City of Industry

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a runner in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a trashed SanSan."

Serving up infinite net damage is cool, but relying on the runner making some huge mistake and let you scorch them is a mug's game. Why not instead make them trash a SanSan City Grid 8 times in a row?

There's a lot of passive net damage in this deck, but it's largely included as a little ongoing annoyance which hurts Faust and keeps your centrals unappealing for multi-access. I have won games by killing careless runners, but it's never plan A, and unless something goes extremely badly it's not what I'm playing for.

This deck gives you:

• Resilience against Medium digs
• A path to scoring out
• Potential secondary kill threat
• Assets/upgrades that the runner has to trash over and over and over again
• Minimal ice which is still taxing enough for most of the big runner archetypes right now (especially Faust and Lady)
• Usually, plenty of money - I've been siphoned 8 times in a game and still never felt uncomfortable, since clicking for credits 3 times and discarding is actually a pretty solid play when your Museums are running

This deck doesn't give you:

• Games which take less than 90 minutes
• Answers to sustained keyhole threat
• Answers to unlikely jank like Archives Interface
• Answers to someone who draws all their Imps in the first couple turns and just recurs them for the rest of the game while yawning and throwing bits of food at you like a big rude jerk

Unfortunately, Jinteki doesn't have quite enough 3/2s to make this deck the meta-buster that we all want to see in our deck descriptions, but it's a lot of fun to play around with anyway and different enough to other IG decks that I'm always happy to be playing it. I'd put it as some strong, fun tier 1.5/tier 2 jank.

Give it a shot!