Chrono Trigger

This is absolutely a work in progress. Give it a swing and holla at me with suggestions. Much of the influence is flexible as long as Salem's Hospitality gets to stay. :-)

In Chrono Trigger, you rush out agendas to create pressure. The runner runs in response to the pressure, which turns on your scored House of Knives and Neural EMPs. This means they have to slow down to regroup - if you snipe a fracter, they'll need to find another one or a recursion card, meaning they won't run. Subliminal Messaging is the best for this situation - your hand gets padded to protect agendas, they'll just want to run even more, and you get some much-needed econ.

There's several NBN cards in the Mumbad cycle that punish the runner based on the corp's knowledge of the runner's grip. These obviously work with Harishchandra Ent., but I thought they might give CP a boost as well. Most notably, Salem's Hospitality acts as a situational super-EMP. An EMP-Salem combo is a great 1-2 punch that easily drops the runner down 3 cards. More importantly, it lets you get rid of more of the stuff they need to keep up with your rush.

The Good

The synergy in this deck is great. Notable card choices:

• I can't stress how sweet 24/7 News Cycle is in here. Primarily, it can combo with EMPs for a Philotic Entanglement flatline. Sometimes it doesn't even need the EMPs. It also becomes the perfectly timed Chronos Project fire or the for 15 when you're broke. Usually I just drop a HoK with no tokens left for these fires.
• Archangel+HoK is a trace 6 - trash an installed runner card sub for a 4 rez or a 3 ambush card in your hand that can't be trashed.
• Cortex Lock is flipping great in the early game, and I can often hit it on turn 3 or 4 and wipe most of their hand, slowing them down a bit.
• Shock! is a surprise, can often bait runs, is extra-punishing in CP, and costs nothing to fire.
• Swordsman is actually pretty good here, as the runner can find a Faust early, but usually not their 1x Mimic. They also often feel pretty safe because they've only seen gearcheck ice and aren't too scared. The 1 net damage is solid with the ID.
• I love to use Celebrity Gift after my Subliminals just came back from archives, so I give away selective info without showing the whole hand. I have this agenda here...but you didn't see the Shock or Archangel I have...
• Only two Jackson Howard because agenda flood is usually not the worst thing, and doesn't happen often because I try score every other turn. In fact, when I lose, it's usually because I have to dig for more agendas. I dropped the 3rd for a Fast Track.
• Waiver is an experiment, as I usually have a good sense of what the runner has in hand and can make educated boosts to the trace. It's also fricking brutal, and the runner basically has to jack out if they have 0 or 1 cards in hand because of the risk of hitting a Fetal AI.
• Fetal AI is great for a pseudo-PE effect, but is pretty costly to score. I usually keep them in hand and pretend they're Shocks.

The Bad

• This is loosely inspired by Weyland Argus Rush decks, which are significantly better at rushing because so many of your agendas give you cash with which to score more agendas. Without things like Hostile Takeover and Geothermal Fracking, I'm relying on Profiteering pretty heavily. Most games that I lose, I didn't score a Prof, and most games I win, I did.
• The bad pub from Prof often hurts the traces from Archangel and Waiver. If I can, I'll stack those two so the runner has to actually spend credits on the second one.
• If I lose, it's usually because of variance. They got 2-3 points by their second turn because R&D was open, or I can't find an agenda to score out.

Wish List

The biggest problem is econ. Profiteering's BP is rough, but Gila seems really slow to me. I also think Medical Research Fundraiser is too helpful for the runner to get set up in the first several turns.

I'd love to try Shi.Kyū in here, as even paying 2-3 is nasty in CP. If they have a Levy, a breaker, or whatever in hand, they have to think twice about taking the -1 point.