Confirmed:The Professor is unaffected by The most wanted list, period. Confirmed:The Professor is unaffected by The most wanted list, period. Confirmed:The Professor is unaffected by The most wanted list, period.

Today I am going to introduce a deck that I personally think it’s very influencial in Post MWL meta, The professor.

This deck went 3-1 in the new meta, beaten a Foodcoat, Blue Sun Off the Grid ,and a NBN glacier deck, lost to honeycomb SYNC.

I do think this deck needs more tweaks to make it more competitive. I will discuss this later in the article.

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First of all, why The Professor?

Professor has exactly 4 cons that keep people from using it.

1. You cannot use out-faction events,hardwares and resources.
2. You doesn’t have any in-game ability.
3. You have no good E-con engine to some reason that caused by reason 1.
4. No matter how many good programs you have, you still need to have memory first.

But right now, professor actually has a very good reason for us to use.

FUCK MOST WANTED LIST, we are free from it.

For those who doesn’t know that, I repeat this again:

Confirmed:The Professor is unaffected by The most wanted list, period.

Confirmed:The Professor is unaffected by The most wanted list, period.

Confirmed:The Professor is unaffected by The most wanted list, period.

##EDIT:This is very important because even if I used bold text, I still got PMed that says: Hey your decklist is illegal, you couldn’t put Clone Chips into your deck. So I decided to say it 3 times in case somebody replied some thing that this is illegal to the post MWL again.

After the normal using of new influence rule in shaper, actually professor has a huge advantage of influence.

Let’s say Kate with 3 Clone Chips and 1 Parasite and 1 Clot and 1 Lady, which cost her 9 influences, that almost prohibits her from using other out-faction cards.

It’s super suitable to play tournaments in Professor right now, I will introduce this later.

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The Deck

This decks plays very rich, super rich. We will go through the econ cards first.

Sure Gamble

No need to explain.

Dirty Laundry

This will be first cut in the later version of this deck.

It’s very good in every single deck, but not this one.

However, it still do several jobs in the late game (when you could penetrate every server.)

Daily Cast

Very self explaining, you are playing a mid-tempo game, and this card is exactly 3 for 9 when you have an Aesop in play.

Aesop’s Pawnshop

This is almost an auto include card in The professor.

Functions: You can make Daily Cast +1 credits.

You can make Harbinger make 6 credits.

You can make Cache make 3 more credits.

You can make ProCon trash himself after you emptied your deck.

You can trash late game Technical Writers make them an easy mark.

You can trash purged Medium.

You can trash used Imp and D4v1d.

You can trash Corroder right before you land your Morning Star.

You can trash Sahasrara when you are almost run out memory.

Soooooo good for this deck, never cut this. However, I might cut this down to 2, since you don’t need this early game, unlike noise.

Technical Writer

The most notable one is Technical Writers, not to mention it synergizes well with this deck(around 30 targets), it also provides good burst Econ in the late game. I always get 10+ credits off it.

Professional Contacts

Of course, your only draw engine is ProCon, always mulligan for this. You will need this.

Programs

This is the biggest part of a Professor deck. Let’s begin with the icebreakers.

Corroder,Mimic,Yog.0 and Datasuckers plus D4v1d and with support of Atman. These are so good, period.

Break 3 str or lower ICEs with The Three Musketeers.(We call Corroder, Mimic and Yog.0 as The Three Musketeers in our community.) Break 4 str ICE with Atman at 4. Break higher ICEs with D4v1d.

Use the help of Datasuckers to prevent you from used up D4v1d tokens.

Morning Star

This won me so many games in casual games and the tournament.

You can shut down almost every single barriers in this game.

I concluded the ICEs that cannot be passed by this.

Asteroid Belt: can be passed by using D4v1d or datasucker token, easy.

Curtain wall: This one is tricky, I used str 10 atman and force the corp to make it 6 str and use a datasucker token to pass it. Don’t use corroder to pass this, you will lose your tempo.

Hadrians wall: difficult to pass, but rarely see people play this.

Heimdall 1.0: use a datasucker token to pass.

Heimdall 2.0: very difficult to pass. may use double tokens from Datasucker, but sometimes you need to click through and get a brain when you are purged or something. Still suggest to keep your corroder when your opponent has this.

Orion: Very difficult to pass. I would suggest to keep your corroder to pass this.

Wotan: Hyper difficult to pass. I would suggest you to give up. But it’s super rare to see this.

Over advanced Ice wall or Fire wall: D4v1d.

The most obvious way to deal with these is to parasite.

when you have Morning Star, Yog.0, Mimic, Datasucker*2, Atman at 4, D4v1d out

You just win the game without any problem.

Imp

Very useful card to deal with asset spam.

but mostly, the way I deal with asset spam deck is to use medium lock out their R&D.

Medium

Very self explaining, which is the only multiaccess in the deck.

With the help of parasite and Fixed breakers (A.k.a. The Three Musketeers) you can easily do it 4 times when there is a timing. Also collecting so many datasucker tokens to lock out their remote entirely.

Clot

#slottheclot

Parasite

Very popular these times. You definitely need this to deal with some monsterous ICEs in the game.

Cache

Money. But worse than Harbinger.

Harbinger

Best program Econ ever. This is 0 to install, 0 MU, auto prevention to Power Shutdown.

Making at least 6 credits with an aesop. 9 credits if you have all 3 Technical Writers out. On average this makes 7 credits.

Self Modifying Code

No need to explain. And actually super powerful to make Technical Writers rolling.

Sahasrara

Good econ in this deck, sell it whenever you want.

Hardwares

Akamatsu Mem Chip

I used to run 3 to synergize with Technical Writers. With Astrolabe it’s actually 4.

I took one out for the 2 mu 4 cost Cybersolutions because I usually short about 1 memory.

Clone Chip

Most wanted card, so we put 3 in, also it’s the core of this deck.

Never use it whenever you just want.

Use it when you NEED.

The most precious card in this deck.

Plascrete Carapace

Our meta is killing deck everywhere.

Take it out if it’s fine for your meta.

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Weaknesses to be tweaked

1. No solutions for Data Raven and Tags or Quantum Predictive Model

I lose 1 game for this. I am thinking about the solution of this. Maybe slot 1 Femme Fatale and 1 Film Critic

1. May need 1 Levy AR Lab Access

I usually win the game with only 2 or 3 cards in my stack. Sometimes I need my programs for a second time but used up all clone chips.

1. Weak pressure on HQ

I will never slot the Nerve Agent. May think about Sneakdoor Beta.

1. No Net damage prevention

I don’t have the money for Feedback Filter, maybe slotting Levy can somehow help this. However, Net Sheild is not too janky since you can pawn it and trigger the Technical Writer. Depends on the meta.

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Confirmed:The Professor is unaffected by The most wanted list, period. Confirmed:The Professor is unaffected by The most wanted list, period. Confirmed:The Professor is unaffected by The most wanted list, period.