrieval run, Femme inside remote (for 3c!), Inside Job. Beautiful. And if you must, that Retrieval Run is just as SOT-able as your other events. As a kicker, you often have enough credits to install Femme from hand if need be.

I've had some pretty good luck in testing this deck, actually, and even the losses have been tense and fun.

My concerns at this stage:

1) Corp can totally hose me by stacking enough Code Gates on a remote. I have Femme and Corroder but no decoder that works on remotes. Not sure whether freeing space for a singleton Rex is worth it, and I really don't want to cut the inf to get Gordian or Zu in here. Still not sure it's strictly necessary given all my bypass tricks.

2) Speaking of those bypass tricks - do we think enough Corps are going to adopt Underway Grid to put the kibosh on this whole build? It feels like if the card is widely played it could ruin aggressive Criminals in general, but the centrals-only suite in particular will take a huge hit.